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A new Digitable game — Branchbound
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A new branch is growing at Digitable While our literary team finishes Crime and Punishment, we are preparing another Digitable release: Branchbound. This is not another adaptation, but a small standalone strategy game built for short, thoughtful matches. Two players take turns growing one luminous tree. Every new node…
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A new branch is growing at Digitable While our literary team finishes Crime and Punishment, we are preparing another Digitable release: Branchbound. This is not another adaptation, but a small standalone strategy game built for short, thoughtful matches. Two players take turns growing one luminous tree. Every new node needs a direction and a colour, but matching colours may not touch. Verify the wrong branch and the signal breaks, ending the match. local two-player duels or practice against Moss; simple rules that quickly become a spatial puzzle; two field sizes and up to four colours; fully offline play with no in-game purchases; English and Russian interfaces in the current build. Add it to your wishlist Visit the Branchbound Steam page and add the game to your wishlist. It makes a real difference in helping a small project find its audience. We are also preparing a wider Digitable collection for launch, bringing our literary visual novels and standalone strategy games together.
Crime and Punishment is almost ready — help shape it before release
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Our next literary visual novel is almost ready Now that The Lady with the Dog has been released, we are finishing the next Digitable adaptation: Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment. This is not a shortened retelling in place of the book. The complete original Russian text remains at the centre of the experience,…
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Our next literary visual novel is almost ready Now that The Lady with the Dog has been released, we are finishing the next Digitable adaptation: Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment. This is not a shortened retelling in place of the book. The complete original Russian text remains at the centre of the experience, staged as an illustrated visual novel with 468 scenes, 303 visual assets, character and location staging, reading tools, and 14 optional choices that do not replace or rewrite Dostoevsky’s canonical text. There is still time to influence the result The novel is close to release, but we can still improve the experience and the Digitable novel engine itself. If you have played The Lady with the Dog, or if you simply enjoy visual novels and classic literature, please tell us what you would like to see. What is missing from the current novel engine? Which reading tools matter most: typography, text speed, auto mode, history, bookmarks, search, or chapter navigation? Are save/load, controller support, accessibility, and display settings comfortable enough? How should optional choices work when the original author’s text must remain intact? How important are voice acting, music, ambience, and sound effects to you? What would make you recommend this kind of literary visual novel to another reader? Leave a comment under this announcement or start a discussion in the Community Hub. A detailed review is welcome, but even one sentence about the feature you miss most will help us prioritise the remaining work. Thank you for reading Chekhov with us — and for helping us…
Today, Digitable released a cross-platform visual novel on Steam based on Anton Chekhov’s “The Lady with the Dog.” The game is available in Russian and English and features fully voiced characters, animated CG scenes, and a branching narrative system. It is also coming soon to Yandex Games, the App Store, VK, RuStore,…
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Today, Digitable released a cross-platform visual novel on Steam based on Anton Chekhov’s “The Lady with the Dog.” The game is available in Russian and English and features fully voiced characters, animated CG scenes, and a branching narrative system. It is also coming soon to Yandex Games, the App Store, VK, RuStore, and other platforms. The complete original text has been preserved: by finishing the visual novel, you will effectively have read the book itself. The difference is that, through a long and painstaking generation process, we have brought its characters to life, created their voices, and added an interactive narrative system. At key moments in the story, for example, you will be able to decide what happens next. Some choices will keep you on Chekhov’s original path, while others will lead to alternative storylines. In addition to this pilot release, we are already working on visual adaptations of several major literary works. We plan to complete and publish them later this year on Steam, Yandex Games, VK, the App Store, Google Play, and a number of local digital stores. Our current production catalogue includes:“War and Peace” by Leo Tolstoy“Crime and Punishment” by Fyodor Dostoevsky“The Count of Monte Cristo” by Alexandre Dumas“The Odyssey” by Homer“The Republic” by Plato“Thus Spoke Zarathustra” by Friedrich NietzscheEven more excitingly, our editor is now entering the final stage of testing. You can already try it as an experimental workspace, and very soon you will be able to connect it to leading AI models and tools. The editor will let you create your own…
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Digitable Adapts Chekhov's 'The Lady with the Dog' as a Branching Visual Novel
Digitable has released The Lady with the Dog on Steam, a visual novel adaptation of Anton Chekhov's short story of the same name. The game is available in Russian and English.
What's in the release
Fully voiced characters and animated CG scenes
A branching narrative system with choices at key story moments
The complete original text of Chekhov's story, preserved verbatim — finishing the game is described as equivalent to reading the source work
Some choices follow Chekhov's original path; others lead to alternative storylines
The studio describes the character voices and visuals as the product of a "long and painstaking generation process," though it does not elaborate further on the specific tools or methods used.
Beyond this release, Digitable states it is already working on visual novel adaptations of several major literary works, with plans to publish them later this year across Steam, Yandex Games, VK, the App Store, Google Play, and other platforms. The announced catalogue includes War and Peace, Crime and Punishment, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Odyssey, The Republic, and Thus Spoke Zarathustra.
The studio also mentions an editor tool currently in late testing that would allow users to create their own visual novels and educational materials with AI integration, embeddable or available for offline use. A free educational portal with interactive video content — covering programming, mathematics, logic, and online communication — is described as already live.
The Lady with the Dog is also noted as coming to Yandex Games, the App Store, VK, and RuStore, though no dates are given for those releases.
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A new branch is growing at Digitable While our literary team finishes Crime and Punishment, we are preparing another Digitable release: Branchbound. This is not another adaptation, but a small standalone strategy game built for short, thoug…
Our next literary visual novel is almost ready Now that The Lady with the Dog has been released, we are finishing the next Digitable adaptation: Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment. This is not a shortened retelling in place of the boo…
Today, Digitable released a cross-platform visual novel on Steam based on Anton Chekhov’s “The Lady with the Dog.” The game is available in Russian and English and features fully voiced characters, animated CG scenes, and a branching narrat…
