Dead Sky, CA

Note: light trigger warning, this story involves heavy discussion of trauma, alcohol and drug abuse,  homophobia, racism and light sexual themes (but is nonetheless SFW) alongside flashing images,  a 16+ rating is advised but not enforced.

Dead Sky, CA,  June 15th 1991. Your fist day living life independently.  At first, you feel liberated, but as the true nature of your town begins to show, you learn to trust nothing. You find yourself unexpectedly thrust into a dark and damaging illicit party scene as the comfort  of suburban life ebbs away as those you've trusted throughout your life here reveal their true colours.

After you make the bold decision to stay behind in the dead-end desert town of Dead Sky on the advent of your parents moving back north, you are left to live with a friend's friend - an uptight, no-nonsense  cape fox named Kjirt van der Vaal. Within your first day of this agreement, you both receive a bizarre but enticing offer; late tonight, there is a gathering happening in the wastes of the desert. From here, you are left with some of your old friends: Carlos Velazquez, a snappy but complicated ocelot; Jeremy "Jer" S. Stanton Jr, a boisterous but friendly ferret;  Shi Hawkes, the enigmatic, near-alien jackal and Robyn Andersen, a previous friend who disappeared a year ago under mysterious circumstances.

Throughout the course of their 5 independent storylines, you learn that nothing about this town will forgive you. It'll chew you up and spit you out, leaving you alone in the desert with nothing and no one to save you.

So, good luck out there, pal. You'll need it.

PS:  As I'm a solo dev, doing each and every aspect myself alongside college, don't expect updates to be instant. Plus, the fate of this project very much depends on the response as the development process is a giant time sap that risks time from studies and friends that I will only take if it catches on.