🦌 Karven's Threshold

Порог Карвена

Enter a world where every suspect has a secret, every clue has a price, and the truth is rarely what it seems.

🌐 LANGUAGE NOTICE

The full game, including its narrative, dialogues, and voice acting, is in Russian. The original language has been preserved to maintain authentic character voices, emotional nuances, and the poetic atmosphere of this detective fairy tale.

Karven's Threshold is an atmospheric detective visual novel set in a mysterious valley inhabited by anthropomorphic creatures known as Fauns.

Step into the shoes of Kress, a determined investigator, and her experienced partner Volden. Together, you will face complex criminal cases, uncover hidden motives, and question suspects whose stories are filled with contradictions, secrets, and deception.

🔍 CORE GAMEPLAY LOOP

🕵️ Investigate the Crime Scene

Explore locations, search for hidden clues, examine physical evidence, and reconstruct the events surrounding each crime.

📁 Review the Dossier

Return to your office, organize the collected evidence, uncover contradictions, and prepare your interrogation strategy.

🎙️ Interrogate the Suspects

Enter psychological duels with suspects powered by AI technology. Unlike traditional visual novels, you are not limited to predefined dialogue choices. Ask your own questions using free text input or your microphone.

⚖️ Manage Suspect Patience

Every suspect has their own temperament. Push too hard, make unsupported accusations, or present evidence at the wrong moment, and you may lose their cooperation. Choose your words carefully and use the right clues to uncover the truth.

🔎 Deliver the Verdict

Connect the evidence, evaluate the testimonies, and decide how the investigation should conclude. Your decisions influence the narrative, with multiple branches and distinct endings.

🎭 CHARACTERS & SETTING

🦌 Kress

A sharp and determined investigator who must navigate the dark underbelly of the valley while searching for the truth.

🕯️ Volden

Her experienced partner and mentor. Calm, observant, and guided by cold deduction rather than hasty accusations.

🐐 The Suspects

From Bodrok, the fierce blacksmith, to the calculating Gromihaylo and the elusive RasTail, every suspect has a distinct personality, temperament, voice, and hidden motives.

In this world, humans do not exist. Wolves, rams, cats, deer, and other creatures live under ancient laws and traditions. Behind the seemingly ordinary life of the valley lie secrets, conflicts, and difficult moral choices.

🎙️ AI-POWERED INTERROGATION SYSTEM

Forget the usual visual novel dialogue trees. Karven's Threshold introduces a more flexible approach to questioning suspects.

💬 Free Text Input

Write your own questions in Russian. You decide what to ask, how to approach a suspect, and which contradictions to investigate.

🎤 Voice Input

Hold the microphone button and speak directly to suspects. Your speech is converted into text through speech recognition and processed by the game's AI interrogation system.

🕵️ Investigator Tactics

Prefer a little guidance? Choose suggested interrogation tactics that reflect the investigator's approach and help you navigate difficult conversations.

🎭 Dynamic Reactions

Suspects respond according to their personalities and the context of the interrogation. Their portraits reflect changing emotional states, while their patience changes depending on your questions and evidence.

The system uses Google Gemini through a secure server-side proxy to generate dynamic suspect responses.

⚙️ CONTROLS

🖱️ Left Click / Space — Advance dialogue and interact with the interface.

🎤 Microphone Button (Hold) — Record and submit a spoken question during interrogations.

⌨️ Enter — Submit a typed question.

⛶ Fullscreen Button — Switch to immersive fullscreen mode.

Every clue matters. Every word can change the conversation. And every suspect has a story to tell.

Will you uncover the truth behind Karven's Threshold?