Cuscuta: A Prayer for Endless Winter
A downloadable record for Windows
As you stroll through the Orator's library, you drag your fingers across the spines of various tomes, sampling all the different textures with your fingertips. You come to the end of the great bookshelf and, as you turn your head to find more stimulation for your wandering hands, one particular book catches your eye. "A Record of Lesbianism in the Kingdom of Hortus".
A 20k word linear visual novel record of two deceptive women spending a long winter together in a small cabin told via intimate interviews after the fact. An examination of what it means to be seen and to allow yourself to be seen. Finished for Yuri Game Jam 2025.
CW: Toxicity, blood, violence, sexual themes, comphet, patriarchy
Tabitha Butcher- Writing, Programming, "Library" BG Photos, Character Design
Blazemalefica - Character Art, CGs
Calpidrink - Character Design
Leah Butcher (My Wife!!!!) - Cabin BGs
Special thanks to Gentrigger for their original setting of Wake from their globally acclaimed TTRPG Songs We Sing! If you enjoy Cuscuta, please play Songs We Sing.
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Development log
- Postmortem, yippee yay!18 days ago
- A bonus! (SPOILERS)45 days ago
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Absolutely incredible work, I adored the slow build up and the fun twists early on! My heart has been warmed so thoroughly from this game despite the setting being so cold and wintery T^T
Goldthread and Alfalfa are so freaking cute I just can’t with them!! The framing of the story itself was also really cool and was such a fun way to switch perspectives.
Spoilers
I absolutely adored the “purely educational” proposal scene what a beautiful climax of emotions and how it circled back to Alfalfas biggest fears about violence and her impulses and the perfect zinger of that CG UGH It’s was all so well done.
THANKS FOR READING I LOVE THESE GIRLS I'M SO GLAD YOU LIKED IT
Parts of this cut really deep, I cried quite a bit. Beautiful game.
I'm glad you liked it!!!
Absolutely loved this VN!
yay I'm glad you loved it!! I love them
this was so tender and loving! i have been talking a lot with a friend about how one of our favorite parts of character driven stories is when an author can successfully navigate the dance people do--where there's SO MUCH each person doesn't know, in turn leading to so many misunderstandings and just like, emotionally compelling disclosures that completely change the direction of the scene. but how, when it's a well-tailored interaction, it's stacked with it being these two, very flesh-and-bone compelling characters, interacting with each other and bringing out something in each other that only they can bring out. so you get this interesting dance of withholding and prodding, poking and pulling, that is so expertly on display during some of their first encounters in front of the fireplace. i kept being emotionally hit over the head with the realization "oh, she's just as lost as gold is!", "oh, she's just as desperate as alfalfa is!", through so many tears... easily my favorite part of a very wonderful visual novel. (second only to some of the harder/more toxic lines earlier on ^^) looking forward to more of your work, tabbie!
thank you so much for such a lovely comment! I'm really happy you liked it! I think that things that are unsaid, yet acted upon or reacted to, are some of my favorite things about yuri media so I'm endlessly glad that I was able to tug that thread successfully. the next one should be out in january! thank you so much for reading again ;;