The Kestadian Hope
A downloadable game for Windows, macOS, Linux, and Android
The Kestadian Hope:
Living as a slave for her master Derkel, Axel's life is devoid of meaning. Bound by a strong tie, she long since forgot every hope of being free from him. When she goes on the Kestadian hope, a sand crawler made to help civilians traverse the massive desert of Arisa, she meets with sympathetic strangers that try to help her during a voyage that will be more chaotic than any passenger expected.
About the game:
The Kestadian Hope is a SFW linear visual novel set in a fantasy world with mixed species coexisting. This game deals with heavy subjects such as; violence, slavery and racism. Sensible viewers be advised.
This build is the first half of the game, being about 2 to 4 hours depending on your reading speed.
You can drop by the Discord server if you want to see updates and chat with us directly. You can also follow my Twitter (although I don't post much on it.)
While the current part may have some quality of life updates based on feedback I get, the next big update should just be the rest of the game.
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Development log
- Android build released!Feb 14, 2024
- TKH version 0.9.3 released! Android support coming soonFeb 13, 2024
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Just finished the newest build and I'm loving it so far! I'll definitely read more once it updates.
Do you have a sequel or anything planned? Kind of hard to believe we're already halfway through, and it feels like there's a lot more coming (but maybe that's just me).
It's a minor nitpick, but the skip button seems to lag the game a lot. Maybe that's because of the many transitions and character movements (which are good, I'm not complaining about those!) or because of the size of the image files. Then again, you probably can't do much about it and it's not a big deal for linear games anyway. I thought I'd point it out in case someone hasn't yet.
Thanks a lot for reading it!
There is indeed a sequel planned, yes. I can't talk much about it though. I'm still working on the second part. I will release the second half of the game in the next big update!
Also yes sorry about the game lagging, it's me pushing renpy into it's limits, making it do something it's not really supposed to do. I will try to improve on that but it's a bit hard considering it really seems to be an engine problem mixed with some hard to change choices now that i'm that far into development ^^'
Loved the characters and the story so far. Excited to see the rest!
Really great story so far.
I really enjoyed each character and following them along, can't wait to read the rest of it.
I want to ask you, will there be multiple endings or not?
There are bad endings along the road, but only one final ending.
The greatest thing since butter on bread, 10/10 would play more of it
Excited for the next builds, it's such a masterpiece 😋
Thanks Wacky! I'll do my best for the rest and I hope you'll appreciate it!