Visual novel Mask of the Rose coming to Switch

Failboat Games opened a Kickstarter campaign this week for its new visual novel Mask of the Rose. To say that it’s been successful would be putting it lightly. After reaching the £90,000 funding goal, a release on Switch has been secured and the campaign isn’t even close to being over.

For more on Mask of the Rose, check out the following overview and trailer:

Mask of the Rose takes place in 1862, mere months after London was stolen by bats. Londoners are still adjusting to life underground. The old street signs are being erased. New ministries and new festivals are being established. The mysterious Masters of the Bazaar seem to be in charge.

You share your boarding house with a few other lodgers: Archie, a medical student discovering firsthand that Death works differently here. Griselda, a close aide of the new Masters. Horatia, the landlady with a soft spot for the Neath’s native inhabitants. Harjit, the local constable looking for a missing person of his own.

As you make a new life below, you may find yourself visiting the underwater ruins of Parliament; intervening in a murder trial where the victim is a witness; or steering a hooded, vocabularious Master through the subtleties of a London courtship. However you choose to live in the Neath, you have your own friendships – and your own heart – to look after.

The art of Mask of the Rose draws on Film Noir, Victorian photography and Blitz-era Britain, and is an evolution of the Fallen London universe’s painterly style, keeping the atmosphere of the original but with more detail and depth.

Mask of the Rose still has close to a month remaining in its Kickstarter campaign. If you’re interested in contributing or learning more about the project, head on over here.