Buy The Daring Mermaid Expedition PC key

The Daring Mermaid Expedition is a 71,000-word, entirely text-based interactive novel with no graphics or sound effects. You play an up-and-coming researcher trying to prove mermaids exist and earn admission to the exclusive Royal German Marinological Society. Your choices shape the story as you travel with a Society patron through pirate-infested waters toward Broken Shell Island, facing pirate attacks and skeptical academics on the way.

Choose your path

You can play as a vengeful mermaid-hater, a dispassionate scientist or a soft-hearted daydreamer, or abandon the expedition to join the crew of the infamous Lucy Smokeheart and embrace piracy. Your choices can lead to joining the Society, imprisonment for scientific fraud, an underwater life or being eaten by carnivorous fish-people. The story has ten distinct endings.

Relationships and statistics

You develop statistics including academic rigor, credibility and blood loss, and navigate interpersonal situations with wit, charm or awkwardness. You can seduce your patron or become bitter academic rivals. The game also includes achievements, though their exact number is unspecified.

Your character

You can choose your character's gender and sexuality.