To Feast on Fear-if

This is a 18+ historical gothic-horror-romance interactive novel.

Inspiration was taken from classic gothic literature and modern dark fantasy such as: Brotherhood of the Wolf (Le Pacte des Loups), Crimson Peak, The Bloody Chamber, and the folklore surrounding the Beast of Gévaudan.

Set in 1764 France, it follows the daughter of the Marquis d'Apcher, celebrated as the diamond of the season at Versailles. But her homecoming to Gévaudan is shattered by a violent assault that awakens an ancient curse sleeping in her blood.

Now, she must navigate a brutal winter, angsty romantic attachments, and a terrifying transformation that ties her to the Beast of Gévaudan. The monster they hunt in the dark wears your face...

This story is intended for a mature audience. Please see below the cut for the full synopsis and content warnings.

You are the daughter of the Marquis d'Apcher (one of the eight barons of Gévaudan), celebrated as the diamond of the season at the court of Versailles. But the glittering ballroom is a world away now, and in the brutal winter of Gévaudan, the only colour that matters is the burgundy of blood on snow.

Your homecoming was meant to be a triumph. Instead, a violent assault in the frozen gardens of court forced you to take a life to save your own. That desperate act awoke a terrible secret sleeping in your blood—an ancient curse that now answers to the full moon, dragging you into an agonizing transformation you cannot remember, leaving you to wake up naked and bloodied as the church bells toll for another victim of La Bête du Gévaudan.

The monster they hunt in the dark wears your face.

As a daughter of the “Seven Kin,” the ancient, inter related bloodline that has ruled these lands for centuries, you are surrounded by family and allies. Yet, you have never been more alone. You must navigate a world of ambitious suitors, while every powerful emotion threatens to unleash the beast inside, and every dawn brings you closer to being discovered.

In a land of monsters, both human and beast, who can you trust when you cannot even trust yourself?

In To Feast on Fear, you will be able to:

🌕 Customize your noble lady. Choose her name, appearance and personality. Will you be a pious and gentle soul, a cunning woman hiding your secrets behind a mask, or a rebellious spirit who despises the gilded cage of your station?

🌕 Shape your curse. Is the Beast within you a mindless, feral animal, or a cunning predator with a will of its own? Will you fight for control, surrender to the bloodthirst, or attempt to walk the razor's edge between your two halves.

🌕 Solve a brutal mystery. Hunt for clues to discover the truth behind the killings terrorizing Gévaudan. Is it truly you, acting out a forgotten blood vendetta? Or is there another, far more human monster hiding under the guise of your curse? Trust the wrong person, and you might end up taking the blame for their sins.

🌕 Forge deep and dangerous relationships. Find comfort, rivalry, or love with five distinct romance options (one gender selectable F/M). Will you trust your heart to the devoted guardsman who watches you with worried eyes, match wits with the libertine royal huntsman sent to kill you, seek understanding from the intriguing female doctor who believes your curse is all in your head, pursue a tragic, forbidden love affair with the arrogant heir to the very family that your own has been grudging over for generations? or perhaps fall for the tormented spirit that roams the very woods?

🌕 Survive the hunt. Navigate the treacherous currents of 18th-century French society, where your reputation is as important as your life. Maintain the façade of a perfect lady, manage the suspicions of your own family, will you end your story celebrated as a hero, exposed as a monster, or buried in a forgotten grave?

This story is for mature audiences (18+) only.

It will explore themes of: Psychological horror, the duality of human nature, trauma, guilt, and identity, reason vs. superstition and religious fanaticism, feminine rage and body autonomy.

This story will contain the following:

Graphic depictions of violence and gore

Body horror (related to transformations)

Gaslighting and psychological manipulation

Explicit intimate and sexual themes

Thematic elements and references to sexual violence (not graphically depicted on-screen)

i just started the demo and during the prologue, where you can choose the option "try to tear it away", the same option increases the stats ferocity, instinct and compassion.

to me it seems like a bug, that the option to tear it away increases compassion and not cruelty. if its not a bug, could you maybe share an explanation on how i should interpret the compassion--cruelty stat ingame?

thank you for your answer.

Hii blook, thanks for catching this, it is definitely a bug as I fumbled it, I'm still working on the stats alright, it was intended to increase cruelty yep, but as an opposes pair I had to code compassion and lower it and I seem to have left it with the + sign instead

I will upload later the game files fixing some of the stuff, and thanks to all of you that have sent me the errors you've caught 💚✨

As well I'll add the extra content to the prologue, which is more spotlight for Roméo among other characters and adding the MC's journal.

Yeah you're right as long as I don't update files mid play lol, and omg take it as a sign for you to read it.

Dear Firefox users, as my last act of love I updated the game for your enjoyment, sorry if I broke your saves..

Hate u coding bugssssss!!! I am playing it and I didn't seee that wtf, idk if it's a browser thing or I can play it just fine because I uploaded it idk

I am finally done guys, just published the update which surprisingly ended up with 88k for chapter one, also I added more content to the prologue which is now around 40k.

For the demo is now at 130K, sorry for having taking too long writing it.

PLAY HERE

Some paths with the RO's left me still not content with it but well, it's just chapter one, and I had more stuff to add to the prologue but I didn't wanted to take longer with it, so for the next update let's hope I can do it.

I thought I was done, but found out a doc where I kept the scene where we interact with J —I had it incomplete in the code btw—and so now I have to edit out some other 4k words only that and I can release it, ugh also now I'm haaving more ideas to add, but I will left them for later, still I plan to release it this week so let's hope those 4k don't grow, tho maybe it will be a good thing if it does lol

Hello hello!! thank you so much for breaking your silence to send this, you are too sweet✨💚

🥺 hearing that the demo left u with such an impression means everything to me—that's exactly the vibe I was hoping for.

also, please don't worry about the character limit or doing asks right, you did perfectly! I believe tumblr does cap asks at 500 characters, but if you ever want to scream or ramble about the story, you are always welcome to do so in multiple asks (like a part 1 and part 2). thank you so much for playing and have a great day/night.

THANK YOU!

Hii 💚✨ thank you, and yeah that's the idea fro the future, like certain choices will determine the end of our MC, but yeah it will be like with the church and also the nobility of the region —also I'm thinking of a puppet ending in which the MC becomes the mistress of Louis as Madame de Pompadour had died that year—

Also for the premise I was thinking of doing the version of my place with the bestia di Cusago which would have fitted as it was a she wolf but it didn't lasted that long (and the rumours that the bite marks din't matched the ones of the creature killed will definitely be stolen, as welI def use some of the lupo mannaro lore), and la bête du Gévaudan happened first and I believe is more popular, weird both happened in summer...

I was tagged by my dear Quene @dormantstar-if (sorry I just)

1. What was your first favorite book?

Anna Karenina, it devastated me and that's why I enjoyed it so much because it left a lasting impression on me, and mb because I wasn't supposed to read it at such age—I was 10 btw.

2. What is your current favorite book?

Never ask me for my favourite something because I can never come up with just one thing or remember them all, but the ones that I can name right now are: Anna Karenina, A love letter to whiskey and The birth of venus.

3. What Genre is your favorite, reading or writing?

Well anything with angst goes, drama and strife so anything that makes us sad, writing wise because for reading I go for historical-fantasy fiction with drama and romance (Outlander)

4. Favorite trope?

Ehem, star crossed lovers, unrequited love (mainly when the one doing the pining steps aside for the other one to be happy) and my all time favourite, right person, wrong time 😭 I love to suffer

5. If you could, what world building or story would you love to have written yourself?

I would love to have come up with the story of past lives by Celine Song or even the Witcher books, the world and characters are so interesting and the relationships so messy just like I love them, in fiction ofc

6. Your favorite line (or three) that you've written?

"You seem to have mistaken my need of you for affection. I merely clung to you as a drowning man grasps a floating plank. And just when it threatened to drown me, I destroyed it."

"You will search for me in every other woman you meet, that much I can assure you.

"How can I blame the wind for this mess, when the fault lies in the window I left wide open?"

7. Favorite medium to experience a story? (Book, IF, video game, movie, etc)

Oh, this is hard because I enjoy all of them

8. Favorite character versus your favorite character to write: Who would win?

Well, it would be a tie of course

9. What story keeps inspiring you to write?

I think is mostly when an idea comes to me and my brain forces me to continue and see it on the screen written, and literally anything can trigger that, like films, songs even dreams. I have a bunch of ideas stored for the future.

10. Random fun fact about you, your writing, your interests!

-There's been a good amount of people that told me they thought I was French, I'm not, I'm Italian  (I do speak French but I'm better reading/writing it)

-I love learning new stuff as to why I'm a history nerd and speak most of the Romance languages

-I am a big horror fan

Hii clever crow, I'm so excited as well, I might also wait a bit myself to play it, as for now it has only been editing and I, that would not allow me to enjoy it as fully bcs I recall almost everything that happens—the downsides of you being the one that has to write the story u want to read lol— And I will accept your offer, as I def need some fresh pair of eyes to spot my horrid typos and my grammar isn't perfect, like, guys I type in the dark just to get in the mood lol