Oath

Oath is a short interactive story and a companion piece to vai5000's 2024 EP. You return to a town where you once lived and meet a familiar face you have tried to forget. As you step into the shoes of your former self, you make your way through a mainly linear narrative about beginning a new life there.

Story and exploration

The story unfolds across six small acts, alternating between explorable, top-down RPG-like areas and visual novel-style sections. After completing the main story, you can replay the story mode to access the multi-hour Epilogue, which lets you explore the world in top-down form.

The game includes three large areas: the City, the Coast and the Underwater Depths. You can explore their buildings, interact with every item you see, talk to characters and complete quests. Activities include singing karaoke, collecting seashells, fishing and buying a house. Secrets and unique interactions are spread throughout the world, and achievements offer another way to explore it.

Art and music

The main story uses hand-drawn art, animation and graphical work by vai5000. A music player in the main menu lets you listen to the EP at any time, and completing each act unlocks images in the art gallery, including EP track cover art and other images.

Bonus rooms

Passcodes found at a point in the game give access to over 90 unique rooms featuring other music scene artists. Selected tracks from their discographies can be played in these rooms. Finding a subset of the rooms grants an achievement, but is not required to complete the game; earning it also lets you listen to more scene artist music in other areas.