Digitalis Publishing and developer 15 Industry have announced a release date for Veritas Tales: Witch of the Dark Castle, their digital gamebook RPG heading to PC via Steam on July 9, 2026, according to Noisy Pixel. The game will launch with support for English, Japanese, and Simplified Chinese at release.
The core loop leans hard into classic gamebook mechanics - player decisions and dice rolls work together to shape the narrative, with outcomes capable of dramatically redirecting the course of the story. If you grew up on Choose Your Own Adventure books or tabletop RPG session zero moments, this one appears to be gunning straight for that nostalgia.
Digital gamebook RPGs occupy a pretty specific niche, but it's a dedicated one. Games like 80 Days and the Sorcery! series from Inkle Studios have shown there's a real appetite for story-driven experiences where randomness and player agency collide in meaningful ways. Veritas Tales looks to be pitching itself into that same space, leaning on the dark fantasy setting of its titular witch and castle to differentiate itself.
With a mid-2026 window, there's still plenty of runway before launch, but the early announcement gives the team time to build community interest ahead of release. Fans of narrative-heavy RPGs and tabletop-adjacent mechanics will want to keep this one on their Steam wishlist radar.
