Eldritch Tales: Inheritance

Eldritch Tales: Inheritance Five years after graduation, a mysterious letter draws you to Blackthorn Manor. Choose your character, shape relationships and sanity, face randomized events, and uncover the dark truth with six endings.

Eldritch Tales: Inheritance

Eldritch Tales: Inheritance is a story-driven, text-based interactive adventure. Five years after graduation, you receive a cryptic letter inviting you to meet an old friend at a manor—promising a strange, wonderful journey. As the plot unfolds, you’re free to select a character of any gender and background, and your decisions steer how the story develops.

You’ll need to manage reason, health, and relationships while slowly uncovering what Blackthorn Manor is truly hiding. Your choices ultimately determine one of six endings. Can you expose the dark reality waiting behind your inheritance?

Key Features

Complete Character Customization

• Shape your character’s appearance, personality, and sexuality to create an experience that feels uniquely yours.

Choices That Actually Matter

• The game is designed so your decisions influence relationships, sanity, and survival in meaningful ways.

Randomized Events for Fresh Runs

• Expect random events that keep every playthrough different, so each visit to Blackthorn Manor feels new and unpredictable.

Branching Endings

• Your outcome depends on a wide set of branching paths tied to choices, relationships, and context.

Six Distinct Storylines

• Play through six different character routes, each offering fresh plot elements, secrets, and an ending unique to your path.

What You Can Do

• Play as male, female, or nonbinary.
• Customize your appearance, personality, and sexuality.
• Choose one of six backgrounds—Astronomer, Songwriter, Egyptologist, Gardener, Detective, or Librarian—each with its own story route and a dedicated, exclusive ending.
• Build friendships or romances with characters such as a wealthy playboy, a no-nonsense scientist, a protective ex-soldier, or a free-spirited artist.
• Keep track of sanity, health, and relationships—ignore them, and there will be consequences.
• Search for hidden rooms, secret passageways, and locations beyond human imagination—discover the truth about your inheritance, or risk becoming part of it.
• Rely on randomized events and multiple endings to ensure no two runs play out the same.

Final Words

Eldritch Tales: Inheritance is a 210,000-word interactive novel by Dariel Ivalyen, blending psychological, supernatural, and cosmic horror with drama, investigation, and romance. It’s entirely text-based—no graphics or sound effects—powered by the immense, unstoppable force of your imagination.