『 Play Guide 』

Guide Details

The  Garenburg  series spans multiple games and pieces of media, so this aims to help give a simple order for playing through if you want the full experience!

Please note that most of the games in the series are standalone, so you don't necessarily need to play by this order. You can go through things however you like and however you choose!

General Overview

As of September 2025, there are two main titles, two smaller entries, one short spinoff, and a bunch of novellas and short stories that give more background on the world. You can find links to all of these via the projects page, or the novellas site.

Main Titles

Smaller Entries

Spinoffs

Novellas / Short Stories

Other Works

Please note that these all have varying degrees of quality; they were all made over several years, the more recent stuff are a bit better!

I want to go with a recommended order!

One important thing to note is that, as mentioned before, this series is standalone. You can go any order you like, skip titles, or only do one specific one. You don't need to play or read everything. But if you want a "full" experience, and the best entry point, then here's a good way to start!

You can start at either Garenburg Woods or Garenburg Penitence: The Riflebird. The latter is the "second Garenburg game" but probably a better place to start since it's a much higher quality game than the former. Either will work, so you can go off what you want!

If you want to start with Garenburg Woods, you can go in order of...

  1. Garenburg Woods (game)
  2. A Box of Cassettes (novella)
  3. The Möbius Strip (game)
  4. Beautiful Babies (novella)
  5. Fraudulent Family / Serene Seclusion (both novellas)
  6. Garenburg Penitence: The Riflebird (game)
  7. bygone snow (game)
  8. Cultivated Creatures (novella)
  9. Charmolypi (spinoff game)

If you want to start with Garenburg Penitence: The Riflebird, you can go in order of...

  1. Garenburg Penitence: The Riflebird (major game) 
  2. The Möbius Strip (major game)
  3. "Beautiful Babies" (novella)
  4. "Fraudulent Family" / "Serene Seclusion" (both novellas)
  5. Garenburg Woods (game)
  6. "A Box of Cassettes" (novella)
  7. bygone snow (game)
  8. "Cultivated Creatures" (novella)
  9. Charmolypi (spinoff game)

There are still a few other small works and the like not included in this list, but these are the major ones and ones recommended to experience. You can then optionally go and experience any of the other works not listed here that are in the overview.

In regards to Heinous History and Temporal Timeline, while they aren't necessarily spoilers, they do give a lot of extra context and information that may be best once you are done with everything else.

But, ultimately, you can freely jump between most works of this series. They are made to be standalone and act standalone, even if they have numerous linking ties between each other. Go with what you feel like!

I want to go by release order!

This isn't necessarily recommended, but if you really want to, you can go by this list. It will also mention what is and isn't optional. The optional stuff are the things that are significantly lesser in quality and less relevant to everything else.

  1. OPTIONAL:Limp (game)
  2. Cultivated Creatures (novella)
  3. OPTIONAL: Folktales ~ Selection I (novella)
  4. OPTIONAL: Silver Spiral (novella)
  5. Beautiful Babies (novella)
  6. OPTIONAL: Heinous History (history of the world)
  7. OPTIONAL: Glorious Glossary (list of various important names and terms)
  8. The Möbius Strip (game) OR Endless Ebb (novella adaptation)
  9. A Box of Cassettes (novella)
  10. OPTIONAL: The Möbius Transformation (joke sequel to The Möbius Strip) OR Ending Ebb (novella adaptation)
  11. Garenburg Woods (game)
  12. Charmolypi (spinoff game)
  13. Fraudulent Family (novella)
  14. Serene Seclusion (novella)
  15. Garenburg Penitence: The Riflebird (game)
  16. bygone snow (game)

The main issue with this route are some things will make a little less sense or make other parts make too much sense just because of some delays in when some projects were released, so it's a bit of a rough way to do it. And the optional stuff has more issues than not; Limp for example is a very, very dated game with poorly designed puzzles and a plot that makes barely any sense. Proceed at your own risk!

What about the other games that Creatalsoft has released?

Some are very loosely connected like It Is Too Dark and Unicode but they are so loosely connected that you aren't going to miss anything, and are vastly different kinds of games. Twisted Mirror has no story at all, so it's even less relevant to trying to experience the plot. Going by the recommended order will give the best experience.