Abulia

I came to this game out of pure curiosity—not from the YouTube channel, not from a Discord, but truly out of the random chance of my recommended games. This game explores some heavy themes of self-deprecation, mental illness, and homicidal tendencies with a basic understanding of how indie games can represent that. However, that is where my praise ends. This has the skeleton of a good indie game ripped directly from Omori, Undertale, and other RPG Maker psychological games. But ultimately, it falls short on most fronts—partially due to this being a new game dev, but partly due to poor writing. Starting from the least offensive issue, the typing-based "combat" is a creative concept at first, but with no instructions, no tutorial, no direction, and attack patterns that are way too similar, every fight feels exactly the same. Sometimes, due to how it's coded, you'll get a battle where you type the same answer 4–5 times in a row. (Though me and my friends did get a chuckle out of the 6th "vomit" I had to type.) I'm not going to complain about the repetitive singular battle song throughout the entire game because it's not a bad song, but an individual boss fight theme would do wonder…

This game takes a unique approach to the theme of mental health and other global issues. It's outspoken and challenging, all in the form of a type-battle rpg game, with plenty of cool ideas and amazing soundtrack. I recommend it!

Noice game, has an interesting hook, not a masterpiece by a far margin but I enjoyed it.

Pretty pog game, loved the art and the gameplay. Amazing aesthetic, I'd love to see a more longform exploration focused game in this vein.

Really loved this short psychological horror game. I felt like I was truly enveloped in the game often finding some similarities with some of the characters. Wish it was a bit longer but still I enjoyed it I will be trying for the madness mode. Hope to see more games in the future from these guys or something similar out there, again really well done.

Interesting, but way too hard. like I want to enjoy it but with my dyslexia, it's hard to know what to type even on easy. And no, going down to no death mode wasn't going to help with me improve my typing if the problem is the game is too fast. Skill issue? Ya, but when death is reset to menu, game doesn't full screen, and there is no speed control as easy is too fast, doesn't make me want to get better. Honestly I think most people will have problems but if you know your wpm, you might enjoy this.