Each major character has dozens of hand-drawn sprites that interact with backgrounds and capture a full range of lighting, emotion, environment, and outfit changes.
Every background in the game is drawn by hand and inked on massive 19x24 inch paper. Its a compelling and genuinely unnerving story. Hand-drawn backgrounds and sprites work with a. Scarlet Hollow is beautifully atmospheric, with a fantastic soundtrack and incredible hand-drawn art. Scarlet Hollow is a short immersive debut for Abby Howard and Black Tabby Games, delivering chills with refreshing old-school mystery and special characters. Dozens of meticulously hand-drawn and traditionally inked backgrounds. From award-winning graphic novelist Abby Howard, Scarlet Hollow is a horror game where choices deeply matter. Whether you're into goths, dads, Youtubers, mysterious recluses, or lo-fi beats to study and water your plants to, we've got all your bases covered. A close procession of women glittering in scarlet, white and black, moving slowly. You won't find any predictable vampires or zombies here. It was passing along the level sunlit ridge above a deep, hollow valley. Original monster designs inspired by Appalachian myths and cryptids. Boston, MA JIndie game studio Black Tabby Games. Choice-driven horror adventure visual novel. Are you quiet and observant? Hot and clueless? 21 different character builds change how you interact with the world and how your story unfolds. Scarlet Hollow Episode 2 Out Now on Steam. Scarlet Hollow's dialogue system is driven by role-playing elements that let you choose who you want to be. Become friendly rivals, bitter adversaries, best friends, or mild acquaintances with everyone in town based on how you approach the story. Characters don't just like or dislike you. A complex relationship system that changes how characters act around you. Charming characters and snappy dialogue flip to pulse-pounding horror at a moment's notice. The relationships you forge and the decisions you make will dramatically alter your journey. A heavily branching narrative where your choices matter. Who lives, who dies, and the fate of an entire town rests on your shoulders. (Powerful Build) (Intimidate) Get your act together. Hell yeah, sounds awesome Smile and pretend he didn't just say that. NEW GAME Choose Powerful Build and Street Smart traits. Trapped in the dying Appalachian mining town of Scarlet Hollow for the funeral of your estranged aunt, you quickly find yourself at the center of a dark mystery that threatens your life and the fate of an entire town. Fusion-ha Take a menu option that requires two traits.
My Score: 10/10 My System: AMD Ryzen 5 2600X | 16GB DDR4-3000 CL15 | MSI RX 5700 XT Gaming X 8GB | Mesa 20.0.8 | Samsung 970 Evo Plus 500GB | Linux Mint 20 | Mate 1.24 | Kernel 5.4.Scarlet Hollow is a horror-mystery game with sharp writing, dark humor, and hand-drawn art from award-winning graphic novelist Abby Howard. It ended making you want more which hopefully we will get.
The episode is free but considering I just went and backed the series on Kickstarter for $14 CAD it is worth at least that to me. If you enjoy visual novels you need to give this a try.
I can’t think of a single thing it could have done better. Game Version Played: 1.0 Game Engine: Ren’Py (7.3.5.606) Disk Space Used: 1092 MB GPU Usage: 0-44 % VRAM Usage: 587-990 MB CPU Usage: 0-20 % RAM Usage: 2.2-2.9 GB I adored this game and everything about it. You could manually save wherever you wanted and there were 54 save slots. I played version 1.0 of the game and it used version 7.3.5.606 of the Ren’Py engine. It never crashed on me and I didn’t notice any spelling errors. We’re currently working on Scarlet Hollow (2021 GOTY on Kotaku editor John Walker’s end of year list) as well as a Slay the Princess, a fully-voiced, surreal horror RPG/visual novel.
I played Scarlet Hollow: Episode 1 on Linux. Black Tabby Games is an award-winning indie studio run by Abby Howard and Tony Howard-Arias. I also really liked the trait system where you pick two character traits and they will give you special dialogue options and story branches you otherwise wouldn’t see. You could run the full gamut of what kind of person you wanted to be. The story had me hooked and the characters were great. Just a really interesting colour palette. It feels almost like a black and white game but it isn’t.
The atmosphere is downright creepy and the music is as well. Even as a stand alone episode if nothing else gets finished it was a fantastic game. I backed it and can’t wait for the finished product.
The first episode was released for free in hopes to get people interested and support the Kickstarter and it achieved it’s goal with me. The first episode was released for free in hopes to get people I can’t remember a time I was as excited for a series as Scarlet Hollow. I can’t remember a time I was as excited for a series as Scarlet Hollow.