What Was Taken
by TrueNorthDev
Game Details
- Version
- Chapter 2 Part 2
- Developer
- TrueNorthDev
- Engine
- Ren'Py
- Status
- Ongoing
- Language
- English
- Censored
- No
- Updated
- 21 June 2026
About
A quiet nobody from the border village of Edgebrook turns out to have a bloodline worth burying, and the people who buried it want it to stay that way. The tone leans earnest coming-of-age rather than joke-a-minute.
Once the secret cracks open, the protagonist leaves Edgebrook behind and heads into a kingdom running on ambition and hidden agendas. Along the way he picks up friends, rivals, and lovers while piecing together who his birth family actually was and who took what from them.
You play as that young man, making the choices that decide whether he grows into someone capable of reclaiming his legacy or gets swallowed by the same forces that stole it in the first place. Fights, flirtations, and the slower work of earning people's trust all factor into shaping him, with the fantasy setting and a touch of inherited power giving the journey some teeth beyond the romance.
Changelog
- This update contains a significant amount of new content, as well as many improvements based on the feedback I've received from previous releases.
- Quality of Life Improvements
- Added 200 save slots
- Improved and clearer UI
- Improved font readability
- Better presentation and handling of unnamed characters
- Added the ability to hide/show the quick menu by pressing Q
- Various polishing and usability improvements throughout the game
- New Content
- This release continues the story all the way up to a major event and introduces:
- A large amount of new story content
- Multiple new characters
- Expanded scenes and development for existing characters
- Animated intimate scenes
- Because of the scale of this update and the time constraints involved, not every intimate scene has been animated yet. My goal is to continue improving consistency across the game in future updates.
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