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About This Game

The story

You are walking down a road you don't remember. There is no sign of your car. Your watch stopped at a quarter to six. At the bus stop an old man in a long coat says the bus won't be long.

Get on. Len has driven these roads for forty years. Tonight the route runs through the valley in the last of the light, along a coast road that shouldn't be there, and on across the moor in the rain. People get on. They talk. Some of them say more than they meant to.

At some point he will need you to take the wheel.

Byeway is a short first person story game, about an hour long. There is nothing to grind and no puzzle to get stuck on. It is mostly people, talk, and the road. What you say and what you do change how it goes and how it ends.

After the story

The stop is still there. Come back at night and someone new is waiting by the shelter, a different person each day, with a few words before the bus takes them.

Or take the night route yourself: pick a road, drive a quiet shift, stop for whoever is waiting. No score and no timer. The radio plays low, and between the songs an old voice tells you a little more about his life each shift.

In the game

• A story you can finish in one evening, with choices that matter

• Passengers, every one of them on the way to someone

• Tickets left on seats, and things hidden in the woods by the stop

• A quiet night route with the radio, and a stranger at the stop each day

• Fully voiced in English, Russian and German

• Full controller support

Byeway is a small first game by Belt of Venus.

AI Generated Content Disclosure

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

Pre-generated AI content: the character voices were made with ElevenLabs text to speech from scripts written by the developer, and placed and edited by hand. Some sound effects were made with ElevenLabs. The short film behind the studio name at start-up, and the picture in the store capsules, were made with an AI video tool and then edited.
No live (runtime) AI generation in the game.

Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

Byeway is about death and grief. The story deals with loss, saying goodbye to people you love, and growing old. It also refers to a fatal car accident, which is only heard: tyres skidding, a flash of light and a distant siren. Nothing graphic is shown. There is no violence, gore, sexual content, drug use or self-harm.