Hope against smog is the heart of Ventreville A Cure for Sorrow, a text based point and click adventure from developer and publisher Spicy Bread Productions LLC. Its first chapter carries the title A Tale of Tall Men, and it tells a coming of age story set in an industrial fantasy world. The story follows Orven, an eighteen year old who seems to have everything: his hero, his city, and his ideals. The hero is the esteemed Ret Avidine, and Orven looks up to him as the chapter opens. But when Ret's project fails, the ground shifts under the young man's feet, and he must come into his own adulthood.