Taarradhin

It’s not at all surprising to find out that wealthy people are pretty sheltered when it comes to famines, droughts or anything of the sort, even if they lose a bit of money in the process. Naturally, movies and video game stories are keen on telling us that quite a few of these people are actually just naive, because if they truly had any experience with the outside world they would lend a helping hand to those in need.

Taarradhin is an interactive story that allows you to play the role of a well-off woman living in a land affected by plagues and suffering. Although she is completely ignorant to what happens outside of her massive estate, everything changes when two new slaves arrive. Hence, you just might get to help the noblewoman change her views and pay more attention to the people around her.

The woman’s name is Neqtia, and she is about to receive a tribute from a nearby country. This tribute also includes two new slaves, a man and a woman that are to serve Neqtia. Your goal is to interact with these people and find out about their lives and the hardships they had to endure, as well as maybe fall in love with one of them. It’s a pretty sweet story, even if it sounds rather weird every now and again.

Since there are two characters you can interact with, that means you can make certain choices in order to pick one or the other. These choices lead you on different paths, so you can play the game more than once in order to see what you may have missed the first time around. Granted, there are not that many possibilities, given the low number of characters and the rather short plot.

Taarradhin excels in terms of artwork, on the other hand, especially since the architecture seems to be inspired by ancient Egypt or similar places. A lot of effort went into the characters, mainly because there are so few of them. The same can be said about the backgrounds and the environments, because you can truly feel wealthy when you admire the noblewoman’s rooms.

While it may not feature as much variety as other visual novels out there, Taarradhin is clearly a polished game, and it also looks stunning most of the time. Thus, it’s worth a try if you are a fan of the genre.