19th October 18XX

Papa has invited Professor Ingram to stay with us next week. The professor has recently returned from some scholastic venture in Cairo and promises to bring with him a mummified body— an ancient Egyptian princess, he says!— for us to unwrap. It sounds rather gruesome in writing, but I am quite looking forward to it. My friend Lydia shall be joining us, of course, which means her brother, Edward, shall be here too.

About

Atropa is a horror visual novel for the Game Boy Color, made for the Spooktober 2025 game jam.

It can be played in the browser or downloaded and played using a Game Boy emulator (not included in the download).

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Features

• A supernatural horror visual novel set in Victorian England.
• A kinetic story with no choices or branching paths.
• Around 8500 words (approx. 30-60 minutes of reading)
• Morally ambiguous characters and some very dubious archaeological practices...

Content warning

This horror game includes various disturbing themes. Player discretion advised. 

⚠️ Detailed content warnings (click to view)

- death, cannibalism, cheating, colonialism, desecration of a corpse, discrimination, brief mention of historical brother-sister marriage

Controls

Game Boy/Emulator	A	B	Start	Select
Browser	Z	X	Enter	Shift

Please note that this visual novel does not currently have a backlog feature. Saving is currently via autosave only, which happens at regular intervals. I'm not sure how well this works in the browser.

Credits

• Writing, art, programming - Dizzy
• Music assets - Aibioweapon, cubic-feet-per-minute
• Sound effect assets - coffeevalenbat, Tronimal
• Font - Condensed fonts set by edo999 (edo999.itch.io).
• Made with GB Studio

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