Lavender Hollow (Demo!)

DEMO 1.0
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Content Warnings: Lavender Hollow is a game that meditates heavily on death and grief. In this demo, there are strong themes of partner death (Tien/Logan), parent death (Logan), and memory loss. The full game will have additional sensitive content.

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arrow keys, WASD, left joystick, or d-pad to move

z, enter, mouse click, or bottom controller button (Xbox A) to interact/confirm

x or right controller button (Xbox B) to skip through dialogue

esc or top controller button (Xbox Y) to open the inventory

To read headstones, place items, or talk to ghosts, interact with them from the front. You can also talk to ghosts by talking to them from the sides or back.

In the demo, there are five total ghosts! Most characters will have different dialogue if you talk to them more than once. If you get stuck, go talk to Daisy in the basement! She usually has a few hints!

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Lavender Hollow is a quiet town in the mountains where a population of monsters have taken refuge from human society. On the edge of the forest you can find the Sunset Cemetery, where Daisy and her apprentice Ghastropod live and work.

A town as old as this has its fair share of ghosts, old and new. Your job, as a medium and cemetery caretaker, is to help them move on. Each ghost has their own story, traumas, and personal hauntings holding them back. This is a game about showing compassion for the dead as well as compassion for ourselves.

Original demo version made in a month for Devtober, the Gentle Ghost Jam, and the Cryptid Jam in October 2019. Current demo released in April 2025.

All comments, especially suggestions and bug reports, are extremely appreciated! Thanks for playing!

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Known Bugs

The inventory system won't accept input from controller joysticks (it should work fine with the D-pad).

If the player has multiple valid item combinations in their inventory, combining one item will sometimes combine multiple. I haven't been able to reproduce this bug, please let me know if you run into it!

On Mac OSX Catalina 10.15, the game does not start due to a "System.DllNotFoundException: System.Native" error. I am unsure if this error is still present in this release, please let me know if you run into it!

Psst! Check out the github!