Beneath their Names

Beneath their Names is an introspective narrative game in which you play a scholarship student invited to Weir Academy, an aristocratic school hidden from outsiders. You meet two students, Nora and Lika, and gradually grow closer to one of them. Your choices shape whom you trust and whether you follow the academy’s path, resist it or try to destroy everything.

Weir Academy

The academy is a closed world of Gothic architecture, quiet cups of tea, rooftops, archives, blankets and locked doors. As an observer, you can ask uncomfortable questions, but the academy tests how long you will remain on the sidelines.

Nora and Lika

Nora is sharp, calm and predatory. She uses flirting as a strategy and silence as control, asking questions without saying them aloud. Lika is reserved and unbroken; beneath her aloofness are tension and vulnerability that cannot be fixed, only accepted. She does not seek allies, so closeness with her carries meaning.

Choices and relationships

You choose whom to trust, though you may not notice when you have made that choice. As you get closer to someone, you must decide whether to let them in or distance yourself, and whether you are choosing a person, the truth or a side. The romance is restrained, built around tension, trust and the risks of getting closer; neither heroine is fully knowable, but you can decide which one to try to understand.