A quick, free, and comedic meditation on agency that plays on the visual novel medium and eroge tropes to ask some deeper questions. You might never get the yuri harem promised on the storepage, but I think the game offers something more interesting than that (you can still ask about pantsu and stare at cartoon bewbs if you feel deprived though). The main characters are self-aware but unable to choose what they want and powerless to dictate their own fate, trapped as they are within a VN for the entertainment of the reader. Not that you as a player are any better off: you can only choose from the options presented to you, regardless of the fact you might want to say the complete opposite, and your expectations and preferences going in are going to colour your whole experience anyway. Hilariously, all of your "choices" don't affect the ending in the slightest. Whatever you do, don't think too hard about whether this inability to choose extends outside of videogames, wondering whether the world is just one enormous visual novel where your needs, desires, and preferences are fully formed by the time you get to "decide" anything and in which the options you do get to "choose" from were settled before you were even born and what would real "freedom" even mean anyway and did you even choose to read this review or was it inevitable and... and...

...or you might find yourself in a cold sweat and spinning out into existential crisis territory. Who doesn't enjoy a quick existential crisis every now and then before they go back to pretending they're the captain of their fate? I liked the game - I thought it was well-written and interesting and with a remake/remaster on the way I'll look forward to questioning myself again in the future.

Nobody will read my review, so I'll just say I'm gay

This Game Was So Profound That Words Can't Describe What I Just Experienced. And Don't Even Get Me Started On The Achievements That Stay In Your Library. By far the Scariest Part.

I hate this because it ends

If there was a middle finger, I would pick it, no wait no no!! I mean average score! not a thumbs up or thumbs down, just a.. fist??

The game offers only story with no impressive visual flairs, the girl's the main thing to get right and boy you did well! I have to give props as an artist, you're like if Telepurte actually leaned further into the dark side.

A proper genre I would give is meta-story visual novel. There's no horror and the game's not scary in the slightest. To say it was bad is pretty harsh but it didn't fulfill any expectation given by it or myself.

The gameplay for a visual novel is sub-par, which is weird to say since the only gameplay is clicking, but the game is prone to you misclicking on stuff and accidentally skipping the auto-dialogues, which would've been salvaged by an auto mode if they didn't remove it.

I couldn't understand if the protagonist is meant to be a sci-fi AI in a bland abandoned game project or the dev's projection. If I had to guess it'd be the mixture of all three, which sucks since I couldn't enjoy a full fledged AI overlord nor a meaningful heart-to-heart message.

Being this short and this condensed with jokes with only 3 serious scenes isn't exactly ideal. I couldn't laugh after the first minute because I spent it on the first screen picking through options with very similar jokes, I couldn't stay emotional because their emotions are by design cliche and switched on/off during the jokey and progress option.

It's an hour long, all achievements are easy to get, it's a story that's trying to be personal and while on paper it touched my heart, it did not resonate with me, your best experience with the game will be looking at two of the three girls in the store page. I hesitate to give it a thumbs down but it's been two years so, hope you don't take it personally?

Free and short visual novel game