You have three seconds to kill your former friend. The nuns and sacred algorithms have willed it.

And no matter how much you want to save her, you can’t.


You Can't Save Her is a 12-minute interactive story by Sarah Mak, featuring music by Falling Islands.

It received several awards in the 2024 Short Games Showcase, a competition for short interactive fiction:

  • 1st Place, Best Use of Short Form
  • 1st Place (tie), Best Use of Interactivity
  • 1st Place, Best Story-Focused Game
  • 1st Place, Best Previously Unawarded Game

The game also placed 15th out of 67 entries in the 2024 Interactive Fiction Competition.

StatusReleased
PlatformsHTML5
Release date Sep 02, 2024
Rating
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
AuthorSarah Mak
GenreInteractive Fiction
Made withTwine
TagsFemale Protagonist, LGBT, Minimalist, Narrative, Queer, Short, Story Rich, Twine, Yuri
Average sessionAbout a half-hour
LanguagesEnglish
InputsMouse
AccessibilityOne button

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i cried

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It was incredible...I have no other word thanks for this

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That was fantastic. The yearning is exquisite.

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This is verry good, love it,
no spoilers but I think I got a good ending, eventho they are apart from each other they are still alive. I think.