Regret Island merges eerie horror with pastoral tranquility in a twisted RPG. Farm by day, forge bonds with villagers, and survive supernatural nightmares by night. Manage lust, sanity, and irreversible choices in a world where love, death, and madness intertwine. Will your harvest feed the village… or the lurking darkness?
Duality of Peace & Terror
1. Farm-Life Mechanics: Cultivate crops, raise livestock, and trade goods to sustain the island’s economy—but neglect farming to prioritize survival, and watch starvation fuel communal paranoia.
2. Day-Night Cycle: Daylight fosters romance and resource gathering; nighttime unveils cursed rituals, haunted forests, and sanity-draining entities that demand stealth or combat.
3. Environmental Corruption: Over-harvesting or failed rituals taint the land, spawning lethal mutations (e.g., carnivorous crops, possessed livestock) that threaten your livelihood.
Fragile Bonds & Fractured Minds
1. Relationship Webs: Befriend villagers to unlock cooperative skills (e.g., joint exorcisms), but romantic entanglements risk jealousy-driven betrayals or possession by vengeful spirits.
2. Sanity System: Characters develop phobias, hallucinations, or violent impulses as insanity rises, altering quest outcomes and triggering permadeath if untreated.
3. Lust as a Double-Edged Sword: Use seduction to manipulate allies or placate monsters, but overindulgence corrupts stats, blurring reality and nightmare.
Branching Horrors & Consequences
1. Non-Linear Mysteries: Investigate the island’s curse through occult tomes, cryptic shrines, or forbidden relationships—each path revealing unique lore and endings.
2. Sacrificial Choices: Save one villager by condemning another, recruit monsters as allies, or purge the island with fire, erasing all progress for a “pure” ending.
3. Procedural Threats: Randomized hauntings, weather disasters, and villain motives ensure no two playthroughs follow the same descent into chaos.
Retro-Inspired Aesthetic with Modern Tension
1. Pixel-Art Contrast: Cheerful, Harvest Moon-style visuals by day shift to Corpse Party-esque grotesquery after dark, with glitch effects amplifying psychological dread.
2. Soundtrack Whiplash: Soothing acoustic melodies clash with dissonant, ambient noise during horror sequences, heightening immersion.
3. Hidden Lore Fragments: Collect scattered diary pages and cursed artifacts to piece together the island’s history, unlocking secret bosses and endings.
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