Portal Town After the Journey

Srak, Ferm, and Frieren are sent on royal order to a land stitched together by interdimensional portals, and the strange light bleeding out of them doesn't just look pretty. It gets into people. Desires shift, relationships bend, and the town settles into a routine that only looks normal from the outside.

You spend your days working jobs, wandering the town's locations, and building up relationships with the people stuck here alongside you. Nothing about that sounds unusual until you start paying closer attention, since spying, snooping, and poking around closed doors tends to turn up things nobody was advertising. A hacking system eventually gives you another way to dig through private messages and phones instead of just lurking in hallways, if watching from a distance isn't thorough enough for you.

The story keeps moving in the background too, with tension building between Ferm and Srak that doesn't resolve cleanly and is clearly meant to carry into later updates. How much of the town's rot you actually uncover, and how deep it goes, comes down to how much you choose to look.