The Long Hunt

Aldric Vane takes a mercenary contract because nine coppers and a leaking roof don't leave room to be picky. The goblin-held mine goes wrong, he drags himself out bleeding, and the only healer awake in Valdmere's worst district patches him up with a vial that does a lot more than close a wound.

By morning his skin is softer. By day three his waist has changed. By day seven the mirror shows him something he doesn't have a word for yet, and the alchemist who sold him the potion has vanished so completely that nobody remembers her face. He and Mira have thirty days to find her, or an answer, before whatever this is stops being reversible. The game isn't really asking if Aldric finds the cure. It's asking if he still wants one by the time he does.

Played through text and point-and-click navigation around Valdmere, talking to Mira, chasing leads on the missing alchemist, and watching the transformation move forward one uneasy morning at a time whether the player pushes it or not. Mira, for what it's worth, only knows how to say she's worried by insulting him.