A Day by the River

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A Day by the River is a game in which you play as a silhouette who encounters various people in dire need of help. Will you be a decent human being, or will you be a total jerk? Features multiple endings!

Here's the download.

I made it in two weeks for a high school class project on civility during my "artgame" phase. Teenage me earnestly tried to make something serious, and I failed. This thing is hilarious. I may have been heavily influenced by the exaggerated morality systems of games like Knights of the Old Republic where you were often given a choice between being excessively nice to someone and inexplicably killing them.

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