Pharos Fidelis
| Pharos Fidelis | |
|---|---|
| Game | |
| Main links | |
| Published | 1 September 2025 |
| Credits | |
| Author | DemonApologist |
| Reception | |
| Events | |
| IFDB rating | 4.5 out of 5 (14 ratings) |
| Gameplay | |
| Interaction style |  Choice |
| Literary genres |  Fantasy  Horror  Romance |
| Locations |  Fort  Island |
| Language | English |
| IFDB play time | 2 hours |
| Accessibility | Colors: cosmetic. Graphics: none. Sound: none. |
| Technical details | |
| Authoring system | Twine |
| Format | HTML |
| System | Browser |
| License | Freeware |
| IFID | C75FB258-D97C-490B-8567-4E38BE11DB98 |
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Pharos Fidelis is an interactive queer novella about a cursed lighthouse, toxic academia, and the ethics of demon summoning, written for IF Comp 2025.
Blurb
A romantic island getaway.
CW: graphic violence, sexually suggestive content, toxic academia, denial of agency, hunger, death.
Postmodern fantasy-horror gay demon melodrama • Two hours • Choice-based
How it begins
Incipient Finnit, the estranged student of Luminary Raekard, receives an unwelcome reminder regarding the Three Principles of Summoning: (1) obey the principle of authoritarian primacy; (2) beware the principle of semantic dilution; and (3) account for the principle of planar reversion.
He ignores this wisdom.
United Kingdom Geoblocking
Pharos Fidelis is one among 23 entries in IFComp 2025 that were geoblocked in the United Kingdom for the duration of the competition.
Versions
Competition version
Date: 1 September 2025
Original edition of the novella, published simultaneously on ifcomp.org and itch.io.
itch.io Release 2
Date: 5 December 2025
This is a minor update that fixes a glitch where the first link on a page would display with an unintended color. There are additionally some typographical and other minor corrections.
Links
N.B. Many IF Archive games are temporarily unavailable in the UK.
- Pharos Fidelis - at IFDB.
- Pharos Fidelis - at itch.io.
- Pharos Fidelis: A Postcomp Journal - Author's commentary at intfiction.org.
Date: 1 September 2025
Date: 5 December 2025