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Is Deathless: The City's Thirst worth it for you?
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Play it if you…
Good fit- Interactive-fiction readers who want a long, choice-driven narrative
- Fantasy readers interested in political conflicts over public utilities
- Players seeking romance and moral decisions within a necromantic setting
Skip it if you…
Saves you a refund- Players looking for visual presentation or sound effects rather than a text-only game
- Players seeking mechanically detailed combat or action sequences instead of narrative decisions
- Players wanting a short game rather than a 150,000-word interactive novel
Our take on Deathless: The City's Thirst
The premise emphasizes gods, murders, and giant scorpions, while the actual format is a text-only interactive novel. There are no graphics or sound effects, so the experience centers on reading and making narrative choices rather than controlling conventional on-screen action.
What is Deathless: The City's Thirst?
This 150,000-word interactive fiction follows a junior employee of a public-services company that once killed gods, working in the parched desert city of Dresediel Lex after the God Wars.
Decisions determine whether water infrastructure becomes a monopoly or remains affordable, and whether farmers, influential figures, friends, or necromancers receive support. The story combines negotiations with scorpion deities, murder cases, dealings with property magnates and reporters, romance, betrayal, death, and restoring the dead to life. Players can choose a male or female protagonist and straight, gay, or bisexual relationships. The entire work uses text rather than images or audio.
How Deathless: The City's Thirst plays
- 01Branching story choices
- Decisions affect political alliances, relationships, murders, water policy, and the fate of the city.
- 02Character identity options
- The protagonist can be male or female and can pursue straight, gay, or bisexual relationships.
- 03Necromantic legal setting
- The story combines public-utility disputes with gods, undead kings, necromancers, and renegade priests.
- 04Text-only presentation
- The 150,000-word story has no graphics or sound effects.
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Deathless: The City's Thirst: platforms & release
Is Deathless: The City's Thirst worth it?
It is worth it if: interactive-fiction readers who want a long, choice-driven narrative. Skip it if: players looking for visual presentation or sound effects rather than a text-only game.
Where can I download Deathless: The City's Thirst?
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What platforms is Deathless: The City's Thirst on?
Windows, macOS and Linux.
