How May I Direct Your Curse
A downloadable game for Windows, macOS, and Linux
What happens when you put a curse on hold? A love story between a murderous ghost and an overworked receptionist!
Annet Turnbuckle is stuck in a dead end job at Toll Bridge financial, a sleazy accounting firm that seems to delight in making life miserable for its employees. But dead ends become dead coworkers after Annet starts taking calls from a mysterious and flirtatious woman who may seem familiar to fans of the horror genre.
Throw in a nonbinary FBI agent, a [REDACTED], and "that guy" in every office, and it's "Seven Days" to die or fall in love in this romantic supernatural-thriller!
Content Warning:
This game includes non graphic mentions of death, abuse, sexual attraction between two consenting adults, a brief mention of sex work, spooky music, and a logic puzzle.
Game length: about 90 minutes.
Created for the 2023 Spooktober Game Jam
by Screen Savor Studios.
Voice Actors
Annet: Sats Di Stefano
Gwen: Lauren Kong
Iggy/Shweeps: Austin Lee Matthews
[REDACTED]: Jett Barker
Artists
Sprite Art: Sariel Snowings
Background: Sidhe Ilustra
Script Editing: BeepBoop
Writing, Programming, Pixel Art, and Narrative Design: Kay Wolf
We ask that you do not post silent speedrun videos of this game as it is a visual novel and that's a pretty sad thing to try speedrun. Let's Plays with commentary and feedback are welcome.
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Development log
- NEW GAME SAME UNIVERSE!Oct 30, 2023
- Version 1.5 and 250 Downloads!Oct 24, 2023
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That was amazing!! The premise, the humor, the art and even voiced! I also always love mini games in VN's, so that's a bonus (loved the easter egg of including names of your team!) Annet and Gwen were so cute! When they talked about her loving to run, that was such a special scene! Can't say I relate to that xD but I wished in that moment I could ngl bc she's right, it does have something freeing! But yeah the corporate dread was real too!
I had to laugh when I.V. came and said they're AroAce like it was a job title or their supernatural identity xD but we could have known with the colors that were used for their design!! I just saw, that there is a spin off with one of the mentioned couples, I'm definitely playing this as well!!
Also I was not expecting Iggy's hot voice to also voice "that guys" Shweeps xD
I already wanted to tell you, that we, or I need more with this little universe you created! Especially the way you even built in some mystery that still needs solving: who is creating these gifts, who is the traitor that broke this rule and why did they do it? Would love to see these characters/ supernatural agency in future spin offs as well (or even in their own game maybe when they finally catch the traitor and the others have their cameo) <3
very cute aaa
Literally the cutest thing ever! Oh my goodness.
Haha I love how oblivious the protagonist is! This is cute!
She's just a bit out of her element. :)
i loved the game immensely
it was just the right amount of cliche and corporate horror combined into a love story
was seriously getting ready for a tragic ending but the sudden resolution almost made me cry tears of joy for annet
Thank you so much! Screen Savor Studios isn't really a fan of bad endings for queer characters. There's enough of that already. Glad you enjoyed it!
This was surprisingly enjoyable, and incredibly over-the-top absurd and ridiculous — great job!
I really liked the artwork and the character designs, and the animations were well done!
Plus, the dialogue was fun and flirty~. ;)
By the looks of it, there's a newer version of the game with typo fixes, but unfortunately, the version I played was haunted by the ghost of typos... ^^;;
I almost got scared off by the stock Ren'Py GUI
(is that what was on the original VHS tape...?😱), but I'm glad I gave the game a shot.The story was... definitely something lol (EDIT: in a good way :p), and by the end, I was laughing and grinning like an idiot. :D
Thank you for sharing this wild wonky confection with us!
Thank you so much! We've updated all versions to 1.5 now which fixed all the typos our devs and the various streamers and let's players have found, and clarified some of the language on the puzzle. :)
We hope that "definitely something" is good, but as far as the Ren'Py GUI that remained goes, if it ain't broke and you don't have the time for more elaborate customization don't fix it. lol
Oh nice, more updates! 💪
Re: the story, "definitely something" is a positive thing! :D I thought I'd been more clear that the first line of my initial message covered that... whoops ^^;;
And in terms of the GUI, you definitely had your hands full between creating a puzzle mini-game, adding voice acting, and all of the animations and scripting, among other things, so totally fair! lol
I loved this game so much, I would read an entire series about I.V.
We don't have a series about I.V. specifically, but our games"Deadline" and "Jill O' Lantern" take place in the same universe. :)
Can I just say: I absolutely enjoyed this game! Loved getting to know Annet and her mysterious phone caller too. XD
Thank you so much! We put a lot of heart into this game, so means a lot to hear that you enjoyed it. :)