Pillars on Poppy Hills
A downloadable visual novel for Windows, macOS, Linux, and Android
Atop the poppy hills are ruins to what was once revered and feared. One man wants to paint this scenery, while another wants to research it, while the forgotten god wants to have silence once and for all.
Pillars on Poppy Hills is a visual novel about wanting to become something or nothing. It also features:
- The original base game was approximately 13,000 words, and the side stories makes the total word count go up to approximately 22,000 words, or 2.5 hours of reading!
- 3 endings and 4 unlockable side stories!
- Content Warning: This visual novel and touches upon melancholic and downcast themes. There is also talk about self worth and instances of suicidal ideation.
- Also nobody is straight and everyone is depressed! Yay!
The new version of the game will be going up on Google Play shortly, thanks to Project Ensō!
CREDITS
Illustrator / Writer / Designer / Programmer
Music originally provided by
Special Thanks For The Really Useful Code Used In Game
Tofurocks, bobcgames, TheoMinute, npckc, Papaya, CuteShadow, KigyoDev, Feniks, Alaric
Download
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Development log
- On Fan Translations of My Games6 days ago
- Original 1.0 Afterword/Postmortem18 days ago
- Happy 5th Anniversary To My First Visual Novel! also Changelog for Version 2.018 days ago
- New Visual Novel: Making a MonsterJul 31, 2023
- New Visual Novel: The Perfect PortraitApr 18, 2023
- Android Version Released!Oct 25, 2022
- New Visual Novel: No !@#$s Left to GiveJul 29, 2022
- New Visual Novel: n e g a t i v e s p a c eMar 31, 2022
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I'm glad I went to this page to write a comment and saw that there are 3 endings! The first two were more bitter than sweet, but I am so glad I played through them all. This was so poetic. Thank you.
Played it and I really need to say that I love it so much.
I'm glad you liked it! :D Thank you so much for playing!
Such a cool story with beautiful artwork!
Thank you so much for playing and thank you for the kind comments! I really appreciate it! :D
Ohhh this story is so, so special. I love how everything comes together; I am enchanted by everything about it!
Thank you so much for playing, and I'm glad you liked it! :D
Oh my god that was beautiful ;A;
Thank you for the kind comment! I'm glad you enjoyed the game! :D
Oh, I knew right away which choice to pick to not screw everything up lol
Then when back and watched things go to hell
I'm usually the opposite lol, go for bad ends first then I go for the good ends. Hope you enjoyed it all though! Thank you for the comment :D
First endings stick with me more than later endings.
it's been so long but i still think about this game a lot 🙏 i feel like it talked to me in a very unique way
I've been staring at this comment for several days because I don't know what to say. I'm really honored you feel this way, and I'm really happy it's made such an impact. Thank you so much for your lovely comment and your continued support! :D
aw this was cool
i thought it would be way more depressing so that's why i avoided it for quite a while but hey, it wasn't that bad :')
great game fr fr
Thank you so much for the kind comments! :D I'm glad you enjoyed it!
This game left some mark into my mind, and it ended up in article about my fav itch.io games of the year! It's in finnish, but thought you would like to know this: https://geekgirls.fi/wp/blog/2021/12/20/indie-pelien-ihmemaassa/
I am so sorry for the late reply, but I am still really flattered it kept in your mind all this time! I really appreciate the kind words and what you wrote for it, even if I don't wholly understand the language. (Thank goodness for translations lol)
Lovely lil visual novel. Did not fully stole my heart, but was well made and atmosphere was on point.
Hey, the downloads aren't appearing as links for me either. Just to let you know!
I am so sorry, I can't seem to find the problem on my end? After hitting the Download Now button, it still enables me to download the files, so I don't know what else to do.
It works now! I don’t know if my internet or something was bugging out or what but I got them to download. Sorry! I am playing right now and the art and writing is very beautiful. I love the characters so much. ❤️ cant wait to explore the endings
Yay, I'm glad! And thank you so much for your kind words, I really appreciate it! :D
The downloads aren't appearing as links, just regular text, which is annoying bc ur game sounds really fun
Omg thank you so much for telling me because I didn't know the links went down until I saw your comment! They're back now! :D
I just finished it today and got all three endings! What a great game! The god of the story feels bittersweet ;___; But it was a nice feeling. Also the art and aesthetic are top-notch! Along with the music and the emphasis on wind, it felt wistful? I enjoyed it!
I look forward to your future works :D
EDIT: Also forgot to add the (true?) ending was hella cuuuuuute
Ahhh you're too kind, thank you so much for this comment! I'm glad you enjoyed it! :D
This was a really lovely read, and I liked exploring all three endings. Fantastic character design!
Thank you so much for playing! I'm glad you liked it! :D
The #aesthetic of this game is so good ???? Playing it as soon as I get home!
Thank you so much! :D