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Release: 09 Jun 2025
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About The River

The River - about the game
You wake up in the void with no memory beyond a deep sense of past horror that stranded you in limbo. This visual novel adventure challenges you to navigate back to the living and confront whether to set things right. Crafted in Adventure Game Studio, it delivers a cohesive narrative across 12 scenes in 30-50 minutes, enhanced by good headphones. Hand-drawn monochrome backgrounds pair with nearly 2000 frames of sprite animation and dynamic music scores. Dialog and character portraits drive the story forward in a unique visual style. Mature themes of death, dying, and violence suit players drawn to thoughtful visual novel experiences on PC.

You wake up in the void, with no memory other than the deep sense that something horrible has happened to you in life that has left you in limbo. Can you find your way back to the living to make things right?

Should you?

Welcome to my first visual novel / game project, The River. I actually made something!

This is my very first attempt at making a game, as well as my first second earnest attempt at a cohesive, stand-alone narrative.

I set off to create all of the visual assets, sound effects, and music myself, and scripting/tying it all together with Adventure Game Studio.

Estimated play time: 30-50 minutes.

Playing with good Audio / Headphones is highly recommended.

Content Warning: Contains mature subject matter (discussion of death and dying, written descriptions of violence)

Game Features:

  • Unique, (mostly) monochrome style visuals

  • Digital hand-drawn backgrounds

  • Unique soundtrack and dynamic music score for each of the game's 12 scenes

  • Nearly 2000 frames of sprite animation

  • Visual Novel styled story, including dialog and character portraits

Interface:
English
Subtitles:
English

Age rating

Unavailable
Steam:
Overwhelmingly Positive (20)

Minimum:

  • OS: Windows 10
  • Processor: Intel Core i3 Processor or higher
  • Memory: 4 GB RAM
  • Graphics: Direct3D 9 or OpenGL
  • DirectX: Version 9.0
  • Storage: 65 MB available space

Recommended:

  • OS: Windows 10
  • Processor: Intel Core i3 Processor or higher
  • Memory: 4 GB RAM
  • Graphics: Direct3D 9 or OpenGL
  • DirectX: Version 9.0
  • Storage: 65 MB available space
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Before you start looking for a cheap The River key, check the essentials. Developed by bokchoi. Published by bokchoi. PC released date: 09 Jun 2025. Genres: Free To Play, Adventure. Categories: Single-player, Steam Achievements.

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