The Pilgrimage

The Pilgrimage is a story-led adventure set a thousand years after the fall of Earth. You play a lone adventurer known as the Pilgrim, who arrives in Firesend, a holy monastery town, intending to visit its shrines, pray, reflect and seek enlightenment or atonement. After a night at the pub leaves him with no memory, he wakes in a filthy puddle, owing money to his landlord and carrying a key, then sets out through the town at dawn.

Chapter 1

In Chapter 1, The Porcelain Crown of Regret, you guide the Pilgrim through the trials of a foreign town. As he explores, he can see the sights, buy souvenirs and begin uncovering a story involving love, crime, treasure, pain, tragedy, triumph and awkward conversations. The chapter follows his first hours of adventure as he tries to deal with the consequences of the previous night.

Explore and investigate

You explore, interact with the town and solve puzzles to uncover mysteries, using familiar adventure-game conventions. A dynamic journal helps you keep track of your progress. You can also die in various ways and collect epitaphs as records of your mistakes.

Conversations and parser

You can talk to anyone you meet, choosing topics manually in branching conversations. What you say and ask about can lead to subplots, hidden insights and trivia; you can also type rude words to see how people react.

The text parser accepts verbs, nouns, adjectives and prepositions. It can attempt to understand jumbled words and profanity-laden sentences.

Books

Books appear in the game and can be added to your collection. The game also has accompanying books to buy and read, including books that can be read within the game.