The Wake

Whitlock & Sons keeps a lamp burning in the window, and someone has to sit with the ones who pass through before the service. Tonight, that someone is you.

Over four quiet nights you'll keep company with four guests, each carrying something they haven't set down yet. You make no choices that can go wrong. You only sit, and listen, and trim the wick when it smokes — and slowly learn what kind of place this is, and why the handwriting in the guest book looks so familiar.

A short cozy-macabre visual novel — perhaps twenty minutes. No fright, no fail state. Just warmth kept lit in the dark, and the quiet work of tending to whoever comes to the door.

Leave the porch light on.

— a quiet thing from Smoulderhouse · from FXphoenix Background art by Spiral Atlas.