Nightmare Girl | Part 1
A downloadable game for Windows and macOS
ABOUT
You’re a young woman living alone in Tokyo. On your way home from work one night, you’re attacked by a pair of monsters; horrifying creatures like nothing you’ve seen before.
Fortunately, you’re saved by a mysterious man. He reveals himself to be a Nightmare hunter, part of a secret organisation taking down these terrifying things.
You think that’s the end of it.
But it’s only the beginning...
FEATURES
> Part 1 of a planned linear narrative with romance, friendship, and mild horror elements
> Protagonist has a canon name + backstory but doesn’t appear visually in the game; name can be changed
> ~8,500 words in Part 1, full story will be ~40,000 words
> 1 love interest
> 1 CG in Part 1
> 2 bad ends in Part 1
> Choice between romance + friendship ends in the full story
> Part 1 is SFW, full game will contain some romantic scenes but will also be SFW
CREDITS
Story, script, & programming by ghost-heart
Character art & CGs by aynatanagara
Background art by elisewongcreations
VFX assets from Red Chan
Fonts from dafont.com
Music from INPLUSMUSIC on Pixabay
Sound effects from freesound (full list of effects and credits here)
No GenAI was used at any point in the writing or art of this game. Any mistakes, imperfections, or inconsistences are plain old human error.
DISCLAIMER
All artwork and designs are property of ghost-heart and the artists listed above. Please don’t reuse art assets elsewhere. Please don’t reupload this game elsewhere.
CONTENT WARNINGS (Part 1)
Short chase scene, very mild violence, 1 bad ending with implied death, main character with self-critical inner voice
FUTURE UPDATES
This is part 1 of a longer story. There will be 5 parts in total. The rest of the story is already fully written, and will be uploaded in full once the art assets are ready. This should be before the end of the year. The full story will be free to play, too.
FEEDBACK
This is my first attempt at making a visual novel, which is more than a little terrifying. If there are any bugs or other errors, please message me directly or leave a comment below. I’ll try to fix anything as soon as possible, but please bear with me if it takes a bit of time.
Thank you and enjoy!
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Development log
- Nightmare Girl 1.15 days ago
Comments
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This was such a fun demo! Nishida is not usually the type of LI I go for (cold personality), but I definitely warmed up to him during the dinner conversation where he apologized for how he comes off! I love the art, the soundtrack is really chill, and the storyline has me very interested since I love supernatural genres, I can't wait to play the full game!
I did run into an error/bug where if you had Rina scream in the alley it would say "Image 'green' not found" at the top of screen when I was playing.
ahhhh, thank you so much for your comment! so happy you enjoyed the story so far.
thanks for pointing out the bug too! it should be fixed now in the updated version of part 1.
so good! and when will the second chapter come out and what will the new part of the game contain?
thank you, glad you enjoyed :) aiming to have parts 2-5 (the entire remaining story) all up at once by q4 2025…the remaining part of the story will focus on how the MC and the LI meet again and what happens from there.
Hello! Did you specify the tag josei, does this mean there may be more racy interactions with a love interest in the future? Your game is great^^
happy to hear you liked it, thank you :D there are a couple of romantic scenes in the remaining part of the story (depending on choices you make) but nothing nsfw. the josei tag is because the characters are all in their late 20s. hope that helps!
I like this story!! thanks for such a game!
thanks so much! really appreciate you taking the time to comment