忒修斯之女

You can replace a body piece by piece. Is the girl who survives still your daughter?

Here, organs, limbs, even nerves can be replaced. Staying alive means keeping up with the maintenance bills. In this roughly 20-hour story, you play a doctor who has lost his license and a father determined to keep his daughter alive. Expensive inhibitors and daily care have kept Xiaohe going. Lately, though, her body has begun to reject its implants for reasons you can't explain. Sometimes she loses track of where she is. Sometimes you catch an expression on her face that you've only ever seen on someone else. For a vial of the medicine she needs, and a chance to find out what's happening to her, you take on dangerous jobs for people whose interests are at odds.

At your side

Between bouts of illness and moments of danger, Xiaohe is quick-witted, mischievous, and happiest close to you. She'll run on ahead, then turn around just to pull a face. When she's in trouble, she tugs at your sleeve until you give in. When you're exhausted, she tries, a little clumsily, to take some of the weight off your shoulders.

It's these ordinary moments together that make it so hard to let go whenever she falls ill again or does something you don't recognize.

How will you answer her?

Xiaohe listens as much to your tone as to your words. Play along with her act, call her bluff on the spot, or put on a serious face and talk it through. Each answer brings out a different performance. Little by little, the way you answer can earn her trust. Or the opposite?

A story that keeps branching

An actual branch map from one chapter.

Every decision you make, however small it seems at the time, sends ripples through the story. Whose door will you knock on first tonight? What will you do when your daughter has another episode? Who gets to see the clue you've found, and who will you keep it from? Return to any crossroads at any time through the story flowchart and see where another path takes the two of you.

The people who come looking for you

People from rival factions find their way to your door, each with a different interest in you and your daughter. Everyone has something you need and a reason to hold on to it. Who will you trust? Who are you prepared to betray?

The places you'll take her

From an empty rooftop, you and Xiaohe set out through the White Tower complex, Saint Grace Chapel, an abandoned rail yard, a crowded night market, and a back-alley clinic. By day and by night, you'll cross from one faction's territory into another, sifting the truth from the false leads as you piece together what's happening to your daughter.