Spirit Hunters (WIP) PROLOGUE CHAPTER [8.5K Words] [January 26, 2026]

[Mishi-man]

ABOUT ME/BASIC SUMMARY

Hello everyone, I am Mishi. I started this project on a whim cause I thought “Why not? Could be fun”

Spirit Hunters is a supernatural/modern fantasy story about an average joe office worker who gets sucked into a world filled with deadly spirits, some good and some bad, and joins a secret organization known as Spirit Hunters. Their job is pretty self-explanatory, I think.

Currently it’s only 1 chapter because I wanted to see some folk’s thoughts on it.

PREMISE

Your life is painfully ordinary.

Same routines. Same streets. Same quiet sense that something is missing. You’re not special, you’re not chosen, just another person drifting through a boring, forgettable existence.

Until the night everything breaks. The night where your life turned upside down. In ways you never expected.

Spirits begin slipping through the cracks of purgatory, bleeding into the living world. Some are lost. Some are desperate. Some are dangerous. And caught in the middle are the Spirit Hunters. People who walk the line between worlds, keeping the dead from tearing reality apart.

You were never meant to be one of them.

Thrown headfirst into a hidden war you don’t understand, you must survive encounters with ruthless spirits, unravel the truth behind purgatory, and decide what kind of hunter you’ll become.

In this demo, experience the opening chapter of Spirit Hunters:
a slow-burning descent from normal life into something darker, crueler, and far more personal.

To play the demo, go here: CoGDemos

Features:

• Play as a customizable main character

• Meaningful choices that shape your personality and survival

• A grounded, emotional story with supernatural horror elements

• 4 RO’s that will include your fellow Spirit Hunter members later on. (More info about that in a future update)

• Choose your own Spirit Weapon, a special weapon tailored to only you. Designed to define who you are, and to hunt Spirits of all kinds. Choose from 6 options, each one defining each stat. (This will appear in a later chapter)

AI Disclosure:

No — This project does not contain the output of Generative AI

[will]

Love the chapter titles.

Make sure not to leave any widows/orphans. Try something like this:

Not a fan of the Sims 2 character creator at the beginning, but there are not a lot of ways to do it in an IF that aren’t so intrusive.

Watch your grammar/punctuation/capitalisation.

“Just in case you burst into tears.” he belly laughs.

Should be:

“Just in case you burst into tears.” He belly laughs.

Small mistakes like that are fairly frequent.

[Sooty1]

This WIP is basically Jujutsu kaisen meet demon slayer

[Queen_Zelda]

Ooooh, I love it I really like the drama and suspense. Unfortunately I couldn’t play with my own name, the box where you can write down your name never came up.

I’m looking forward to more bookmarked and favourited have a great day and lots of fun writing more

Btw. Is our kitty still alive?

[snas]

with a strong hint of bleach (pun intended)

[Diosmio]

So far so good, but came across a bug where entering a custom name doesn’t actually allow you to put in your own name and takes you to the next passage instead!

[yelhsa]

It’s an interesting premise and I really liked the spirits—like the comment above said it’s giving JJK vibes and that’s a lot of fun! However, everything sort of happened so quickly with very little build up that I didn’t have a chance to actually slip into the world enough to truly care about keeping people safe. And I found myself taken out of the story when no matter how stoic or distant I was to the characters, the game still seemed to assume I liked them. Especially Veronica, who the boss claimed that the MC seemed to be timing her breaks to… be near her? I assume. Yet I have no desire to romance that character, and it didn’t make sense for how isolated my choices were up until that point. Also, it felt odd that my character was so open to Veronica hugging her when I made every choice I could to ignore her and Bob.

[Carloshmc2812]

Veronica died? What a shame, I liked her.

[Valixon]

A interesting start oh not sure if its just a me thing or more but I have a endless landing screen when trying to looked at the show stats screen. In any case will follow progress as best I can.

[Mishi-man]

Thank you this is so helpful!

[Mishi-man]

It should be fixed now @valixon

[Mishi-man]

A shame indeed @Carloshmc2812

[Mishi-man]

Thank you for the kind words at the start! And I definitely could’ve done a better build up, The basic idea was to throw the player immediately into something they couldnt handle, No matter what they did. Hence the chaotic nature of everyone dying all around.

As for romancing Veronica, She isn’t meant to be a full romance route, So you don’t have to worry about things like getting stuck in her romance or whatever, She was basically a part of the mcs “Ordinary” life. Same way as Bob was, And to transition you from the mundane world, To the spirit world. Hope that makes sense!

[Mishi-man]

It should be fixed! @Diosmio

[Mishi-man]

It should be fixed!

As for Minni, You will see later on

[Mishi-man]

I am flattered to be compared to the new giants of anime.

Don’t worry, I won’t kill everyone off in the story though. @Sooty1

[Sally_Forth]

@Mishi-man

As for romancing Veronica, She isn’t meant to be a full romance route, So you don’t have to worry about things like getting stuck in her romance or whatever, She was basically a part of the mcs “Ordinary” life. Same way as Bob was, And to transition you from the mundane world, To the spirit world. Hope that makes sense!

While I’m fine with the rest of the prologue, I’m admittedly not super into the forced crush on Veronica ngl. I don’t know what you’ve planned for the romance routes, and if there’s gender-selectable, gay or bisexual options, but having a forced attraction to a character feels very immersion-breaking and kind of completely took me out of the “mundane life” experience. I’m sure other people might feel the same way–especially if they’re not attracted to women (or don’t want to choose any of the romantic options) at all in the first place.

It’s a problem that could easily be fixed just by removing the mentions of MC being clearly smitten with her–or at least giving the player the choice as to how they feel about her when they see her.

[Mishi-man]

Thanks for the feedback! All fair points, I’ll be revising that section to give players more agency over how they feel about Veronica!

Edit: Forgot to add this. There are 4 planned RO’s. They will appear in later chapters. 2 male options and 2 female options! Each one will be romanceable, regardless of your mc’s gender.

[Quantum_Nyx]

As long as Minnie is fine, I’m fine.

[Jonyxtion]

Ok, so after reading the premise and what is currently available i have some things i wanna share and list. Positives, Negatives and Questions.

Pos.:

1. I like how the Spirits are described, and the desperation is set in certain points of the story so far
2. The writing is also decent, of course everything is always optimizable, but that will come with time, so so far it is nice to read
3. The stereotypical anime protag. clishes are funny and well done

Neg.:

1. The Story is to fast paced, basically the whole setting shifts to fast without us being able to acutally get into the szene(at least for me), a bit more puffer would do some good, even if it is meant to throw the mc into the obscure
2. The anime protag. clishes are also a bit to clishe, does that make sense, well i’m kinda torn on that one, it’s good and “bad”
3. The mc feels like, they don’t know what kind of person they wanna be, on one hand they are off putting towards some, other times they are extremely openly verbal about their feelings/emotions, it is kinda hard to actually get into character because of that
4. Goes hand in hand with number 3, but the personality choices feel useless, we are trying to play as a stoic person…nope mc gonna scream like a little baby, we are trying to be nice and funny with every person, nope we are dismissive towards certain people just because → Personality, if already somewhat set(at least it seems like it is), would benefit from some more choices on that matter, maybe shy ones, or flirty ones(platonic flirting) etc.
5. Don’t force people into “romantic feelings” for characters, it takes away the immersion and disregards many different people who may feel weirded out and or not attracted to that persons gender etc. → Give us please more choices on that topic
6. I think it would also be nice if we could choose to have a pet and how we feel about our work?Currently it feels, like there is already a lot of choices taken away for the player

Questions:

1. Do you plan on giving us some more customizing options for the mc appearance? Like height, body type/build(would both be great features for the fighting later on), conditions like maybe glasses or something, clothing style later on, maybe (if we already can have violet and red eyes) red hair and white hair? All just suggestions of course.
2. Could we get more infos on the mc overall(like without spoilers of course, but maybe age, family, why they have a cat/or don’t maybe, etc.)
3. What types of weapons will we be able to choose from(i think knuckle busters for close combat would be cool, etc.)?

Ok so, this was a lot that i listed here, this is all of course my subjective opinion, i hope that it didn’t come of as rude or anything, but i think it is always good to get structured criticism, have a great day otherwise.