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The Contract Bound

The Contract Bound is a linear, fully voiced kinetic-NVL that's a bit audio-book + a bit puppet show + a bit D&D-inspired tomfoolery!

5 November 2022

The Contract Bound is an adventure, released 5 November 2022 on PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What The Contract Bound is

The Contract Bound was released in 2022. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only. It runs on renpy.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Our story beings, as all of these seem to do, with a group of a-holes in a tavern, getting drunk... Out of money and out of time, our party is in search of their next contract to fill their pockets and assuage their growing list of out-of-patience employers. It's all fun and games (and bar fights) until the group crosses paths with the Lazulai, another peeved and dangerous group, who are in search of the same--potentially mythical--artifact. As they set out to find answers, and clues, the only thing more deadly than their adversaries, may just be their own secrets.
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How it plays

It is played from a text perspective. Its themes are action, drama, fantasy and romance. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

The Contract Bound launched on 5 November 2022, within three weeks of God of War Ragnarök, A Plague Tale: Requiem, Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord and Bayonetta 3.

Released around the same time: God of War Ragnarök, A Plague Tale: Requiem, Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord, Bayonetta 3.

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The Contract Bound was released on 5 November 2022 for PC (Microsoft Windows).

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