Skin & Scales

About

In Skin & Scales you play as a dragon-shifter caught in a city that hates your kind. Arrested the moment you arrive in Avalon, you’re forced to work with a rival agent to solve a murder that’s thrown the kingdom into chaos. Shift between human and dragon forms to navigate tight alleyways, evade patrols, or outright battle them, your choices shape how the world reacts. The story leans on dialogue and stealth over action, with branching paths that decide whether you ally with rebels, side with the regime, or carve your own path. The game’s strength is its layered writing. Every character feels like they belong in a world where magic is regulated by bureaucracy and dragons are both feared and exploited. While some combat encounters drag, the mystery of Avalon’s political rot and your own shifting loyalties keeps the pace tight. With 15+ hours of main story and secret endings tied to your morality, it’s a slow-burn tale that rewards careful play. Rein Writes’ script lands at 87% on community polls for dialogue depth.

Storyline

Moments after stepping foot in your new home, you’ve been arrested. And as a dragon-shifter, as the name implies, a human who can shape-shift at will into a one of the few dragon species still left in the world, the odds are naturally stacked against you in the city of Avalon, where your kind is kept under a scrutinizing eye by the King Institute. Left with the last of your options, you are made to partner up with one of the Institutes finest, a fellow dragon-shifter like you, and left with no other choice, you are left to pick up the clues following a sudden murder that has left the whole city shocked and a power vacuum to be filled. Uncover the secrets of your kind, the underbelly of the city, and maybe, just maybe, meet some people that make this place home.