Date Night Bowling
The arcade bowling is solid - I can consistently get strikes, but curving/spin isn’t particularly intuitive. Unfortunately, each character has a single phrase you have to confirm through every single time they come up to bowl. You have to play as everyone in single player before they’re available in vs. mode (whether AI or human). The minigames are fun and themed to the bowling alley. Achievements, at least at launch, appear to be not be functioning. If you’re looking for some casual arcade-style bowling, you’ll find it here - everything else feels a little thin.
– Real player with 2.4 hrs in game
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Paradise Beach Girls
I played this for a couple hours with my husband’s black boyfriend. The first thing that popped at me was slow scrolling text, repetitive music, and spelling errors. There didn’t seem to be any options to change the text speed or music. Also no achievements or cards. The graphics are exactly what you see in the screenshots.
Aside from that, this game is average for this genre, 5/10 IF you get it on sale. I only give it a thumbs up because this is playable and there is worse stuff out there.
– Real player with 5.3 hrs in game
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Women of Xal
This game has so many layers to it… the plot twists… the stakes riding on your decisions! I am in awe. I went through so many ““bad”” endings to get to the ‘true’ good ending but having to work for that ending made it so much more satisfying. Not to mention that the ““bad”” endings still had brilliant content, and I enjoyed playing each time as there are so many different decisions to make. And so many people to woo…. heart eyes
– Real player with 31.4 hrs in game
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Feminist brain: This is an excellent use of the visual novel format with amazingly complex worldbuilding, distinctive characters who are easy to love (or hate, as the case may be), and while the dream-dropping doesn’t seem to be integrated into the game so far it’s an interesting concept I’d like to see. All in all, I’m very much looking forward to the finished product.
Queer brain: hehe purdy ladies
– Real player with 24.6 hrs in game
9-nine-:Episode 3
The game is much more developed with the plot and the romance is build to parallel episode 1’s version. Though, episode 3 is a mix of a visual and kinetic novel. It’s much more straight forward than the last two games of the 9-nine series. Although I wish I had waited for episode 3 to be on sale, I was disappointed the there was no spring break sale for 2021.
Anyhow, it’s certainly easier to interact with Haruka because you can barely hear anything she says in the last two games. This game is (obviously) much more concentrated on letting her interact with Kakeru and co., so at least even on listening at full volume you can finally her hear more clearly.
– Real player with 18.5 hrs in game
9-Nine Episode 3 is the penultimate volume of the series with the establishment of the main villain.
Here we focus on Haruka, an older senpai with split personalities. Her personalities are a side effect of her unique superpower and her insecurities, and while a classic case of self-development, her earnest efforts rings true. Haruka’s drastic change between her two personalites increases her appeal, and along with her unique reactions, makes her an expressive and animated heroine.
The series is noticeably weaker when it’s not emphasizing its comedic bits, romantic heart-to-hearts and action heavy scenes, but in the grand scheme of the story, it’s only going to get better from here.
– Real player with 17.0 hrs in game
9-nine-:Episode 4
Episode 4 is the first game I’ve played of the series.
The story is so good that I want to read all of the chapters. Except I don’t, because that would mean I wouldn’t see Noa and Kakeru together anymore.
The creators did a splendid job at helping you understand the plot without having to read the previous chapters. This was definitely one of my bigger concerns because nobody likes experiencing things where they’re left completely out of the loop.
I find the quality of this story to come close to some of my favorite novels: Chaos;Child, Steins;Gate and ISLAND. Many events in this novel seem to be centered around personalities and it shows you how much thought went in to every single character, but the main story revolves around the concept of time travel with their own fascinating twist added to it.
– Real player with 28.1 hrs in game
This is not a proper review AT ALL, I am just typing what I have in my mind.
9-nine series, definitely masterpiece-tier visual novel for me. Who would have thought a simple story about investigating the truth behind a crime would lead up to so many messed up things. Truth to be told, I thought 9-nine is just another visual novel that talks about daily life with the heroines, having dates, sharing first kiss, saving the heroines in dangerous situation and so on. Hell no, 9-nine brought me more than that, of course one thing that surprised me the most is the game breaking the fourth wall and involve you as much as possible into the story.
– Real player with 26.6 hrs in game
A Marble’s Muse
In the small island of Liliana, lays Clarke, an artist who just so happens to be a marble. They’re having some trouble, you see. They’re facing the worst thing that can happen to a creative: artist’s block. Following the footsteps of their favorite artists, they’re out on the town to find a muse! That’s where you come in! It’s your job to guide Clarke to their next muse and maybe even help them find love along the way. Will you make Clarke’s next piece the best portrait Liliana has ever seen or will they continue to be stuck with their artist’s block?
Inspired by the amazing channel, Jelle’s Marble Runs on YouTube, and Hatoful Boyfriend, comes a idiosyncratic dating sim where you can date marbles!
Features
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5 romance interests, all with their own storyline and personality!
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Open Dyslexic font option
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Artwork done by Betawolfs, a member of Jelle’s Marble Runs!
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A ninja
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The mafia
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A gigantic event where marbles participate in numerous sports, such as horse racing and ribbon dancing aka the Marble Palooza
Team
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Kristi Jimenez (HusbandoGoddess): Writer & Project Lead
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Gami (Bradley Marques): Programmer
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Efe Torzan & Silas Maximus Martinez (Whadies): Composers
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Naraudio & Kazantsev: Music Box Composers
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Enajori Yui: Background Artist
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BetaWolfs, Andiboy, and William Doyle (Will Rabbit): Artists
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M: GUI Artist
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Taylor Morphis, Kelly Escalante, & Windchimes: Proofreaders & Editors
Furries & Scalies & Bears OH MY! 2: Return to Kale Bay
So this game is a ride! One that you realize is going to go crazy about 15 mins. into it. I’ll not spoiler anything, other than to say Its definetly different. I’ve no idea why the author took the story in the direction they did. And it left ALOT of unanswered questions about what happened to everyone from the original game! Questions I was not expecting a sequel to bring up, and all the usual questions you would expect some answers from in a sequel. No Answers given, just unexplained mysteries. This one created alot of loose ends, which i absolutely cant get into cause spoilers! but grrrrrrrrr I so wana ask why what and how now!
– Real player with 4.2 hrs in game
Dementia the game! (A Friend bought me this game)
The plot is super confusing and all over the place but none the less sort of all makes sense at the end,.its 4 am so i mean i’m tired as heck but yea it was an overall weird? decent experience or something. Breaks the 4th wall a couple of times and has some humor in their like dragons going to space even though they have wings and can fly.
P.S
Wyatt is a sweet heart best character in the game.
– Real player with 1.4 hrs in game
Furries & Scalies & Bears OH MY!
When it comes to Fantasy Visual Novel Dating Sims, I put this up there near the top of the list. The storyline is good, the characters have depth, and there is good emphasis on interaction.
If you looking for a X-Rated Visual Novel, look somewhere else, cause this story does not have that, nor does it need it. This means you are safe to play it without concerns about someone looking over your shoulder at the wrong time ;)
I wish more games like this existed, and am excited to see what the developer comes up with next.
– Real player with 31.9 hrs in game
I really enjoyed this game. It was a short sweet “adventure” to another place. There are a few typoes that im sure will be caught and fixed in the next couple of days / weeks (i litteraly bought this on release so it is to be expected.) Other than that i cant think of anything that came off poorly.
On the positive side, all of the characters were interesting. The conversations were believable and managed both to move the story line and flesh out the character you are interacting with. When I finished the game, i was left with the sense that i really had gotten to know a bit of everyone. The only thing that could have made this better was of course MORE!!!!! lol but honestly thats the way I always feel when I’ve finished an enjoyable book of any sort.
– Real player with 18.6 hrs in game
Furry Shakespeare: Emperor Penguin Lear
You were just invited to partake in Elsinore Academy’s summer theater program! But then there was that horrible accident during the production of Cymbeline, and now you’re sort of a ghost. Emphasis on sort of. Everyone still thinks that you’re alive, to the point of maybe dating you, and you’ve even signed up for the latest play, King Lear, written by Girl Werewolf Hamlet.
Look, it’s a whole thing, okay?
Haunted by your past, you must make this the best play ever! Influence the main faculty, make friends and defeat enemies, and just have the best summer theater experience that a ghost actor has ever had!
Each segment of the game feeds into the next: your schooling during the day will affect the play during the night. As an incorporeal (somewhat) being, you have the ability to change how the play goes, and therefore how it is received by the general public. Your friendships and rivalries will spill out on to the stage, you’ll chart each actors progress and teach them new skills, and you might even alter King Lear forever! A drama might become a comedy, a comedy might become a drama!
Features
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Use your ghost powers to manipulate every aspect of the production of King Lear.
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Interact with a host of students.
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Date five people. Not all at once.
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Solve the mystery of your own murder!
Furry Shakespeare: To Date Or Not To Date Cat Girls?
Probably one of the greatest games I’ve ever played. I laughed, I wept, I mourned. I will never forget the impact this wonderful game had on my life.
– Real player with 6.6 hrs in game
I wondered why this game only had but a single review. I wondered if I would enjoy dating Cat Girls, when I myself prefer Dog Boys. I wondered a lot as I played it, what it was that I was reading? I wondered who I was supposed to be. I wondered if I was really trying to date one of these people, Or was I trying to solve some mystery here, Or just survive some mind twisting Thing…?
I still dont have any answers to any of that, but I do know there are now two reviews for this game. And I know I’ll walk down all its different paths until I figure out just exactly what it is I have read. or come to the end of the last one and realize that there is just me at the end of it all, wondering….
– Real player with 5.1 hrs in game