At Eve's Wake

At Eve's Wake is an interactive Lovecraftian horror story about surviving a family you never knew and its service to a dark patron. Raised by your mother, you have never known your family. After she dies, a letter tells you that your grandmother has passed away, bringing you to the family estate for what you expect to be a funeral. You soon learn why your mother left: the family is putting you through a trial to choose a new successor, and the time for Convergence has begun.

Family and fate

You uncover what your family knows and does, and your actions can turn that knowledge against them. Your choices shape both your fate and the family's: you can seek to redeem them or join their ranks and lead. The knowledge you gain stays with you through victory or death, beyond the bounds of time and space, and carries over into later play-throughs.

Personality and choices

Your personality traits affect your actions, dialogue options, insights, how others perceive you and the story's difficulty. Strength favors aggressive, physical approaches and brute force; intelligence offers additional insight and can make escape easier; charisma makes persuasive actions more successful. Each trait provides a distinct play style and can change how you overcome obstacles.

You can return to earlier save points to change the course of the story. There are four distinct endings. The game has no autosave, so you save manually; it does not track your story progression for you.

Sanity and sound

Some actions affect your state of mind, which can decline gradually or through choices you make knowingly. Each story begins with a clean slate and a fresh state of mind. There are three sanity states, each associated with a layer of music; you cannot track your current sanity.