Causeway
A downloadable game for Windows
Causeway is an award nominated experimental branching narrative experience in which even the smallest decisions make big waves. The path you walk reflects your choices and the world evolves around you. Where will you end up?
Credits
Emma Houghton - @AllTimeEmma95
Andrew Lindsay - @The_Piode
Alexander Tarvet - @TaleOfGenius
"Causeway is interactive fiction, but with a fun, novel input system." - PC Gamer
"It's a short and impactful little game that may make you think about what's really important in your life." - Free Game Planet
"You’ve left home following some unspoken altercation with your parents – anything after that is a series of binary decisions for you to make. Oh, it’s a CAUSEway. I get it." - Rock, Paper, Shotgun
"Causeway is not the first game of this kind, but it is the best implementation of this idea so far." - Games.cz
Download
Install instructions
Download Causeway.zip and extract it's files to your computer. Open the folder and run Causeway.exe to play.
Development log
- Update 1.2Sep 06, 2017
- Update 1.1May 11, 2017
Comments
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I tried to play this game but it kept crashing at the first branching path. I tried to troubleshoot it using the Windows troubleshooter for compatibility and ran the game on Windows 8, but it would crash at either the second or third checkpoints. The game looked pretty and the story seemed interesting from what I could see, so I am a little sad I could not play this game in its entirety. :(
Computer specifications:
11th Gen Intel Core i7, 16.0 GB RAM, Intel Iris Xe Graphics (integrated graphics), Windows 10
I literally had to go through every choice after I did my first playthrough, to see what everything else was. I loved how deeply emotional this game got at times. Made me reflect on my own decisions as well. Brilliantly done!
Well, I did one branching path in my video. Here it is:
I loved the actual branching paths of the game!
I've been trying for an hour but I don't know why it's not letting me play it
Please allow this to be installed using the itch.io app PLEASE!
Playing this game was quite pleasant, I enjoyed it a lot.
i would love to play but it is saying there are no files to install it :/
I see a Causeway.zip just fine here.
make it claimable please.
It's claimable now!
Amazing ! Thanks very much for that!
This is one for my AAA collection in my Itch library :)
A DECISION GAME.. | Causeway
this game was really really cool! seeing the different effects in each ending seeing how things would go if you chose paths differently , this was awesome!! great job on making this game! :D
I know i'm late to the party and probably should have played this game before the others but it's still a great experience, i really enjoyed it!
Nice game. Well made and runs smoothly. Congrats... :)
Hi Kevx,
Thanks for your let's play and review! Our latest title No Response has been released and we'd love to give you a download key! Please contact us on @Yarn_Spinners and we'll send it to you :)
I'd love to play the game but I don't use Twitter so can't reply to you on there. My gaming email tho is [email protected] if you could send it there. The artwork looks cool. Cheers... :)
This game really makes you think about all the seemingly small choices in your life and the big consequences they can have.
Awesome game! Interested in finding the other endings and hopefully a happier one! Really love the idea of having this seemingly small choices having big impacts on our life.
very cool game i enjoy the hard decisions I had to make about where i wanted life to take me
nice game made me think about my life lol
A very interesting and relaxing game i enjoyed how the story plays out and how the choices are presented to you. the game did crash a Couple of times for me at the end however
I greatly enjoy these types of games, ones where you make your own choices as you go and you watch the story pan out in front of you. I only played through to one of the endings, but I 100% accept the one I received as I made my decisions as if those situations were presented to me. I really enjoyed this game, it certainly makes you reflect on yourself as a person and how you govern your own life.
nice one didnt go the way i expected and thats good in my book
Thanks for bringing it to our attention, it should be fixed now :)
Thanks for contacting me about this game. I hope I was able to do it justice, and show people what it was all about. It actually hit kinda close to home for me. Here's my video on it.
Wow, thanks for playing, a really nice, emotional let's play :) Sorry for bringing up bad memories but glad you enjoyed yourself nonetheless! Also sorry you encountered the strange issue with the endings where it fades out and then pops back to game, the game is meant to end after fading out and it's been fixed now!
amazing game! Couldnt resist doing a lets play on it
great game but i can't get any further once i reach a certain point, if it's still being worked on i can't wait for the future of it.
Thank you for the lovely comment! Sorry to hear you ran into that bug, we are currently looking into it and hope to have a fix up soon. We initially posted Causeway as a way to document and archive our Global Game Jam submission but it's been received so well we are considering taking it further. :)