Darling

June Vane was widowed at twenty-four — and few who had known her husband called it a tragedy.

In Regency England, a young widow takes commissions the magistrates cannot. Tonight there is a ball, a study, and a rooftop. Tonight there is work to be done.

Darling is a short narrative stealth game in three acts. You will be invited into gilded rooms. You will be handed a dossier. You will choose your weapon — a poison ring, a silk scarf, a champagne flute pressed into the wrong hand — and you will leave before the body is found.

She is not the woman behind the man.
She is the Main Character.

The Marks

Three names. Three rooms. Three reasons.

• Lord Cassius Ashworth — a mill-owner whose ledgers cost more lives than he can count.
• Magistrate Edmund Crale — a justice whose verdicts have always favoured the right surnames.
• Sir Reginald Thorne — a gentleman whose charm has outlived too many of the women drawn into it.

A client has paid. A widow has accepted. Read the brief. Pick the tool. Walk into the room.

How to Play

• Move: Tap and click to move to the spot
• Goal: approach your mark, complete the commission, reach the glowing exit before the crowd notices

Credits

• Made for the GDAI Women Game Jam 2026 under the theme She is the Main Character.
• Built in Phaser 3 (HTML5).
• Story, design, and code: Yogini Joglekar.
•  Art and music generated with AI tooling and hand-curated to a Bridgerton-inspired palette.