Ultimate Sadou- tea or coffee?
The English is machine translated. The writing in the opening scene is simple enough that I could still follow what was going on despite the inaccuracies and unnatural phrasings, but it’s not fun to read. Example screenshots here. According to another reviewer, the Chinese translation is MTL as well. Refunded.
– Real player with 0.1 hrs in game
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La Dimensione Interna
La Dimensione Interna (The Dimension Within) is a 3D narrative adventure game where you play as a young Italian journalist, named Giorgio, living in a small town in Tuscany. The game focuses on his personal struggle as he finds himself at the center of a chain of events he doesn’t quite understand, but feels responsible for. The player will be asked to guide him through a series of situations and decisions where time, the opinion of others, and his emotions will influence how the story unfolds, and ultimately decide the destiny of the protagonist and the people around him.
Through an innovative dialogue system, the player will be able to decide when to respond or intervene in a dialogue; he will also be able to decide what to say – and how to say it. All those elements will be taken into account by the characters involved, which will respond accordingly to what they feel, believe, and are trying to achieve.
However, not all options will always be available, and this will depends on Giorgio’s Principles: the player will be able to shape up his instincts and personality, which will enable some choices and hinder others. There are ways to force Giorgio to act against his will, to a certain degree, but it will have a cost.
Giorgio’s emotions are another important aspect the player will need to deal with: fears, anxieties, neurosis will make everything more challenging for him: on a wrong day, even innocent jokes can turn into mortal offences, and some NPCs will leverage this, in the attempt to manipulate him.
Another key aspect is that Time will always be ticking – even during conversations. Every line of dialogue pronounced by either the protagonist or other characters has a time cost associated. This means that even if NPCs will follow their own routine, your actions will impact what they will decide to do next, given they still have the time to do it… just remember that time won’t wait for you either.
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Pandemic Love
Just finished each path for each route, and I’ve loved this VN. Obviously the pandemic has been pretty shitty overall, but there’s a silver lining to everything, and I think that it’s so cool what’s changed as a result of it. With VNs, it’s fascinating to see new ones made about the pandemic, and it’s so interesting to see new approaches to VNs that wouldn’t have been possible before. I think Pandemic Love is a great example of that unique quality. I laughed, cried, grinned like an idiot at parts, and everything in between. Thank you, so much, to Red Skald for giving rise to this game! As somebody who wasn’t too hard-hit by the pandemic, it’s also a great wake-up call to, not just read in a news article, but actually play something that gives life to what happened in Bergamo, and other places like it. Overall, I’m glad as hell for this game.
– Real player with 19.3 hrs in game
Red Skald does it again.
It’s hard to believe that three years have already passed since first discovering the hidden gem “Find someone else” in the Steam visual novel library, but here we are. That is a game that moved me in unexpected ways, as someone who deals with chronic illness and death anxiety. So much has changed since then, but Pandemic Love feels like returning home in many ways. For one thing, the artwork, tone, and general vibe of both games is noticeably similar - though certainly not identical. It stands to reason that if you enjoyed the former, this is not one to miss.
– Real player with 6.3 hrs in game
Professor of Magical Studies
Professor of Magical Studies is an interactive magical school novel by Stephen Granade, where your choices control the story. It’s entirely text-based, without graphics or sound effects, and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination.
You’re a professor of magical studies, specializing in pattern magic. When magical practitioners study special patterns, they reshape their minds to turn the potential energy between dimensions into magical energy and shape the world to their will.
Road to Nowhere
**Road to Nowhere tells the story of Cohle Bishop – a renowned introvert, and successful software developer – whose life is torn apart by scandal.
Though innocent, he is haunted by personal demons, abandoning his “perfectly adequate” life in hope of finding himself on the open road. Despite the help of his psychologist, Cohle spirals into depression as he moves from town to town – destination nowhere.
Though hounded by painful memories, there is hope at the end of this strange, twisted journey.
Can you help him find his way?**
Road To Nowhere is an emotionally charged point-and-click adventure about betrayal, manipulation and abuse. The game is produced by 15BiT GAMES, and developed using Powerhoof’s PowerQuest framework. This solemn tale sports a unique aesthetic, and original dialogue written and performed by David J. Ross.
Road to Nowhere has also been chosen as a finalist for The Guest Plate award in the NZ Games Festival Pavs Awards 2021.
Features:
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Branching storyline with multiple endings.
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Live-action actors with a dreamy, neon-noir atmosphere.
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Featuring the acting talent of Rupert Booth (Contradiction), Melissa Medina (Rose & Locket), Walter Mack (Reversion), Danidos (Twitch Streamer), Claire Lim (Twitch Streamer), Dean Thomson and David J. Ross.
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An interactive music system that changes according to your play style.
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A melancholy, synthwave soundtrack written and produced by Aaron “MisterMyr” Silva (Neon Flytron)
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Includes eclectic music by the likes of PlayHz, Kyle Misko, Daniel Birch, and Suldusk.
Releasing on Windows, Linux/SteamOS and MacOS
4 Alice Magical Autistic Girls
4 Alice Magical Autistic Girls is a visual novel that accomplishes what it sets out to do: tell an interesting, fantastical and magical story while allowing the player to see and understand the world through the eyes of a teenage girl with autism. By doing this game manages to create awareness of autism educating the player through the gameplay experience while still entertaining. The main character portrayal breaks the mold of the typical video game protagonist by giving us a representation of a functionally diverse individual.
– Real player with 3.6 hrs in game
I found this to be a very short but entertaining and memorable game.
If you like Sailor Moon, Madoka Magica, slice-of-life, horror and the supernatural, then this is the game for you.
What sold me on this game was the fact that it’s about autistic girls and was written by an autistic woman.
As a fellow autie, it was really nice to see some good autistic representation since it’s not something that I get to see very often because autistic people are so underrepresented in media overall.
Please support autistic creators and our works, whether it be through financial assistance, word-of-mouth or both!
– Real player with 1.7 hrs in game
Homunculus Hotel
- The story -
Homunculus Hotel is a visual novel composed of 6 stories.
As Isabelle, your task is to visit the guests of the hotel’s various floors,
talk with them and help them understand the dreams that their rooms show them.
Unable to see her dream, though, she tries to console herself with the memories
of her ex-fiancée between one day’s sessions and the next.
- The Hotel -
Here at the Homunculus Hotel every room is a story and we help lost spirits find their way through their past dreams.
We have a special assistance program specifically developed for this purpose:
Dreams? Memories? Unspoken desires?
Unlike the world out there, at Homunculus Hotel nothing is taboo and everyone is accepted.
- What we offer -
A special room that will show your dreams, fears or hidden desires
A helper that will listen to you and take your loneliness away
A hand-picked selection of tracks
Many people to meet and connections to make
- Soundscape of Dreams -
We are very selective when it comes to music,
and we want to offer you the best of the best we can have.
That’s why we have a special music program that covers the entire hotel with tracks made by Kazuhide Yamaji/dip and Channel of Dreams.
- Brought to you by -
Rinkaku - Director, Writer, Programmer, Artist
Emma Martinuz - Animator
Gaia Papoila - Character Artist
Lidia Santoemma - UI and Background Artist
Majikoi! Love Me Seriously!
Was an instant buy for me but didn’t expect it’ll be like this….
Majikoi….YES YES YES YES! Finally, they actually did an official localization of this gem! And to bring it to steam as well! Nice going Minatosoft. Tried this game years ago using the fan-translation patch which was done splendidly by the translation team and got instantly hooked by the myriad amount of characters personality and while the story might seem generic in the sea of school life themed VN, they still did a wonderful job in delivering it and made it captivating as well. The steam version, however….I have mixed feelings for this one.
– Real player with 85.9 hrs in game
We live in a society, where a free fan translated game is superior to the same game on Steam. Wow
I want to support the devs who created a great game but these kinda half baked product isn’t doing it any favours.
You buy the Steam version, you’re getting choppy game with voices being removed for important side characters especially villains that are important to the game and changing the names for characters as well.
HENCE, must get the DLC patch from JAST USA (why it isn’t on steam though smh) and voice restoration patch to add better translation and voices so you can experience this game fully as it was meant to be. Similar to mods, but these are necessary mods that will make you mad why they didn’t do it well, idiots.
– Real player with 70.1 hrs in game
The Ghost of Joe Papp: 101 Ways To Kill Writer’s Block
You’ve returned to your hometown after trying to strike it big as a writer out in the mean old world. You’ll find that your old theater festival, the John Q. Public Festival, has fallen upon hard times (but honestly, when has it not?). It’s not easy being Lake Tahoe’s second-best Shakespeare festival. It falls to you to write a new future for the festival, as well as either mend or break your relations with the people that you left behind.
Or at least that’s the story you’re trying to tell. You ARE a writer, but the “hometown” is a play you wrote long ago and the “mean old world”…. well, no, that’s the mean old world. That’s not a stand-in for anything.
As Joe Papp’s author, you find yourself with the ability to change the story that you are in, making choices between multiple characters that ultimately dictate how the story progresses. Will you save the theater festival, or will you cause the zombie apocalypse?
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Write new paths to go down with (almost) every new scene
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Your choices have effects on how every character views you
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Make decisions that will affect your play’s rating with the critics
The Sych story
This game is fucking incredible.
– Real player with 0.8 hrs in game