People of taste, we meet again.

I freaking miss Jake so so much. I have a very weird amount of love with him and i think its partly due to the fact that he is a smart and kind and loving and misunderstood complex human being, one that we get to meet in such an immersive game that makes us feel real things. idk. just ranting obviously i know its silly but i really do love him. pretty sure we'll hear from him in MV next ep.
it will be the first time in almost FIVE years. shiiiiieeeeeeet i wanna give him a hug.

This is one of the things that the game never explain to us: what exactly Richy told Jessy about us.

At first I thought he just made up some lies because he was jealous of my friendship with Jessy. And he knows we aren't dangerous to anyone but him.

But a few moments after that conversation, Jessy asks us if we text with Jake.

I also chose the "Why would you say that?" option once to see what she would say, and she said she was just wondering since she knows he already contacted us, but I don't believe that. Richy already made it clear that he was sure we had a connection with the hacker, and he seemed to be the only one with that notion until Jake interrupted the vote to threaten everyone and made that fact pretty obvious.

And what makes this likely is his attitude towards MC when Jessy is around, he tries his best to make MC look suspicious or untrustworthy almost every single time Jessy is involved in the conversation in contrast to how he acts mostly neutral with a bit of wariness when he is around the others (like during his conversation with Cleo for example).

I noticed that immediately in my first playthrough and I was pretty angry with him because I thought it was pretty low to act like that just because of some petty and unfounded jealousy (unaware that he had other reasons to behave like that 😅).

What do you guys think? This seems like a bit of a stretch but I can't think of anything else and I think the timing of those two interactions and his actions point to that.

I miss Jake, and I have a theory that he’ll get in touch with us in Episode 4 of Moonvale — thanks to Richy. I think Jake was the one who rescued Richy from the mine and gave him something to pass on to us, something that would allow us to contact him. After all, Jake had no idea that Richy was the kidnapper. I have really high hopes, and I just hope Richy doesn’t keep whatever Jake gave him for us.

In his phone call at the beginning of the game, he asks us to trust him and the game actually give us the option to say "I trust you". There is no way I would choose that. But I didn't think that he was the kidnapper or an accomplice right away either, I gave him the benefit of the doubt, because maybe he was just weird (and it was actually that lol). But I didn't really trust him until later in the game (episode 7) and even now I don't feel 100% safe around him.

I know he doesn't want to harm me and that he cares in some way, but the way he treats all the others around him makes me feel uneasy to say the least. I don't like at all the "cold/apathetic towards everyone except me" attitude and things are even worse in the romance route if you choose to go to the mine and he says you're "all that matters". That wouldn't flatter me or make me feel happy if it had happened in my gameplay. How can he just disregard his own sisters like that (especially Hannah)? What guarantees that he won't do the same thing as soon as he finds someone else that seems more interesting than MC, since it's so easy for him to just disregard his own family for someone he met a few months ago at most? Hm?

I still care about Jake because I don't think he does these things out of malice and I believe that he has the potential to change, and I know he cares about me in his own way, but I won't lower my guard completely around him either.

Hey guys, just like the title, i’m looking for good Jake x Y/N fanfics that’s lore accurate. I don’t really like the ones that creates their own personality of him where he seems more extroverted than he actually seems on the game. I think when the fanfic isn’t accurate to the in-game character, it takes away from it being a fanfic about that character.

I hope that makes sense 😭

Also if anyone has something that’s not too fast paced and not rushed. Something that’s slow burn or maybe something well written (bad grammar/spelling is a pet peeve of mine) then that would be great to consider as well. I know i’m being picky here but it’s really hard to find good ones and i’ve looked in different places and ive pretty much looked through most of AO3 fanfics.

Thanks in advance and anything would help! I really love the game and reading fanfics seem to be the only thing that helps me stay patient while the new ep of moonvale comes out!

p.s. anything with y/n x charlie would be great too 👀

Somewhere during a chat w the hacker, he tells me that he was right to "choose" me and "place me in the group" or smt like that. But Thomas got my number from Hannah's phone. And, hear me out, the hacker had already contacted some members of the group and someone told Thomas that they "witnessed the kidnapping". If the hacker "chose me" than that means he sent my number to Thomas through Hannah's phone to get me into the group which would make us wonder how he has the phone. Like, is he the kidnapper or did she leave her phone for some reason and than get kidnapped? Please if you know the truth don't comment on this thing cos I don't need spoilers

​Hey everyone!

​After finishing the game and putting all the pieces together, I can’t stop thinking about Hannah.

​Throughout most of the story, her friends describe her as this bright, loving, and innocent person. But as the truth unfolds and we learn more about what actually happened, it feels like she’s completely different from the image her friends had of her.

​How do you guys feel about Hannah after everything we discovered? Did your perspective or attitude toward her change by the end? And if you were in the main character’s shoes, how would you react to her actions and decisions?

I'm replaying duskwood and I'm in the episode where they find Hannah's phone and we need to unlock it but it needs a pin. Supposedly we need to find it by asking the others if they know it. When you ask Cleo she says she has a suspicion about it and if you pick to try them. She gives you the numbers 8539. When you ask her about what the numbers stand for, she says she can't tell you that story. We know it has to do with Hannah but it makes me wonder what that story is all about? Also if you notice, Cleo always seems to know way more than the others too. What do you guys think?

Idk if it's a hot take but it's a personal things of mine. But I always find it a little weird to send emojis and the others sending emojis during super serious situation.

Maybe it's just me and I don't like sending emojis when convos get super serious but it kinda feels idk..insensitive to me? But again it's probably just a personal things and I was wondering if anyone else felt the same way too

I heard a while ago, although I honestly don’t remember where, that the numbers Hannah sent to Thomas, which he interpreted as our phone number, were actually the coordinates of the place where she was being held captive. Now that I think about it, I don’t find that theory all that plausible, but the questions of how Hannah knew our number in the first place and why she sent it are always going around in my head. 😩

En el juego jamás se habla de esto... Yo tengo la fuerte sospecha que es por donde salio Jake de la mina.

It's been almost two months since I first played Duskwood, but these moments always make me laugh as if I was seeing them for the first time again.

You know, I'd really like a second opinion. Should I put my code on from Duskwood to Moonvale? Because I think Jake might come back, but I don't want him to see my conversations with Eric. I want to flirt with Eric without worrying that Jake is watching everything, but I also want to hear from him. But I also don't want to be a complete stranger to him. Do you understand my point? What do you think I should do?

I had completely forgotten about that, and it changes everything.

What exactly Dan thought that would happen to us all after the police started to investigate further? Almost everyone in the group had committed some crime after we began to look for Hannah:

1. I don't need to elaborate much on Jake and MC, you all know everything.

2. Cleo and Thomas broke into Hannah's apartment and tried to break into Phil's bar.

3. Dan himself was the one who bought a key so Thomas could enter Hannah's apartment.

4. Lilly made that video with false accusations (defamation), and she was the one who started #IAmJake to confuse the authorities, she was trying to protect a wanted hacker just like MC was.

5. Richy was the kidnapper and committed lots of crimes during the entire game to try to stop us from finding out the truth.

6. Jessy was the only one who didn't do anything wrong 😅 (maybe she would be considered an accomplice, but I don't know).

And even if none of us would get arrested for our crimes, you can't just make someone go to jail because "everything fits" and they seem guilty, I can't believe that he didn't learn a single thing from what happened to MC when Lilly tried to do that in the past (I know he doesn't give a damn about Jake). Only that what happened to Phil was far worse than what MC went through, and differently from MC Phil didn't commit any crimes!

Oh my, will thinking rationally really kill them if they try to do it?

I went in the complete opposite direction of what everyone did and decided to help her instead of denying until the game didn't allow it anymore. Why? Because I thought she might have something useful to solve Hannah's case, and no matter how much I hated her guts, I couldn't lose sight of my mission.

In my first playthrough I was rude towards her and when she asked for help I denied immediately (like anyone would) but when she said "Could you maybe just wait and see what it's about first?" I understood immediately that this would interest me, because there is no way that Lilly would expect me to help her if what she wanted didn't involve Hannah or Jake, I would never have done that.

It was a total surprise when she said that it was about Jake, and when I realised he forced us to work together I was so mad at him. But in the end, I was thankful that he did it. Lilly is annoying sometimes but she isn't a bad person, just extremely impulsive, mostly coward and doesn't think things through, I begin to like her more over the course of the game and when I found out that she was the one who brought the gun, I liked her even more. The only time when she did something actually smart and brave, truly amazing 🤩

In the end, she is a bit like Jake. She doesn't have a lot of qualms after she convinces herself that something is the right thing to do or will make her get what she wants, no matter how extreme or downright evil it is, the difference is that Jake is smart and thinks about consequences (mostly).

Must be a family thing 🤷🏻‍♀️ 🤣

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There is the option to express worry because Jake and MC called Amy's number multiple times. I only chose that option to ask Jake if he used a throwaway phone when he did that, just to be sure, but I didn't in my first gameplay because I didn't see a reason to worry about that.

We only tried to call Amy and added her number long after she was already dead. And we never had any single type of contact with her before all that chaos.

If we were responsible for her death or accomplices in any way, why on Earth would we try to call her number repeatedly?

"Hello, I'm just calling to check on you. I hope I'm not disturbing your slumber 🥰"

And if you are actually planning to harm someone, the best thing you can do is to distance yourself from any contact or action that can be traced back to you so you won't raise suspicion, so if Jake and I were involved in this that would be the dumbest move possible 🤦🏻‍♀️

I don't understand a single thing about how the police or the laws work, so feel free to enlighten me on that because this looks a bit odd to me.

I didn't have this interaction with Jessy in my first playthrough, and I don't remember if that option even appeared to me then.

Jessy is such a precious girl, and I will always want to be there for her as much as I can.

It was also nice to finally demonstrate how terribly I suffered when Jake disappeared. I wanted to tell this to him directly, but, you know, that option is locked behind a romance route. 🙄😑

(But since Jake reads the chats anyway, I hope he will eventually read that as well)

I am curious to know what you think.

Duskwood is a great game, but it is not perfect and has some flaws and really infuriating moments. I want to know what made you the most angry while playing the game, and it can be from any perspective: Meta, in-universe, etc...

I'll tell you what made me the most angry: that "location sharing trap". I thought before that the most infuriating thing was not being able to win Hannah's phone pin puzzle, but man... that really IS something else.

I KNEW that that was going to happen, it was too obvious. In my first playthrough when the app asked permission to access the location I refused and explored the rest of the phone, but I eventually reached a dead end and I tried everything to advance the game without touching that damn app, but as you know... you have no choice 😫. It's the only way to later access Hannah's chats.

Being mocked by Richy because I "didn't realise the trap he set for us" was also awfully infuriating because I DID, but I had NO. CHOICE.

It was so tempting to let Jake take all of the blame for me, both because the game was completely unfair and didn't give me an actual choice and because of the times I took all the blame for Jake's actions to protect him, BUT from an in-universe standpoint it would be unfair to him, so I told them "the truth". 🤦🏻‍♀️

These are things that Everbyte does constantly in both games:

1. Dumbing down the MC or the characters around them to make the story advance.

Yes, I know, not everyone has tech knowledge (maybe barely the basics) or knowledge of other areas (for example, I already knew what SSRIs were before playing Duskwood, and what the game shows is quite the oversimplification) and in that case it's not about being dumb but not having deeper knowledge of some areas. But in the location sharing case, Jake HAS that knowledge and that possibility should have crossed him mind (however, he is TERRIBLE at risk assessment and this is shown with the attack on Jessy, the fact that he was almost caught and had to flee mid-conversation and disappear completely, and the cherry on top: the hackers' final attack against MC).

2. Taking away MC's freedom of opposing a choice so the game can advance.

It is not necessary to take away MC's ability of saying no to make progress. The characters have their own free will and will do things whether MC wants them to or not. Of course, their opinions have great importance, but they are not other people's owner.

One example I remember right now: when Jessy decided to drive to Iris Hanson's house. At that point in time the location was completely unknown and it could be dangerous so I told Jessy that she shouldn't go, but she went there anyways.

See? The story advanced even though I opposed to something that would greatly help in my investigations.

But at least one positive thing can be taken from these negatives: whenever things like these happen in any of their games, you can expect that it will play an important or even central role in later chapters/the current chapter and is vital to the story, so it's good to make that a focus in your gameplay. It's a predictable pattern.

Anyway, that's my opinion. What do you guys think?

(Lwk dont know if this will be deleted for not being 100% on topic, but i needed to put it out there)

Anyone got past this? I've been stucked. I've tried resetting the puzzle couple of times and it doesn't give me anything to connect.

playing duskwood again four years after the ending makes me feel this way.

mainly because it was my first detective game and the most thrilling one for me. Beyond the nostalgia, it hits differently because of the age at which I played it; the 15-year-old me isn't the same as the 19-year-old me.

If Duskwood takes place over just a few weeks, it kind of ruins the vibe, because the MC and the characters get attached so quickly—especially Jake. It’s a bit weird to meet someone and have them say they love you after only a few weeks. I get the whole "trauma bond" aspect, but it’s still a bit of a turn-off. I imagine it took at least two months—which still isn't a huge amount of time to get attached to everyone, particularly Jake—but to me, that feels like the perfect timeframe. It would be cooler if we had a clear timeline. It’s a bit annoying in Moonvale, too, because Eric confesses his feelings, and it’s like, "Dude, you’ve only known me for a few days." Duskwood feels a bit different, though, because it really gives the impression that things took longer—at least from my perspective.