Along the Edge
Along the Edge is a visual novel set in the European countryside, where your choices impact the main character’s personality and appearance.
Story
Daphné is at a dead-end. She’s unsatisfied by her personal and professional life. So, when she inherits an old family house in a remote part of the country, she jumps at the opportunity to start anew.
Does she decide to embrace her legacy or does she hang on to her old way of life?
Features
- An adult and slightly occult universe painted with the vibrant colors of the European countryside.
- Each of your choices impact the main character personality, mood and appearance.
- A huge amount of content, enough to fill a two years compendium of a comic-book series:
— Over 450 hand-made full-screen illustrations and 20 characters with over 400 different variants and attitudes (including 38 possible appearance evolutions of the main character, Daphné),
— 80.000 words in English and in French (which would translate into a 400 pages novel).
- 60 different endings, 28 achievements to unlock. Throughout the story, your choices will impact:
— how the plot ends (6 possibilities),
— the destiny of the main character (4 possibilities),
— the romantic relationships of the main character (3 possibilities),
— several smaller plot points (such as the life or death of some supporting characters).
Game Discussion
Steam User 1
Daphne Delatour moves to a country village where she has inherited her late grandmother's estate. Upon arriving, Daphne discovers the villagers are a bit superstitious and learns there has been a long-running feud, spanning many generations, between her family and a wealthy family that runs much of the village.
Along the Edge is a relatively short story, with a number of different choices that lead to several different endings. I enjoyed the narrative and found it to be worth a read; and should you choose to discover all the content, several playthroughs are required; though the main narrative is largely the same for each; and sadly, the skip feature does not stop on unread text.
Sadly, there is no art gallery and I enjoyed the art overall, though its certainly intended to provide quantity over quality; as much of the art has a hurried, unfinished look to it. There are a couple romance options for Daphne, but this isn't a dating simulator, and the relationships really aren't central to the story.
I think Along the Edge is worth picking up and if you're only interested in a single, blind playthrough, it should take around two hours complete.
Steam User 0
This drew me in more and more as it went along. Fantastic art style, very interesting musical compositions. I thought it was fairly mature and a great story. Had me intrigued as to the other endings which I may look up.
Steam User 0
A beautifully illustrated visual novel that lets you make a lot of choices that dictate Daphné's fate and personality and the plit. It's not too long so replaying to see different endings, plotlines and different dialogue branches is pretty painless.
I enjoyed seeing all the 4 destinies for our main character and overall how many different elements there are that mix into surprisingly varied ending results! It's a lot of fun, even though I will say at least one major plotline change was kind of hidden behind a really random dialogue choice.
I was invested in Daphné's personal journey and the mysticism side of the overarching plot, the romance part was definitely the worst part for me. I didn't care for any of the romantic options, but your mileage may vary.
Overall Along the Edge feels very unique in its genre in my opinion thanks to its carefully crafted branching narrative, art style and setting. And it has good replay value!
Steam User 0
Great visual novel. Thrilling writing, gorgeous illustrations, nice character development. There are 4 major paths to take each with its own viduals for the main character which is a great idea imho, and a myriad of smaller choices that have an effect on the general progression.