You died young. Sorry about that. But now you’re back! Your wife’s magic yanks you from death’s clutches, but power always comes with a cost. Decide if you can love the heart that doomed you before it’s too late.
To Ashes You Shall Return is a 31,000-word interactive novel of sapphic love and loss by Kaitlyn Grube. It’s entirely text-based, without graphics or sound effects, and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination.
Explore the wonders of:
Queer romance
Tragedy
Witchcraft
A kitty named Tabitha
An unstoppable tide of existential dread
The dirt claims us all in the end. How will you live in the meantime?
Kaitlyn developed this game using ChoiceScript, a simple programming language for writing multiple-choice interactive novels like these. Writing games with ChoiceScript is easy and fun, even for authors with no programming experience. Write your own game and Hosted Games will publish it for you, giving you a share of the revenue your game produces.
Just a heads up in case anyone thinks they are trapped in an infinite loop:
If you find yourself trapped in what looks like an infinite loop with a one choice option, it is apparently not a bug. You will need to select the choice by tapping next repeatedly. Once you tap it fifty times, you will be presented with a different choice option which will allow you to finish the game and go to the rating screen.
Just providing this info as someone who had beta-ed and played the game, if it helps.
I think this is something that should be patched out, or at least clarified. A friend of mine is playing the demo and asked me to come here to report it for her. I can easily see this impacting sales if people think it’s an error.
Edit: Editing to add what I think is the choice in question. She’s saying sh just tried to do that and the game ended immediately.
My friend is reporting that this happens multiple times, and she’s having trouble telling what is and isn’t a bug, apparently there were some other choices that this happened on as well?
But don’t shoot me, I’m just the messenger! She has what she doesn’t know are bugs or not and asked me to let you guys know since she doesn’t have an account. But personally, from what it sounds like, I do think it should be made a little more clear that it’s an artistic choice so it doesn’t confuse people. That’s all.
The ending mentioned above is the only place where there should be a loop. If your friend encounters a loop (or any other apparent bug) elsewhere in the game, it would be helpful if she could contact support@choiceofgames.com and let us know where it’s happening. Thanks!
It is part of the ethos of Hosted Games to allow the author to retain as much creative control of their game design as possible. We advise, but we do not insist unless it is a strict matter of functionality.
That having been said, the author has agreed to change the ending, and the current version does not end with a loop (the update may take a little while to appear on the Android standalone but should be live already everywhere else).
This game spoke to me congrats to Kaitlyn Grube on releasing a really beautifully written game from the heart. Anyone who understands the story can’t help but appreciate the author and her vision
congrats to Kaitlyn Grube on releasing a really beautifully written game from the heart. Anyone who understands the story can’t help but appreciate the author and her vision