Lihue
Very good game by a solo dev called “Nehual Pascale” from argentina.
Lihue is a game a narrative adventure about a trans-girl where you have to enter in a psicodelic environment and live his own feelings. if you want to enter in a very beatifull enviroment and history this is the correct game!!
keep the amazing work nehual :D
Best Regards, Maty.
– Real player with 0.2 hrs in game
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Ochitsubaki
A fallen camellia is a beheading, every time, every petal falling at once: a severing.
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TW: CSA, animal death, violence, suicidal ideation
OCHITSUBAKI || 落ち椿 is a visual novel about the impossibility of translating trauma. It is a bilingual JPN/ENG game about translation and how it can run as deeply as the way hypermarginalized people constantly “translate” their identities and trauma for the understanding of others, no matter how far it is from the source material. It’s about recovering from trauma through the genuine compassion and consideration of another person, who manages to See the aftereffects of trauma and are willing to meet that person’s unique needs, regardless of if they “understand” them or not.
Ochitsubaki is only loosely a visual novel, which is to say it is a story-based game with a strong aesthetic component. Ochitsubaki has a deep, rich tapestry of aesthetics in unifying modern elegance with unique retro anime-inspired character portraits. The original soundtrack derives inspiration from traditional Asian pentatonic scales, particularly but not limited to Japanese ones, that also derive a modern, Genshin’s Liyue-type twist that sets it firmly in contemporary times. It has three language options: JPN, ENG, and JPN translation. The ENG/JPN versions are two different renditions of the story, thus requiring a separate JPN translation, emulating what happens when you try to translate something as complex as identity. You can consider that the only real choice you make in the game is which language to play it in, and each language option provides a different “route,” a similar but very distinctly different iteration of the story. The language modes mimic the powerful loss that happens when stories–when trauma–is translated.
The demo only contains the first two ENG chapters, an estimated 30-45min of playtime.
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Hanashiro (he/she/they) and their few remaining kin all react differently to the trauma of being immortal and witnessing the apocalypse over and over again in different cycles of reincarnation. Shiragiku is unfazed and cheery and flippant and whimsical and capricious; Shirayuri is nowhere to be found; and Hanashiro? Hanashiro is planning on their death in 10 years, when the camellias fall, if they cannot find a reason to live by then.
Hanashiro and Shirayuri have witnessed THE END OF THE WORLD before. But no one believed them. Shiragiku has seen many, many apocalypses, but she has never been hurt by any one after the first. Shiragiku has remembered every single end; Shirayuri has remembered none; and Hanashiro only remembers some. Which? Even he doesn’t know.
Hanashiro misses speaking her fey mother tongue, but she can’t seem to find anyone willing to listen to her, not even her own kind. And then she makes an enemy who just might. Their name is Lun Kochouran.
And they might be the first one in a millennium to learn the Amayuri tongue.
They also might be the first to kill an immortal.
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Doki Doki Ragnarok
Doki Doki Ragnarok is a viking visual novel in which you pillage and date villages around the world. It takes place in a ridiculous world where viking raids are like going on a date - with the village!
For vikings, raiding a village is more than warfare: it means dating, flirting, and understanding each other consensually. Show that you carry a conversation as easy as you carry an axe.
Choose from a wide cast of diverse vikings and unravel the peculiarities of each village. Find out what they truly desire from the viking of their dreams. You can always revisit past conquests to experience alternative dates.
Will you find the village of your dreams?
Features
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Date quirky villages across Europe!
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Choose from a wide cast of diverse vikings
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Choose your voice regardless of your appearance
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Encounter Odin, other vikings, local people and various animals!
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Revisit dates to explore alternative outcomes
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Stay in touch with past conquests in case someone invents a Dating App.
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Collect achievements by choosing the weirdest, funniest or plain most unlikely options on your dates!
Planned Steam Features:
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Cloud Save
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Achievements
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Trading Cards
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Purrgatory
Purrgatory is a visual novel. It’s not just that, but also a fun mix of independent, LGBTQ+ culture that comes together to make an adult-themed, immaturely-mature and charming (dare I say) masterpiece of a game. Purrgatory defies what is conventially a visual novel and forms a universe that makes you fall in love with the characters, feel addicted to the personalities, and most of all, have a hearty chuckle. The lowercase, almost online-chat-esque style each character speaks in is incredibly unique to their personality and is incredibly charming! The puns, the cats, the incredibly-done art (yes, I do mean that), and the simplistically-complex character designs are compelling and loveable. There are even easter eggs! The detail put in is genuinely really excellent. And the rooms are surprisingly easy to navigate, as most of them tend to loop around. The multiple endings are also very rewarding but also leave you satisfied. (I honestly cried when it was over, I didn’t want it to end).
– Real player with 11.5 hrs in game
This was a very cute game and sat through it in one sitting while my partners watched me here and there. I loooved the dialog as they felt more typical of actual responses you’d get from your IRL friends. You know the ones who just dunk on you in a tease or just meme it up whenever they can.
Every character has their charms as one would expect in a visual novel but I dunno. They felt a bit more real in personality rather than ham it up to the player like a robot. The music? Very nice, very relaxing background tunes to wander about Purrgatory. Yes, With two R’s~
– Real player with 9.6 hrs in game
Summer In Trigue
Another Great VN By Winter Wolves.
This is the one said After Vollyball Heaven when asked about a Sequal.
This is a great story and Of Course Beautiful images, though some are used in Vollyball I noticed, but
I suppose that happens everywhere as only a certain amount are around.
I ended up with Alex, who as you find out, has an issue and it is up to you how you react to her as
to what happens.
Grace is the One you come across alot, she is a really nice girl, but clumsy and I will do her route
– Real player with 60.5 hrs in game
The game is fine. The writing is kinda meh, 5 romance interests 2 I would consider good, 1 okay, one is okayisch on account that I assume some people are okay with forgiving cheaters and one was pure trash. Sometimes choices I never made seemed to have been taken into account. A lot of the time you don’t get to see everything as your character seems to know stuff you never experienced making it all feel way too rushed. Buy it on a sale of like 70% or more if you are interested.
– Real player with 20.4 hrs in game
Spitkiss
Great Game!
SpitKiss looks great sounds great, and like all of the best games has hidden depth to the game play that is required you learn to 100% the game plus levels! It’s totally worth a buy!!
The only down side is the controls with the mouse can take a bit of getting used to. Oh yeah and don’t try googling Spit Kiss like I did. Fortunately no one was around. They have a bit of an SEO problem :P
– Real player with 15.4 hrs in game
Beating Spitkiss requires precision and quick reaction, just like spitting on people in real life. It’s short, moderately difficult and fun. The story is a pure cuteness overload. Can’t recommend enough to those who enjoy killing a couple of hours with adorable brainteasers.
– Real player with 2.2 hrs in game
Mask of the Rose
Welcome to Fallen London: a darkly hilarious gothic underworld where death is a temporary inconvenience, the rats talk, and Hell is only a stone’s throw away.
Thanks to an unknown bargain, London now resides in a vast cavern under the earth. Down here, the sun doesn’t shine, and Parliament has sunk into the Thames. Queen Victoria never emerges from her palace. Cats spy on their owners and whisper their secrets abroad. The fabric of strait-laced Victorian society has begun to fray.
New Masters are in charge. Why are they so… tall? And always cloaked? And why are they so interested in love stories?
The possibilities for personal connection in London are different now. Thrown together in crisis, you might befriend or romance many of the characters you meet, from Griz, your assertive housemate for whom the Fall was a chance to break free of Victorian societal norms, to the infernally well-dressed gentleman at the Brass Consulate with the amber eyes.
Even death itself has a twist here: the first murder victim since the Fall is feeling much better, and keen to see justice done. Unfortunately, as the doctor who treated him immediately before he expired, your housemate Archie is the prime suspect…
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(Re)invent yourself: who were you before the Fall? Who will you be now?
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Create outfits from a selection of clothing and unusual accessories to unlock different story options
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Fall in love with a cast of diverse Londoners, each with their own secrets
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Matchmake among your friends, or seek love for yourself (by any definition you like)
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Write love stories in a delightful minigame, and use them to impress the new Masters
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Pick up odd jobs to earn money and gather resources. How are you at rat catching?
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Solve the first murder since the Fall, with the assistance of the victim
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Discover cosy, mysterious and magnificent locations in a dark and delicious version of Victorian London
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Seek deeper and deeper secrets over multiple playthroughs
Will you be a brilliant matchmaker, connecting friends and rivals while remaining unattached? Or are you looking for lasting love? Perhaps you’re open to whatever comes your way? Every major storyline is accessible regardless of whether your approach to love is romantic or platonic.
Use an elaborate, dynamic story-crafting system to create love stories – and murder theories. Are the twists in the tale not to your taste? Then change the motive, the location, even the victim, and see how the stories adapt!
Your past will open different doors for you in London. What was your life on the Surface like? Were your family landed gentry? Or did they own a tailor’s shop, or dabble in the occult?
Your clothing will also make people think differently of you. Your outfits open new possibilities in conversation: be bolder, more commanding, more flirtatious. Ingratiate yourself with London’s inhabitants by changing your style of dress – they won’t be able to resist you in that hat!
You’ll also work odd jobs and collect resources which will open new avenues in social situations. Your housemate Griz has found you work as census-taker for those curious new Masters. Fill your census-taker’s notebook with intimate details about your fellow citizens and you’ll find you can pursue deeper relationships with them, romantic or otherwise.
Griz
For your fellow lodger Griz, the Fall of London has been a liberation – the chance to throw off her corsets, dump the dresses and be taken seriously in a position that would have been forbidden to her when she was ‘Miss Griselda’.
Archie
For your other housemate Archie, the change is terrifying. What is a medical student supposed to believe in when even the laws of death no longer apply?
Harjit
When the Fall struck, Harjit stepped up to help anyone who needed it. Now he’s settling into his role as a man in uniform, but the territory is unfamiliar – and, secretly, he has a missing person of his own to find.
Milton
Milton is the amber-eyed host of a literary parlour with a scalding handshake and a prior address in Hell. He’s an excellent listener, but does he only want you for your soul?
Rachel
Rachel was halfway through her serialised novel when London fell and everything she was writing about was turned upside-down. Her publisher grows impatient. Fortunately (?) meeting Milton has rekindled her passion – for more than just writing.
David
Rachel’s brother, and no fan of Milton, David is also destined to be Fallen London’s first murder victim. When he returns from the dead, you can ask him all about it.
Horatia
For a decade, Horatia has taken in lodgers and turned them into family. Since London fell, people need the security she offers more than ever. So when a man made entirely of clay knocks at the door, offering to pay handsomely for lodgings, she can hardly refuse.
Mr Pages
One of London’s new, mysterious “Masters”, Mr Pages has embarked on the titanic endeavour of conducting London’s first post-Fall census! But why are its questions so concerned with the love-lives of London’s citizens? How do people declare their affection, in this fair city? How lasting are their attachments? Might a Londoner take an interest in a very tall, broad-shouldered, cloaked personage that leans towards the chiropterous, hypothetically speaking?
Explore this unique city in glorious, richly rendered 2D. Experience London through three seasons: the season of Confessions, the season of Yule, and the season of Love. Help establish the first Feast of the Rose, a festival of romance that will be celebrated in London for decades to come!
For players of Sunless Sea and Sunless Skies, Mask of the Rose offers a chance to immerse yourselves in the city that founded this deep, dark, and marvellous universe. And for veteran players of the Fallen London browser game, it marks your first opportunity to visit the city just after it fell. But fear not: Mask of the Rose is an excellent introduction to the universe we’ve been building for more than a decade, and you don’t need to have played our other games first. Come on in. Most things won’t bite, unless you want them to.
Explore the locales, lives, and loves of an impossible city. Exchange bon-mots with devils. Investigate the first murder where the victim can testify at the murderer’s trial. Dive into the sunken ruins of poor drowned Parliament. And if you’re truly reckless, fall in love.
Sentimental Trickster: Yaoi BL Gay Visual Novel
After going through all the routes and numerous edits of my review, I have decided to give this game an upvote instead of downvoting it. That said, I will point out some serious flaws this game suffers from.
The quality of the dialogues is alarmingly inconsistent. It varies from great to abhorrent and the same can be said about the story. Concerning the common path, it is precisely what I find horrendously unrealistic. The first group of people in a large city you bump into turn out to be your classmates. Even more, one of those people is your flatmate who shows you the way to your new home. Then you find out all of your flatmates are also your classmates. But, oh-ho, the best is yet to come. Not only every character you’ve met up to this point is your classmate. Your landlord is your teacher as well as your potential romantic interest as well. Then you meet a random guy in front of a store. Guess what,
! you meet him the next day at the school where he works. There’s just one incredibly improbable ‘coincidence’ after another. Needless to say, nearly every male character is either your potential partner or someone the main character drools over – sometimes both. It is strongly suggested with the exception of your father(s) and brother, all male characters are, in fact, into men. Which is just so improbable; a VN for €13 should reflect reality at least to some extent – especially when it comes to characters' psychology.
– Real player with 71.4 hrs in game
Overall….
This game was not for me, it felt like it was written by a highschooler who watched too much bad anime. The setting didn’t make sense for such a western way of thinking/vocabulary. The main character is a weeaboo who was written by a weeaboo and although there was a few funny scenes in all I couldn’t find myself taking it seriously or actually enjoying myself. I read some of the reviews that the game got ‘darker’ but in all honesty it was bland to me. Although the main character did grow on me I kept on thinking how I could have re written him (and the VN as a whole) so he would actually make sense and be a bit more fleshed out. Some of the music got annoying real fast for me real quick, especially the louder happier one.
– Real player with 23.8 hrs in game
COME ALIVE!
you just wanted to hang with your crush!
so how’d you end up stuck between them and your friends in your tiny dorm room watching a campy horror film?
And what happens when the movie comes to life?
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This is not what you signed up for.
COME ALIVE! is a first person 2.5d mystery visual novel about a group of friends, where you play from several of their perspectives. Can you get to the bottom of why this movie has come alive? Or should you just roll with it and have fun?
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A regular cast of normal characters
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Definitely nobody dies ahaha
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~1 hour playtime
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Original, dream-like art and music
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Gamepad + keyboard/mouse support
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For MacOS / Windows / Linux
Flowers -Le volume sur automne-
Flowers -Le volume sur automne-
Introduction This review will have some spoilers as I want to explain what I like however the spoilers are not specific.
The music and the art Like all art in this series I would describe it as pretty,and beautiful. The art is able to compliment the all girl Catholic setting as it looks delicate and girly. The music,while there is nothing that stands out but there is not a track that feels out of place to the setting and feels pleasant. Side note This game has one of the best openings. It is so pretty and the song fits in will.
– Real player with 57.1 hrs in game
After 20 hrs, I finished the true end, I really enjoyed the series of Flowers. I hope to see Flowers le volume sur hiver after 2 years tho…
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! The True End road is really good, I definitely understand Yuzuriha in the chapters before she confessed to Neri. The emotion that she had was love but she thought Neri’s wasn’t.
! (All End) In the chapter 3, Yuzuriha’s foot was hurt. Ringo ran back and Neri went to help Yuzuriha. Although Neri didn’t really can endure the weight of Yuzuriha, she still carried Yuzuriha on her back. I like that scene when I run the Neri End. In Ringo’s vision I can see even Ringo can see that Yuzuriha rely much on Neri. ;w;
– Real player with 33.8 hrs in game