Human Interest [v0.1.1]

Your uncle is dead, and he left you his factory.

The catch: it's in Kessmarck, a port city full of kin of every breed, where humans are tolerated at best. A human there can't live without a license, can't bank without a sponsor, and can't own a single brick without a kin's name beside his.

You arrive with two dollars and a borrowed room in your childhood friend's house, with her mother keeping the rent book. Pay off the estate, find a backer, rebuild the factory, and find out why this city keeps humans on a leash... and why so many of its women seem so interested in you.

Version 0.1: The first week

Your first week in Kessmarck, from the train that brings you in to your first rent day. A text-based game for now: character portraits arrive in 0.2.

• Make your character: backgrounds, traits, skills and a 27-point stat pool, with an optional Ironman mode.
• Survive the city: Energy, Food, Sleep and Health, and rent due every Monday.
• Work, or don't: two jobs, foraging, alchemy, fishing and cooking. Or pockets, padlocks, and the heat that comes with them.
• Win back the inheritance: pay off the estate, clear the rubble, repair the walls and the roof.
• Roll for it: d20 checks you roll yourself, turn-based fights, experience, skill points and perks.
• Find your way: a city map with walking, trams and bicycles, a journal, notes, and a card for everyone you meet.

Adults only

This game contains explicit sexual content, including futanari characters. Play it only if you are old enough under the laws where you live. Every character is an adult.

How to play

Download the zip, extract it, and run HumanInterest-0.1.exe. Windows may warn about an unknown publisher, because the game isn't signed: click "More info", then "Run anyway". Your saves carry over to the next version.

Support the game

Human Interest is free and always will be. New versions come out on:

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A note from the developer

The story, the world and the characters are mine. English isn't my first language, so I use AI as an editor and proofreader. Some minor flavor text (places, shops, odd jobs) is AI-drafted and will be rewritten as development goes on. The art assets, including the portraits coming in 0.2, are AI-assisted placeholders that will be replaced once the game has enough support.