Perpetūra

First-person prose in past tense. No character sprites, no stat screens. A handful of pivotal scenes carry a small illustration now, but this is still a story told in words — the pictures are punctuation, not the point.

Each story has 3–5 routes: mostly romance paths and one solo path where the protagonist chooses herself. The solo path is not a bad ending. It is a genuine resolution, as complete and emotionally honest as any romance.

Your choices accumulate quietly. The story watches what you're drawn to, and the world shifts around your attention. By the midpoint, your route is set. By the end, the choices are yours alone.

A romance written for adult readers. Expect grief, death, and loss, confinement and coercive control portrayed as harm rather than romance, and violence that mostly happens where you can't see it. Intimacy ships sensual by default; an explicit tier (18+) unlocks the fuller variant where a story has earned it.

No personal data, no cookies, no tracking across sites. The game counts a few anonymous events (a story started or finished, and which route) so I can tell which stories players reach. It respects Do-Not-Track, and your saves stay on your device.

Add Perpetūra to your home screen to read it like an app — full-screen, and available offline.

On iPhone or iPad: tap the Share button, then Add to Home Screen.

You are playing v1.0.11.

The phrasing pass from last time, continued — across the second, third, and fourth stories this time.

A pass on the reading experience itself, plus a continued closer read of the first story.

The continuity pass continues — this time on the third story.

A continuity pass on the first story, prompted by careful players noticing exactly the right things.

A quiet accuracy pass. No new story — just the Codex catching up to the story it was already telling.

A fourth story arrives — the largest yet — and it is keeping its name to itself. Liuyan's story has been told again, with more room to breathe.

The second story has been rewritten from end to end. If you have read it before, it is worth reading again.

The first story has been rewritten from end to end. If you have read it before, it is worth reading again.

One more quiet tidy-up.

A small tidy-up behind the scenes.

Every story found its voice. A few of its moments found a face.

The first story, rewritten line by line — and a pocketful of fixes.

A new story opens, and the whole game has a new voice.

A tidier title screen, and saves that remember what you were doing.

A careful pass through everything already on the shelf.

Every menu rebuilt as one piece of clockwork.

A second story opens its doors: Belle Époque Paris, 1893.

The Codex now keeps up with what you uncover.

The character gallery now fills in as you play, and the art got a careful second pass.

The cast steps into view, and every screen gets its own atmosphere.

A careful pass over Hyunjae's story, and a more honest About screen.

A few small refinements to Hyunjae's story.

A small writing pass, and quiet work on what comes next.

Quiet plumbing work so telling us about a problem just works.

A small, friendlier corner for staying in touch.

A pass through Hyunjae's final chapters to let each path land in its own way.

Tidying up yesterday's animation update.

A little more grace in how things appear, and friendlier for everyone.

A small fix to how story completion is shown.

Behind-the-scenes fixes so the game stays current and feels better on mobile.

A small update focused on quality and polish for Hyunjae's story.

Hyunjae's story arrives: two love interests, one solo path, and three distinct endings.

Perpetūra is the work of one person. Every word of every story, every character and the world they move through, every choice and the unnamed feeling beneath it: written, designed, and held together by Lacunae alone. The years, the rewrites, the long candlelit hours. Hers.

AI is a tool in the workshop, not the author. It assisted in drafting, in building the engine that runs the game, and in generating the score; the character art is AI-generated as a placeholder until original work takes its place.

Perpetūra is a small, independent project, and would love to bring its cast and world to life with original art. If you are an illustrator or character artist and these stories speak to you, reach out through the Feedback & Bug Reports form, choose the Other category, and include a link to your work.

Music created with Suno, used under commercial licence.

Your feedback helps shape the game. Whether it's a bug, a suggestion, or something that moved you, we want to hear it.

Every submission is tracked on our development board. Feedback, bugs, and suggestions are reviewed, prioritised, and addressed as the game develops. Nothing gets lost.