Runa Liore Winters

Narrative, Game, and Sound Design for Visual Novels, Queer Indie Horror, and the occasional tabletop game. Please direct Business contacts to info@waxweal.com.

77 Oleander Avenue Ghost House Investigation - Full Version Now Available!

Originally created for the 2021 Trans Game Dev Birthday Game Jam, 77 Oleander is a Visual Novel about exploring a Haunted House, forgetting why you went there, and remembering what you really believe.

Waking up disoriented and weary, Tabby (Short for Tabitha, but she's not gone by her full name since 3rd grade) wakes up in the parlor of an abandoned house. Her keys, wallet, and phone are missing and she can't remember why she's in such a place... not that it's too far gone from some of the other places she's woken up in over the years.

It doesn't take long for her to meet Evie, a ghost, and this greatly irritates Tabby on account of she was hoping to just grab her things and leave quickly. The Larkspur house on 77 Oleander, however, is not Evie's home. It is not the site of a bittersweet tragedy. It is not the skeleton left behind by a family's unexpected death. 

Tabby will realize this too late, and then, when she's finally ready to heed Evie's warnings, she will forget.

The full version of the game is available now at runa-liore.itch.io/77-Oleander

An Oath In Kind

"An Oath in Kind" is a Kinetic Novel about a dethroned demon queen and the one and only knight who remained loyal after her fall. When Claire finds her queen bleeding across the floor of a forest hollow, she swears to herself that she will fulfill her oath to see Galena to safety... even if Galena would have rather been left there in the mud. 

In Development

Become Dirt

Become Dirt is a PSX-style 2.5D exploration horror game developed as part of the 2022 TGD Spooky Jam! A young girl arrives home one day to find her home strangely quiet and her brother is unresponsive when she calls his name. Perhaps, she thinks, he's down in their hideout in the crawl space. Perhaps, she considers, he's hiding from their mother and grandmother. Perhaps, she realizes too late, he may have used the family's forbidden spell... and now he has no way to break it on his own.

Higurashi If/Eve

Higurashi If/Eve is a fangame set in the post-canon timeline following the Matsuribayashi chapter, focusing on December of 1983. Compared to June of that same year, the danger is slight and the difficulty is minor, but even so there is a vicious path leading us toward the new year. Can we all reach 1984, even if the past is still clawing at our backs and each new step is so painful? Can we avert a tragedy, even though we only have a single chance to do so? Please watch, and witness the struggle of those who could not be spared.

As a side note, since this one is a personal fangame project so it's not likely to see regular updates and you won't hear much on it for some time.