Eclipsing Binary Star

"If you were to share your night sky with me... would you see what I see?"

You can see it in the distance. It's there, always present. A reminder. Towering in the background of the sparse autumn daylight, and a blinking, mocking beacon in the dark of night. It lies behind an ocean sea of trees, beyond the unused roads, beyond a chainlink fence perimeter. A radio tower. And below it, a nuclear bunker, built when the only thing on everyone's mind was fear.

You lie there, listening to the radio. Waiting for nothing, I suppose. But that will come to change. Through the atmosphere, comes a signal, and a broadcast. One so innocent and benign. But the overcast sky masks something sinister. Beyond the clouds, beyond the static. Something ever present. Something that will chew away at your world.

Eclipsing Binary Star is a linear visual novel told in NVL format. It was created over the course of three weeks for Denpa VN Jam 2026. This is my first visual novel and game in general, and the first game under circle [pathos softworks].

15K+ words, and apx. 1 hour and 30 minutes of reading.

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