『 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 December 2024, there are two major games, 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.

Major Games

  • The Möbius Strip
  • Garenburg Woods
  • Garenburg Penitence: The Riflebird

Spinoffs

  • Charmolypi

Novellas

  • Cultivated Creatures
  • Folktales ~ Selection I
  • Silver Bed Data Logs Vol. 1
  • Beautiful Babies
  • Endless Ebb (novella adaptation of The Möbius Strip)
  • A Box of Cassettes
  • Ending Ebb (novella adaptation of The Möbius Transformation)
  • Fraudulent Family
  • Serene Seclusion

Other Works

  • The Möbius Transformation (joke sequel to The Möbius Strip)
  • Limp (older game in the same universe but rough and low quality)
  • Silver Spiral (short story that was never finished)
  • Heinous History (brief overview of Garenburg's history)
  • Temporal Timeline (brief timeline of works in the series and major events)
  • Glorious Glossary (brief list of various names and terms important to Garenburg)
I want to go with a recommended order!

With the release of Garenburg Penitence: The Riflebird, there are two different starting points you can go with. Both Garenburg Woods and Garenburg Penitence: The Riflebird are fine places to begin, but they will make it a different experience depending on what order you go through them in.

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

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

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

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

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 do this for a release order. This list will also mention what is and isn't optional.

  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 (major 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 (major game)
  12. Charmolypi (spinoff)
  13. Fraudulent Family (novella)
  14. Serene Seclusion (novella)
  15. Garenburg Penitence: The Riflebird (major 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 content does not help this either. However, you can do this if you'd like!

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.