Companion of darkness
A downloadable game for Windows, macOS, Linux, and Android
3years after a tragic incident, you return to your hometown. Just before you reach your destination, you watch as two supernatural forces pit their strength against each other in a fight to the death.
It seems that you have been discovered and effortlessly overpowered, but instead of dying you wake up in your bed as if nothing had happened.
Was it all a dream?
Everyday life goes on whether you like it to or not. Not only do you feel like a stranger in your hometown, more and more unexplainable events are happening around you.
When the ones you care for are threatened, you must decide which boundaries you are willing to cross. And, if it is worth to give up humanity.
Companion of Darkness is a VISUAL NOVEL for adults that focuses heavily on the story. With your decision, you decide in which direction this thriller-mystery novel goes.
Chapter 1 already includes:
Over 1100 renders. Over 40 animations.
Chapter 2 adds:
Over 1400 renders.
Over 50 new animations.
Chapter 3 adds:
Over 1300 renders. Over 40 new animations.
Chapter 4 adds:
Over 1500renders. Over 50 new animations.
Chapter 5 adds:
Over 1200 renders. Over 40 new animations.
Chapter 1 reworked:
Over 1300 new renders. All animations reworked
Chapter 6 adds:
Over 1300 renders. Over 40 new animations.
Chapter 7 adds:
Over 1300 renders. Over 40 new animations.
Chapter 8 adds:
Over 1400 renders. Over 40 new animations.
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Hi my Name is Berkili4 and I´m making Companion of Darkness. I hope the VN, entertains you and I look forward to your feedback and criticism.
This game is free and will stay free.
You like the game so much that you want to support me?
If you want to follow me on Patreon or Subscribestar I would be very happy.
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Development log
- Chapter 8 now public.3 days ago
- Chapter 8 now for companions13 days ago
- Chapter 8 is done and 1 year aniversary.23 days ago
- Chapter 8 more than halfway done.44 days ago
- Chapter 7 release.80 days ago
- Chapter 7 is done.99 days ago
- Happy New Year.Jan 02, 2024
- Chapter 6.5 is doneDec 22, 2023
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One of my all time favorites
Happy to hear that and thanks for playing.
Love it so far just finished 8 can't wait for the next installment. It's been a great storyline with great writing. I did run into a couple errors around the time gab starts showing the map for France some scenes just at it starts and some during transitions. Other than that ran pretty smooth (android) I highly recommend people give this one a download it's well worth the time.
I'm glad that you had fun playing. :D
Downloaded and read beginning to end of chapter 8 this weekend. All I can say is this is a great story full of twists and turns, and definitely some gut wrenching moments to keep you on the edge of your seat. Overall great story worth reading. There are a few grammatical issues, but nothing that can't be overlooked. Keep up the great work!!
thanks for playing and happy to hear you like the game.
Great Update!!
It is good that some People Helped you with Some Problems.
Again Great Game!!!
glad you enjoyed it
I'm Glad that Cosey Creator was Helping you! You Know that He has a VN also? I happen to think his Could go Far( be very good), It would be Good if he Has Help as it takes him( only Person working on the One he Does) a Long time to Put out an Update. the Updates so far Have been very good.
Early thoughts I wanted to put down, I'm early in Chapter 2 but that scene with Clara at the end of Chapter 1 sucked to watch. Poor sweet girl, I hope all goes well for her. I'm really enjoying the story and like all of the characters that are likable so far. Keep up the good work. :)
hope you will like the rest of the game.
Hey man, I just wanna say, fantastic work on the story! This is one of the best avns I've played and probably one of the only few in which the story actually had me hooked. Speaking of stories, I like to write in my free time so I was wondering if you'd mind me using your power system and the overall world you built for my story. I'd feel scummy if I used your ideas for my own works without your permission so I had to ask. The characters will be completely different obviously, the only thing I'm struggling with is building out a power system and world for my story and the one you built happens to fit it perfectly.
Glad to heart that you like the story. Heh i can't stop you creating fan ficition, so have fun.
Just downloaded chapter 8! I saw somewhere that you were going to post a link to the gallery files on discord?
yes i will once i figure out how to do it XDD
Haha, and just want to say, love the story so far. Can't wait to see what happens next!
Amazing chapter, can't wait for what you have planned for the future.
happy to hear that you liked it.
You killed it with the new menu screen, can't wait to start chapter 8.
yeah its cool isn't?
have fun with chapter 8
Great game so far
When is the chapter 8 public release
Glad to hear that you like it and here you can check the date:
https://berkili4.itch.io/companion-of-darkness/devlog/706768/chapter-8-is-done-a...
Interesting that there are characters from the game Portal Heat, Wartribe academy and maybe 4 other games in the CH4 Congress scene. Are most characters premade and able to be implemented anywhere? plus, which games are they from, would love to try them out..
hey there, the other chapters also have cameo characters from other games. and it would be to long to list them all. you can find a list of all cameos in my discord.
The android is ver 8 and the other is ver 9, the android is not as complete as other?
Nope same version.
Fucking gold star! Thank you for continuing to keep updating and making this amazing story. You know a story is good when I'm screaming at the screen like I'm there. (Fuck you Az just fuck you) The character growth and everything is what makes this story so good. Amazing story. Everything is believable and realistic to as much as it can be. You can really emphasize with the characters. Thank you thank you thank you.
well happy to hear that you liked it.
And thank you for playing :P
do you get to have sex with claire or is she just a tease?
This was a great game when what happened to the girl i was shocked and the other is still lookin for you ugh cant wait for more
glad to hear that you liked it
Has it finished yet? If not, since I really don't like cliffhangers, where should I stop playing and wait for the rest to come out? Should I just wrap it up at the last chapter, or maybe pause earlier, like at Chapter 5 just as an example, for a neater ending?
Well in the middle of chapter 5, there is the end of act 1 which could be a good stopping point. The end of Chapter 8 will also be the end of act 2. So this might be a good stopping point as well.
Oh, wow. it's a total coincidence that the 1st Act ends in Chapter 5. It was just an example in my previous comment lol. Well, thank you.
So I just got to the Chapter 7 End, and throughout the story I came across a couple of choices, that lead to story endings, NEWLIFE and REUNION. But I've not come across any other choices that sounded like they would lead to endings. Are those the only ones? Oh, and will the gallery added with Chapter 8 automatically have the seen scenes unlocked when loading a save game, or will we have to do another playthrough from the beginning?
And also, damn you for including so many characters from other AVNs! xD I recognized a couple of them in the cafe scene, but I've played so many games after recently looking into itch.io, that I can't remember where they're from, and unexpectedly, they're not mentioned at all at the end of the last current chapter.
hello, yes up to chapter 7 these are the only non canon storyendings to far. But there are also also bad endings that you can get.
And no Gallery will not automatically be unlocked. But i will share a file in my discord server that unlocks the gallery up to chapter 8.
So how far does the pregnancy go. Is it just end game content or is there more to it like raising a family
Pregnancy is already in the game but only very little by now. But there will be more pregnancy content. Especially when there are more endings and the story moves forward. Pregnancy is a great way to illustrate the progress of a relationship
yes but how far does it go. Do they eventually give birth, does the kid grow up and can you interact with the kid or is it just "you got them pregnant at the end of the game"
希望未来能有中文翻译
对不起，我不会说中文。
不幸的是，我没有足够的财力聘请翻译。
I'd love to help you, but I don't know much about the code. what a shame
thanks for the wonderfull game but when is chapter 8 release
You can check it here:
https://berkili4.itch.io/companion-of-darkness/devlog/706768/chapter-8-is-done-a...
We need Chinese,please.I don't want to play the unofficial version anymore.
I'm sorry but I can't speak Chinese.
and unfortunately i have nowhere near the financial means to hire a translator
Maybe you could try some translation software.
He might as well put the script in a shredder and glue the strips together randomly. Machine translation is still at least a decade away from producing good, accurate translations, even with AI support.
Started and finished the game in 2 days. Incredible story, amazing animations. Would be nice if the H-scenes were voiced too. And maybe get multiple people to proofread the script, there were tons of grammar and spelling errors throughout the story. nothing major but as someone who reads a lot of books I do find them a bit jarring. But overall still an amazing game. Definitely something worth supporting.
thanks for playing
I found the grammar mistakes and typos just as jarring, and I started a proofreading document, yesterday, to try and root them all out. I've also been told that with the upcoming release of chapter 8, the contents of chapter 1 and the latest chapter will have gone through more rigorous quality control, but I will be brutal in my assessment of that. 😁
Love this game so much. It almost perfect in every way. 10/10 would definitely recommend.
Glad to hear that you liked it. :D
The comfort cafe next door is updated in January, and the update speed here is very fast every month and a half. Both of you are in version 0.8 keep on cheering. Looking forward to the gallery in Chapter 10, haha 😜 I will share it to let more people know about this game and let everyone know that this game exists because the plot is really great. Although there is no modeling quality like the eternal world, the plot is very good and it deserves publicity.
Thank you, and glad to hear that you enjoyed the game.
A little secret, perhaps you will see a gallery a bit earlier then chapter 10 :P
You finished half of chapter 8 in just 37 days? That's amazing consistency
my friend chapter 8 is nearly done
That's great news. Does chapter 8 have less content than usual?
No... either same as the last chapters or maybe even a little bit more. :D
It's impressive how fast your updates are. It hasn't even been 2 months since chapter 7 released. This game seriously deserves much more attention. Keep up the good work!
i will and thank you. <3
Are you able to hide the text box on Android? I know you can change of opacity of the text box but it's still fairly dark.
Yes the text box on android is at the moment not changeable i am sorry.
harem or multiple solo Lis? pregnancy?
Yes
so we have the choice of harem or going just solo routes? good :)
One of the best VNs here! Amazing Story and Character ! Pls keep it up this way. Who miss her too ? :')
Happty to hear that you enjoyed the game. :D
Cant wait for the next chapter 🫡
God tier game. Super hyped for chapter 8.
Glad to hear that you like it.
Hi, I would like to know that that moment when the game leaves alone in the building, is it already resolved?
I'm sorry, I don't understand what you mean.
And why is there a part of the game that just leaves, I can't get through, when the MC comes to the building
okay i'm sorry i still don't understand you properly, why don't you write in your native language and i'll run it through a translator
Berkili4 e que o Android, o seu VN em uma parte a onde o MC está fugindo do vilão, então ele vai para cima de um prédio, e nesse momento a animação fica travando e sair do jogo, e não tem como passar dessa parte, por que a todo momento fica saindo nessa parte específica, aí eu queria saber ser você fez alguma correção nessa parte
Se está a falar do local onde penso, então sim, isso deve ser corrigido.
Best game by the best author. Writing, pacing, worldbuilding, premise, sexy as fuck female cast. Game is goated. Dropped other novels after playing Eternum as my first one but this game is up there with it.
Edit: Noel and Clara are S tier
Thanks for playing, happy to hear that you like it :D
How do you hide the textbox on android? (Also great game btw)
Glad to hear that you like it and to be honest i don't know.
Just make the color transparent, the font is black, so it doesn't affect reading or visual effect
Your phone should be able to unpack it. just open it with your installing programm
This game is on par with games like Eternum, by far one of my favourites. Ths story is written so well and is also unique to every other game I've played. I hope you enjoy making it as much as I've enjoyed playing it.
Well, it is an up and down, but most of the time I enjoy it. Oh and happy to hear that you like it.
Already wrote about my experience with the game in developer's discord, but to support the game will also write here.
I loved it so much, the characters, lore, easter eggs, jokes, all of this was amazing, I hope that this game will be noticed by more people, and also want to wish all the best things to the developer. Can't wait for chapter 8!
Glad to hear that you liked it :D
ONE OF THE BEST!!
through the years of playing VN games, this is by far the best I've ever played. Loved all the characters and I find myself caring for each one of them. Unique storyline that got me hooked almost instantly! Incredible game highly recommend and can't wait for chapter 8!
P.S My favorite character is Arsa. She cracks me up with her childish acts 🤣
Happy to hear that you liked it and thanks for playing. :D
And yeah i also like Arsa :P
Ayooo
Just finished first chapter and its pog.
But i'm having low fps on some animated scenes but not all of them. I don't think pc specs (windows) or storage are the problem. Do u know of any solution ?
Very strange, never heard of this problem before.
is this error still present in chapter 2?
Just finished chapter 2 (it was a hecking masterpiece with the music syncs) and no problem with animations.
I tried moving the game from hdd to sdd but it's still laggy during some parts of Noel's h scene.
In chap 1, Amy h scene (handjob street) is fine = good fps. Clara h scene (self peek) is fine, but gets blurry and bit laggy towards the end. Noel h scene (bj dream) is mostly fine but very laggy during bj clockwise rotation, then its fine in POV, then it's fine during bj with hairbun, then it's very laggy during POV of the same scene.
No clue why this is, but meh at least it's not a widespread problem.
Ty for the game and gl for future development !
Thanks for answering. I made some changes for the next update, let's hope it will fix the problem
The soundtrack on main page ui is magnificence I love it what the name of that music
Phew, I forgot to be honest. But you can find the soundtrack in the audio/music folder of the game.
It's Bloodline by Secession Studios.
I love this game, whether it's the story or the characters, I found chapter 7 a bit short and I hope chapter 8 will be longer ⚠️Spoiler alert⚠️ In chapter 7 we had the mc which was officially baptized rule b and we also had the birth of the seventh primordial and we also learned that the mc can have several contracts with companions so for me chapter 8 will be the fight between the mc and zero to save emma and the beginning reunion with noel but that's just my guess since I'm not the creator of the game and I wish Clara had more screen time but I guess she will appear in chapter 8 for help the mc
happy to hear that you like my game
Does ver8 includes all the episodes from the beginning? Asking on an Android
Yes all episodes are included in the current build