THE BLACK THING

About THE BLACK THING

THE BLACK THING is a text-heavy visual novel told through beautiful, haunting animation and deep conversations.

You will spend 14 days befriending Dot, a lonely monster born from the Dark Side of the Moon.

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One day, a small, black, misshapen creature settles into the corner of your bookshelf and makes it its shelter. It calls itself Dot.

It tells you unbelievable stories about the Dream Factory on the Dark Side of the Moon.
About how it bubbled awake in a giant lake of discarded nightmares.
About how, from that moment on, it grew ashamed of its pitch-black body and began to long to become a human’s dream.

As a part of its journey—and out of a strange, earnest love for humans—Dot goes out every morning to observe a human's life and try to make sense of what it sees. It witnesses people who ache for love, people hollowed out by emptiness, and people who run from pain however they can.

It will then come home to you with questions and emotions it can’t carry alone.

Twice per chapter, you will sit together through long, intimate conversations, and in your own way, help Dot put names to what it felt.

In time, these separate chapters will start to braid into one larger arc: Dot’s journey toward becoming a human’a dream, and the relationship you forge with it along the way.

Dot will become your special friend.

Through that friendship, you may begin to realize what it truly means to be human.

Even if what you find is vivid despair… and the smallest sliver of hope left in the dark.

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THE BLACK THING features...

• A 14-day narrative told through dense dialogue and cutscene animations
• Two conversations per chapter
• Four optional sub-dialogues per chapter (56 in total)
• Poetry reading sessions with Dot at the end of each day
• A peek into Dot’s journal
• A transmitter device to tune in to the Moon's frequency
• Original soundtrack and hand-drawn animations
• Original soundtrack and hand-drawn animations

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Content Warning

The Black Thing contains scenes and dialogue that may be emotionally distressing.

Themes like familial verbal abuse, death, self-harm, self-hatred, and suicide are included in the narrative. These elements are essential to the story and are handled with seriousness and care.

Please take care while playing.