Blood on the Dauntless

This is the demo for Blood on the Dauntless!

Blood on the Dauntless is a point-and-click style murder mystery visual novel set on a cruise liner called the Dauntless.

All of the art, music, writing, and coding was done by me; I'm a one-man operation.

The web version provided here doesn't seem to like displaying my custom cursors, so it's just going to be a small grey box. I tried to fix it for about an hour and just gave up. If you think you might be able to help with that, I'd love some advice, but in the meantime, since this was never originally intended to be a browser game, I'm just shipping it like this so you can test out what I have so far. Just imagine that when you hover over something clickable, the cursor is a magnifying glass lol.

If you're playing on a phone, different issue - the buttons and text will be quite small. Again, I designed the game to be played on PC, and so if I ever release a mobile version I'll fix all of that stuff up to be more user friendly. But for now, I'm still working on finishing the game, so if you are interested in a more mobile-friendly version, let me know!

Anyway, this initial section of the game I've provided as the first demo is basically just the extended tutorial along with an introduction to the case and all the mysteries that it entails. The full game (when I finally finish it) will include exploring the ship at your own pace and will allow you to tackle the various mysteries in whichever order you wish.

The art, if you couldn't guess, is hand-drawn in Paint. The reason for that is simple: I suck at drawing and it's literally the best I can do. I've somewhat grown attached to the style, though - it kind of grows on you.

The music was made with FamiStudio.

The game was created using Ren'Py.

Hopefully you'll enjoy this short demo as I continue to work on the full version of the game. I don't have any hard plans for where and how I'll release the full version, but I'll announce that when I do know.