CORE-E
Core-E Games
The Wanderer's Tale
A retro text adventure of debts, ledgers, and roads north. Your choices follow you.
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A stranger on the road claims you owe a debt you don't remember.
How you answer follows you north — through an inn where you hear a confession not meant for you, a toll bridge where guards are looking for someone, and a mountain pass where a fugitive is hiding with a ledger powerful people would kill to burn.
The Wanderer's Tale is interactive fiction in the style of the dialogue boxes and pixel portraits of classic JRPGs. No stats, no combat — just choices that are remembered, and consequences that arrive later, when you least expect them.
- 10 chapters, 129 story nodes. Branching on choices you made hours earlier, not just the last one.
- Three endings. Shaped by what you did with the evidence — and with the debt. Every finished tale is recorded, and the title screen keeps your count.
- Adjustable text speed, up to instant. For chasing the endings you haven't seen yet.
- Autosaves every scene. Play in the browser, or install it as an app.
- Retro presentation. Pixel-art scenes and portraits, typewriter text, and an ambient chiptune score synthesized live in the browser — no two moods alike across the arcs.