Shepherds of Haven

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Shepherds of Haven - A Dark Fantasy Interactive Fiction Game

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You are a Mage living in a world where magic is outlawed and your people—those possessing supernatural powers—are oppressed and reviled. The world is ruled by humans who believe in science, technology, and industry: at best, you and your kind are nothing more than a fairytale, and at worst, you are the state’s greatest threat. 

For centuries, using magic has meant death…

But then the demons return.

After generations of persecution, you are suddenly offered an opportunity to use your powers for good. Demons are once again troubling the realm after centuries of absence, and the world needs fighters like you to protect the population from their invasion. Guns and bullets do no good against monsters pulled from primeval nightmares; only your people and your mystical gifts have the ability to fight fire with fire. 

So you join the Shepherds: a new order of elite heroes and fighters that, until very recently, the world feared more than the demons themselves. As a Shepherd, you’ll solve magical crimes, slay demons to protect the citizens of Haven, and build your reputation throughout the capital. Explore the world of Blest, recruit allies and factions to join the Shepherds’ cause, find romance and companionship, investigate mysteries, lead rebellions and exorcisms, and uncover answers to the crises plaguing the world. Where are the demons coming from? Why have the creators of this world fallen silent, if they ever existed at all? Who are you, really? 

And will you be the beacon of hope the world so desperately needs… or will you be the flame that burns it all down?

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✦  Over 1 million words of choice-based, story-rich interactive fiction!

✦  Fully customizable protagonist! Choose names and nicknames, gender, sexuality, appearance, weapon, magic specialization, educational background, racial heritage, and much more.

  • Includes options to play as male, female, nonbinary; straight, gay, bisexual, or pansexual; and aromantic, asexual, aroace, or allo.

✦  Thousands of choices and role-playing variations! Build your character’s personality and worldview from the ground up, test your loyalties and morals in every chapter, and make meaningful decisions that will change the story and world of the game in large and small ways.

✦ 15 companions to recruit and befriend, each with their own unique story.

  • 10 romance options (5 male, 5 female) and 2 one-night stands/flings
  • Fulfilling friendship and romance routes, culminating in dozens of different possible endings for each major character, as well as diverse endings for the protagonist, their relationships, and the state of the world

✦   A hubworld-style exploration system between chapters! Interact with the city and explore the world on your days off; take quests or side jobs; train; shop; gamble; pray; read; and spend time with or date companions between story missions.

✦   Dynamic gameplay features! Explore an ever-changing codex, character guide, journal, inventory, and stats page that grows and adjusts as you play.

✦   Dozens of mechanical secrets to reward your playthrough, including achievements, a new game+ system, a save system, unlockable art, collectible trading cards, room decorations and souvenirs, a planned “stupid mode,” and planned DLC.

✦  Much more!

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✨ Play Here ✨

  • Prologue, Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, first half of Chapter 4
  • Approx. 460,000 words
  • Last Updated: July 2025
  • FAQ
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⭐️ Play here ⭐️

  • Prologue, Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 4, Chapter 5, Chapter 6, Chapter 7, Chapter 8, Chapter 8.5, Chapter 9, Chapter 10, Chapter 11 [In Progress]
  • Approx. 1,492,000 words without code
  • Last Updated: June 2026
  • Currently only available to testers and Patrons until the beta build

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Anonymous asked:

hihi dear lena!! i'm a new player of the alpha build and i've been having SO MUCH FUN!!! i'm here, however, to shamefully ask you something! you see, i went the entire game without training recruits, not because i didn't want to, but because every time i tried i received a "this section is incomplete" message, but in ch. 10 i noticed some choices had to do w/ recruits and also some fans were talking about it... what am i doing wrong? why couldn't i play it/access it? thank u so much in advance!!

Hi! Someone else just ran into this on Discord, so I’ll copy-paste my response here!

Hi, sorry, that’s a sort of half-bug that I noticed and just fixed on my end a few days ago, but I don’t think it will show up on your guys’ end until the next update! Basically you’re not supposed to be able to train your recruits until chapter 5 or so, so it erroneously shows up in the map once you become captain but you can’t actually access that content until chapter 5! My fix makes it so that it won’t show up until the proper time now! But the content is all ported and there, try clicking it once chapter 5 starts (or the chapter after that) and it should work! (It’ll also appear in the text list under the map when it’s truly accessible)! Hope that makes sense!

shepherds of haven bug bug report alpha build alpha preview sorry typed this on a mad rush on my phone while out on errands because I wanted you to be able to play asap— thank you so much for your kind words!! I’m so happy you’re enjoying the game! ☺️

I happened to see a new open-source text-based interactive fiction engine on Reddit, in case anyone is interested! It seems ideal for anyone wanting to make Disco Elysium-style text-based games and looks very stylish as well as easy to learn! 👀

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https://www.reddit.com/r/interactivefiction/comments/1u2xha0/andstar_plain_text_engine_for_disco_elysiumstyle/

andstar
a game engine for branching dialogue with RPG elements. write in plain text, play in the browser, share with a link.
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I hope it's helpful for anyone thinking of wanting to make their own game! it looks like a cross between twine and ink! resources coding programming interactive fiction andstar

traaaaash asked:

I have been playing Shepherds since, like, Ch. 4 and I JUST now got that Chase's name is a play on his profession

I am. Too dumb to live, I think

You’re not dumb because I actually didn’t intend that, lol! I just picked that name because it seemed to fit his personality, I wasn’t really thinking of his profession! 😆 But it’s a good catch now that you point it out!!

Shepherds of Haven Chase Chase Trinaeste
shepherdsofhaven

Anonymous asked:

This is a random question, but out of curiosity, why do you abbreviate Shepherds as "shoh" instead of "soh"? I like it, I I just figured there was a reason for it and wondered why :)

shepherdsofhaven answered:

Hi there, good question! So back when I first posted this game as a demo on the Choice of Games community back in 2018 (phew…), there was already a popular game in that community called Samurai of Hyuga (abbreviated and commonly referred to as SoH). So I referred to Shepherds as “ShoH” to help distinguish between the two! That’s also why one of the Tumblr tags on here is #shoh! Hope that makes sense!

Anonymous asked:

The cheat codes for Red takes me to "Not Found"... 😔

Hi, as noted in this post from two weeks ago, I recently changed the URL of this blog, so you’ll have to change the “.com” to “.blog” if you’re getting an error! Thanks for your patience!

Pasting here for visibility!

Redirect links in old posts (for example, if I pointed a reader to a previous answer) or pages that you have physically bookmarked may unfortunately appear broken due to the URL change, but you can just change the .com to .blog and it will work again! Sorry for any inconvenience! 🙏

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