🧜‍♀️ Nereid- a retelling of the little mermaid (WIP). New private testers temporarily closed (Oct 21st)

:whale: Day two is up :grinning_face:

:merperson: Added an optional character creation screen for those who would like to use it. You can customise your character or dive right into the story.

:fish: Bugs and grammar fixes. (Hopefully I got them all!) Thank you to everyone who helped out with the playtesting of day one!

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Honestly I had a lovely time reading, And the first day sure lets us yearning for more, I’m keen on learning more about mother ocean, Tab is quite sweet and I enjoy the diverse ways to react to food, the sailor and we’ll the world.

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Thanks so much @Dayum, glad you’ve enjoyed what’s up so far!

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#Silver
#Emerald
#Saphire
#Gold
#Copper
#Crimson
#Violet

Sapphire. (Somehow, it’s spelled correctly in the stat screen.)


“I still say a dress would have been nicer, but that colour… yes, that suits you beautifully my dear. I thought it would. Doesn’t she look lovely #{ROname}?” The shopkeeper gives him a deliberate nudge with her elbow.

variable typo


You greet them warmly with ann eager smile.

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I can be a tester for the next round if you need more testers.

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Thanks so much Chance! Would love it if you have time to test the next part :slight_smile:

Ugh I thought I got those! Must have missed them after all. I’ll get them fixed up by the next update. Thanks again!

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I’m really enjoying the story so far, and feeling appropriately intimidated by the 3-day countdown! Bizarrely I also really liked the interaction with the sailor who immediately clocked me as a siren. My MC’s still not sure how to act around people without claws and tails, so it was an odd moment of feeling seen.

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Thanks so much for your thoughts @R1220 ! Glad you’re enjoying it so far :merperson:

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This was fun! I enjoy it a lot and can’t wait for more!

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Thank you!

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I really like what I read so far. I really felt not human in the introduction and the transition from the sea to walking on land felt suitably awkward. I’ll be keeping my eye on the development of this one!

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A very interesting idea—the beginning hooked me, although the transition to the technical part seemed a little abrupt; I’m looking forward to seeing what happens next!

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Thanks @Nemorah! :blush:
Thank you for the feedback @Mardoso :slight_smile: . If you feel like it (you don’t have to) would you mind letting me know where in the text you found the transition a bit abrupt?

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I love everything about merfolk! Obsessed with them. Happy to see IF about them, they are rare. ‘Little Mermaid’ was my favorite story growing up.
Just a suggestion - maybe usage of ‘ok’ in speech should be changed for ‘alright’ or similar words? Story feels like an old fairytale, so this kind of threw me out of immersion as too modern thing to use. But English is not my first language (so apologies for potential mistakes in my message), so maybe it’s totally fine. Just thought I offer. Otherwise enjoyed it. Would love to play when it will release! Curious about four endings. I can guess two - stay as human or return to the sea as merfolk, but what about other two…
Edit: Oh, and if you end up deciding to not release full version (but I beg you, please do), I’m very much interested in testing the rest, I can fish for bugs.

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Thanks so much for your thoughts @Vertigo1! I’ll take a look at the ok’s and see if they might look better as something else :). Glad you’re enjoying it so far, and thank you for the offer to help test :dolphin:

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Hey everyone, thank you for the overwhelming support of this WIP. I’m honestly blown away- 99 likes and a lot great feedback and support that has already allowed me to improve this game. I probably will move the testing of the completed draft which includes the last day not yet posted, to a private beta (happy to admit anyone interested). It still needs a bit more editing as I decided to add an alternative event in there, hopefully it will be done within the next week or so, (available free time willing :crossed_fingers:.) I’ll let everyone know when it’s up and ready to go.

If you’ve already specifically said you’d like test the game, I’ll go through the thread and add you to the private group when it’s ready. If anyone else is interested, please feel free to let me know. I don’t want to assume anyone who has commented or already given feedback wants to be bugged with a PM thread request but would be very happy include everyone who would like to be :slightly_smiling_face:. All feedback very appreciated. Playing the game and letting me if there were any bugs or not, and if the ending stats are calibrated about right will also be extremely helpful.

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Over a hundred likes. Thanks everyone! Excited to get this one out there for everyone to read :grinning_face:

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I will never get tired of Little Mermaid retellings

I LOVED IT SO FAR

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Thanks @Fluffy_Marshmallow ! :whale:

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This would be a dealbreaker for some but i like that we are only allowed to choose from the presets.


I also did see some bugs during the scene with Mirelle while i was playing as a nonbinary character.

wrong pronoun


“fit their” should be “fit them

missing word


given you are rather [missing word].

wrong pronoun

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“he looks lovely” should be “they look lovely”

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Thanks so much @Abe! I’ll look into those and get them fixed up. The nonbinary ones are particularly helpful as I have a code for the pronouns, but sometimes it doesn’t work quite right and I need to do a specific change for those instances.

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