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A real time first person dungeon crawler mixed with optional story-telling visual novel segments, taking place in a fragmented world on the verge of war. ''Devious mixes action-based, real time dungeon crawling combat with an intriguing, mature story about power, faith, and revenge. Now Top Hat is working on its newest game, Devious. While we’ve dabbled in a variety of genres from arcade to RPG, but there’s a strong place in our heart for visual novels.'' ''We have a passion for a lot of different types of games. Top Hat favors the VN (Visual Novel) genre and blending it in with traditional adventure and story elements. You might know them from Sense: A Cyberpunk Ghost Story, Karmasutra or Episcava Vol.1, among others. Top Hat Studios is a small indie studio based out of New York. As a result, there aren’t many games out there that are a true representation of horror than Death Mark.Click to shrink.I hope by this disclaimer, this is explained well enough. It also recognises the close link between horror and sex, and that’s a common thread to horror literature and film that most other horror games neglect, but this one would make Marquis de Sade very happy indeed. It’s intensely story-driven, and not just about jump scares – the game aims to unsettle and chill through the sheer quality of writing.

Death Mark is a bit of everything that I like in horror. This has got to be up there with my favourite VNs – and indeed horror games – of all time. To help people get into the genre if they hadn’t played before, we’ve compiled a list of the ten that we would recommend first. It’s also got a lovely, big screen, which makes it perfect for displaying the gorgeous art that you generally see in a good visual novel, and allows for both buttons and touch input, which allows people to play the games in whatever way is comfortable.Īs a result, there have been a lot of visual novels released on the Switch, covering a very wide variety of topics. Lightweight as a handheld, it’s easy to carry everywhere. The Nintendo Switch is the ideal device for visual novels.

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