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The Yawhg is a one-to-four player choose-your-own-adventure game that randomizes a unique story every time you play. The evil Yawhg is returning. How will the town’s locals lead their lives in the meanwhile, and what will they do when the dreaded Yawhg finally arrives?

The Yawhg is a choose your own adventure, indie and local co-op game developed by Damian Sommer and Emily Carroll and published by Damian Sommer.
Released on February 27th 2014 is available in English only on Windows.

It has received 1,424 reviews of which 1,176 were positive and 248 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.9 out of 10. 😊

The game is currently priced at 9.99€ on Steam.


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Windows
  • OS *: Windows XP
  • Memory: 2 GB RAM
  • DirectX: Version 9.0
  • Storage: 100 MB available space
  • Additional Notes: A resolution of at least 1280 x 720.

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March 2025
There's no game quite like The Yawhg. Though it's short and the events repeat pretty frequently, making for repetitive repeat playing, I still find myself firing it up every now and again just to step into the world created by the wonderful art and prose. The mix of medieval atmosphere, seemingly random supernatural violence, and the impending doom of the mysterious Yawhg makes this game one of my favorites. And don't let me forget the beautiful music! I'm going to go play The Yawhg again.
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Jan. 2025
If you've got a decently large friend group, its fun to cycle through them and see how they play through the events. Pretty short with not a ton of replayability. I mostly bought this game because of the playthrough YOGSCAST Kim did way back. Really nostalgic for those simpler, better times.
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Dec. 2024
A short and beautiful game that is perfectly sweet, funny and dark at all at once.
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Sept. 2024
11 Years later and this is still my go-to game to bring out whenever a friend and I need to pass some time. It has such a lovely atmosphere, delightful stories, and a fun sense of dread. Short and sweet, but with a lot of replayability, especially by introducing it to new people and watching their reactions.
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July 2024
The Yawhg works as an interactive narrative that can be played by 1-4 players. But, please, play it with friends. That is how you will enjoy it at its best. With a mysterious threat called “the Yawhg” approaching, players must explore a kind of a low-medieval city with different locations: the tavern, the arena, the alchemy tower, the palace, etc. Players choose a location and an activity for each of the game’s six weeks. Each time a random event will happen, forcing the player to choose between two options, always related to different stats. The Yawhg displays beautiful art from Emily Carroll, an artist with a perturbing and cool style I highly recommend checking. She and Damian Sommer have crafted a game with subtle humor paired with a constant sense of sadness and darkness. The result is a distinctive tone that’s enjoyable while also leaving a mark on the player. I LOVE The Yawhg. It is clear proof that even with simple mechanics you can build a great game experience. A must among local multiplayer games! Back in the day I played The Yawhg with friends. We enjoyed it so much that we searched for more multiple narrative adventures of the same kind. We found nothing. Back then I was exploring the idea of maybe starting a videogame project and I saw it clearly: it had to be the second (and hopefully not last) game within this beautiful subgenre I felt "The Yawhg" started. "Monster Prom" was the result of it. The inspiration it took from "The Yawhg" is quite obvious, as we learnt from what the game had to offer while adding our own signature in shifting the tone immensely and mixing it with a totally different genre (dating sims). Years later, there's finally several other games you could count within the subgenre, and even some more that while slightly different still are clearly inspired by it. This is a subgenre of games that's amazing, and The Yawhg was such a cornerstone to it! We were fortunate that we were standing on the shoulders of giants when we started our journey into gamedev. One of those giants was "The Yawhg". Call some friends, buy this game, and get ready... the Yawhg will be here in six weeks.
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The Yawhg
7.9
1,176
248
Online players
2
Developer
Damian Sommer, Emily Carroll
Publisher
Damian Sommer
Release 27 Feb 2014
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