Project Introduction

Monospaced Lovers is a platformer-RPG with an emphasis on storytelling. The game presents players with puzzles that treat them like an adult, and it includes fast-paced platforming and bullet hell elements for the boss battles. We aim to create a nuanced and heartfelt storyline that the player will organically discover while playing through the game.

Features:
• Work through old-school puzzles that will make you want to use the in-game hints. Rekindle that childlike sense of discovery with a game that treats you like an adult — inspired by Fez, La Mulana, Majora's Mask, and much more.

• Chat up the local Tanuki, learn how to translate Slimespeak, and explore every corner of your quaint home town until you've found all 60 collectibles. The game features non-linear, collectathon-style exploration mixed with RPG-style story quests.

• Experience a heartfelt story with a 100,000+ word count. Comedy! Drama! Social anxiety! Philosophy? We dropped the "silent protagonist" trope to create a heroine with her own personality and feelings — and she's always one step ahead of you.

• Dodge bullets! With 4+ bullet hell boss battles and even more challenge rooms, you'll have to learn how to platform in a whole new way.

About Developer

Scarlet String Studios is a Toronto-based one-man company founded by Stefan Bhagwandin (aka "eternal"). Stefan is joined by multiple talented contractors from around the world to create Monospaced Lovers. He previously created the visual novel Sepia Tears.