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Games Like Dancing with Shadows: Prologue

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Dancing with Shadows: Prologue is a 2D dark fantasy visual novel with CYOA-influenced branching storylines. Guide three protagonists through an interlocked and inexorably connected storyline. There are no wrong answers, but your decisions have consequences.

Reviews: Positive — 92% — of 25 reviews
Released: 2025-08-07
Developer: Glass Umbrella Inc.
Genres: Adventure, RPG, Free To Play
Platforms: Windows

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    Vanakan is the journey of Tadevos - a priest, who travels the 500s Armenia to find the monastery that suits for his goal of becoming spiritually closer to Jesus Christ. He meets different people on his way and makes choices which will define his future and that of the country.

    Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.9%, Interactive Fiction 21.8%, Text-Based 18.1%, Choices Matter 9.6%, Multiple Endings 8.9%

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