Here at Soulmates Inc we specialize in chance meetings!
As a soul-link, your job is to guide two people entrusted in your care to one another in a fateful meeting, for they are each other's soulmates. Aided by the soul-link powers, you will craft a story that will be told over and over to others, changed and misremembered or kept as faithful as humanly possible. Without your help, they would not find one another.
P.S.: a regular reminder to refrain from referring to yourself or your coworkers as Cupid.
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In this update:
embark on a forbidden dinner
watch yet another social function sneak into your calendar
begin a new case (wait what happens to other one?..)
Chapter 8 is out for Ko-fi supporters and Patreon supporters!
Following the National Doubles tournament, this update is more slice-of-life focused, and takes us to the week right before Finals. And yes, the big mom reveal is here.
Release dates
Early release (less polished): TODAY!
Early release (more polished): May 15
Public release: May 29 or earlier
Chapter 8 (58k words) features:
Returning to Cargill after the National Doubles tournament (including spending the night with G or having breakfast with Rayyan if you’ve unlocked those scenes)
Freshman hang-out session with Max and Blake
Spending time with G preparing for the photography exhibition
Meet your mother 👀—not once but twice?? (If you so choose)
Thanksgiving break 🦃
Have dinner with Sam and his/her family (sleep over and possibly reveal that you’re together), play a friendly game with Sam at the neighborhood courts 🎾 where you’d grown to love the game, finally unlock the Samwise Gamgee nickname while playing a lord-of-the-rings board game with Sam and their sister 🧙♂️)
Call Rayyan, G, Tobin, or your mother over Thanksgiving, bond with your father
Face the consequences of your choices over thanksgiving break 🔥 (will you manage to submit all your papers in time? Will you get benched for the last match of the season…?)
As always, starting a new play through will ensure variables are set properly.
DEMO STATUS: The first part of the prologue is out now!
After the failure of your last mission—where you lost all memories of that specific mission world—you thought your career in the Bureau of Transmigration was over. But instead of being kicked out, you were unexpectedly pulled from the Villain Department and transferred to... the Dating Department?!
System 143: Correction, host! It’s the LOVE Department—L-O-V-E~ (╹▽╹)ノ♡
"..."
You were certain your life was over. A villain like you—once feared across worlds and even within your own department—now reduced to matchmaking duties? It made no sense. Destroying worlds was your specialty, not this stupid... whatever you call this pink, glittery nonsense!
System 143: It's called romance, host! >.<
"..."
"Why am I being dumped into the Dating Department?! Do I look like I have time for love? I'm too busy plotting against protagonists and planning world domination!"
System 143: Awww, you’re shy~ Love makes even the darkest soul bloom! Oh! And it’s the Love Department, host! L-O-V-E Department! (ꈍᴗꈍ)
"Shut up before I reprogram you with a crowbar! Seriously, which angle screams ‘shy’ to you—my fist or the crowbar?!"
System 143: Erm... your left cheek?
"..."
But no matter how much you protested, the minister wouldn't budge.
System 143: Host, calm down! This system is here to help you find your partner in life—aka your true love, slash one true soulmate, slash destined partner—ASAP! (✷‿✷)
"I am calm!! Wait—what partner?! What are you talking about?!"
System 143: Why, your lover, of course! Who else? (人´∀｀)｡ﾟ+
"No! Isn’t this about matchmaking?! Why am I the one finding a lover now?!"
System 143: Surprise~ This time, you’re the main character! And because... drumroll please... it’s the host’s new mission! (≧▽≦)
"NO!! I destroy relationships, not build them! I’m literally blacklisted in five romance storylines!"
System 143: Oof, sounds like trauma~ Let’s turn that into character development! ✨
"I swear, if you use one more sparkly emoji, I’m tossing you into a wormhole!"
System 143: But host, there’s currently no wormhole in this world...
"..." (ノ｀Д´)ノ彡┻━┻
[WARNING! Some world missions end in tragedy.]
✦ KEY FEATURES ✦
- Create your very own fully customizable Main Character: choose your name, appearance, gender, sexuality, background, hobbies, personality, and even design your personal System and System Space. (And yes—your adorable pet system companion is customizable too!)
- Build and upgrade your skills, abilities, and resources to adapt to and overcome a variety of challenges in each world.
- Collect or purchase items from your personal System Mall.
- Find love, love (befriend) or make love (enemies) with a diverse array of romanceable characters and supporting characters throughout each world mission. (important words shall be repeated ;>)
- Uncover the secrets behind your lost memories… and maybe find a lover along the way?
- Complete unique world missions, each with its own challenges, twists, rewards and punishments.
- Complete the tasks in every world mission or suffer the punishment for failing to do so.
- Embark on various world missions and strive to rise to the top once again—as a villain?
- Destroy world-threatening plots, plot viruses, or dangerous characters with love and restore balance to each world, influencing its fate.
[Hello, Host. A request has been received from a parallel plane. Do you accept?]
Attend Nat's conference panel discussion, then head for lunch along the river 🍛
Make dumplings for dinner with Qiu (and sleepover at their place) 🥟
Watch a Malay horror movie and have dinner with Shay (and sleepover) 👻
Go for a bike ride 🚴♀️or hang out at the winter funfair with Nat 🎪 (then head to their hotel room for the night) 🛏
Commit to your RO of choice + some rejections (though the full suite of consequences for your actions will come over the next 2 days)
Word count: Around 50-60k with code depending on how ruthless my eventual editing is
This update will also come with some edits to the previous chapters, which may or may not improve the continuity between routes...*
P.S. with this chapter, we are now 6/8 chapters in (counting the prologue and epilogue)!
*I am still going through a herculean combing-through of stats and branching paths with the help of my wonderful beta testers. Things should be sorted out soon!!
The Emperor is ill; the people of the capital whisper with varying degrees of concern or delight; he has completely fallen into the clutches of madness, as the most insidious tongues allege, the truth is, to their ignorance, considerably more urgent.
The Emperor, Airlar the Unifier, responsible for the greatest modifications to the constitution and State in the entire history of Ehyla, a living testimony to the existence of a civilization buried by the sands of time as well as oblivion, is irremediably, undeniably dying.
And so your life undergoes an absolute change overnight by nothing less than imperial decree. As the only one of your siblings of the right age, you are not only heading to a nest of conspiring vipers that you should never have dealt with, but every second, implicitly and explicitly, you are being judged and evaluated for a purpose that escapes your knowledge. Truth be told, at least it's not all bad; you have your very competent and loyal assistant at your side, and with your sister relatively close by, your experience shouldn't be so terrible...
Unless...
CW: This is a dark romance, and what this entails—things like possessiveness, stalking, manipulation, jealousy, and dependency will be seen in varying degrees in all routes. Sexism, transphobia, and homophobia will be briefly mentioned, as well as religious trauma, abuse of power, graphic violence, and optional explicit sexual scenes.
This list is subject to change as the game progresses.
HITC is only for an audience of +18.
Demo: Prologue: 11k last updated on 2/21/25
Since HITC is a wip all blog content is subject to possible changes in the future.
•Customize your Crown; personality, appearance, gender, pronouns, independent of the chosen gender, magic type, and where the foreign half of your bloodline comes from.
•Build friendships, romances and/or enmities with 5 diverse characters, all of selectable gender (with ace options).
•Find out why you are in demand in the capital and why you should study at the "Saint Elizsea Academy for Illustrious Young People" side by side with the cream of the crop of Ehylian society.
•Have a familiar! With options, so far, to choose from a wolf, a ferret, a raven, a snake, a crocodile, a deer and several types of dogs and cats.
Choose wisely! They all possess consciousness and at least a degree of magical attributes and some are...sassy.
•Shape the narrative with your decisions, every choice matters.
•The Crown: You! As the fourth child of a marriage between a former general promoted to king for his illustrious strategies against the rebellion against the fae and a foreign scholar, your outlook is, to say the least, peculiar. Not only are you the product of a marriage of love, with the confidence of genuinely and willingly counting on the support of your brothers and older sister again, but also, well known for their almost barbaric customs, your parents have the audacity to allow you to decide what to do with your own life, from coveting and collecting knowledge to learning the art of war or venturing into any of the five arts, you have a place nothing less than privileged, so far from being the firstborn and with an older brother more than capable and willing to take charge of the kingdom, your future is, to say the least, very promising, until an edict of the dying, and extremely capricious emperor demands that every young people of marriageable age who is not taking charge of the administration of their jurisdiction at the time, must go to be evaluated at The Academy in the heart of the capital, with your first brother discarded, your older sister engaged, your second brother in the borderlands doing pilgrim work and your younger siblings too young to attend that leaves you alone as an option.
☾ THE ONE WHO LEFT:
Asterion/Astrya Dellamort.
TROPES:
Friends (with the possibility of a friendly rivalry...or not) to "rivals" to lovers/Attachment issues/ The ice king/queen's weak point/Misunderstandings/ Forced proximity.
The one who takes care of you (RO): Kaihlan/Kaithos Agrapolli. Strictly speaking, Kai is your bodyguard, but over the years they has taken on far more than their fair share of responsibilities, and no matter how much you and your parents have asked them not to overexert themselves, the satisfied gleam in their amber eyes whenever they do something to make your life easier, along with their unbeatable stubbornness, means that you can count on Kai as your shadow more often than not.
As the eldest of your father's right-hand twins, Kai has been two things to you: a constant and a teacher. With their undeniable combat skills and their minds as quick as their feet, it is not only an honor to have them defend you, but also teach you.
Kai is loyal to you to the core; in order to ensure your happiness and safety, they is capable of acts that go against morality and even the laws of man and god.
Kai is probably the tallest person you've ever met, so tall that when you were younger and cheeky you asked them if they weren't part giant, they laughed but otherwise didn't answer the question. With sun-kissed skin glowing a shade reminiscent of honey almost as much as their eyes Kai is not only tall, they're broad and rough, with large scarred hands that extend all the way to they forearms you'd expect they to behave like a bull in a china shop, and they do in a way, but when you're around them, they seem incapable of anything but the most dedicated and delicate care. Both M!Kai and F!Kai have hair brushing their shoulders in a fluffy reddish-brown mess, with the back of their necks longer than the front and scattered freckles from spending so much time in the sun.
Tropes: Puppy love/They look like they could kill you and potentially will if you're not MC, but they're actually a cinnamon roll, long-term crush, himbo/bimbo, surface only, gentle giant, wolf in sheep's clothing.
The one who admires you (RO):???. You're not sure how, but you've somehow managed to get a hold of a stalker.
What you know so far is little and downright mediocre, they either have enough power or influence to bribe someone into getting their letters to you within the castle grounds, or more unlikely, they're stealthy enough to slip past Kai's ever-watchful eye, so all things considered, there's most likely magic involved, which brings you back to the first point, or they're rich enough to hire or own a wizard themselves or they're powerful enough to conjure their presence into your chambers without raising suspicion.
Tropes: Loved you from the moment they saw you/secret admirer/strangers to ???/would burn the world down for you.
The one who does not show up (semi RO): Secret route! You'll know when you meet them...maybe.
Tropes: Love-hate/they despise loving you/they want to live in your heart... literally/the love that was never meant to be/they are doomed. to love you? to exist without you? not even they know.
The one you impressed (RO): Elysse/Eylarion Kurayoi.
If there is one word to define Ely it is scandal, with their elastic golden curls bouncing with the sound of their thunderous laughter, they would not readily admit how much they love to impress, but the mischievous sparkle in their mahogany eyes says otherwise.
You know little to nothing about them other than the rumors that proclaim that they have no standards regarding who they share a bed with, but for some reason you intrigue them, if you were to ask them they would say little more than that they are curious that you are so different and little else.
They happens to be your roommate at the academy and as someone who for better or worse seems to be extremely transparent and understands how everyone who has an important name in the capital acts, it might be convenient to have them around, but be careful not to leave them too close to the warmth of your home because they might not want to leave.
Tropes: Master/Mistress of seduction until they flirt with someone they really like/ Bad reputation or justified prejudices?/ the capital's rebellious child/ The most beautiful at the ball/ The beauty and the beast
Feel free to ask me anything! And thanks for reading!
DEMO | SPOTIFY | ROs VELMOURA ID | WORLD OF ORIALIS
Welcome to Velmoura City — where safety is promised... but never delivered.
A city full of wealthy families, mysterious strangers, hidden lies...
and killings?
Within this city, the top elite rule — the Old Families. The Old Trinity:
The Ōno (大野) Family — a very old and widespread surname. A mystery. They could be tied to a farming heritage or noble lineage from the broad flatlands... but in truth? No one knows. Secrets are their family tradition.
The Leavitt Family — deeply rooted in ancestry and influence, a 'beloved friend' of the other two. Influential in politics, defense, education, and public leadership. Name it, they’re there.
And lastly — The Donleavy Family. The Gatekeepers. Aristocrats of the old world, they guard the city gates and rarely step outside their sunless estate. Their valley manor, Lemorne, is said to be shrouded in mist, even at noon. But no one knows the truth, because no one has seen their manor—or even knows where it is.
It is also said that one of the Donleavy daughters vanished twenty years ago. And she's still missing. Some say she’s dead, but who knows?
The family says nothing and they have kept their silence for centuries, not out of loyalty, but because their tongues were cut out by the founder. They still smile, but you’ll never know what hides behind those smiles.
Everything is a mystery in this city.
Your life. Everyone around you. Even your brother’s death. His sudden death changed everything... your life, and the city itself.
New face. New identity. New life?
But the questions don’t stop, and neither does the danger.
What really happened to your brother? Who’s pulling the strings in this city? And why are they watching you now?
In a city built on rules, you’ve already broken the first one: Ask nothing.
Because here, the truth isn’t free. It comes with a price. Sometimes, it costs everything.
Are you ready to face it? Remember: this city itself is a lie.
But love?
Love is the deadliest secret of all.
You wanted the truth. She wanted you. Now neither of you will let go.
Because in Velmoura... The truth isn’t the only thing that kills.
Sometimes... love does too.
Play as a Gender-Locked Female Protagonist
Step into the role of a young woman forced to disguise herself as a man. Navigate a world of secrets, lies, and shifting identities.
Customize Your Identity
Shape your MC’s appearance, personality, and public persona. Present as male in public while exploring your evolving identity in private.
Master Your Skills, Hobbies, and Knowledge
Grow through experience. Gain abilities and uncover hidden talents as you chase the truth behind your brother’s death.
Explore Gender and Sexuality
Experience a personal journey of self-discovery as your character grapples with questions of gender identity and sexual orientation.
Uncover a Web of Secrets
Investigate your brother’s mysterious death and expose the dark secrets buried deep within the city of Velmoura.
Trust No One or Risk Everything
Everyone has something to hide. Forge alliances carefully, because every character may be lying, even those closest to you.
Reputation and Rumors Matter
Your actions, relationships, and public behavior affect how others see you, as well as what they whisper behind your back.
Maintain Your Cover or Let the Truth Slip
Keep your disguise intact or allow glimpses of your true self to surface. Each choice brings consequences.
Romance with High Stakes
Just like your MC, each romance option features two systems: Affinity, which reflects trust and love, and Tension, which captures emotional intensity, jealousy, or attraction. These systems shape the course of your relationships.
The Truth Always Has a Price
Some discoveries demand sacrifices. These could be emotional, physical, or involve the loss of someone you care about.
Branching Choices with Lasting Impact
Every decision matters. Who you trust, what you reveal, and how you act may determine who lives, who dies, or who betrays you.
Face Your Past, Heal or Harden
Confront personal trauma through memory fragments, emotional triggers, and moments of vulnerability. Choose whether to bury your pain, seek healing, or let it shape the person you become.
Discover the Forgotten Past
Uncover hidden journal pages, secret recordings, and whispered dreams. Each clue reveals Velmoura’s long-buried history and helps you understand your place in it.
—ROMANCE OPTIONS—
💍 The Heiress: Valencia — Your (Brother’s) Fiancée
Your soon-to-be wife.
She thinks she’s in love with you(r brother...). She’s said it a hundred times, lived it for twelve long years. But now that you’re acting... different. Softer, warmer, more genuine. Her heart’s starting to trip over itself. This is the first time she’s fluttered like this. This never happened before, so why now? The more time she spends with you, the more confused she becomes, the more she begins to question everything. Who did she really fall for? You or your brother? 🤫
Background: She’s the heiress of one of the city's oldest and wealthiest families. She’s been trained in elegance and etiquette, but when it comes to expressing her feelings… she’s a disaster.
🧊 The Mysterious Transferee: Vireau — The aloof student in the last row
She avoids everyone... except you.
She’s a transfer student. Nobody knows much about her. Some say she’s a foreign exchange student. Others whisper about a dark past or an “incident” that forced her midyear arrival. None of it seems to faze her. She never talks unless she has to. She keeps her distance. But with you, something cracks. Her cold walls start to melt. For the first time, she speaks without being forced to. She listens, even when she pretends not to. And though her heart is locked behind layers of frost and fear, you sense it...
A loneliness that mirrors your own.
A secret too painful to say aloud.
And a dangerous tenderness that might just ruin you both.
Background: A mystery. Even she doesn’t want you to know where she’s from or what she’s running from. The real reason she’s keeping everyone out may be more painful than you imagined. But as her walls fall, you’ll see a girl terrified of losing what little she has left, especially you.
🌸 The Perfect Girlfriend: Gu (顾) — Too Perfect to Be Real
Everyone loves her. But who is she, really?
She’s everyone's dream girl: smart, kind, graceful, and practically flawless. She’s top of the class, adored by peers, trusted by adults. She always knows the right thing to say, the right move to make. But sometimes, her perfection feels... too perfect. The closer you get, the more cracks you see. Beneath the mask, someone else might be watching and waiting to be seen.
Background: A top student with the perfect record, the perfect smile, and the perfect secrets.
😤 Your "Favorite" Headache: Vega — Your Grumpy Hotheaded Deskmate
She hates everyone, especially you.
Your deskmate is sarcastic, moody, and impossible to deal with. She snaps at everyone and glares like it’s a hobby. You’re no exception... until you are. She doesn’t know how to handle her feelings, so she hides them behind jabs and rolled eyes. But when push comes to shove, she’ll stand by you, even before admitting she cares.
Background: She comes from a tough upbringing and doesn’t trust easily. But with you, she’s learning that maybe—just maybe—it’s safe to feel.
🔪 The ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇: Unknown "Juno" — Secret Route
She's been here all along. You just didn’t notice.
A hidden romance path, only unlockable through certain choices. She might be a side character, an NPC, or even someone you thought was irrelevant. Sweet at first glance, but her love runs deeper and darker than anyone else’s. She watches. She waits. She believes no one else deserves you, and she’ll do anything to keep you safe... especially from the people you care about. And if you get too close to anyone else, she won’t just break. She’ll shatter, and take everything with her.
She doesn’t want to share you. She doesn’t think she should have to.
Background: She’s always been by your side. Even before you met. And now that you’ve seen her… there’s no going back.
⚠️ Content Warnings:
This game contains mature and potentially distressing themes including abuse, psychological trauma, graphic violence, murder, torture, manipulation, steamy romance, emotional/mental health struggles, and identity-related trauma.
