Friendly Facade
Release date: Jan 27, 2023
Developers: Emergence
Publishers: Emergence
Genres: Adventure, Indie, Strategy, Early Access
Categories: Single-player, Family Sharing
Supported languages: English

Friendly Facade is a visual novel with point and click and strategy mini-games incorporated into key story moments to immerse the player in the experience. The game explores how each character's background and strongly held ideals inform their personality, decision-making, and strategy in tense situations. Every character has their own goals and motivations and form a web of interpersonal relationships that intersect and collide with each other to form a rich, nuanced story where not everyone is able to get a happy ending. Inside the peaceful confines of the Isolated Society Study, competition, manipulation, and betrayal run rampant, and this is before the Golding Foundation intervenes, changing the rules of the game, and the fates of those 16 individuals trapped within it, forever... Can you solve the mystery of the Golding Foundation, and dispel the facades that all 16 characters in this story use to mask their deepest, darkest secrets? There are currently 8 chapters available to play with more actively in development. Currently, the first two chapters have voice acting content with more planned for the future. The word count is ~220,000 and there are ~175 CGs. 


Notes: This game contains blood, death, and heavy subject matter.