Ligia Nunes
My Visual Novel Games
My main objective is to create stories in which you will feel welcomed and embraced. The path will be arduous, and the story will be hard, but you will always have people who love you around you, ready to give you all the support you need.
For the "visual" part in my visual novels, I've decided to embrace a black and white aesthethic, taking as inspiration my favorite illustrated book of all times: "Tales of Mystery and Imagination," the collection of short stories by Edgar Alan Poe, illustrated by Harry Clarke.
"Love the Guard, Be the King"
Sept.2020 // Play here // Nearing Completion // 🏷️tags: #romantasy, #medieval, #royal
"The Kingdom and its future monarch are in your hands. The choice is yours. Love the Guard or be the king?"
MATHIAS’S HEART HAS BEEN bleeding since his father, the former King, decided to punish you for his mistakes. As the youngest child of a lesser bourgeois, you were raised in the castle, between the King’s cruelty, the Queen’s friendship, and Mathias’s kindness (or supposed kindness?).
Now, more than twenty Carnivals since your arrival, the King is dead and the Queen’s sickness worsens each day. As the azure taint spreads in the kingdom and the Opalean Wars come to an end, it’s Mathias’s time to sit on the throne.
Will the docile Prince become a kind King, a violent Monarch, or a ruthless Tyrant? Will you have any say in it? And how much will your relationship change?
Develop your personality, see how your choices build, and change your bond with Mathias.
It’s time to help him choose. Will your monarch Love the Guard or Be the King?
"Trek to Dead Water"
Dec.2024 // CH01 released // 🏷️tags: #romantasy, #medieval, #royal
Your life as an alchemist has been safe and comfortable so far... but when your sister makes you one last wish before passing away, you'll embark on a dangerous journey that might change your life—and the lives of your two companions—forever.
YOUR SISTER HAS CARRIED the mantle of "Peregrine" for more than two decades. Twelve years older than you, she saw and wrote about the lives of common people, the birth and fall of foreign noble houses, the discovery of plants and animals, and the complex politics of your home kingdom. She lived a life of dangers and excitement, of travels, passions, and experiences you can't even begin to imagine.
And now that she's dead, this mantle (and her newborn child) is yours.
Ghosts, zombies, fantastic animals, arcanes, and criminals. Fool the monster hunting you, the bandits trying to kidnap you, and your own fears while you travel from South Safira to the very heart of Dead Water.
Thank Goddess, you won't be alone. But with a conniving liar at your left and a deluded "Knight" at your right, will you be able to fulfill your sister's last wish? Will you go back to your niece? And will you allow yourself to love for the first time?
Develop your personality, see how your choices build, and change your bond with Yulie and Tobias (and yourself).
Hopefully, you'll also learn to see the world in a new light after this Trek to Dead Water.
My Books
Much like my games, I write my books thinking about inclusion and equity. I believe that art can and will change the world, and I'll do my best to do my part in it. My main objective is to write about healthy queer relationships between people who will still use and discover all the magic that my fictional worlds have to offer.
"Anhang Series, books one to three"
2018-2024 // 2 out of 3 books finished // 🏷️tags: #science-fantasy, #futuristic, #dystopic
"When superhero Rob turns to villainy to complete his mission, he wasn't expecting to unmask the heroic monster threatening the city, nor to fall again for the supervillain he once betrayed."
Superhero Roberto Tapir, a.k.a. Grizzly Bear, has a mission, and he's ready to do anything to complete it. His plan is simple: find a job in a villain Megacorp, manipulate his coworkers, and go back home with his prize, knowing he did the right thing. But being with LĂ©on changes everything, and controlling himself might be way harder than he thought as his old feelings resurface. When LĂ©on and Rob's past is revealed, old wounds reopen and their most dangerous enemy reveals themself. Rob will have to face his mistakes and fight if he wants to save the city... and the man he loves.
In this action-packed trilogy, follow Roberto Tapir, LĂ©on Hamman, and their friends as they fight their way through a horde of misguided super-heroes, greedy billionaires, and otherwordly creatures.
"Things of SĂŁo Paulo, book one"
2020 // Completed // 🏷️tags: #romantasy, #urban_fantasy, #zombies, #Brazilian_Folklore
"Mara not only discovered she's becoming a zombie, but she's falling in love with two monster hunters that hate her kind!"
Mara is changing. After suffering a mysterious accident six months ago, she finally awakens from her coma, only to find that her mother is missing and she has no memory of the accident that left her there. Desperate to make ends meet for her sister, Mara starts painting again, and while most of her paintings are of strangers, there's one that's vaguely recognizable—a black-eyed person who, her intuition tells her, knows the truth behind her accident.
And she might be right. When this very same person breaks into her house, it only takes a ravenous mermaid, lots of blood, and a small resurrection to convince her that the world is a lot more magical than she's ever thought.
Sided by a crazy hot ex-fiancé she's never seen, an old flame she can't forget, and best friends she's never met, Mara makes a deal with people from a forgotten past, part of an organization she's never heard about. Hurled into heaps of danger and secrets, Mara will have to uncover her true enemies, protect her family, and understand what happened on the day her life almost ended...and she became a Zombie.
"To Bind a Dragon - Dragon Affairs, book one"
2024 // TBA // 🏷️tags: #romantasy, #dragons, #sourcerers
Getting into the Sourcerer council would change everything—but first, OlĂvia must lie her way into a Dragon den, resist her hot bodyguard, and decide what's more important, her family name, survival, or true love.
OlĂvia Munhoz has only one chance of clearing her family name and getting a seat on the Sourcerer Council: to perform a complex ritual in a specific sacred site in SĂŁo Paulo. To do that, she must first lie her way into the most dangerous territory of the continent and earn the trust of its owners:
Dragon shapeshifters.
To legendary Dragon Knight, HeloĂsa "The Hellbringer," only two things matter. First, the safety of her people. Second, becoming a Commander again to smash the weak alliance between dragons and Sourcerers. After all, she learned the hard way that sharing a bed with a Sourcerer can only lead to death and disaster.
So when Oli, a cute Sourcerer, shows up out of nowhere asking to learn more about Dragonkin, Hel doesn't buy it for a second. Unfortunately for her, Hel's mom does.
Going against the entire den, the Dragon Matriarch not only allows Oli into their territory but also forces Hel to act as her personal bodyguard and liaison. The problem? The other Dragons are ready to bite Oli's head off. The ugly truth? Keeping Oli alive and proving her ill intentions might put Hel right where she's meant to be: in charge of the entire Den.
Forced into an unlikely alliance taut with danger and sexual tension, Oli and Hel must watch each other's backs to get what they want—in more ways than one.
But when Oli discovers a terrible secret and her own lies are revealed, will she have the courage to face the consequences? Or will she crumble before the mighty powers that broke her family, losing a love that can burn down mountains?
About Me
Ligia Nunes: writing stories that welcome you home
Brazilian, 90's kid, panromantic, demisexual, interested in all things artistic.
Ligia Nunes is an award winner writer, Visual Novel Developer, feminist, queer, and Brazilian Latina born and raised in São Paulo, Brazil. At the same time writer, illustrator, translator, and terrible karaokê singer, she's the type of supervillain who's decided to dream big and conquer the word. Ligia puts her characters to play, battle, and fall hopelessly in love in megacities built with the dark corners of countless cities as bricks, technology as blood, and Brazilian folklore as soul. When she’s not wickedly plotting against her main characters—or making them pine for one another—she’s developing games or searching for the perfect pistachio ice cream.
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