Oct 302023
Project Kat, which now has the full title of Project Kat – Paper Lily Prologue, is a short game about a girl preparing to perform a ritual in the school at night.
There are puzzles to solve along the way, as well as various options for how to interact with your classmates.
Puzzles have multiple solutions, so going with a method that feels less obvious could lead to a different outcome. Even something as simple as how much you talk to the other characters can have an effect.
Because of this, even though Project Kat seems simple on the surface, it’s more complex than you might think. I played through it assuming there might be 1 or 2 alternate endings based on choices I’d noticed along the way, only to look online and learn there are ten possible endings.
(I didn’t go back through to try to get them all, however.)
Project Kat is also surprisingly creepy. Despite the simple graphics and presentation, it uses what it has to great effect, with several unsettling moments.
As the full title suggests, it is a standalone prologue to an upcoming game called Paper Lily. Paper Lily – Chapter 1 is currently available in an early state, with additions to come in an update, and the game will potentially have 5 total chapters. After playing Project Kat, I’m interested in seeing what they can do in a longer game, although I’ll probably wait for the full release before playing.
Project Kat – Paper Lily Prologue is a short, spooky game worth checking out – especially for Halloween!
How does a prologue for a game have 10 endings? Does that mean there is only 1 “true” ending or is each of the endings vague enough that the next chapter events could still happen? Or is it carried over?
It’s a standalone prologue, so I don’t think anything will carry over. From what I saw looking at the ending list, there’s one true ending, so I assume that’s the one that will be considered canon.
If only October was 60 days long :’) need more month appropriate days for spooky games!
Thanks for the awesome game ideas
Hey, you can always play spooky games at other times of the year. 😉 Summer seems popular for horror game releases for some reason.
Oh like a Christmas in July sort of thing? 😛 Good to know
Sounds like you’ll be doing Paper Lily for next Halloween, eh?
I wonder if this is a prologue in the same way DDLC is supposed to take place in the same universe as an unfinished horror game…
If it’s complete by then, maybe.
Oh right, I forgot DDLC was setting up another story. I wonder what the status of that is.