This game has my heart.
I seldom play games all the way through, I never hit the endings, I just don't generally have the attention span for them. I'll visit them, revisit, and linger til the next thing snares my interests. However, with When The Night Comes, with all of the work that Lunaris Games has created, I have been entranced and pulled in time and time again.
From stunning game art to brilliant writing, When the Night Comes checks off everything it takes to get me hopelessly ensnared. The cast are so diverse, and so real. Despite this being a world of magic and monsters, every single character that you meet and interact with in the game feel firmly rooted and well grown. Things seemed groundbreaking to me when I saw we had the options to pick pronouns, and I had been floored again when I found that I could pick polyamorus romance routes as well. (And the fact that should I have wanted to, I could have completely forgone the romance side of the game as well).
Lunaris Games has a way of making everyone feel valued, and it's clear that this isn't just a quick buck for them. They're here to provide comfort and intrigue in genres that can be so exclusive of different groups of people.
Watching the developers create this, seeing them put so much love and work into something that is very clearly important not just on the creative expression side, but in the personal experience side as well, has been an honor, and I am entirely excited to see how the revamp goes this coming fall.