Big Dipper
Big Dipper is a short, romantic kinetic visual novel full of fairy-tale ambiance. It’s a sweet story about two people drawn together by fate, by quite magical circumstances. I must admit sometimes, especially at first, I thought that the plot was a tad unrealistic and unbelievable, but you know what, you should just let yourself relax and dive into that fantastic atmosphere. I even recollected those childish years when dad used to read me fairy-tales before I fell asleep. And sometimes I wondered how those things could even happen and the answer was always–‘It’s a fairy-tale. Everything is possible there’. Thank you so much for making me remember that wonderful feeling!
– Real player with 7.7 hrs in game
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Big Dipper is a short romantic visual novel, the artwork is pretty and the characters look nice. It has a little bit of mystery and it’s a cute fantasy fairytale story. It could have been a great story if the developers would have taken their time to write more about it and give the story the room to breath that it deserves.
– Real player with 6.5 hrs in game
All Ashes and Illusions
“Women are snakes and liars, all of them: the more beautiful, the more conniving. Don’t let your guard down, or they will ruin you.”
Yuel was only six years old when he witnessed his mother being put to death, for the heinous crime of daring to have an affair. For other women, such a folly mightn’t have been so lethal, but for Yuel’s ill-fated mother – the wife and queen of Indra’s tyrannical king, Khalil – it spelt her doom.
As he witnesses his mother’s corpse decomposing beneath the intense sunlight, Yuel’s father offers him some sage words of wisdom: namely, not to trust women. They are, in Khalil’s words, wicked and deceitful, and becoming too attached can end in nothing save disaster.
Outwardly, Yuel must swallow his sorrow, for fear of earning his father’s ire. Kings are not, after all, supposed to cry; even future kings such as him. In private, however, Yuel turns to his nursemaid, the kindly Safiya, for succour. Safiya is Yuel’s only ally in the palace: his father cold and distant; the servants deferential, brow-beaten, and kept silent through fear. Without Safiya, Yuel would be all alone…
Yet she, too, abandons him, when Yuel grows old enough to no longer need a nursemaid to tend to him.
Bereft and embittered, Yuel has nothing to look forward to, until – after a prolonged illness – his father eventually dies, and Yuel inherits the throne and the crown in his stead.
No longer a young boy – Safiya’s ‘little prince’ – but a grown man, Yuel plots to win Safiya over once more. Unable to forget about her, and unable to trust any other woman, Yuel cannot conceive of a life without her. She did promise to stay with him, after all - and, single-minded to a fault, Yuel is determined to see this promise fulfilled at any cost.
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About 90,000 words of text (approx 4-6 hours of reading)
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A kinetic story with no choices/branches
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Detailed background and character art
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A custom soundtrack
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A highly dysfunctional relationship
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Free patch that adds uncensored r18 content
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Complete and utter agony ❤︎
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Welcome To… Chichester 1/Redux : The Spy Of America And The Long Vacation
A promise once long forgotten comes back with clarity so strong it reinvigorates the need to make it come true
WTC Redux : The spy of America and the Long Vacation takes the reader back to where it all began of the mutual rivalry between Grendel Jinx & The Council of the Unseen and Spy & The Phoenix Custodians and what better way to portray this than through a…. BOSS FIGHT!!!
For anyone new to the Welcome to… Chichester (WTC) games expect a lot of wild, pun-tastic humour mixed with short, flowing action-laden chapters that opens up a world packed with dramatic espionage and interesting characters that are all as equally lively as the main protagonist creating a well balanced plot that hardly lets you go from the start.
– Real player with 15.7 hrs in game
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This one is quite comical and had a few fun laughs with an aeroplane event where I’m surprised most passengers didn’t grab parachutes and bail.
There is a couple of quirks though
Something strange with app’s achievements
On just launching game it immediately unlocks about 8 before starting game, they all just pop up in rows.
Chapter 1
Loser !
New Game !!!
Starting a new job
Complete NEW prologue
Completed WTC 0
New Name
Read Future Prologue
Few errors like https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2242187244
– Real player with 5.1 hrs in game
Psycholonials
So the trailers are very honest about the kinds of things this game does that might need content warnings. Guns and blood and mental anguish and stuff. But I also kinda wanna warn people about one other thing this game does because it’s pretty unpleasant. It’s also like my favorite thing this game does so, idk, up to you if you wanna keep reading.
This game fucks with you. The pretentious way to say it would be to call Psycholonials a “challenging piece of art” which I think definitely applies but, you know, jerk off hand motion. I’m not a writer but I’ll try to find better ways to phrase this because… it’s complicated. It keeps doing this thing where it puts you on the defensive by saying something super iffy, but I think after playing the whole thing that I’ve settled on giving Hussie the benefit of the doubt that that’s intentional and making a point. It drops a lot of really big, really red flags but all of them have a more charitable reading that is good actually but requires a lot of unearned good faith reading on your part to see it.
– Real player with 16.9 hrs in game
Hi, sit down and bear with me. Keep in mind i have never felt the need to write a negative review to a game in my entire life. I am just sad.
This game is simply awful, just incredibly bad. There is nothing to like about anything except the music and SOME of the art. Jokes are bad, it’s just “2020 haha” moments and it’s boring. Seriously, i would never finish this if i played it alone, it’s not interesting. Bear with me, what is there to like about an edgy mental “celebrity” who destroys an entire country just BECAUSE? What’s to like about dumb conversations and just “oh, society is bad and i have the right to act like this because… i don’t know, i guess i can”. A lot of deaths occur simply because, too.
– Real player with 9.6 hrs in game
Scarlet and Blank
PROS
-Great writing
-Nice soundtrack
-The melancholic vibe
-Art style
-It’s FREE
CONS
-A bit too short (characters don’t really get fleshed out).
-A few bugs.
I really enjoyed this short visual novel.
8/10
– Real player with 2.3 hrs in game
I enjoyed this beautifully tragic tale, the narration and music set the atmosphere nicely for the read
– Real player with 1.2 hrs in game
The Craft of the Samurai
This is a story and not a game, as it says more or less on the tin, so to speak. It is worth your time, you can read it at your own pace. It doesn’t have filler or pointless choices like some games have. The art work is excellent. Nice music. If you enjoy short stories and anything samurai, at this price you have nothing to lose. It took me just over an hour to finish it. I hope the Dev plans on making more stories of the same story quality and using the same artist.
– Real player with 1.3 hrs in game
Short and Sweet.
I appreciate the developer providing exactly what to expect with the visual novel, and that it was reasonably priced. I only heard about this game through some indie game YouTube channels, so I’m glad there’s some exposure to this for what may get lost in the shuffle of the many games appearing on Steam daily.
The overall presentation was good. The art, sound effects and most of the music complimented the short story well and fits the homages being paid here. I only wish there was even more art to fit the narrative, but I’d expect it to be a limitation.
– Real player with 0.6 hrs in game
Welcome To… Chichester 2 - Part II : No Regrets For The Future
Disclosure: During the early access stages of this game’s development, I accepted an offer to proofread it, and repeated the exercise just ahead of final release. This will have no bearing on my assessment of the entertainment on offer.
Albeit with one episode left to follow, this game may represent the end of a journey for this series which has seen it progress from shallow and somewhat under-cooked, to massively improved with engaging plot, character backstories, more graphical interest and more in-game extras.
– Real player with 41.6 hrs in game
Welcome to.. Chichester Part II: No regrets for the future gives a reflection on early meetings between the impish archenemy Grendel and the Protagonist during the holiday capers from WTC 2 Part 1. The recollections take us back to the very first interactions between them during the Protagonist’s first mission, giving an insight into the developing kinship that not only causes concerns for Grendel’s father but also becomes a confliction of interests since Grendel’s father belongs to a rival secret organisation ‘pet insurance’ company.
– Real player with 10.7 hrs in game
Welcome To… Chichester OVN 3 : The Mysterious Affair At The Violet Hotel
‘You were only supposed to blow the bloody doors off’' - Michael Caine
In this third (and final) OVN Grendel has an idea, a brainwave that can benefit all of h- umm.. herself(!) and any players who have had previous experience reading the Welcome to Chichester series will know that Grendel’s ideas are an omen to disaster.
Being the egotist that she is, Grendel had put her plan immediately into action and, with the aid of the long suffering protagonist, the ingenious scheme met an unexpected problem that not only ‘blew the doors off’ but destroyed the kitchen, dining area & meeting rooms of the Violet hotel!!
– Real player with 15.4 hrs in game
Note: I proofread this game for language and grammatical accuracy, and therefore will be making no observations about the quality of the text within.
The third and final side story to the Welcome To Chichester series takes a marked turn from its predecessors in the sense that the story volume has been increased greatly, with the emphasis on corny humour somewhat toned down.. although this is not to suggest that we suddenly have a serious, slice-of-life tale. Oh no, nothing of the sort. This instalment brings us a science fiction-esque body swap situation wrapped in another layer of extreme silliness.
– Real player with 9.8 hrs in game
Asterism
Asterism is a visual novel about a young Aligner, a high school student who, along with his friends, has the supernatural ability to detect specters and banish them using weapons made of constellations. And by ‘constellation’, I mean a physical manifestation of the mythological concept. Constellations appear in both a weapon and human form, the former the means to banish scepters and the latter being characters within the story. Once you accept the premise; it makes sense, I guess?
The plot can be summed up rather succinctly; it is about the protagonist Aligner and his friends rescuing constellations of the Zodiac from being consumed by specters.
– Real player with 9.3 hrs in game
Axiom Alternative
Stars received: 2.0/10 _ Note: v.5 [0.0 to 1] = personal impressions
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Game description key-points: short VN
– Real player with 2.5 hrs in game
For Gameplay - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgRAehOwTaw
Steam Curator - https://store.steampowered.com/curator/40613865/
Axiom Alternative is a narrative game. Me and My girlfriend is enjoying this. Relaxing game with humor and good story.
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Graphics-
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Audio
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– Real player with 2.2 hrs in game