DEVIL'S LIMINAL is a branching slow-burn horror and yuri romance visual novel inspired by Azores folklore and Goethe's Faust.

Story

Margo Silva has done everything she can to leave behind the trailer park in Arizona where she grew up. Now all she has to do is focus on her job until she can leave for college. Her illusion of a quiet summer is shattered when a hungry ghost enters her dreams, and two mysterious girls show up in town, each claiming they can help her. Margo must contend with a demon's claim on her soul, and how to stop ghosts from this life and the past that want to take her future.

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  • Determine your Fate: With 300+ choices, build your relationships, uncover secrets, and decide the end of your summer. Replayable with multiple routes, relationships, and 5 endings.
  • Slow-Burn Horror: Over the course of 238k words and 15+ hours of gameplay, you must balance work, friendships, and maintain a normal facade in a life held back by poverty and domestic violence. In your quest for escapism, what will you do when you discover supernatural forces that intend to take away what little you have?
  • Find Love: 2 possible sapphic romance routes, and 1 secret route. Bec and Clara seem to know more than they let on, but offer you solace and guidance. Between dates, late night talks, and bloody alchemical rituals, find the love and romance you've always wanted. Or, will you abandon your humanity for something more?
  • Original Artwork, Music, and Voice Acting: 40+ unlockable gallery images. Handmade retro-inspired 2-bit dithered artwork is accompanied by an original soundtrack inspired by 90s and 2000s alternative. Partial voice acting brings out intimacy and horror.
  • Literary and Cultural Inspiration: A story that sits at the intersection of Faustian legend and Portuguese folklore from the Azores. Learn about your family's heritage, and discover the occult events of 500 years ago that set everything into motion. Confronted with death, consider your own values and what lies between living and dying.
  • Experience Summer: Gameplay is broken up into daily events between June 7th and September 1st. Spend the summer before college in your rural Arizona hometown. You must save yourself before September.

Clara

Bec

FULL RELEASE

  • Accessibility options including dyslexia-friendly font, serif font, adjustable text box opacity and color, and adjustable text color.
  • Interactive story with player choice for conversations, relationships, and actions.
  • 15+ hours of gameplay.
  • 5 endings.
  • In-game story spanning June 7th to September 1st.
  • 40+ gallery images.
  • 2 sapphic romance routes, 1 secret route.
  • Over 238k words and 300+ choices.
  • Original soundtrack inspired by 90s and 2000s alternative.
  • Original retro-inspired 2-bit dithered art.
  • Partial voice acting.

DEMO

The Demo may not reflect all updates that are in the Full Release.

  • Approximately 2 hours of gameplay.
  • In-game story spanning June 7th to June 20th.

Margo talking to Bec

Margo making a decision

Margo talking to Clara


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DEVIL'S LIMINAL on Steam - Play Early Access & Review!
DEVIL'S LIMINAL on Google Play

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This is a horror game. Please read the Content Warnings provided in the game and on the developer's website here.

This game is in development. There will be periodic updates to Early Access content until the full game is complete.

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Devil’s Liminal has made me sit in silence during almost every play session. Alone with my thoughts and a stirring fury within as I held back tears for Margo.

I can not wait to find out how this story ends, but I also wish it kept going.

• Great story so far, it hurts me in the best of ways, and you can tell the amount of love that went into this game is off the charts!

• The music has become part of my internal soundtrack as I go about my day, very well done.

• I am never not impressed by the art of this game, it’s so beautiful and looks like it took a lot of time and effort to create. The style is not something I’ve seen a ton, but really pushes the feel of the story that much further.

• Suspense, dread, mystery, empathy, all captured so wonderfully. I have never had my heart race reading the action and choices of a game before. Might have gotten me into visual novels now if only to chase this feeling again!

• Accessibility options my sweet  Big appreciate that the volume setting is broken up by music AND dialogue, as well as sound effects like menu sounds. I feel like options like this are overlooked, and I can say 100% that this feature lets me enjoy the game without feeling like I have to fight to pay attention. The font size, choices, and text background options are very welcome as well! I might’ve liked more text color options, but I feel like the text background option does well enough for me to balance text legibility and game style. 

° Also. Thank you so much for including a list of content warnings with descriptions/explanations of what’s meant by said warning. I feel like more media should have them 

The only thing that brushes against my enjoyment of the game is that, at present, some voiced sections are noticeably quieter than others (for example, if a character says “um” but then says a sentence later in the scene, the sentence doesn’t match the volume of the “um”) (If this has been fixed, please ignore me lol).  

All this to say, please play this lesbian-horror visual novel. I am in love with it and I think you will be too <3

Thank you for the kind words!! I really appreciate your support.

The voice acting: Let me know if you happen to catch any of the instances of uneven volume. It was all recorded in batches from 2023-2026 so some variation has snuck in.  For full release I'm going to try to set aside some time to do a quick volume check on old lines vs new lines.  Otherwise, definitely will do for a post-launch update.

Ele fica em português??

Hello, thank you for checking! Currently the game is only in English, but after the full release I might add more languages if there is enough demand. It's a very long game, so it highly depends.

Ok

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A hundred percent money well earn good game lots of yuri love

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Is there any way to turn off or change the sound made when clicking any option or dialogue without turning off all other sound effects 

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Unfortunately right now the only option is to turn down the sound effect slider. This is a good suggestion though, so I'll try to get a fix in for this soon

There is now an option, see my other response.

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Under preferences, then audio, there's now an option called "menu effect volume" that controls only the clicking UI sound. This has now been added to the PC demo, web demo, and Early Access. It's still missing from the Android demo, but will be updated soon.

Edit: The Android demo now has this option, too.

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I can't even begin to describe how nourishing and amazing this game is. I have to consume it sparingly, because of the themes that remind me of aspects of my own life. It's very emotional story telling, but my goodness. It is so worth it. Thank you so much for this game! <3

That is so sweet to say, thank you so much! I'm happy to hear it resonates with you. ❤️

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Hi! I really enjoyed your game! I was browsing itch.io horror games on the night shift, and this game made a fantastic companion for that. The art is really evocative, and the exploration of trauma and how it messes with memory is ouuuuuugh, very good. Also! I really enjoyed the way Bec was written, she feels very honest to what me and many of the transfemmes in my life are like. I've wishlisted it on steam! Keep at it! I'd love to see more games like this get made!

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Thank you!! Night shift is a pretty good time to play haha. I'm really glad you like Bec! My wife is trans and inspired a lot of her character.

Hope you'll enjoy the full version when it's out!

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I'm in love with this game <3

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🥺 Appreciate you

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really intrigued by the game so far!
the music is atmospheric and builds the milieu nicely

Thank you! ♥️

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For fans of the genre, this must be a great title. I liked the art, but I confess that 3 hours of gameplay for a demo build made me realize that I'm just a casual player of the genre. Still, I see dedication and a lot of love for game production.

Thanks for playing and sharing your video! I think it's fair to say I ended up making a bit of a niche game. 😅 

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Ughh i really want to play it but I dont want to get hooked on something I wont see the end of😔😔

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It will be finished! It's just taking a while 😅

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Looking forward to this game's release :)

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Im excited for this

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really enjoyed playing the demo, thank you! all the ritual scenes, the last dream and interactions with margo's mother always gave me chills... anyways, bec's line is so warm and comfy!! thank you and looking forward to the full game!

I really appreciate your comment! Happy to hear you liked Bec's route! 🖤

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Really intrigued by the demo and looking forward to the full game! :D

(Haha and crossing my fingers the full game will have a walkthrough)

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Thank you! 😁 Definitely will have a walkthrough for the full game.

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Looking forward to next up

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❤ Thank you!