The Novelist asks one central question: can you achieve your dreams without pushing away the people you love? The game focuses on Dan Kaplan, a novelist struggling to write the most important book of his career while trying to be the best husband and father he can be. The Kaplans have come to a remote coastal home for the summer, unaware that they?re sharing the house with a mysterious ghostly presence: you.



Read the family?s thoughts. Explore their memories. Uncover their desires and intervene in their lives. But stay out of sight; you can?t help the Kaplans if they know there?s a ghost in the house. It?s up to you to decide how Dan?s career and family life will evolve, but choose carefully; there are no easy answers, and every choice has a cost.



Dan?s relationships ? to his work, his wife, and his son ? react and shift in response to your choices. With a different sequence of events in every playthrough, The Novelist gives life to a unique experience each time you play.



The decisions you make will define the Kaplans? lives, but they may also tell you something about yourself.