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About This Game

【Game Overview】

Faraway Rivers and Mountains is a narrative-driven visual novel centered on women’s growth set in the Republic of China era. Players follow the protagonist Gu Nianzhi as she makes pivotal choices in a turbulent time, struggling between harsh reality and personal will, gradually moving toward self-awareness and transformation.

The game features branching narratives where every decision shapes relationships, story progression, and the final outcome. With nine distinct endings, the story explores diverging paths of fate and emotion under the same historical backdrop.

【Gameplay】

The game is driven by narrative choices. At key moments, players make decisions that influence not only the branching storyline, but also character relationships and final outcomes.

Within the same era, different choices lead to entirely different life trajectories.

【Visual & Narrative Style】

The game adopts a storyboard-like collage structure, blending hand-drawn sketches, digital illustration, and dynamic presentation to create a fragmented memory-like visual experience.

Visuals and storytelling are tightly interwoven, where narrative progression is conveyed not only through text, but also through composition and visual rhythm.

【Environments】

Environments are created from pen sketches drawn on A5 paper, later scanned and post-processed. Paper texture and natural pen strokes are preserved, giving the visuals a handcrafted, archival feel.

【CG Presentation】

CGs are presented in a storyboard format, unfolding like pages of a notebook, allowing the visuals themselves to participate in storytelling.

By combining hand-drawn and digital illustration styles, CGs become more than static images—they carry a sense of temporal flow and work together with music to shape emotional pacing.

【Character Art】

Character illustrations use a hybrid style of cel shading and semi-painted rendering. Each character features multiple outfits to reflect their emotional and life-stage changes.

【Key Visual】

The key visual presents Gu Nianzhi across two timelines—past and future—within a single composition.

She holds both a willow blade and a needle, symbolizing the intersection of fate and choice. A butterfly pinned by a silver needle represents a restrained past, while a red thread runs across the entire image, connecting left and right as an irreversible path of growth.

The composition uses a blue-red contrast: blue represents oppression and suffering, while red suggests awakening and hope, creating strong emotional tension.

【Character】

Gu Nianzhi

“I will only marry someone who understands me and whom I truly love.”

The protagonist of the story. She evolves from a traditional young woman in a sheltered household into an independent individual seeking selfhood and agency amid a turbulent era.

【Localization Notice】

Localization is generated with AI assistance and refined through human proofreading and continuous revision. As the process is still being improved, some text may not be fully finalized. We appreciate your understanding and feedback.

AI Generated Content Disclosure

The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this:

【Localization Notice】

Localization is generated with AI assistance and refined through human proofreading and continuous revision. As the process is still being improved, some text may not be fully finalized. We appreciate your understanding and feedback.

Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

This game contains content that may not be suitable for all ages, including:

**Violence and Death**

Depictions of war, gunfire, assassination attempts, explosions, and other acts of violence.

Some characters may be injured, bleed, or die during the story.

Includes scenes and references involving executions, combat casualties, and wartime tragedies.

**Suicide and Self-Harm**

Certain story routes contain depictions of suicide.

Some characters may experience mental breakdowns and exhibit self-harm tendencies.

These themes are presented for narrative purposes and do not include detailed or instructional depictions.

**Sexual Themes and Sexual Violence (Non-Explicit)**

Some storylines contain references to sexual assault and its psychological aftermath, including the emotional trauma and long-term impact experienced by survivors.

Includes romantic interactions such as kissing, embracing, and sharing a bed.

Does not contain nudity, exposed genitalia, or explicit sexual activity.

**Substance Use**

Contains depictions of the sale and consumption of opium.

Includes scenes involving alcohol consumption, intoxication, and tobacco use.

**Psychological and Emotional Abuse**

Contains themes related to historical social issues, including foot binding, arranged marriage, gender discrimination, and domestic abuse.

Includes depictions of confinement, psychological manipulation, emotional abuse, and unequal power dynamics in personal relationships.

**Additional Information**

The game is set during the Republican Era of China. Certain storylines depict historical social issues and realities of the period, including traditional social constraints, warlord conflicts, and the opium trade.

These themes are presented as part of the narrative and character development. The game does not promote or glorify violence, self-harm, sexual assault, discrimination, or substance abuse.

The game does not contain nude CGs, nudity, sex scenes, or interactive adult content. All sensitive themes are presented solely in the context of storytelling and character development.

Player discretion is advised.