Koncolos

Koncolos is a text-based visual novel about Aras, a bartender whose shift at a small neighborhood pub ends at 20:00. For the past few days, the pub has descended into chaos just after closing time, when a woman starts a fight each night by asking, “Do you know a monster that dwells around here?” Aras grows curious about her and looks for ways to learn more, leaving his mundane routine behind as he faces the chaos ahead and tries to preserve his tenuous psyche.

The world of Koncolos

The first episode explores a hidden aspect of a living world left behind ages ago, where ordinary people, mages and monsters live together. Aras lives in the center of a capital city in Anatolia, alongside five million other inhabitants. He and the people around him are known by name but otherwise unremarkable; they once had visions of their own, but seem to have abandoned them. The city and its people have a bleak, subdued quality: neither tedious nor lively, but as if they are “living somehow.”

Story and presentation

The game tells its story through text and interactions with hand-drawn comic-book artwork, with anime-style characters. It also features an original ambient soundtrack.