Unsanctioned

About This Game

Please be aware that "Unsanctioned" is currently being worked on in ChoiceScript and will continue to update there for now.

You can play the ChoiceScript demo

here

and follow updates regarding this game

here

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On a dark winter’s night, a child signs a contract with a man dead to the world.

Promised an upbringing filled with forbidden knowledge, the two enter a strange and isolated existence together.

After nineteen years, the sanctuary and prison you have come to know as your home is discovered, and the land finally learns that the villain they believed to have perished a century prior has merely been in hiding…and that he isn’t alone.

Separated and forced to flee, you’re once again released into the world without your master’s hand to guide you. Only now, he is no longer the only one adept at the unsanctioned arcane arts.

“Unsanctioned”

is a 183k word 18+

interactive novel where you play as the apprentice of an ostracized sorcerer. It’s set in a

dark fantasy world

where magic is simultaneously a symbol of status and strictly supervised.

The demo currently covers the first part of the prologue, which features three different backgrounds to choose from, the second part of the prologue and the beginning of chapter one.

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Three backgrounds

to choose from which will shape your MC and their relationship with the world, impact their pool of knowledge, their countenance, and how others might react to them.

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Three races

to choose from: elf, human or the shunned cryn.

✢ A complicated

parental relationship

at the heart of the narrative.

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A cast of

potential – and

not entirely lawful

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companions

who you can forge various relationships with.

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Around five full-fledged romances

, along with casual flings you may try to pursue along the way.

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Choices that shape your MC’s personality

as well as the world around them to a lesser or bigger degree and narrative branching based on certain choices.

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A game of truth and deceit

with you as one o