The Rabbit Game

Lis, he/him || 18+ blog || 🏳️‍🌈 || IF WIP

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The Rabbit Game is in-progress, 18+, Interactive Historical Fiction Novel

1890s. The Earl of Harewood is hosting an out of season party at his estate, a historic occasion that marks his inheritance and engagement. Your father was invited, but illness kept him confined to his estate. By fortune - or fate - you've just returned from America, and Society is eager to welcome you. A perfect arrangement is made.

But that's not who you are.

You are an investigator, a spy sent to gather information and follow up on rumours surrounding the estate and this is merely your cover story that should serve you for the short time you will spend in Yorkshire.

What will you uncover? How far will you go? Perhaps your stay will take longer than you think…

➤ Extensive protagonist customization!

➤ No skill checks! Only important choices (with checkpoints)!

➤ Multiple endings!

➤ Immersive environment which reacts to you!

➤ Build relationship with: your host, his sibling, your partner in crime and your informants.

DEMO

Wordcount: 30K

LINKS

♠ Edward W. Chastel, Earl of Harewood (M)

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♥ Anthony/Anthonia M. Chastel (GS)

♦ Raoul C. Barnet/Briar B. Woods (always same-gender)

FEEDBACK

Do you have enough of choices? Is your MC's personality expressed?

Typos, errors, bugs, pronoun errors etc.

Pacing - do you wish some scenes would take longer? Be shorter?

All suggestions will be recorded.

tags: @interact-if @interactive-fiction-recs-for-you

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The king is dead. His daughter wears the crown. But you're the one who really holds the power now.

Anything for the Crown is an 18+ dark fantasy interactive fiction game. After the sudden murder of King Alaric Valebrook, his daughter Isolde is crowned queen. But she doesn't want the throne, and instead places her trust in you, her childhood best friend, by naming you her royal advisor.

Now it's your job to hold the kingdom together, uncover the king's killer, and navigate a court full of secrets, sabotage, and lies.

Play as an MC with a customisable appearance, gender, and custom pronouns.

Choose your personality and personal style

Romance any 1/4 companion characters or develop your friendships with them.

The Princess

Your best friend since childhood, and the unrequited love of your life.

Full Name: Isolde Althea Valebrook

Age: 23

Appearance: 5'8, slender body, fair skin, blue eyes, long wavy strawberry-blonde hair. [Art]

Traits: indulgent, playful, naïve, affectionate.

The Guard

Isolde's sworn protector, who was assigned to her side after a failed kidnapping attempt. 

Full Name: Garrick Hale

Age: 24

Appearance: 6'2, muscular body, brown skin, brown eyes, long dreadlocks. [Art]

Traits: loyal, warm, protective, humorous.

The Mage

A powerful mage and the daughter of the former royal advisor. She also hates you.

Full Name: Lyra Thorne

Age: 23

Appearance: 5'4, curvy body, olive-toned skin, green eyes, long black hair. [Art]

Traits: blunt, intelligent, guarded, ambitious.

The Bastard

The king's illegitimate son. Born of scandal and raised in obscurity.

Full Name: Lucian

Age: 25

Appearance: 6'0, lean body, tan skin, blue eyes, dark brown ear-length hair. [Art]

Traits: reserved, unassuming, disciplined, burdened.

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Edward and his side hoe (my mc hehe) from @trg-if

Do I dislike how it looks? yes

Did I rush it? yes

Is it unfinished? yes

Will I redo it later? also yes

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The Lost Bride

The Lost Bride is a reimagining of Bram Stoker’s iconic novel Dracula, where you have full control over the story.

Play as Mina and shape her fate. Customize her name, sexuality, personality, and relationships with everyone you meet.

Summary 

Congratulations on your engagement, how you feel about it is entirely up to you.

Shortly after your engagement to your fiancé, he sets out on a journey to the distant lands of Transylvania, a real estate opportunity that proved too irresistible to decline.

With your wedding temporarily on hold, you don’t hesitate to respond when your childhood friend Lucy implores you to pay her a visit, seeking your company and counsel with an urgent matter concerning her very own future.

Ever since your fiancé left, you’ve been plagued by constant nightmares and strange dreams. More unsettling still is the persistent feeling of your every move being watched. This sensation only grows stronger when you arrive in Whitby, a small coastal town where the Westenra’s estate resides

Why do you keep feeling like that? Why is Lucy acting odd? And who is this mysterious figure you keep seeing?

Play here (Demo 65k)

Chapter 1: Done Chapter 2: Done Patreon Link (Currently have Jonathan's pov)

There will be four romance options for you to choose.

Lucy Westenra (F): Your once childhood best friend whom you share a past with. (Can be extremely jealous and clingy)

Jonathan Harker (M): Your sweet fiancé who is currently in a land far away from that of your own.

Van Helsing (M/F): An experienced and knowledgeable Dutch hunter with a wide range of expertise.

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@daily-dose-of-ifs @interact-if

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To Authors new and old

Hey, everyone,

Drop your IF below please. I want to get some more authors on my radar so we can start rebuilding the community. I'm not sure yet what I want to organize but if you are wanting to start getting more dialogue going between all of us, lets start with just making a thread with all our info down below. :)

Love,

Zinnia

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Hi! I just wanted to pop in and tell you how much I adore your game and your writing. I've replayed the demo several times, and I always find a new detail somewhere every time. I looooooove the historical setting and gothic genre. Like, this is my bread and butter right now. I can't wait to read more, especially as I am playing with a male MC who has a thing for Raoul (my beloved). I love the way you write dialogue and the framing you have for scenes; I can picture it playing out perfectly, and it's just so well done. You have me completely hooked. Thank you for all of your hard work, and I am so excited to see the story develop!

Awww 💞💖💗 Thank you! This is pure fuel.

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Lovely demo, i really enjoyed reading it. But I met the dreaded endless loading after the undress options and going to bed. So I wonder if that’s where the demo ends?

Best of luck!

Hi and thanks! Yeah sorry, that's where the demo ends. The game is trying to load the 2nd chapter which isn't ready yet.

This will be corrected soon!

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Hey sorry I just wanted to let you know that the demo breaks if you choose the Either option for romance 💔

Damn 😅 This bug must be ancient. My bad, I made my alpha testers templates to skip the character creator so I didn't catch it before. Don't worry, this option doesn't lock anything, just randomizes a character. I see that's not the only thing I grandfathered in... well, it's time for better looking CC anyway.

I fixed it on my end. I'll be updating the demo today and maybe I can throw in a CW list in there as well, since I don't think the vote is going to swing now.

Thank you for telling me <3

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you're laughing. charles dickens had a son named plorn and you're laughing

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HE HAD A SON NAMED

WHAT

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Plorn

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NICK I LOOKED IT UP AND SAW NOTHING OF THE SORT IS THIS A PRANK

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technically his name was edward but everyone called him plorn

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Edward “Plorn” Dickens. my god.

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I have something worse

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oh???

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imagine getting stuck with the nickname Plorn

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imagine getting sent to live in the Australian outback when you were sixteen

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WHY WERE THEY SO CRUEL TO MY BOY PLORN

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I have an answer to that one too

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The face of a man whose father nicknamed him Plorn.

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Born without a groove 😔

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(via @justsomegirlreading )

[moonshinemagpie]

Everyone: Please please please don't write your books in Google Docs. Frankly don't use Google Drive for personal stuff.

Their terms of service say they take down stuff like content related to terrorism and trafficking, but this Google Sheet was literally a list of movies I'd watched this year and books I'd read.

[chainsaw-headache]

Friendly reminder to all my followers to get off of docs because wtf

Is libreoffice still a thing

Use libreoffice if it's still good

[mynqzo]

[ butchfemme carmilla ] “Let us look again for a moment; it is the last time, perhaps, I shall see the moonlight with you.”

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Ain't no way, i was thinking about them like not even 5 minutes ago

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Update #2

Hey, sorry for disappearance. Maybe I'll do updates bi-weekly because I was lost in the woods (putting my ideas on paper) and didn't have a lot to report.

Chapter 2 is being played by the alpha testers and I'm finishing part 2. Here's what changed.

You might notice some changes in Chapter 1 that are a result of researching peerage some more (my beloathed). This will brick your saves. Sorry!

Crestwood reverted back to Harewood (and I hope the resemblance to a real place won't bite me in the ass, but it shouldn't, there is a regency series with Harewood in the title).

I changed the genre in the intro post, it's now: Romance and Mystery. Just in case anyone expects real scares when seeing 'Horror', that won't be coming (for some time).

I'm not sure when I should introduce content warnings. When I posted my demo for the first time I thought there was nothing to warn about and I didn't want to oversell what's not there. Vote in the poll below if you'd like.

I'm keeping up with this new wave of censorship. I see I took itch.io for granted as the free queer-loving platform it presented itself to be, judging by what games it shadowbanned among other things. We are alright with cogdemos for now.

I will be prettying up this blog soon, don't get spooked.

Do you want cws for content that is only planned for the game right now (and in the demo)?

Yes

No

Voting ended onAug 4, 2025

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Update #2

Hey, sorry for disappearance. Maybe I'll do updates bi-weekly because I was lost in the woods (putting my ideas on paper) and didn't have a lot to report.

Chapter 2 is being played by the alpha testers and I'm finishing part 2. Here's what changed.

You might notice some changes in Chapter 1 that are a result of researching peerage some more (my beloathed). This will brick your saves. Sorry!

Crestwood reverted back to Harewood (and I hope the resemblance to a real place won't bite me in the ass, but it shouldn't, there is a regency series with Harewood in the title).

I changed the genre in the intro post, it's now: Romance and Mystery. Just in case anyone expects real scares when seeing 'Horror', that won't be coming (for some time).

I'm not sure when I should introduce content warnings. When I posted my demo for the first time I thought there was nothing to warn about and I didn't want to oversell what's not there. Vote in the poll below if you'd like.

I'm keeping up with this new wave of censorship. I see I took itch.io for granted as the free queer-loving platform it presented itself to be, judging by what games it shadowbanned among other things. We are alright with cogdemos for now.

I will be prettying up this blog soon, don't get spooked.

Do you want cws for content that is only planned for the game right now (and in the demo)?

Yes

No

Voting ended onAug 4, 2025

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gothic horror rlly is just. aw fuck look at what youve done. the house has inherited your inter-generational trauma and in response has transformed itself into a metaphorical device to track the decay of the family. we're never gonna pay off that mortgage now

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DEMO DROP ;

I got impatient, so I scheduled this post to come out at 1am GMT on July 7th instead, that way I can wake up an deal with any bugs there may be right away (and update the pinned post) lol

anyway, without further ado, I hope you enjoy the first demo drop for Parasitic:

HERE :)

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Any 🚩👀?

I don't really like labelling characters that way, someone's red flag is another person's 'understandable, have a nice day'.

That said, here are some flaggy bits from RO routes:

Raoul/Briar

Possessive is not something they would ever call themselves. You'll do what you want anyway, you always did. They could swear vehemently that whatever you'll do, they'll be alright. On the platonic route, they might even succeed. You can't be disappointment if you have no faith in your chances.

But they do care. And the pressure between their restrained emotions and the desire to appear uncaring might combust at some point. Commitment-phobic MCs who goes down their route will drive them up the wall, so if you want drama... If you don't, just do their best to soothe their worries and pick them, always.

Edward

He's a product of his times, class and upbringing. With that came a firm belief that the best a man can do is practice control over himself and his estate. Now what is the issue: too much control? Not enough control? I guess we'll see.

The way he treats his sibling is, at times, cold but as the game progresses you might be able to help them reconcile (or further destroy their relationship, especially if you romance both of them). In his own route, this relationship can be toxic depending on how you play it.

The path of least resistance will still have plenty of interpersonal conflict because of who MC is, and once the cat's out of bag - a lot is up to the player. He can be very hurtful to more sensitive MCs who long for commitment and get hurt by more pragmatic MCs who know how to leverage his greatest failures. This is Pretty Woman if you want it to be, but you have to work for it.

Anthy

Anthy is at first suspicious of MCs motives if they try to get close to them. However they just can't help... a certain romantic quality that assists your interactions. They are a little sad and MC can be nice and charming and there are many ways you can impress them (or even, not, mxed messages work too but you can get yourself locked out if you are very awful).

Anthy feels intensely under the aloofness they project and it's easy to hurt them. They'd do a lot for a love that lasts, they always wanted commitment with someone who makes them feel like MC does.

Their older brother won't be an immediate fan of this arrangement. However if you want to pack yourself in a lot of trouble, you should get on their love triangle route. If you ever wanted to feel like a doll torn between two people who feel a lot of resentment towards each other, that's a great idea.

That's it for now folks 🙏

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DEMO | INTRO POST

Parasitical Chapter Five is OUT! This update contains almost exactly 100k words of new content! This brings the wordcount without code to 260k and the wordcount with to 278k, and the average playthrough length to 71k.

For those of you who'd rather jump in without spoilers, the features are under the cut, but otherwise...

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Experience the journey leading up to the Old Colony—a long, long hike through much, much meat

Bother, flirt with, or quietly evaluate your companions!

Scary stories, scarier dreams

Discover what sort of creatures you share His Grace's body with

Share a few tender(romantic or platonic!) moments with someone special... or not

There are also, as always, a few 'meta'/technical improvements.

Both Ami and Cato have actual relationship bars now

Added the option for custom pronouns, changeable at any time from the stats page

The always-glorious typo and bug fixes

Fiddled around with some of the images(as seen in this post. can you tell graphic design is my passion)

I so much hope that you all enjoy <33