THE SOLSTICE HUNTERS: ACT ONE

Two children go into the woods. One returns a monster…and the other never returns.

The Kingdom of Aeverdam lies under the shroud of a Curse—out in the woodlands, miles beyond its protective walls, an unbreakable barrier stands between the Kingdom and the rest of the realm. A prophecy claims that two children, sent into the woods on the night of the Winter Solstice, will slay the creature that guards the barrier, shattering the Curse and setting Aeverdam free. But for seven-hundred years, the Curse remains unbroken.

You play as Willa Corbel: the only daughter after seven sons, all of them lost to the annual Solstice Hunt. With magic running in your veins, you’re considered vital to the Kingdom, sparing you from your brothers’ same sacrificial fate. But when the Oracle divines your name for this year’s Hunt, you’ll spurn the protection promised by your magic, using the last night of your life to uncover the truth of what happened to your brothers—and at long last free the Kingdom.

Rating: Teen/YA

Cover Art by @amorizel

Content Warnings: Non-graphic depictions of blood and injury, sibling death, one mention of parent death, some frightening imagery

Read the Prologue here: https://erinelise.itch.io/mama-bird

Updates:

PATCH 12/27: Completes previously incomplete passages in Chapters 3  and 5 (both routes). Fixes viewport.  

SPECS

-Two unique routes 

 -30K+ words of content per route

 -Several optional conversations 

 -One secret conversation (hehe) 

 -A side quest in Chapter 2

 -A side activity in Chapter 3 

 -Two endings (one “bad”, one that continues to Act II)

 

TIPS

-This is a game about learning. Paying attention to lore and what Willa learns as an apprentice will be important in the Act’s final stage

 

Coming in later acts:

-4 romance routes

 -World map