The Pestbearer

The Pestbearer is a browser-based dark fantasy courier game built for the AI Apocalyptic Dark Fantasy Game Jam. You play as a Marked one — a courier infected just enough by a spreading curse to walk roads that would kill anyone else. The kingdom of Valdris is not yet fallen, but it is falling, and someone has to carry the letters.

Every journey costs food and days. The curse meter climbs with every dark choice and corrupted road — reach one hundred percent and you are no longer the courier. You can forage, barter with merchants, or pray at roadside shrines, but the road is always longer than your supplies suggest.

Contract I — The Sealed Letter Deliver a letter to a priest hiding in a dead-forest church. What you carried may have changed the fate of the realm.

Contract II — The Missing Soldier Trace a vanished soldier across blighted roads to the shattered heart of the kingdom. You find him alive — but changed. Decide what to bring back.

Contract III — The Saltmarsh Inheritance Descend into a flooded wasteland impassable to anyone without a curse mark. A scholar went in alone and found something she cannot leave behind.

Contract IV — The Forger's Commission Someone slides a package under your door with twenty silver on delivery. At a waystation between cities you learn what the package really is — and who gets hurt if it arrives.

Contract V — The Last Congregation Someone is hunting the Marked ones. Every road you have walked leads back to a name, a house, and a gate that should never be opened. The Vareth Estate is where it ends.

Releases

V1.0
- Initial release