Dupli_City

This is a good novel. You're managing a ragtag crew on the run from corporations, and the authors try to never give you a choice without warnings about the consequences. (There are always consequences.) The backgrounds are a weak spot. You can see the best ones in the trailer and screenshots, the rest is just stock photos under an artsy filter. Also the custom engine is mildly irritating but that's not a big problem given the game is rather short. The character art is good though, and the story has a lot of surprises and variety if you can give it a chance.

Good good little game! I wish it was longer and had more space to elaborate on its themes, but with such a tiny team it's a really impressive work. Worth the time and the price.

I recommend this to anyone looking for good-yet-overlooked visual novels that focus on character writing, has light management gameplay mechanics, and where choices change a lot. You have to work to earn the trust of the team and sometimes you must make sacrifices in order to earn the trust of someone else, or the sake of mission success. A visual novel about relationships with the backdrop of a sci-fi Questionable City and some artificial intelligence is evil?! shenanigans going on. It has gameplay in form of distributing your team, making choices with some information. It’s very much also a bit of a mystery or puzzle to solve in trying to see everything or unlock everything. While there’s not a lot of art, what is there is good and the character designs are great and distinctive. It’s ‘short’, if you call four hours for a single playthrough that, and with a lot of replayability. It does feel like it could use more time to expand upon its themes, to truly get a fuller picture, you should try to get the endings and alternate outcomes. However, because this game is definitely a hidden gem, there lacks playthroughs, so you have to puzzle out some things on your own. There…

I'm surprised this doesn't have more attention (no guides, only one discussion topic). I chalk that up to the absolutely awful title that's impossible to Google. But anyway, this is actually a very solid visual novel. It's cyberpunk in the classical sense, with androids and hackers and for some reason vampires working together to take down an evil corporation. Not everyone can be trusted, even within your own group, and their relationships with each other are given as much attention as their various raids and white hat jobs. While there are many choices in dialogue, the novel's meatiest decisions come in how you spend the time you're allotted in each of the game's four neighborhoods -- how much time do you spend crosstraining your team vs. pursuing missions? What decisions do you make on the spur of the moment within missions? How well have you planned for injuries and unexpected absences? It also doesn't hurt that 5/6 of the team are just oh my god incredibly HOT, either.

We rescued you from The Bad Guys because your power is Too Special, now help up The Good Guys without questioning anything by using your power for us, The Good Guys Weird intro, couldn't get into it.

i wish it wasn't over yet.