
Phageplay Basic
A downloadable stageplay for Windows, macOS, and Linux
A story about going to the theatre. And the play is kind of strange very avant-garde. So you feel badly about yourself. And then it all starts over. Phageplay Basic is a full length stageplay embedded in a not quite completely-kinetic visual-novelette. Created for toxic yuri jam 2 re: the theme "psychosexual trauma". Adult content, sex & conspiracy & discrimination &c... we'll just say 18+, ok? Alright.
Around 14k words, visually inspired by 1970s mainframe systems (like PLATO) and 'mechanically' inspired by text-parser novelties like Eliza (1966). From a literary point of view, inspired by the work of Sarah Kane. Also downloadable is the complete embedded stageplay, without the novelette frame story. It takes ~90 minutes to perform in real life (plus a 10 minute mandatory intermission) and requires six actors. If you'd like to stage the Phageplay IRL, send me a message!
Data on the config menu drawn from government sources and an NGO called Raising The Village.
To Colchis then I came / To night’s mistaken shame / Cowbell, spurs upon my side / Harnessed, terrible pain, throbbing / Under the pressure, under the knife.
| Updated | 2 days ago |
| Published | 5 days ago |
| Status | Released |
| Platforms | Windows, macOS, Linux |
| Rating | Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars (4 total ratings) |
| Author | OLEANDER GARDEN |
| Genre | Visual Novel |
| Tags | Experimental, Gay, Gender, Gothic, Lesbian, LGBT, Psychological Horror, Text based, Yuri |
| Average session | About an hour |
| Languages | English |
| Inputs | Keyboard |
| Content | No generative AI was used |
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Development log
- 1.0.3 // Typo fix and Stageplay Formatting2 days ago
- Phageplay5 days ago

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truly excellent. left me with the same haunted feeling that i was left with as a college freshman reading that bit of The Waste Land with the typist and the expected guest. the allusions that i got were hilarious (navier-stroke defilade, à la mer, god...) and the many that i didn't are exciting knowing that i will have the lovely opportunity to get them in due time. a work that i immensely look forward to rereading in five years. remarkably musical language. thank you.
This was a really fun play to watch this way, though I am an absolute sucker for avant-garde theater done through a videogame. I liked the way the wordplay kind of washed over me but was still a very legible puzzle that was often very funny. The frame narrative was very real to the feeling of being dragged to a play like this, not getting it, not liking it, but still having it follow you home
played and read aloud over the course of two hours in what felt like a possession, the plain parts and the decorated parts making a very good idea of the scene, very playful with words and it's manner, the way that characters shift and morph position and tone
VERY interested in checking this out as a big sarah kane fan