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The Boy's Word

Mid-2000s. A sleeping district on the outskirts of Moscow. Concrete tower blocks, a broken swing in the yard, cheap port wine on a bench, and rules nobody wrote down but everyone knows.

Lena is 16, and she's just moved to a new district with her parents. A new school, a new yard, a new hierarchy — and nobody asks if you want to be part of it. To survive, she'll have to choose: whose side she's on, what matters more — her principles or her own people — and what price she's willing to pay for a place among them.

What the game is about

This is a story about growing up too fast, when debts and silence pile up at home, and a given word means more than any law out in the yard. Loyalty, betrayal, first love and family secrets — and at the center of it all is Lena, who has to decide who she's going to become.

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Who will you become?

Reputation in the yard doesn't come free. Every conversation, every party, every lie told for your own people is a step toward one of five endings. Will you stay true to yourself, or will a word given in the yard end up mattering more than anything else?

The Boy's Word isn't really about the boys. It's about the price everyone pays for wanting to belong.