The Changeling
A downloadable game for Windows
Content Warning: Suicide
“A Changeling: The mirror image of a human or in your case: The afterimage. Unlike the changeling of ancient mythology, you have no physical presence - can’t touch or be touched.
A soul without a body.
But you may trade one human’s life for your own.”
A student project to boot, the Changeling brings you a story brought to life by glorious jank.
After being separated from their body, the Changeling has one chance to regain their humanity: Killing the groom at a highly publicized wedding. Trouble is, the Changeling doesn't have a physical presence in this world. So the Changeling's only weapons are words and they are powerful weapons, when used well.
But should they be used?
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Install instructions
Simply extract the contents of the .zip file and then launch the game's .exe
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deep storyThanks! Though I’m still somewhat surprised that no one found the hidden ending.
I was immediately drawn to the game due to the idea of a changeling as I find it a very interesting concept to make a game out of. I felt that the game uses too much text in general to show the stories and experiences that other characters had as it felt like I was reading most of the time instead of like doing things in the game. The concept of meeting people and changing into their forms to interact with others is quite interesting but the conversations made with others to make the other characters leave the site is quite abrupt like the conversation with the reporter. Furthermore, I felt that more things could have been done in the game to accomplish the task that the main character had to complete as so far the game is just about the main character going around to talk to people and changing into other character's appearances. Maybe the the player can do more things like interacting with objects or take part in more difficult tasks before being able to accomplish the mission.
I know that the context giving for the main character is that she has to kill the groom without being able to touch anything as she relies on words to kill but I felt that the game seems to be lacking some sort of surprise factor. Perhaps, conversations and stories could be written in a more emotionally impactful manner.
I felt that this game has quite abit of potential to become much better than it is now and to create a long-lasting impact on the player.
Thank you for reading my comment and I wish you good luck in your future endeavours.
Hi! firstly, thanks for your comment and the video, too. I just saw the video and there is quite a bit of content left for you to discover, perhaps even a surprise or two.