Bitter Orange
Restaurant kitchen, family-owned, second generation.
- ~26 min (estimated)
- 5774 words
- 20 scenes
- 5 branch points (script estimate)
- 3 endings (script estimate)
2 recorded plays (one per visitor per day)
Cover art · generated placeholder backgrounds and character art in-game · licensed music, credited in the build · listing metadata: importer · counts: script-heuristic
About
Teo, 29, inherits the restaurant and its debts along with his mother's recipes and her loan shark. The dishwasher he is falling for, Ilse, 27, is the shark's daughter and has been keeping the books honest to protect them both. The sous chef wants Teo to sell.
Content notice
- Debt coercion and loan-shark violence
- Family death / inheritance grief
- Workplace exploitation
- Class pressure and gentrification buyouts
- Betrayal within chosen family
- Implied sexual relationship (sex cuts away at the door; desire, aftermath, and consequence remain)
- Alcohol as coping
- Threats against livelihood and body
- No instructional crime detail
Cast
- T Teo no portrait yet
- I Ilse no portrait yet
- M Mira no portrait yet
- R Radek no portrait yet
- P Port no portrait yet