When Twilight Strikes
You are a bounty hunter.
Responsible for taking in rogue supernaturals, you work for IAOS—the international agency of supernaturals—where, alongside your best friend and partner, you two have quickly become the best hunting duo of the branch.
After a particularly tricky hunt, you brief your boss, Caine Atheron, and come back to work the next day to find that he has mysteriously disappeared overnight, the company is now in the hands of his best friend, Sebastian Mai.
And though no one else seems to question it, something tells you that there's more to the story.
With bounty cases rising at an alarming rate and a second mystery unfolding, you and your ragtag team of allies set out to find the truth.
But as you go further and further, the secrets you uncover begin to make you question: who... or what exactly are you fighting for?
THE BEST FRIEND.
Arion/Arden/Adair Devereux is your best friend and work partner at IAOS of four years. Reliable and loyal, A is always by your side and there when you need a good laugh. With an easygoing manner and sarcastic sense of humour, A is loved by all, though their greatest friend is you.
Will you blur the lines of friendship?
THE RIVAL.
Blane Rekner is a fellow hunter at IAOS and your rival. Blane despises you with a passion and will take every opportunity to make you look bad, often in the form of a snide remark. Cold and startlingly rude, Blane isn’t the most appealing person, but their loyalty and dedication make up for it.
Will you turn your tension into something more than hatred?
THE PARTNER.
Nikolas/Noele/Nolan Alves is Blane’s partner at IAOS. though often overlooked, with soft smiles and constant genuine kindness, N is someone you can count on when having a bad day. But don’t let that fool you, for N also has a strong will and disregard for being treated badly that will make you rethink double-crossing them.
Will you find something real in a sea of mistrust?
THE WARLOCK.
Kian/Kaia/Kai de Vries is a warlock you see out for their expertise. as an immortal, K has learned to keep their cards close to their chest and finds it difficult to trust. Their aloofness and blunt sense of humour may make them difficult to get along with at first, but once warmed up to you, K is a powerful ally that proves to have a great amount of depth.
Will you fall for someone you know you will have to one day leave behind?
THE BOUNTY.
Rylan Villanueva is a bounty you’ve previously failed to capture. A flirt through and through, Rylan’s signature moves are sharp smirks and quick winks, the signs of someone who enjoys the sight of someone flustered. Their sarcasm and charm often take up the forefront of their personality, but though seemingly shallow with their wandering eyes, Rylan’s bed remains empty, preferring to spend nights alone.
Will you find love with the very person you’ve been trained to hunt?
I make regular updates and answer questions about the cast and game on my Tumblr. If you'd like to support me, I have Ko-Fi for a one-off donation and Patreon for those who wish to receive exclusive content.
On another note, if there are any errors or bugs you’d like to report, please email me (evertidings@gmail.com) as it is the best way for me to sort them out <3
Development log
- bug patch 05.Nov 17, 2023
- chapter ten release.Oct 28, 2023
- chapter ten release date.Oct 22, 2023
- bug patch 04.Jul 07, 2023
- chapter nine (part two) is out!Jun 30, 2023
- chapter nine (part two) release date.Jun 25, 2023
- bug patch 03.Mar 10, 2023
- chapter nine (part one) is out!Feb 24, 2023
Comments
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I love this game, I always come back to check for updates (take your time though). I have like- 7 saves of the game. 5 for each romance option, one for trying to romance them all just to see what'll eventually happen, and one for making everyone hate me.
i've never left a comment on this game before (which, i could've sworn i did!) but i first discovered this game, like, two years ago? and i always come back to check for updates. this is not with the intention of asking about updates (because life happens, and making games are hard!! i've tried before, and it's a LOT of work) but just to say that i love love LOVE this game! thank you so much for making it >< when twilight strikes was one of the first itch games i played, and actually what got me into making an itch account! (and therefore discovering most of the dating sims i like today, since that's the most common type of game i play lol) it's actually my favourite itch game, and i love how there's romance but also a plot that i'm actually super duper interested in. bit of a long comment, but thank you so much for making this game! i love it <3 also since this is already super long i'll just say that A and Blane are my favourite characters to romance, but i love literally all of the protags? the game is SO well written. good luck with writing + life in general, and just know that this game is amazing!
i've comeback to this IF for quite some time, and the more I played it, the more I find Ciel in his interrogation scene as annoying. Bro really go out to projecting its inner turmoil onto the MC 💀
I just spent all day binge playing this game; when I caught up it felt like I was coming out of a trance. Very immersive storytelling! I keep seeing comments about Blane, but where's the love for my boy Nikolas? He's so sweet lmao
Blane, my beloved, I will make you mine 😔, anyways thank you dev for this amazing game it changed my brain chemistry fr, the world building and mystery is so amazing and I cant wait for ep 11 <3
Okay let me just start of by saying that I love this worldbuilding. It's such an interesting take on supernaturals in the modern world. Your writing made me grind this through for the last two days, and I'm gonna keep going until there's a new chapter (no pressure ofc).
The characters are so diverse and fleshed out too! I've been romancing Blane, and I was pleasantly surprised by the amount of insight we are given, be it from his POV or just interaction.
But it's not just the RO, I also came to absolutely stan Sebastian. While it might be my patriotic bias as a fellow Vietnamese, his character is just so fun to interact with
(I CALLED HIS HOMO-NESS FOR CAINE!!!)Part of me was deathly afraid of him pulling strings behind the scenes in Caine's mysterious dissapearance, which was eased by him being *fucking exhausted on a genuine level*, which I figured he wouldn't be if he subjected himself to all that bs willingly, but it wasn't quite gone.When at the end of chapter nine, we got his POV, I could derive lots of information about his stand point (his non-involvement with his bestie's dissapearance) and Caine as well (that guy is such a mystery to me, still). Let's hope Sebastian is a safe option for a kin, and leave it at that.
I'm looking forward to the forthcoming chapters!! Much love and hugs, staying tuned <33
This is tied for the best piece of IF I've ever read, which is saying a huge amount. It's excellent, and while like most stories, I have no idea where you're taking it, you should be proud of what you have here. I don't want to pressure you to continue it, but you happen to be an excellent writer, and letting such talent go to waste is a disservice to yourself and to the rest of the world.
Hello! I was just wondering what is the highest K's relationship points can go at this point of the story?
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This is the best interactive fiction game I've ever played. very underrated [ this is my first interactive fiction game ]
not me discovering the relationship bars after i played the game like 7 times and running there to check if the percent with blane went up after every interaction (it did) (i screamed) (srry blane u'll be mine soon hehehehe) (why did i go for the guy who likes me the least?) (me saying the previous thing like i dont have rylons n kians routes played and saved and like im not going back for my bestie arion and the precious nikolas after i replay and save blane) (ok but blanes special!!!)
ANYWAYS i really enjoyed the game it is so fun well written and addictive fr im looking forward to the future updates!!!! thanks sm!!!
(also not me screaming at 27% with blane while i have 70+ with rylon)(i /SPOILER/
took a knifefor you bro gimmie some credit)(THE JUMP TO 40 WAS WILD????? im loving it)REAL?? like i had 11 romance points with blane but a 14% relationship
SO TRUE but i did notice that choosing romantic options slows down the overall relationship progress with anyone so yeah///
Hello, fellow Blane Romancer here, I find it's better (and also classier) to prioritize Relationship over Romance, since the latter doesn't count for the former improving (honestly I feel like it's the other way around). It's pretty much on the nose: just be overly kind, don't fight with him, be diplomatic.
I'd say that you're safe to flirt with him from 20% and up, or when he can "sort of tolerate you".
You also need to grind encounters with him, eg go to the Training Room (where you can then choose to encounter either A, B, or N) and then right after go to the media room. (After a few attempts, I managed to milk 30% from these interactions!!!)
Happy rizzing, soldier! Hope I could help
thats pretty much what i was doing already bc how could i pass spending more time with my dear blane hehe (THE SCENE IN THE BAR IF U SAY U R TOGETHER??? ~precious~) but thanks!! i do agree i think general relationship r important to build up, it'll definitely come in handy in later chapters (which i hope will come soon bc im stuck replaying what we have :p)
also %-wise a lot comes near the very end, i think i had about 40 at the end?? which seems crazy high for him and crazy low for literally everyone else but thats fine we love our grumpy king >:D
He will be ours.
I really loved this. I do hope you plan to write more!
This is the best interactive fiction game I've ever played. Your writing skills are amazing, and I love how each character is written. Throughout playing it, it just keeps getting better and better. I like coming back to replay this game when I'm bored. I'm looking forward to playing the rest of the chapters when they are released!
me after replaying this for the 186272527125 time:
So relatable
Good evening. I'm a student of University of Amsterdam and currently I'm researching the ways to improve authoring experience of Interactive Digital Narrative creators. One of the things I've noticed is that authoring tools in general don't have the functionality to support planning beforehand. It seems you've got an extensive experience in non-linear writing (using Twine). I would like to interview you (or send you a survey/questionnaire) to understand your personal approach to creating stories and potentially see whether implementing a tool that supports planning can help you in your creative endeavours. Do you think you'll have time to talk to me about this? Thanks a lot for response. Kind regards, Julia
Hi! If you're still interested and want to email me, you can contact me at evertidings@gmail.com
this game makes me stim at an unbelievable rate (i love this so much can I please marry all of the characters)
also its amazing and youre super duper awesome for your amazing story writing skills :333
eek thank you! glad to hear you're enjoying it <3
I wonder why the responses ' "Are you done with the quirky remarks yet?" ' and 'Stare' in Rylan's fight both lead to the same scenario? Every other choices work just fine for me.
oops! that's definitely a bug, ty for the catch <3
helloo! i just wanted to say i LOVEW THIS GAME its so good and its very impressive how consistent the updates are with the length and quality of the writing!! i noticed some typos in chapter 3, like words being missing! one in particular is ""'s a miracle worker." It's the closest I've heard Kai come to gushing.". it isnt anythign game ruining, but i just wanted to point it out!! good luck on working on the game in the future updates! this is probably my favorite text-based game so far
thank you for the catches! as many times as i've read this through, i always seem to find more. glad to hear you're enjoying it though <333
I got so scared when I finished season ten. I thought it was going to be like other stories i've read where they are unfinished and untouched for years. That was until I saw they commented 7 days ago :)))
hehe yes, i'm still alive. chapter 11 is in the works but my life is very very busy right now so progress has been slow. it hasn't been abandoned though !
alright, thank you. Good luck with personal stuff!
screaming love the UI love the story love how genuinely lovable all the characters are
ahhh thanks! the ui is one of my proudest achievements <33
holy moly i Did Not Sleep and played this in one go. All the interactions were so fun; I went for Rylan and Arion. 10/10 content, i laughed a lot at so many scenes. Very excited for future updates!!
eeeek thank you !!
Great so far!!!! arden is my fav i took that knife with no regrets! about how many chapters are there going to be?
i'll copy and paste my answer from a comment below: "it's not concrete yet but about 16-17. originally it was going to be 20ish but overtime the chapters have collapsed together"
I just wanted to wish you a good night (or day, depending on when you read this comment)! :3
you too ! thank you <3
1) how many chapters are you planning to make? (sorry if it's already on the page, i can't find it)
2) there's a kid in my bio class named rylan and he's annoying as all heck..i'm doing the rylan route rn and my brain is really confused lmao. ... they even sort of act similar
it's not concrete yet but about 16-17. originally it was going to be 20ish but overtime the chapters have collapsed together
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thank you for your patience <33
happyhappy new year's dear author<3
happy new year ! it's small but this comment means a lot, thank you <3
ofcourse!! u made my year sm better, hope this year's the best one yet for u<3
BEST GAME EVER, I've been replaying every time a new chapter comes out, ON IT AGAIN.
😭😭 thank you <33
dont even PLAY WITH ME this was amazing!!!!!!!! if ur thinking about playing through this, ABSOLUTELY DO.
EEEEK thank youuu <3
This game has consumed my every waking hour... and every resting hour, too. I've been dreaming about this game. Obsession is not quite an adequate descriptor. Safe to say, I will be shaking violently through 'til the finale!
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That's a good thing... I think
OMG ME TOO. I literally come back every month to see if there's a new chapter and replay everything every time a new chapter comes out. I'M ADDICTED
you're so cute :( thank you <33
awww thank you so much <33
I love this so much! A is my fav RO, but I definitely intend on going back and playing Blane's route, once the next chapter hits. I can't believe A just left me in there with Ciel alone, after what they literally just said about never leaving me alone, but I get it. Also, Blane and A are going to be friends? frenemies? people-who-kinda-tolerate-each-other's? Can't wait!
haha trust me, A didn't want to leave the hunter but they wanted to respect their decision (also their anxiety was getting the better of them and they needed to LEAVE).
on another note, A and Blane have a very complicated relationship that i'm excited to explore
I BARELY CHECK THE GAME PAGE SO I DIDNT EVEN REALIZE THE NEW CHAPTER IS OUT I WISH I KNEW DURING MY BREAK BUT I CANT WAIT TO PLAY IT LATER WHEN I HAVE TIME I ALREADY KNOW ITS GONNA BE AMAZING
hehehehehehe, very (very) late reply but i hope you liked it !
I do have a question... for each patch, do we have to restart from the beginning? I had to restart when the new chapter came out and today when I wanted to get further along in the chapters on another route, my saves were gone.
super super late reply but you shouldn't need to restart. it might be because you cleared your browser history (if you're playing on there) or cleaned your system recently. i've had the same saves for years while testing the game and they've never been erased.
That's weird. I haven't cleared my browser history since I have other VN I'm reading on there as well. Maybe my PC did an update and somehow messed up. It's fine though. Thanks for replying back! 🙂
that's so weird, i'm sorry i don't have a fix !
Oh, it's alright! I'm just playing through them again. Lol.
im replaying the game to try out chap 10 bcuz omg this IF is so good?! but it's a BIT funny whenever i forget u can quite literally be prejudice toward supernaturals. like, why is "No, I don't make deals with your kind" AN OPTION?
(fyi, this is a JOKE, i rlly adore this IF and these lines of dialogue honestly make me shocked and giggle cuz the AUDACITY? lmao)
LMAOO see when people point this out to me i giggle a little because it really wasn't that unserious when i wrote it but seeing it after is 💀
My goodness, of all the IFs Ive demo'd, yours is by far the one Im most eager to see reach its conclusion. Im highly engaged, your world and your characters, are great. I can't wait to be absolutely destroyed kissing Blane. 😭❤️🩹
eeek thank you !! first kiss (i initially wrote kill, i'm tired) scene will be coming up within the next three chapters so get excited :))
Instead of *trying* to express how good this is so far, I'm just going to say that when I read "08. NO REST FOR THE WICKED" I happened to look at the clock and realized that it was 7AM and that I didn't sleep the entire night. And I don't regret it lol
😭😭😭 such a huge compliment, thank you !!
Do you have a downloadable file for the game? I was able to play on my phone whenever I'm on mobile data, but not on PC. For some reason, itch decided to have a grudge against my ISP. The website is not loading any kind of image and can't even run browser games (already made a report about it). (T__T) And this only happened recently. I was able to play browser games just fine before.
I was hoping I could play in my PC via a downloaded file, but if that's not possible, that's fine! I just hope itch and my ISP decides to let me just play this game on my PC later.
hmm you might be able to download the index from the folder i uploaded to itch, but that's also an html/browser file so i'm not sure that'd work. sorry for the issues !
chapter ten was nice, love that we’re easing in the romantic options, can’t wait heheh..
Anyways, reading it was amazing, I love your writing style. I can’t wait to kiss Rylan :evil_grin:
eek thank you so much ! so excited about finally getting into the romance <333
I AM PUMPED! please take your time too! Do not rush writing!