Planned Release Date: Q4 2026

Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

Hillside: Part One – Fractured Lives is an adult, story-driven visual novel intended for mature audiences. The game contains sexual themes and consensual sexual content presented in a narrative context.

The story also includes depictions of violence and abuse. This includes brief but disturbing flashbacks to physical and sexual assault, shown from a serious and non-glorifying perspective. These scenes are contextual to the story and intended to convey trauma rather than provide explicit detail.

Additional mature elements include strong language, references to illegal drug use, alcohol consumption, and adult subject matter. Players sensitive to themes of sexual assault, abuse, or trauma may wish to proceed with caution.

About This Game

Hillside: Part One – Fractured Lives

A character-driven adult visual novel about power, protection, and the past that never lets go.

Hillside: Part One – Fractured Lives is the first chapter of a two-part visual novel set in a glamorous but rotten town at the heart of the entertainment industry. You play as a world-weary military veteran turned bodyguard, hired to protect the daughter of Charlotte Lloyd—a world-famous supermodel whose success has made her both untouchable and dangerously exposed.

What begins as a simple job draws you into a web of corruption and quiet menace that controls the town from the shadows. To keep Charlotte and her family safe, you’ll have to confront powerful enemies—and your past.

The Town of Hillside

Hillside is a Hollywood-like city where image is everything and silence is survival. Influence is traded behind closed doors, careers are built or destroyed overnight, and certain figures operate far above the law. Your arrival threatens a balance that has stood for years.

Characters

Your choices shape your relationships with four central women, each facing personal struggles you may help them confront:

• Charlotte Lloyd – A legendary supermodel shaped by everything she endured to survive at the top.

• Lucy Lloyd – Charlotte’s younger sister and manager; dependable, selfless, and the emotional anchor of the family.

• Suzi Lloyd – An elite university swimmer with Olympic ambitions; fearless, dominant, and unwilling to back down.

• Emma Lloyd – A shy fashion design student, sheltered and uncertain, dreaming of success in a brutal industry.

Romance and intimacy develop naturally through story-driven choices. Different routes explore both slow-burn connections and more casual relationships.

A Complete First Chapter

As the bodyguard, you carry the weight of past failures and unresolved guilt. Though capable, you question your worth—and whether healing is still possible.

Fractured Lives tells a complete first arc, building to a climactic confrontation that reshapes the lives of everyone involved, while laying the groundwork for what comes next.

Key Features

• Story-focused adult visual novel

• Branching narrative shaped by player choice

• Four adult romance routes

• A dark, character-driven drama set within a corrupt entertainment industry

• Story-driven intimacy and sexual content, used selectively and with purpose

• Themes of power, guilt, trust, and healing

Hillside: Part One – Fractured Lives is a story about protection in a world where innocence is fragile, power is invisible, and the past never stops asking to be answered.