Decide Althea’s fate in dark Victorian London. Experience the story of an upper-class young woman whose family is falling apart along with her future and who is filled with diverse and interesting characters among whom she may find love.

## About This Game
## About this game
This visual novel, full of decisions and repercussions, is a fun
reinterpretation of the novel “Dear Faustina” (1897) by British author Rhoda
Broughton. Each chapter is filled with beautiful, high quality artwork that
illustrates all the situations and moments you will experience alongside the
charismatic characters. The art that you will be able to see has been made
with special care in the representation of the British Victorian era as well
as taking into account the class difference that is present at all times. The
entire video game has 51 chapters that you will only be able to see if you
play all the routes and enjoy the nine endings of the video game.
## Story

In Dear Althea, you play as Althea Vane; a young upper class British woman
whose life is turned upside down after the death of her father which causes
her family to fall apart along with her future. She will be forced to choose a
new future, a place to call home and a group to belong to. To get there she
will have to face all sorts of situations in Victorian London, but love and
romance will fortunately abound and make her quest more enjoyable.
## Choices matter

You will find that the choices you make will change the story from the very
first chapter, even if they change there will be many of them that will affect
the story in the long run. In Dear Althea, your choices can affect not only
your fate, but also the fate of other people. They can also change your
relationship with other characters and open up new routes of dialogue that
will change the dynamics of relationships.
## Diverse relationships

You don’t have to fall in love with anyone or enter into any kind of romantic
or sexual relationship in the game, but depending on your choices you can
enter into a relationship with up to four characters that fall within the LGBT
spectrum, however you don’t have to choose just one relationship; you can
enter into a variety of polyamorous relationships.
## Consent
In this video game, consent is discussed and encouraged in all aspects of
relationships between characters. In romantic relationships there is no
obligation to have sex, and refusing to have sex has no negative
repercussions.
## Characters
There is a great diversity of charismatic characters in “Dear Althea” but
there is a clear division between upper class and working class characters. As
a protagonist you can decide from the first chapter and throughout the story
which group you are more sympathetic to. Defending characters from one class
or the other can have repercussions.
## Puzzles

If puzzles are not your thing you can skip them without missing any important
plot points; however, there has been a lot of effort in the creation of the
puzzles to make them all diverse. They have been integrated in the best
possible way into the storyline as well as being completely set in the era in
which the story takes place.
## Typography
The typography has been created to help people with dyslexia to identify
letters more easily. It is based on the typeface that appears in the original
1897 book.
## Endings
There are a total of nine completely different final chapters, many of which
are the result of decisions that took place several chapters earlier.Due to
the branching of the story, finishing a single route can cause you to miss
even twenty whole chapters that belong to the other routes, so the title
invites replayability. Also, as a final surprise, there are some small post-
credits scenes that will change depending on the decisions made throughout the
story.
## Duration and text
Counting all possible decisions, the game has 112408 words and (although it is
not finished yet) I estimate that approximately and depending on the decisions
chosen, the game can last about 5 hours.

## Mature Content Description
The developers describe the content like this:
In this video game, nude images will only be shown if the player chooses to
do so through the multiple choices offered by the video game. No such scenes
are shown without the player’s prior consent during the story.

Dear Althea