Xoru: The Nightmare Wars Demo
About this game
This demo is a story-driven visual novel, an interactive fiction game with RPG combat mini-games. Your mini-game outcomes affect the narrative branching and the trajectory your character takes thoughout the story.
The demo offers a vertical slice of the complete experience to be found in the full game.
The character begins in medias res, otherwise known as, the Edifice Ruin, the Tomb of the current Dream-Weaver, a guardian that protects the land of Xoru.
Your character descends into the Tomb, and you need to make a choice: Ascend the spiral staircase, or descend into the scary smoky exit?
Ascending the staircase leads into a combat mini-game:
The demo concludes after many twists and turns to a showdown with a gang of wraiths in the Domed Room:
Through branching destinies, hidden lore, brooding gothic vistas, and a soundtrack that echoes like a warning, you’ll walk a world reshaped by every choice you dare to make. But tread carefully—each decision pulls you toward redemption… or toward a fate far more terrifying than death.