Women of Xal
A downloadable game for Windows, macOS, and Linux
Follow Xjena as she begins her climb up the dangerous political ladder against other women eying the same, powerful position of Matriarch. Help those who need it immediately, or focus on the future and potentially help a wider range of people. The path is yours to walk. Or chuck her into a tragic death run. Players gonna play.
FEATURES
- Join Xjena on a 10 hour story with countless branching paths and ways to complete each individual day. No two playthroughs are the same, and your friends may have very different experiences with the characters than you do!
- Choices are not binary, and one good deed does not wash out the bad, nor the bad the good.
- Who let me be in charge of how many choices you get in this game? Apparently there's over 600 menu choices?
- Xjena has just as much a personality as you, so she interacts with the world not as a silent protagonist, but a woman with plenty agency.
- The world and its characters will not revolve around Xjena or her schedule. It's up to the player to be involved in their lives.
- The game engine said there's over 200,000 words. But let's say there's 75k and assume 125k of that is from coding branching paths, probably.
- Reading is good for you anyways.
- The writer for this description page is also the head and main writer for the game's script. This is either a bane or a boon, depending on the reader.
- Decipher a tricky high fantasy political mystery that mixes replayability, lore, and clear answers in a way unique to the genre.
- The mystery is tricky, but quite fair! And the more you piece together, the more the world around Xjena makes sense!
- An easily digestible lore that allows you to choose between an abundance of information vs keeping things strictly story/character driven.
- Choices are not binary, and one good deed does not wash out the bad, nor the bad the good.
- In a stunt we'll probably, hopefully never do again, you can date/befriend 12 full “Romance/Friend” routes that are NOT blocked!
- That means you can romance multiple people in one playthrough without worrying about being locked out from someone. Why?
- Because romanceable characters interact with each other due to an incredibly intricate affection system that allows and encourage polyamorous options.
- ^ End me.
- Romance options can turn into enemy options for certain playthroughs... and it can uh, Go Places. Like one of them killing Xjena real early.
- 140 minute soundtrack with familiar Jazzy vibes, niche ambiance and synth-heavy tracks, and genres I'm pretty sure the composer (see: me) made up.
- Over 100 special illustrations for important scenes and romantic/platonic moments. See the 4th bullet point for this segment.
- 4 different endings with a mind-numbingly long list of ways to reach them.
- Your choices being referenced and rewarded/punished more times than you can count. More times than we can count too, if we're being brutally honest.
Jump into the lore today! The water is fine. I hear it's a bit deep, but Xjena is here to make your journey into Xal as seamless as possible! Solve the mysteries, make your new friends smile, and go on a journey that will stick with you for a long, long time.
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
- MINIMUM:
- OS: Windows 7, Windows 10
- Processor: All
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: All
- Storage: 3 GB available space
- Sound Card: Any
Status | Released |
Platforms | Windows, macOS, Linux |
Release date | Oct 30, 2021 |
Rating | Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars (7 total ratings) |
Author | ProjectTrinity |
Genre | Visual Novel |
Made with | Ren'Py |
Tags | bi, Dating Sim, Fantasy, Gay, gay-disaster, LGBT, Otome, poc, political, Romance |
Average session | About an hour |
Languages | English |
Inputs | Keyboard, Mouse |
Accessibility | Subtitles |
Links | Steam, Blog, Soundtrack, Steam |
Purchase
In order to download this game you must purchase it at or above the minimum price of $20 USD. You will get access to the following files:
Development log
- Streamer Mode & Alt Dialogue/Scenes (Women of Xal Update)Mar 26, 2022
- Women of Xal: Full Game Release!Nov 02, 2021
- Women of Xal: Early Access 2.0 Available NowAug 22, 2021
Comments
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hi is there a walkthrough to all routes and endings if u can gave me bc i am lost i get the same ending every time......help?
You'll want to hop on the PTDiscord and see how the unofficial guide is coming along. A Fan walkthrough is slowly being worked on, and she has no issue telling people how to unlock characters and endings!
THANKS❤️😭
Does a Linux version get downloaded with the windows version ? It would have a ".sh" file name.
Yes it does. There's an .sh file right there alongside the .exe one!
Awesome, thanks for checking ! I'll pick it up soon then. This is why I love the Ren'Py engine, Linux versions usually get auto generated.
So is there a way to reset the files of the game? I was messing around and triggered all three stages of the scene with Merixa and I haven't even actually played the game yet. I don't know the repercussions of doing this to the story, but it's a little punishing if I can't reset it.
I was thinking of giving that entire section a giant nerf and having it only happen on New Game+ runs. But, while such a patch is brewing, there are no dramatic repercussions of running into such scenes in the story. For 99.9% of the game, it's just flavor text to make one's run more unique. I'm afraid if you delete the persistent files that keeps track of such decisions, the script will create a new file that says you did that and add an entirely different set of flavor text.
Is a walkthrough available somewhere ? I'm struggling haha
We're working on working with a third party to make it for us! lol
Thank you for answering and creating this wonderful (and challenging) game !
so excited to try this out! especially interested to see the polyamorus dynamics