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Dry Drowning

Dry Drowning Demo is available here Dry Drowning is an investigative thriller-oriented visual novel set in the futuristic dystopian universe of Nova Polemos. A shady socio-political situation dragging everything down to the abyss, a serial killer drawing strength from this darkness, a tormented detective and his assistant craving for redemption. Dry Drowning challenges the player to find the truth, going through ambiguous characters, riddles, clues and unexpected events, while telling an extremely compelling and mature story. Game Features: Choices really matter: Players choices can lead to an

Release date
August 2, 2019
Platforms
Windows
Developer
Studio V
Publisher
Leonardo Interactive
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About Dry Drowning

Dry Drowning Demo is available here Dry Drowning is an investigative thriller-oriented visual novel set in the futuristic dystopian universe of Nova Polemos. A shady socio-political situation dragging everything down to the abyss, a serial killer drawing strength from this darkness, a tormented detective and his assistant craving for redemption. Dry Drowning challenges the player to find the truth, going through ambiguous characters, riddles, clues and unexpected events, while telling an extremely compelling and mature story.

Game Features: Choices really matter: Players choices can lead to an always different story, with more than 150 story branches and 3 completely different endings Heavy moral choices: Dramatically change the way you live the game, affecting background politics, technology, environment, NPC encounters, who lives and who dies High replayability: More than 20 hours gameplay to see everything about Time travel: Explore the detective's flashbacks and investigate cases from the past to help you solve new ones Psychological interrogations: Break the masks and uncover the truth with the Living Nightmares system Live soundtrack: Original and dynamic soundtrack with more than 50 audio tracks and 2 hours of music Get ready to dive into darkness...

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★ 6.8/10GOG · 48 ratings
GOGLast checked November 4, 2026

Most helpful7

★ 3 / 5
+ great atmospehere / art + intruiging story - English writing quality is very poor - hammers a fairly naive political line
★ 5 / 5
This game is much more than your averge visual novel. Of course at heart it's an atmospheric story with great characters and an interesting serial…
★ 4 / 5
Really nice. The game atmosphere is imersive, characters are well writen. The story is good. It's a real pleasure to contemplate the background. I was…
★ 5 / 5
Whilst the gameplay is not going to blown you away - standard text-heavy visual novel with some light puzzle and dialogue choices here and there,…
★ 3 / 5
This game manages to do several things good and bad at once. Story: for a VN the most important category, it scores high in my…
★ 3 / 5
Dry Drowning is attractive and the music is beautiful, and the gameplay is reasonably compelling. However, the plot, while good intentioned, doesn't always click into…
★ 1 / 5
NB: played it for 15 minutes. tl;dr writing is bad, art is ok Good stories don't explain their moral. This game starts with setting its…

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★ 3 / 5
Dry Drowning is attractive and the music is beautiful, and the gameplay is reasonably compelling. However, the plot, while good intentioned, doesn't always click into…
★ 3 / 5
This game manages to do several things good and bad at once. Story: for a VN the most important category, it scores high in my…
★ 1 / 5
NB: played it for 15 minutes. tl;dr writing is bad, art is ok Good stories don't explain their moral. This game starts with setting its…
★ 5 / 5
Whilst the gameplay is not going to blown you away - standard text-heavy visual novel with some light puzzle and dialogue choices here and there,…
★ 5 / 5
This game is much more than your averge visual novel. Of course at heart it's an atmospheric story with great characters and an interesting serial…
★ 4 / 5
Really nice. The game atmosphere is imersive, characters are well writen. The story is good. It's a real pleasure to contemplate the background. I was…
★ 3 / 5
+ great atmospehere / art + intruiging story - English writing quality is very poor - hammers a fairly naive political line

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