Beek: Familiar Spirit - Remastered

pat the Akro, Hold the Akro, cherish the Akro, forfeit all mortal possessions to Akro

Beek is a game unlike any other that I have seen so far, where you don't play a hero or anything like that, you're not even really the main character of the game, your are supporting the main character by sending him messages, and by being there for him in his time of need. The game is played as if you are using an ordinary text messaging app on your phone, and one day you start getting messages from some unknown person who doesn't know where he is, or how he got there. After talking to him and trying to keep him calm, he eventually discovers that he is in another world, a world populated by beast folk. You must help him make decisions which will influence the flow of the story, and your advice could lead to either some epic endings or disastrous ones. The story in this game is well written, at least most of it is. It is a short story which can be played through in just a few hours. You gradually get to learn a little about the world and the characters, but since it's a short story there is obviously a much bigger world which could be explored. It is interesting enough to keep you reading and wondering what will happen next. The story does tend to feel a bit rushed and over the…

It's a good 3 hours read if you "Time Frame" the game instead of waiting. I downloaded this back when it first came out on mobile but never finish reading it until now. Took a while but finally have the time to finish this story. Did took me a while to get all the endings but it was worth it to read the branch off point. As a plus and thank you to Studio Klondike themselves for providing a free code and having my name (not telling) in the credits.

A pretty decent visual novel. It's essentially a fairly stereotypical isekai setting where a normal dude gets sent into a fantasy universe, with the catch being that he has another human able to guide/help him with his phone, and the fantasy world is full of anthropomorphic animals as it's only sentient species. It's pretty basic, just a text based visual novel with 12 images total to unlock. It can feel a bit slow because of it's design as a phone game meant to simulate texting, but once you get an ending, you can start skipping through the protagonist messages if you've already seen them before, and there's a fast forward mode to make him text faster too. Now do I recommend this game? I'm in the middle. I'll give it a thumbs up for the cheap price. For positives, the story is cute and what little art that exist, is nice. If I'm being honest though, only play if you're ok with simple, sort of silly fantasy storys. The smartphone idea sort of falls apart when our protagonist is somehow texting us in the heat of mortal danger, and the plot isn't really anything deep or interesting by fantasy standards. It's fairly standard isekai fair, right down to corny battle and power quotes…

I wanted to like it, but the idea of a phone conversation is just not that good. Interesting, yes, but not that good. The story advances too slowly, and if you miss a message then it gets all screwed up. Sure, checking in every 10 hours doesn't sound that bad, but something came up one day and I missed one, so off the rails it goes. Adding a timeshift just feels like a bad bandaid. The experience is still shallow. Also, the idea of not being the isekaid one/the one that gets the husbando and forced to be an onlooker is just... certainly one of the ideas of all time.

Man I love playing this since as a teen in my phone but now I'm glad this came on steam