Walk with the Living is a strategy role-playing game focused on intimate, character-driven storytelling.
Grief leads a swordswoman and a necromancer to raise an infamous knight from his grave. Follow the trio's quest for vengeance and make choices that impact their relationships with one another and those they meet.
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“[The] realistic depiction of the pain these characters are holding makes it easy to want them to find some happiness. Unlike the ‘which one will I choose?’ dating sim mechanics of recent Fire Emblem games, in Walk with the Living you get to play cupid, gradually encouraging dispossessed and traumatized characters to open up to each other and (maybe) start to see their future together. . . Perhaps best of all, it's a believably hopeful story about queer people.”
Tof Eklund, Gamers with Glasses
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Experience a surreal, aching story.
Enjoy beautiful sprite art and character illustrations.
Consider space and terrain in creative ways to keep your party alive through tactical battles with an array of objectives.
Meet complex characters and form relationships (both platonic and romantic) between them to gain significant in-battle benefits.
Make choices that drastically impact the course of the narrative and the relationships between various characters.
Replay and make different choices to discover dozens of secret endings and character epilogues.
Characters die permanently, but there are always more stories to be told; when a character dies, new narrative branches, relationships, and recruitments become available. Death isn’t the end. (If you'd rather, there's a non-permadeath mode too! In this mode, characters only die during story sequences.)
Main Characters
Rowan
Raised from the dead against his will to bring vengeance against his former employer, he struggles to cope with existing among the living in a body that feels dead.
Aoife
An unwilling leader of a growing movement to exact justice on the mercenary company raiding villages of the countryside, she harbors doubts about whether her mission to avenge her sister has meaning in the wake of her sister’s death.
Keir
After achieving what seemed impossible by raising Rowan from the dead, he accompanies Aoife on her quest for vengeance while holding onto regrets about his late lover, Niall.
Credits:
Title art: Ethan Davies
Pixel art: Raul Volpato
Portrait art: Pompeiiablaze