Independent exploration
Whisper of the Nine Tails
九尾の囁き
Walk the provinces of Edo Japan.
An independent exploration game about roads, weather, and the named kuni that once mapped the Japanese archipelago. Travel at a human pace. Read the land.
- Engine
- Unity
- Platform
- PC
- Store
- Steam · coming soon
The game
What the journey is for
Whisper of the Nine Tails is being shaped as a place to walk, not a product to grind. These are the intentions that guide the work.
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Provinces, not stages
Move through named kuni — coasts, passes, and towns with their own weather — instead of a single corridor dressed as a country.
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The Edo road
The period is texture: checkpoints, inns, messengers, and the slow commerce of the highway. History is observed, not lectured.
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Look, then linger
Built for attention. Light, distance, and season matter more than a mission log. The pleasure is in arriving, not clearing a list.
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A crafted PC release
Made in Unity for keyboard, mouse, and gamepad. A focused independent game — not a live-service platform.
Media
Trailer and studies
Captured gameplay will replace these frames when it exists. What you see now is placeholder atmosphere — ink, gold, and paper — not a screenshot from the game.
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Coast study Placeholder · not gameplay -
Pass study Placeholder · not gameplay -
Town study Placeholder · not gameplay -
Map study Placeholder · not gameplay
The studio
A quiet map, drawn by one person
Dylan Wells is building Whisper of the Nine Tails (九尾の囁き) independently. The game is an invitation to travel Edo-period Japan at walking speed: roads, weather, and the particular character of each region — including the named kuni, the historical provinces that once divided the archipelago.
This site will change as a Steam page, trailer, and captured footage exist. Until then, the media here is atmospheric placeholder work — not screenshots, not reviews, not a store listing.
Wishlist
When the page is live, start here
The Steam listing is not public yet. This button will become a real store link the moment a URL is added to the site config — no placeholder store, no invented price.
- Title
- Whisper of the Nine Tails 九尾の囁き
- Developer
- Dylan Wells
- Price
- Price to be announced
- Availability
- Coming soon on Steam
The listing, trailer, and captured stills will appear here as soon as they are public. Nothing on this page pretends to be a live store.