Radiance Inviolate
| Radiance Inviolate | |
|---|---|
| Game | |
| Main links | |
| Published | 2 April 2025 |
| Credits | |
| Author | DemonApologist |
| Reception | |
| Events | |
| IFDB rating | 4 out of 5 (12 ratings) |
| Gameplay | |
| Interaction style |  Choice |
| Literary genres |  Fantasy  Horror |
| Locations |  Underground  Wilderness |
| Language | English |
| IFDB play time | 40 minutes |
| Accessibility | Colors: cosmetic. Graphics: none. Sound: none. |
| Technical details | |
| Authoring system | Twine |
| Format | HTML |
| System | Browser |
| License | Freeware |
| IFID | 719A63E4-60D1-4055-947B-8BBBCA753E6B |
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Radiance Inviolate is an interactive story about a beleaguered vampire, written for Spring Thing 2025.
Blurb
Radiance Inviolate is an interactive dark fantasy novelette about Lysander, a starving vampire snared in a deadly trap. He has what remains of the night to find a way out, or face death once more at dawn.
About 6k words per readthrough, with 14k words total of narrative to explore. There are six standard endings, but seven official endings.
CW: Blood, confinement, death, hunting, and violence. More details available in the “Content notes” menu.
How it begins
Following the ascendance of the Disciples of Radiance Inviolate—a sun-worshipping theocracy—the vampire Lysander, driven into isolation, stalks the forested outskirts of Vintopol for a source of blood to stave off his relentless hunger.
Spring Thing 2025
At the conclusion of Spring Thing 2025, Radiance Inviolate was awarded the following Audience Ribbons:
- Best World-Building
- Best Use of Colour
- Best Prose
IF Short Games Showcase 2025
At the IF Short Games Showcase 2025, Radiance Inviolate was awarded in the following categories:
- Overall, 5th Place (Tie)
- Best Story-Focused Game, 1st Place (Tie)
Versions
Competition version
Date: 2 April 2025
Original edition of the novelette, published in the Main Festival of Spring Thing 2025.
itch.io Release 1
Date: 14 May 2025
Postcomp release on itch.io, including revisions to correct for minor typographical and color-balancing errors.
itch.io Release 2
Date: 3 December 2025
This release restructures light/dark mode, prunes a number of click-to-continue links, introduces new functionality where revisiting a passage will leave the click-to-continue links opened, adjusts colors and other styling, and corrects minor typographical errors.
Links
N.B. Many IF Archive games are temporarily unavailable in the UK.
- Radiance Inviolate - at IFDB.
- Radiance Inviolate - at itch.io.
- Radiance Inviolate: A Postfestival Journal - Author's commentary at intfiction.org.
Date: 2 April 2025
Date: 14 May 2025
Date: 3 December 2025