The Gray Painter

Is beauty truly only skin deep? Discover the answer in this unsettling, sensual misadventure.

In this mature and disquieting story, help an ordinary office worker named Ash build the confidence to make new friends within an exclusive nude figure drawing group. "The Gray Painter" is a 145,000-word, 20-chapter interactive novel. It is an entirely text-based experience, driven by the limitless power of your imagination.

You can choose Ash’s sex, gender, and sexual orientation. Ash begins the story in a relationship with Harper, a partner whose gender you can select. An option to break up with Harper becomes available in Chapter 9.

Praise for The Gray Painter:

* "I can't stop thinking about it."

* "I went in without expectations and was pleasantly surprised. The characters feel deeply flawed yet completely understandable. My initial impressions of everyone were completely wrong."

* "What just happened? I was utterly unprepared for that—stop messing with my head!!!!"

"The Gray Painter" contains depictions of drug and alcohol use, smoking, inferred suicide, explicit sexual content, horror, and high-impact violence and gore. The story also explores themes of body insecurity and dysmorphia. This is an adult narrative intended for ages 18 and up.

* Play as straight, gay, bisexual, pansexual, asexual, or a combination of identities.

* Meet seven fully realized, complex, and deeply human characters.

* Immerse yourself in the sprawling landscape of New Jersey in 2012.

* Guide a mild-mannered accountant toward a new life of sex, drugs, and rock & roll.

* There are no secrets in this game. And if secrets did exist, it's probably best not to look for them.