Amelia Morrison flees the trauma of her hometown Rzekiva to the grey city of Centropol in the New European Federated Economic Territory. Everyday routines numb her pain, yet haunting memories persist and hint at deeper deceptions. As she uncovers layers of conspiracy, hidden passages, and lost technocultures, trust erodes and reality spirals around her.
This cybergothic kinetic visual novel delivers a tense reading experience through twisting drama and psychological horror. Players navigate choices in who to trust amid networks of intrigue, backed by original art and a soundtrack blending techno, trip-hop, post-rock, and drones. Indie visual novel fans who savor dark, introspective narratives will find it compelling.
Unable to deal with the aftermath of what happened in her home town of Rzekiva, Amelia Morrison leaves for the city to try and pick up the pieces of what’s left.
The routine of every day life is comfortably numbing in its monotony, but no matter how much she tries to suppress them, the memories of that town always resurface. Despite the pain they cause, their persistence reveal that the events that transpired in Rzekiva may not have been what they seem.
As Amelia peels back the layers, the world around her starts to spiral and she alone stands in the middle of it all. Trust and truth become scarce commodities.
Butterfly//Circuit is set in the New European Federated Economic Territory (NEFET) in the grey city of Centropol. Surveillance, resource extraction and the policing of bodies are nothing if not the norm within the concrete grid, but Amelia has bigger things to worry about. Networks of conspiracy, hidden passages, and lost technoccultures permeate the the fabric of Centropol, and Morrison has to cut through the threads.
Crossing paths with faces both new and old, Amelia has to choose wisely who to trust, and who to keep at arms length.
From up and coming solo developer WireWARE with guidance from the MVU, Butterfly//Circuit is a cybergothic kinetic visual novel featuring a twisting drama laced with psychological horror inspired by the likes of Serial Experiments Lain, Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni, and the works of David Lynch.
Butterfly//Circuit creates a dark and tense reading experience supported by original art and an originally composed soundtrack featuring a variety of music ranging from pumping techno and chill trip-hop, to moody post-rock and atmospheric drones.
