The Novelist - Kent
Hey, everyone, thanks so much for checking out the game and sharing your thoughts on the forums! I just wanted to share a quick blog post I made over at the official site.
The Novelist - Kent
Hey, everyone, thanks so much for checking out the game and sharing your thoughts on the forums! I just wanted to share a quick blog post I made over at the official site.
Gone Home - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Alec Meer)

The Novelist is a narrative-led, sort-of-stealth, sort-of-point’n'click-adventure game by Deus Ex: Invisible War, Thief: Deadly Shadows, and BioShock 2 dev Kent Hudson (with playtesting help from a remarkable number of renowned developers, according to the credits) in which you direct and decide the fate of a tormented family who’ve gone to stay in a remote house for the Summer, in an attempt to resolve their respective career and relationship difficulties. But they are not alone… (more…)

The Novelist - Valve
The Novelist is Now Available on Steam!
The Novelist asks one central question: can you achieve your dreams without pushing away the people you love? The game focuses on Dan Kaplan, a novelist struggling to write the most important book of his career while trying to be the best husband and father he can be. The Kaplans have come to a remote coastal home for the summer, unaware that they’re sharing the house with a mysterious ghostly presence: you.

Read the family’s thoughts. Explore their memories. Uncover their desires and intervene in their lives. But stay out of sight; you can’t help the Kaplans if they know there’s a ghost in the house. It’s up to you to decide how Dan’s career and family life will evolve, but choose carefully; there are no easy answers, and every choice has a cost.

Dan’s relationships – to his work, his wife, and his son – react and shift in response to your choices. With a different sequence of events in every playthrough, The Novelist gives life to a unique experience each time you play.

The decisions you make will define the Kaplans’ lives, but they may also tell you something about yourself.
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