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The Father's Story is a visual novel set in the first century that retells the night of Jesus’s birth through the perspectives of people living through it. Its story follows a young shepherd boy whose difficult life changes during the events of that night, exploring how ordinary people and their choices could lead up to the birth described in the Bible’s Gospels. The story can be enjoyed without prior knowledge of the Bible or Christianity.

People of the story

The narrative includes a local baker’s daughter, a Roman centurion responsible for the garrison, a shepherd leader who walks a grey line, an orphan who survives by stealing, and other characters. It considers what might have happened around the birth, including whether Mary and Joseph were alone and what the angels were doing.

Choices and outcomes

The story is around 50,000 words and branches according to your choices for the protagonist. His life can have different outcomes linked to multiple heroines, whose influence forms part of his story; these routes also offer glimpses of other possibilities within the Gospel narratives.

Character expressions

Characters have full sets of expressions that change during conversations as the story progresses. The game has no vocal dub.