Comet Angel
A downloadable game for Windows, macOS, and Linux
Izzy and Nat break out of their boring summer routine when they make the discovery of a lifetime: an alien living at the bottom of a nearby pond. The mysterious creature, which they name Faerie, asks them for help returning to its home on a passing comet in exchange for showing the girls their futures. As they search for scrap metal to feed their new celestial friend, Izzy and Nat suddenly realize Faerie's influence is spreading far beyond what they expected. Lost in the purgatory between adolescence and adulthood, they find themselves staring down the long and perilous road to self-acceptance.
Explore the small town of Cold Lake, Michigan as you search for the raw materials Faerie needs to survive, solving puzzles and facing the emotional consequences of Izzy and Nat's discovery. You'll encounter a wide variety of challenges, from wiring puzzles to cryptograms, as you scour abandoned factories and forgotten sheds for precious metals.
What will Izzy and Nat see when they look forward in time?
Demo available now! Full game releases Q4 2025!
Key Features
- Unique, multi-layered puzzles to solve
- Relatable, charming, fully voice acted characters
- Complete original soundtrack that invokes the alt-rock spirit of the 1990s
- An emotional, heartfelt story with multiple endings
Explore Cold Lake, Michigan, June 1997
Experience the achingly familiar life of a teenager on summer break while revisiting the cultural landscape of the mid 1990s. Listen to your favorite tapes, take photos with your Polaroid, and look forward to the arrival of the new millennium.
Solve Unique, Multi-Layered Puzzles
Search for scrap metals in a variety of locations, using the artifacts of a sleepy lakeside town to manipulate your environment. Unlock doors, decipher notes, operate equipment, build makeshift structures and more as you dig through the forgotten junk of your hometown.
Experience a Heartfelt Journey of Self-Acceptance
Help Nat and Izzy overcome their doubts and insecurities as they learn to understand themselves and each other in the perilous transition to adulthood. How will the girls navigate through feelings of doubt, abandonment, betrayal and desperation?
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Development log
- Demo v1.1 now available!25 days ago
- Demo and Full Game Roadmap62 days ago
- Comet Angel Demo v1.02 released69 days ago
- Day 1 Patch: v1.01 released!76 days ago
- Demo now available!78 days ago
Comments
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This demo was a good time! I really liked the style and execution of quite a lot of the art. The dialogue worked for me and often felt quietly funny. I also like how you've summoned up some of the atmosphere of late teens spent somewhere that's not the most inherently exciting place in the world—very efficiently, without that many assets used. I'm afraid I can't comment on the voice acting because I'm a boring turns-the-voices-off person, but it's impressive that you're including it, and also good from an accessibility point of view.
I wondered in a few places whether the narration, distinct from the dialogue, might be dialled back, to avoid the risk of saying things we can infer already. Perhaps that's just a matter of taste! One or two lines included vocabulary which I'm not sure was in circulation in 1997, but (1) I might just be wrong, and (2) even if that is happening, that's a legitimate stylistic choice (no one writes historical fiction about the fourteenth century in Middle English, and nor should they). Also, the drawing of Nat with her tongue out is funny, but I thought perhaps it appeared too often, diluting its force—in my opinion, and it's only an opinion, that sort of image works best when used most sparingly.
None of those things were a big deal. Overall, I thought this was a very likeable snapshot. Good luck working on the rest of it!
Thank you so much for your kind and thoughtful feedback! 💗
Ohhh this was already so fun just as a demo! I'm a big fan of including little puzzles and gameplay elements into VNs, and the metal gathering is a great excuse in-story to do just that. I had fun solving that first puzzle.
Nat and Izzy feel very real, especially Izzy's struggles with her personhood and her anger when she feels like her friend and everyone else are not listening to her. And the scene with Faerie feeling all that anger and speaking through Izzy felt unsettling.
Loved the art and the presentation too! Can't wait for the full release.
Thank you so much for the kind comment! I'm so glad you enjoyed the demo <3
Played through this Demo on stream, I truly loved it! Eager to learn more about the story and enjoyed the atmosphere!!
Thank you so much for the video! <3