The Nascent Cave

An earthquake strikes your village, leaving a strange cave in its wake. What do you do? Go inside, of course! Perhaps you’ll find yourself with mysterious powers when you emerge.

The Nascent Cave is pretty minimal on the visuals and design front, although the color selection makes for an easy read. It’s mostly linear, with one important choice you can make towards the end, which affects the ending you get. It’s not a long game and feels like the start of a bigger adventure we may or may not be getting, but it’s still a pretty interesting read.

The Nascent Cave is a prologue for an unwritten fantasy journey. After an earthquake shakes your village, you find yourself lured to the new crack tearing the field, with a cave going deep into the depth of Earth. Against your better judgement, you climb down... and return changed, and not alone.

It's a pretty intriguing introduction, that brings a lot of questions: was this earthquake a natural event or did something transpired? why did you find what you did in the cave? how will this affect you in the long term (I assume, not well...)? will you be able to reverse it? etc... Definitely got hooked!