---
title: "Death by Debt"
description: "Alastair Cochraine has just lost his job. Threatened with eviction but determined to keep his apartment—and his cats—Alastair sets off on an adventure to pad hi"
image: "https://t.vndb.org/cv/50/57550.jpg"
---

# Death by Debt

![Death by Debt](https://t.vndb.org/cv/50/57550.jpg)

**Aliases:** DbD

**Release date:** Apr 15, 2020

**Platform:** Windows, Linux, macOS

**Language:** English

## Description
Alastair Cochraine has just lost his job. Threatened with eviction but determined to keep his apartment—and his cats—Alastair sets off on an adventure to pad his bank account. But good jobs are hard to find in this town, and he’s about to discover just how far he’ll go to pay the rent. Potential employers include an anxious alchemist, a morose mobster, and a calculating crime boss. Can Alastair succeed, or will the city swallow him up?

[From [official site](https://mintbiscuits.itch.io/death-by-debt)]

## Characters
### Alastair Cochraine
- **Gender:** Male
- **Alias:** Alastair, Kid, Tart, Al
- **Engages in:** Smoking, Teasing, Murder
- **Role:** Boyfriend, Unemployed, Prostitute, Mafia, Alchemist, Homosexual, Not an Anal Virgin
- **Subject of:** Avoidable Death (obsolete)
- **Personality:** Unlucky, Cat Person

### Gunnar Ivarsson
- **Gender:** Male
- **Alias:** Gunnar
- **Personality:** Pretending, Classic Tsundere, Protective, Cat Person
- **Engages in:** Smoking, Murder, Arson
- **Role:** Boyfriend, Friend, Mafia, Homosexual
- **Subject of:** Teasing
- **Items:** Baseball Bat

### Ilya Kirsanov
- **Gender:** Male
- **Alias:** Ilya, Alchemist
- **Personality:** Hard Worker, Strange, Romantic
- **Subject of:** Bullying, Unavoidable Other Route Death, Psychological Trauma
- **Role:** Boyfriend, Thief, Alchemist

### Kilian Margrave
- **Gender:** Male
- **Alias:** Kilian
- **Role:** Villain, Betrothed, Mafia, Monster, Bisexual, Sex Friend
- **Engages in:** Investigation
- **Subject of:** Unavoidable Other Route Death

### Leonora Crowley
- **Gender:** Female
- **Alias:** Leo
- **Role:** Friend, Barista
- **Engages in:** Teasing
- **Subject of:** Avoidable Death (obsolete)

## Shops
- [Itch](https://mintbiscuits.itch.io/death-by-debt)

## Releases
### English
- **2020-04-15**: Death by Debt - [Itch.io](https://mintbiscuits.itch.io/death-by-debt)

## Tags
Romance, Male Protagonist, Multiple Endings, Bloody Scenes, Psychological Problems, Smoker Protagonist, Villainous Hero, Few Event CGs, Black and White, Smoker Hero, Female Friend, Boy x Boy Romance Only, No Gallery, Monster Hero, Debt

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*View the full details at [pinovel.net/v36979](https://pinovel.net/v36979).*

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