Cursed Sight was developed and published by InvertMouse, and released on August 3, 2015.
Being able to control fate would be a blessing for many. To Miyon, it is her greatest curse. East and West Taria are in conflict, and Miyon's power will be the most valuable weapon. Meanwhile, Gai has been sold by his family into Miyon's temple. Will the two save or destroy one another?
This visual novel contains the following tropes:
- Blessed with Suck: Miyon has the power to receive visions and influence fate using various rituals, but anyone who looks directly into her eyes is immediately killed. Also applies to Gai's sister.
- Broken Bird: Miyon.
- Chekhov's Gunman: Gai's little sister. It turns out that she was born with the same curse as Miyon, inadvertently killed her parents, and ended up in another temple like Miyon, albeit with someone who treated her better than Miyon was treated.
- Daddy Had a Good Reason for Abandoning You: The game opens with Gai's parents selling him to the temple, and Gai understandably resents them for this. He eventually learns that his little sister was born with the same curse as Miyon, and his parents gave him up to ensure his safety.
- Deadly Gaze: One of Miyon's powers. She has to wear a veil over her eyes so that she doesn't inadvertently kill everyone she meets. As does Gai's sister.
- Downer Ending: While it offers four different ending paths, there are no truly "happy endings", i.e., one where all the characters can survive and live Happily Ever After together.
- Ending 1, "Temperance", maintains the overall status quo. Because you refused to make a concrete decision, you avoid the inevitable but doom Miyon. She is forced to remain a weapon and political tool for King Lok.
- In Ending 2, "Dawning", Lok kills himself after the protagonists fake Miyon's death, and the king comes to haunt you in your dreams every night.
- Ending 3, "Surrogate", is the "happiest": East Taria wins the war, but has spent so many resources on the conflict it drives the nation to ruin. The king's increasing Sanity Slippage also means that he decides he no longer needs Miyon, and you leave with her to parts unknown.
- In Ending 4, the True Ending, you and Miyon actively choose to accept each other's feelings and share one last tender moment together. Miyon casts a final spell to summon Lok's dead family into his visions and allow him to move past his grief, but this spell results in Miyon's death. The king, humbled, treats his people much better and a fragile peace settles between East and West Taria. You eventually meet Zoluu, Sasa, and Miyon in the afterlife, and get a Perspective Flip from Miyon's POV (and finally get to see her without her veil).
- Gilded Cage: How Miyon lives.
- Living Emotional Crutch: Sasa for Miyon and Gai; she uses this to try and get the two to get along better. When Sasa is killed in an earthquake, it forces both Miyon and Gai to grow up and learn to depend on themselves.
- Mama Bear: Sasa is this for Miyon and for her own children.
- Parental Abandonment: The plot kicks off when Gai's parents sell him to Miyon's temple as a servant. It eventually comes to light that they did this because Gai's sister had the same curse as Miyon and they didn't want him to be hurt. They end up passing away not long after.
- Precocious Crush: Gai has one on Sasa.
- Team Mom: Sasa acts as a mother figure to both Gai and Miyon, neither of whom have any other positive role models in their lives.
- Time Skip: A five-year one takes place not too long after the festival.