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After the Wane Demo

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Released Mar 5, 2026by Nova-boxPositive(97% of 34 Steam reviews)

Retracing the footsteps of a mother she never knew, Lena's trying to make it as a dancer in the city. Caught in a quarrel between dance companies, dealing with love and heartbreak and the challenges of young adulthood, she must also cope with the voice in her head commenting on everything she does.

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About After the Wane Demo

Demo content

Experience the opening chapter (20-30 minutes) of Nova-box's latest interactive graphic novel After the Wane and get a taste of the characters, the branching dialogs, and the animated dance scenes.

A story of profound depth

The new interactive graphic novel by the creators of Along the Edge and Across the Grooves.

Lena is a starry-eyed young dancer with big dreams, but as soon as she sets foot in the capital, she finds herself at the nexus of a lifelong quarrel between Fernand, the elusive director of a community center, and Deborah, who's leading the troupe of a strange and exclusive theatre. Does it have anything to do with her mother, a dancer too, who abandoned her when she was a child?

Torn between her past and her future, Lena will need to rediscover her own nature and forge her path forward as increasingly strange events unfold around her… but the strangest of all might be the permanent commentary of a voice that she seems to be the only one to hear.

A unique and unforgetable experience

Full game features

  • Choose your destiny: align with an elitist dance company, mingle with everyone and help young dancers in the local community center, or stay independent while cultivating your interest in the occult.

  • Navigate the complexities of a budding love life: caught between a demanding vocation and multiple suitors, Lena will have a hard time balancing both. Will you focus on your dancing career, or do everything it takes to make your relationship succeed?

  • Dance animations: experience several dance scenes throughout the story, all animated by hand in rotoscoping.

  • A hand-crafted adventure: with each playthrough, discover a novel-sized adventure and a slice of the hundreds of hand-drawn images created for the game.

  • Immersive and finely crafted soundtrack: the music, specially composed and recorded for the game, adapts and shifts according to your choices and the mood of each scene.

  • High replayability: discover the outcome of your decisions through multiple story paths and endings.

Game details

After the Wane Demo reviews

97% positive reviews all-time.

System requirements

Minimum

Minimum:
  • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
  • OS *: Windows 7 Service Pack 1 or later (64bits only)
  • Processor: 2.0 Ghz (with SSE2 instruction set support)
  • Memory: 2 GB RAM
  • Graphics: Integrated or dedicated graphic card with 512MB of VRAM
  • Storage: 1 GB available space

Recommended

Recommended:
  • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
  • OS *: Windows 7 Service Pack 1 or later (64bits only)
  • Processor: 2.6 Ghz (with SSE2 instruction set support)
  • Memory: 4 GB RAM
  • Storage: 1 GB available space