Veritas Tales: Witch of the Dark Castle launches July 9

“Choose your own adventure” neo-classic digital gamebook RPG Veritas Tales: Witch of the Dark Castle will launch for PC via Steam on July 9, Digitalis Publishing and developer 15 Industry announced. It will support English, Japanese, and Simplified Chinese language options.

Here is an overview of the game, via its Steam page:

About

Once you open this book, you can no longer remain just a “reader.” Veritas Tales: Witch of the Dark Castle is a book-style fantasy adventure in the spirit of The NeverEnding Story—a 100 percent handcrafted work six years in the making, by a 30-year game industry veteran from Vanillaware.

Key Features

• Once You Open This Book, You Are No Longer Just a Reader.
  • As you turn the pages, you’ll make choices, face down enemies, and grow. You can charge in with a sword in hand, talk your way out of danger, or simply ignore it and keep walking.
  • Every choice you make and every roll of the dice changes the way the world responds to you.
• Six Years in the Making. Three Hundred Illustrations. All Drawn by a Single Hand.
  • Yoshio Nishimura, a 30-year veteran of the games industry from Vanillaware (Odin Sphere, Dragon’s Crown, 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim), spent six years in a remote Japanese mountain village crafting this game on his own.
  • Every single one of the over 300 illustrations was drawn by his own hand. No generative AI was used at any stage. This game has a soul that can only be found in something truly handmade.
• A Return to the Roots of Fantasy, Waiting to Be Rediscovered.
  • Elden Ring, Baldur’s Gate III, Dungeon Meshi—beneath the fantasy worlds we celebrate today lie the gamebooks and tabletop RPGs that first gave them form.
  • Veritas Tales returns to that moment—to the true weight and texture of swords, sorcery, and rolls of the dice. Savor once again what we first called fantasy, on pages that remember how it all began.

Watch a new trailer below.

Release Date Trailer

English

Japanese