#demo update

🎙️ ahem LADIES. GENTLEMEN. CREATURES OF DARKNESS.

Welcome, welcome, to the second annual Sordia Doesn't Care If You Survive This Games — I mean. Chapter 2. Chapter 2 is here. (May the grief be ever in your favor.)

CH2: THE CITY THAT DOESN'T BURY CLEAN is LIVE🎉

The full Chapter 2 sits at 109K words and the full demo at 270K words kill me :)

The code is still a war crime. I have made peace with this. I have, in fact, made the war crime bigger, so genuinely, congratulations to me. Anyways enjoy CH2!

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NEOCITIES

THIS UPDATE INCLUDES:

꙰ Cope in increasingly bad ways ꙰ Say goodbye to sissy ꙰ Have a glimpse into Maud's future + Flashback time!! ꙰ Chase more leads ꙰ Meet your informants for more intel ꙰ Meet Dr. Arden in a way that involves property damage ꙰ Meet Egon/Emme in a way that would end both your respectability and dignity if somebody saw you two (+minigame) ꙰ Meet Luz in a 007 way (+minigame) ꙰ More Lore + RO POV's ꙰  A bad ending exists now, if you go looking for it. Say nighty night + I had to honour the legend Bonnie Tyler in a scene, R.I.P Queen ⊹₊♛₊⊹

! Fair warning, there is a non-consensual act happening towards MC, if you don't want this, don't take the absolute crazy route, you'll know which one I mean :) Oh and saves are probably broken, I'm sorry :/

P.S.: How I imagined Leech the whole chapter

[August 1, 2026]

This is the fourteenth demo update for Fellow Traveler. Episode 4, Act 2 has been added.

280k total, approximately 80k per playthrough.

You get to:

Process everything Nora's told you

Take a (very short) breather

Have a phone call with Sameer (or don't)

Agree (or not) to go with Nora

Find out what Sameer's up to in Ohio

As always: please play through the demo from the beginning so that stats and such are up-to-date.

Play the demo here!

DEMO UPDATE - CHAPTER TWO (30.07.26)

word count (in total): 15.9K (without code) [+9.6K]

mobile friendly (i hope) and playable in browser.

chapter two!! after two whole years!!

it’s short again (sorry about that), but chapter three will definitely make up for it.

meet el and aksel.

matchmake maddox and n a little…if you want.

bulked out the first chapter a little bit.

i was struggling with the stat bars after two years of not touching twine, so i stripped the stats back to the absolute basics, but they work now…so a win is a win!

changed the plot a little, tiny bit. it just makes more sense to me now.

next update:

chapter three! which will involve your journey to the site of the first clue, some parkour, maybe a mummy encounter, and meeting menna.

sort out the profile section.

anyway. here’s to hoping we don’t have to wait another two years for my brain to reengage with this.

once again, my writing is never going to win me awards, but i’m having fun and that’s the main thing imo. so, i hope you enjoy playing along! please let me know if you find any spelling/grammar/tense mistakes!

was going to give a shoutout to @/innerdemons-if for the template, but they’ve deactivated :(

ai disclosure: no ai was used during the writing or coding process.

First, I'd like to apologize for the silence. I wanted to have this out earlier, but I encountered some technical difficulties that made it impossible to write. Now that I've fixed those, I am back in the seat!

In this update (10k), you can: ✦ train with Mother ✦ get a taste of blood ✦ discover something special about yourself ✦ Hug Freya :)

Hi guys.

Chapter 4 of Pactbinder is now live.

Overall, the content added with this update is again pretty chunky: ~117k words added in total.

Total word count is at around 409k words (excluding menus and startup); the average playthrough is probably around 120k words, just under ~30% of total word count.

I do think this chapter will feel faster than the last couple - at least it did for me, when playtesting - I think that's due to a mix of action and branching.

Outside of the content outlined below, I’ve made some substantial reworks again to the menu system, including written flavourtext for the MC's relationship bars with certain important characters. There's also some fun stuff with the Mastery bars which you'll see once you get there.

Some things to look out for in Chapter 4:

Conclude the Pactbinder's first term at Hightower at last.

Take your end-term exams.

Grow closer to a collegemate - potentially romantically. Or spend time with the whole crew!

Delve into Old Hightower.

A reunion.

I hope that you enjoy the release, and please don’t hesitate to let me know if you have any feedback or commentary. As always, views on the game so far and comments are truly gratefully received.

I’m especially interested to hear if the cast is still working for you and how you found the romance scenes. I’d also love to hear about your Pactbinders, and whether there are any points where you feel the narration or the options available to you didn’t give you an option that worked for your character.

Finally - please do share your stats in the report at the end of the chapter with me - these are hugely helpful for my work balancing each chapter (plus I love seeing how everybody is running through the game!).

Thanks for sticking with the story (and welcome to those new to Pactbinder!)

Hi everyone! The very first scene of chapter 2 is now live.

Soulmate Route – Public Update (08.07.26)

Hi!

The public update for the soulmate route is now up (29K words)

To access it, you need to use SKIP to CH4, because it's a bit further down the narrative than your last mafia job in Chapter 4. But you don't need any extra context to play it, besides what already happened in the soulmate branch.

There are no new content warnings beyond what's already listed, but the update includes non-skippable explicit sexual content. (I'll work on fade-to-black scenes at some point, but it's not that easy in this particular case...)

Please report any bugs and let me know how it goes!

I hope you'll have a great fucking time with your [insert Prue/Rue's pet name here] 😋

Enjoy!

Z

Hello,

Sorry for the slight delay. Part 2 of Chapter 4 is now available, featuring 20K words and updated content warnings.

Please note that you’ll need to restart Chapter 4 to access the new content.

As always, let us know if you run into any issues.

Enjoy!

LINK TO DEMO