Beyond Eden

Beyond Eden is a Victorian-era visual novel about love, hatred and revenge. You play as Alex Wake, a young businessman returning to Baron Edenic’s mansion, Ashgrove Park, where he spent part of his childhood. After ten years away, Alex arrives with a deep grudge against the Baron and his family, and seeks to manipulate them and their employees into destroying the household.

Ashgrove Park

Set in the late Victorian era, a time of social upheaval and changing values, the story unfolds at the stately mansion of Ashgrove Park, surrounded by a vast forest. The Baron, his four sons, the family doctor and the servants greet Alex with differing degrees of wariness, joy and unfamiliarity. Beneath his calm demeanor, Alex hides his desire for revenge, bringing discord and destruction to the household.

Relationships and routes

Alex can develop dark, complex relationships with six male characters. Five are romantic interests; Jeremy has a separate, non-romantic route in which Alex can form a different kind of relationship with him. Each romantic interest has an individual story, and completing every route reveals the full truth behind the tragedy at the Baron’s mansion more than a decade earlier. Your choices can steer Alex toward tragedy or help him find a faint chance of redemption.

The six characters are the austere eldest son and heir apparent, the cold and silent second son, the pure and innocent youngest son, the kindly family doctor, the impeccably polite butler and the social butterfly friend. Their routes lead to 17 different endings.

Events and presentation

The visual novel includes more than 20 events with sexual content between adult men, including dubious-consent and non-consensual sex. It does not depict sexual content involving women or minors. Major in-game events feature performances by Korean professional voice actors, alongside an original period-drama score of over 30 tracks and more than 70 illustrated event graphics. A playthrough takes 15–25 hours.