Yes. Yes. Yes.

First things first. This is a kinetic visual novel, so don't go in expect any stort of choice driven visual novel, with diverging paths. This is a written story with pictures and music. And if you can't stand that nothing i write below will change your mind. But it's a pretty damn well written one.

When a nun in the late 1400s is brutally murdered, an anchoress in her self imposed exile and therefore the only one who couldn't have done it is forced out of her locked cell into a world she never known and tasked with finding the culprit lest a most likely inocent stable boy will be executed for the crime. Part murder mystery, a sprinkle of queer awakening and part fish out of the water story. Hedwig the protagonist has spent her entire life since early childhood inside the locked room/cell (and for all she knew, future tomb), and confronts a world where the nuns doesn't exactly like she imagined they would (or should). The abbey isn't what she imagined and her entrie worldview is tested all while time ticks down for her to find the real culprit.

Very well written story and also exceptionally Sapphic, there is nothing overtly stated, but the sheer amount of doubble entendre and queer sexual tension between several of the nuns is palpable, (even if Hedwig is totally oblivious, even to her own feelings, making it pretty amusing) and I can only imagine it will go even further in the next episodes. I usually don't care for this kind of visual novels, but the story got me hooked after a fairly slow start. I'm sure there are tons of hints that will make you be able to solve it yourself, but right now the story can go in so many different directions. Is it irreverant to write what basically is yuri murder mystery with a bunch of nuns that definitly could be seen as sinful, especially in that time period? Some will definitly say that, but I also feel the dev isn't super fond of dogmatic faith even if there is no condemnation of faith itself.

Looking forward to "playing" (i.e. reading) the rest of the series.

“These women were lost. Lost!” 💖