Bound By Fate ~ Cursed Soulmates ~ (DEMO)

After a major car accident, you start to see a red string - connecting you to a gorgeous man who claims to be your soulmate. 

The only problem? You've never met this man, and he does NOT seem content to leave things be. Can you break free from his obsession? Or will you accept this "destined love"?

• Designed to be played at least 3 times! (5-20 min each playthrough)
• ~15k Words
• 2 Potential Romantic Interests
• Choices matter: 12 endings
• Partial Voice Acting
• Gender Ambiguous: You play as Yourself!
• CGs (Completed + Additional CGs in future update)

3/1/2025 - IN DEVELOPMENT NOTICE:
Due to the Yandere Jam time constraint, we were not able to program facial expressions, sfx, and sound bytes for every route. While the Voice Acted lines are all present, certain routes are not yet 100% quality complete. We plan to continue implementing expressions and sfx for those routes as a fast-follow after the Jam is complete.
Thank you for your patience and understanding!

This novel is 18+. Content/Trigger warnings include: Stalking, harassment via text, murder, death, foul language, verbal abuse, mentions of sex, self harm

Background Artist: Nickds
UI Artist: causticFish
Music: DemonStray
Sprite / Write / Program: VeryFatCat
Yasha Voice: Luke Avon
Sage Voice: Jason Hall
Misc Credits:  Extra BGs from みんちりえ
SFX, Extra music from Pixabay (freesound_community)

Playtester Shoutouts: DemonStray, Tabasa, hexid, 3raccooninatrenchcoat,  Nickds, Vivian, Nancy, causticFish, Tabitha

Play in Browser or on Mobile Device: "Run Game" Despite warning, game should still run fine on most devices.

Download: Download and Unzip the game (Right-click ZIP/DMG file, "Extract") WIN: Double click on the BBFCursedSoulmates.exe file to run the game. You may run into a warning that this file is unsafe for your computer due to being unable to scan, developer unverified, etc, but you should be able to "Run" / "Execute" anyways. MAC: Right-click the Game icon and click "Show Package Contents". Then, go back and Right-click the game icon again. Hit "Open". A popup should ask if you're sure you want to open it. Hit "Open" and the game should start.

There are several workarounds, but if you are not having luck resolving, please try playing in browser. Thank you! :)

This game was made in 30 days for Yandere Jam 2025! It is a relatively complete Demo - the final version would just implement CGs, fully implement the UI assets, sound bytes, and expressions, and include final polishing on the writing/story.

Due to the short development period, there may be bugs still undiscovered in testing. Please leave a comment if you run into any bugs or issues and we'll do our best to address as soon as possible!

If you enjoyed the game, please let us know by leaving a comment or giving us a 5 star ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ rating! It would mean to world to us. :)

If you liked this game, we highly recommend playing this one next! Nikolaos is extra smexy... and blonde!