Smallwood | Adult Visual Novel

Smallwood, Kansas after dark

Fifteen years ago a meteor shower tore through a small Kansas town and left it changed. The town has been rebuilt, a new school has opened, and a generation that grew up in the wreckage is finally getting a normal life. Clark Kent is stepping into all of it for the first time, and nothing about it is as normal as it looks.

18+ Mature parody content

A narrative-driven adult VN with a supernatural edge

Setting

Smallwood, Kansas, rebuilt and restless

Fifteen years after the meteor shower that devastated the town, Smallwood has been rebuilt. A new high school has opened its doors, LuthorCorp money runs through its walls, and a generation that grew up without a proper education is finally getting one, all at the same time.

Tone

Personal stakes, escalating consequences

Smallwood is a story-first experience. The focus is on character relationships, growing tensions, and the cost of the choices Clark makes, both as himself and as something else entirely.

What to expect

Structure

Story-driven, not maze-like

Smallwood is a linear-leaning VN. Choices matter for tone and relationships, but they won't lock you out of the story.

Gameplay

Minigames that don't get in the way

Smaller puzzles and interactive moments are worked into the game at key points without breaking the flow of the narrative.

Visuals

AI CG art direction

All visuals are AI-generated CG, developed and curated with a consistent art style throughout.

Main cast

Clark

Clark Kent

Instinctively good, but carrying more than he knows what to do with. His sincerity makes him easy to underestimate. The harder question is what happens when being good isn't enough.

Lana

Lana Lang

Everyone in Smallwood has an idea of who Lana is. She's spent long enough living up to it to know exactly where it doesn't fit. She's figured out what people want from her. Whether she gives it to them is another matter.

Chloe

Chloe Sullivan

Constitutionally incapable of letting a loose thread go. Sharp, resourceful, and occasionally reckless in her need to understand what's going on. Usually the first to figure something out and the last to drop it.

Pete

Pete Ross

Direct, grounded, and the first to tell you what you don't want to hear. His loyalty isn't unconditional, but when it's there, it holds.

Lex

Lex Luthor

Exceptionally intelligent and almost impossible to read. His interest in people makes him compelling in a way that's hard to distrust. Whether that interest ever operates without an agenda is the real question.

Jonathan

Jonathan Kent

Stubborn, principled, and entirely certain of what's right. He doesn't bend easily, and that moral rigidity is both his most admirable quality and the one that causes the most friction.

Martha

Martha Kent

Perceptive and steady where most people aren't. She holds more together than anyone gives her credit for, without making it obvious. The quiet centre of gravity in most rooms.

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