Copyright: the smoke room

The Smoke Room is a horror and romance visual novel from Echo Project and a prequel to Echo, taking place nearly a century beforehand in 1915. The character stars Samuel Ayers, a mountain lion and male prostitute working and living at the eponymous brothel in the small town of Echo when an incident in the town complicates his livelihood.

The story consists of four paths which each relate to one of four other characters and clients of the brothel: William Adler, a serious-minded coyote and the town's sheriff; Nikolai, a soft-spoken European badger and miner; Murdoch Byrnes, a quick-thinking red fox and photographer; and Clifford Tibbits, an excitable stoat and foreign anthropology student. In each route, Samuel attempts to hide the truth behind a recent tragedy in the town, oftentimes aided by other characters.

The game is available for free on itch.io and is funded through the developers' Patreon, with new updates being posted first for Patreon supporters before being made publicly available.

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