Darkness Falls

Darkness Falls (DF) is the fifth game set in the Elsaverse. It represents a drastic change from previous games created by Tora Productions, as it was released in episodic manner and not as a full game; also, although there is erotic content in Darkness Falls, sex is not a primary element in the game, and the goal is not to build a romantic relationship with the main female character, but to solve crimes committed in Sangrive. As Tora Productions stated, the elevator pitch for this game is, "CSI meets the X-Files in the Elsaverse."

Darkness Falls was produced in parallel with Coming to Grips with Christine, another game set in a different fictional universe, with each game releasing a chapter once every two months; the also episodic novella AAA was added later to this tight schedule, and this workload eventually led the team to suffer some light crunch issues near the end of the development cycle, although they achieved to deliver the three titles on their initial deadlines. DF first chapter was released on April 1, 2018 for $10 patrons, going public a couple of weeks later; the first season was completed on December 1, 2018 after five chapters, and it was publicly released on January 15, 2019. Two exact months later, on March 15, 2019, the first chapter of the second season was released for $10 patrons, but then Tora Productions' writer, Tlaero, suddenly announced her retirement on April 19, 2019, and the game was put on hold; as the second chapter of this second session, and seventh overall, was already produced, it was released for patrons on May 15, 2019. All those episodes were released in Tora Productions' classic HTML format; the Ren'Py conversion came out on July 28, 2021, with the Darkness Falls seven chapters being also included in the Elsaverse Omnibus Vol.1 bundle that was released on August 5, 2021.

Darkness Falls starts on the same Friday as Redemption for Jessika (2016), and its story gets intertwined with that game, but also with Finding Miranda (2016) and the short story FM: Alpha (2017), as well as with AAA, adding a whole new level of depth to the Elsaverse.

Premise
The player takes the role of Nathaniel Blake, a hardened Sangrive police detective who has just been assigned a new partner: a young and clever female detective, called Michelle Won, who has a turbulent and secret past. Daily tensions of the job and the new work dynamics will be aggravated by some serious and apparently unrelated crimes with one thing in common: they seem humanly impossible to explain. And when the impossible becomes the only possible explanation, a very specific someone from Internal Affairs who seems to be in the know won't make things any easier for Blake.

Season 1
Darkness Falls first session consists of 4 cases that make for 5 chapters, with the last case being a double episode. The story covers a three weeks span, from Michelle Won's first day at work, to Blake's and Won's realization of powers's existence.