Miss Duckworthy’s School for Magic-Infested Young People by Felicity_Banks
Content warning: A minor character is a rapist (off-screen but he is creepy on-screen); there is some minor violence; player can choose to attempt to neglect an animal.
Fantasy • An hour and a half • Choice-based • ChoiceScript
I love that title. It is reminiscent of many similarly-named orphanages, including Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children and Sister Margaret’s School for Wayward Children. Sometimes I wonder if there’s a mad-libs out there to build your own special home/school. These innocent-sounding names, though, tend to have some sort of horrific element to them. Miss Peregrine’s is a horror novel featuring creatures that have tentacles coming out of their mouths, and Sister Margaret’s is now a bar for mercenaries and hitmen. Based on the content warnings, Miss Duckworthy’s seems to similarly not be all that it seems on the surface.
TLDR: the innocent may not be