The Passenger

The Passenger is a 380,000-word interactive cosmic horror novel told entirely through text, with no graphics or sound effects. You play an eldritch creature fleeing another being across dimensions, only to become stranded on Earth inside a human body.

Life on Earth

Twenty-six years later, you still need to find a way off the planet. You have a mother and sister, deliver baked goods for a living, and remain hunted by the creature that nearly ate you. You decide how to respond to your strange life and whether to try to escape your human body.

Your character and relationships

You can play as male, female or nonbinary, and choose to be trans, cis, gay, straight, bisexual, asexual, aromantic and partnered, or single. Romance options include a headstrong waitress, a moody store clerk, a mystifying newcomer and an unconventional cult leader. The story has four monogamous routes and one polyamorous route.