This game contains elements topics that may be disturbing to some players, including:

• Mild Language
• Drowning
• Blood
• Gore
• Death
• Body Horror

There are some images that may trigger trypophobia (infrequent) or a fear of needles (one-off, tattoo gun).

*To ensure for a smooth gameplay experience, we highly recommend viewing the game in fullscreen when playing in-browser. Thank you!

The Stars Under Lockehurst is a romantic supernatural mystery visual novel about a grad student visiting their friend in the small coastal town, Cape Lockehurst. Here, they unravel the mysteries behind recent disappearances and peculiar happenings around town.  

Inspired by H.P. Lovecraft’s Call of Cthulhu and similar works, this game explores fear of the unknown and the unknowable, featuring a cast of unique, romanceable characters (who just might be a little... fishy).

• ~ 40k Words
• 4 Love Interests
• 3 Unique Minigames , with Accessibility Feature to Skip
• 4 Endings with Epilogues based on Love Interest
• Nonbinary Main Character with customizable name
• Partial Voice Acting
• Original OST

Pauline Reinacher – Character Design, CGs, BGs, Sprites, UI,  Prop Art 

Rex – Monster Design, Sprites, Prop Art

Toffl– Background Art, UI Art

Dominik Figlhuber – Background Art 

Charlie – Background Art

m3t4lp0w3r – Composition

Ryan Sherlock  (discord: sherlock1998) – Audio Design

Molli Shuker– Project Management, Writing 

Vit– Programming/ Unity Development

Yaygun– Minigame Programming

Cast

Garret Ward – Maliki LaForce

Angélique LeBeau – Lena Garcia

Ophelia Panchal – Lauren Pak

Mikel Javier Ordóñez – Danny S.

Sanraya Bahande – Jonna-Lynn Alonso

External Assets

Odin Inspector - Sirenix

Naninovel - Elringus

UniRx - Neuecc

Extenject - Mathijs Bakker

MEC Pro - Trinary Software

DOTween Pro - Demigiant

The Stars Under Lockehurst was developed in one month for Spooktober VN Jam 2024. It was made with old and new friends of Null Jam Games, but is not under ownership of the studio. 

Thank you so much for playing, and Happy Halloween! 🐟