Facettes

Facettes blends role-playing character creation with visual novel sequences. You play as Anna, a young writer creating her first novel, and shape the characters and their behavior as she develops its story.

Create the characters

You roll dice and assign their values to traits such as spirituality, charisma and combativeness. The results reveal a character archetype called a Potential, who becomes the hero or heroine of a chapter in Anna’s book. Each new roll creates a new Potential and leads Anna into different memories that inspire her writing.

As Anna builds the story’s foundation from her memories, visual novel sequences ask you to decide how the characters behave: they can help one another, fight or act only in their own interests.

Anna’s story

After years of heterosexual relationships, Anna begins to realize that she is ultimately attracted to women. Set in a heteronormative and patriarchal world, her story explores queer themes and reflects on gender and sexuality, with an invitation to understand and accept others and oneself.

The Nuances series

Facettes is the third game in the Nuances series, which focuses on feminism, LGBT+ themes and inclusiveness. The earlier games are Sweet Love, about moral harassment within a couple, marital rape and femicides, and A Comfortable Burden, which addresses mental load through an otter couple.