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Press release:
August 2023.
The Villaquilambre-based (Spain) indie games publisher Ratalaika Games and Toronto-based (Canada) indie games developer Quill Studios, are today very happy and proud to announce that their colourful and polished murder mystery VN “Death Becomes You“, is coming to consoles (PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, and the Nintendo Switch) via digital stores on August 4th, 2023.

Who Done It?

Who killed your best friend?! Four suspicious students are at the scene and they are trying to frame you and now you need to find out who the actual murderer is! Death Becomes You is a mystery visual novel where you untangle the dark secrets of your fellow magic university students.

Introducing the Cast

Sidney is a 1st year student at the Ira Royal Academy, and Lyra was her best friend and mentor. When the latter is found dead, she decides to investigate to find out who might have murdered her.

Was it you!?

Daniella is a 3rd year student and is the vice head mentor at the Ira Royal academy. She specalises in Transmutation, and is rumoured that she can turn underperforming mentees into crystal statues.

Apolline is a rare magic user skilled at two specialisations – Enchantment and Elemental magic,

Alice specialises in Elemental magic. She openly dislikes Lyra, who was Sophie’s

Mentor.

Sophie specalisies in Psychokinesis and is known as a prodigy being able to control not just objects but pure energy.

Alice is a user of Elemental Magic and enjoys lazing around the grounds of the Academy and often pulls Sophie along whenever she has a chance. She openly dislikes Lyra, who was Sophie’s mentor during the first year.

What to do?

There are multiple choices presented throughout the story, where you have to choose which suspect that Sidney investigates and learns more about. Each suspect has associated endings, depending on Sidney’s actions, these include earlier “dead endings” where you get Sidney killed! If you can make all the right choices, you can find out the complete truth. But don’t worry, the “dead endings” will help steer you toward the right direction, so they won’t be in vain!

Features:

Replayability – multiple routes to unlock more and more of the truth.

Characters with complicated motives and interpersonal history.

Four character route

10+ endings (plenty of bad ends).

~77,000 words!

About Ratalaika Games:
Ratalaika Games S.L. is a video game company focused on publishing & porting great games to the console market.

About Quill Studios
Quill Studios creates narrative-driven games featuring complicated characters in strange worlds.

The studio’s first work, A Summer with the Shiba Inu, has sold ~10k copies, across Steam and all consoles.

In 2021, Quill Studios released Death Becomes You, a murder mystery set in a magical university.