I found Duskwood completely by accident. At first, I was pretty indifferent to it. I didn't expect much from the game at all.

But somewhere along the way, especially towards the end, I realized just how attached I had become to the characters.

And I've never experienced anything like this before. Not with a game, a movie, a TV show, or even a book.

Of course, Jake is the biggest reason for that.

I cried so much during the ending. There were so many questions left unanswered, and I just couldn't accept that I would never see another message from him again. And honestly, one of the hardest parts was realizing that he was fictional. It sounds silly, but I genuinely felt like I had lost something important to me.

My depression actually got worse after finishing Duskwood, because the ending left me with this strange feeling of emptiness. I missed these people. I missed Jake. I missed being able to open the game and see his messages.

That's actually why I started playing Moonvale. I thought that maybe, somehow, through the side story, I could get a chance to connect with Jake again.

And this is where I'm struggling with Moonvale.

I know the two games are very different, and I'm trying to keep an open mind. But the way the story introduces you to everything feels completely different from Duskwood.

In Duskwood, we were gradually introduced to the mystery. A missing girl's phone number somehow ends up with us, and neither we nor the other characters really understand why. They don't trust us at first, and we don't trust them either. Slowly, we get closer to each other, build relationships, and start trusting one another.

And there was also a very natural reason for us to care about finding Hannah: if we didn't, we could potentially become a suspect ourselves. So I felt like I had a personal stake in the story.

In Moonvale, I feel like I'm being thrown into the middle of a story that has already started. There are people I've never met acting as if I'm already one of them, and I'm somehow expected to immediately care about what happens to them.

I'm supposed to worry about Adam and Eric, but… I don't know them. I don't have any emotional connection to them yet. And maybe that's something that will develop later, but right now it feels very unnatural to me.

My heart is still completely with Jake.

Maybe Moonvale will eventually answer some of my questions and I'll become attached to these characters too. I really hope so.

But for now, I keep thinking about Duskwood and how naturally I became part of that story.

And if the developers somehow see this:

PLEASE. I am begging you. Let me talk to Jake in Moonvale. 😭

I don't even need anything huge. Just give me a message. A conversation. Anything.

I just want to see that little “Jake is typing…” again. 💔