Electric Sleep

[i] Electric Sleep [/i] is a short pixel art visual novel. You explore a crumbling world as an emotionally driven robot after you wake up in a strange lab over and over again, but each time in the grip of a new emotion. Each playthrough is rather short and will take just about 5-10 minutes. But there're 44 different endings, so you'll have lots of opportunities to seek answers and discover how each emotion colours your experience of the world. I most definitely find the idea quite interesting. Despite all those 'routes' being short, they have many meaningful choices. Great evocative soundtrack & nice writing skilfully make us experience all those emotions. You can't help but dive into that pregnant atmosphere. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1731858211 But you know, I've become kinda spoiled by visual novels with great number of different settings. That's what I pay attention to first and therefore make first impression about the whole game. Here there's only window mode and sound on/off, then you unlock the map, not that it's very useful but feature anyway. I'd like more. The first playthrough was very slow-paced. I let myself be drawn by that slow rhyth…

A neat little story game with atmospheric music. It is QUITE short, especially if you're impatient and a fast reader, but fun to explore.

A relaxing jaunt, I especially liked how each primary emotion that's unlocked changes the whole tone of the story. It's written well, and a fast 100%. c:

It depends on what you're looking for in a game but if you like visual novels then this might suit your tastes. There are 44 different endings you can get but also hundreds of different scenes depending on your emotion and location on the map. The dialogue is thoughtfully written and matches the different emotions well. The changes to the environment with different emotions is also a nice touch. The music is extremely lacking however as it gradually builds up the further you get in a path, meaning it's extremely empty at the start. The way you get new emotions at the end of the path feels unintuitive and mostly random. Also, I've definitely run into situations where I went down a known ending to get a certain emotion then got a different one instead. Overall a perfectly good game for the price if you enjoy the reading aspect of visual novels.

Attracted by the lovely pixel art, finally I put that game from my wishlist into my cart. I didn't expect to find what I got with it but I wasn't disappointed. In fact: the opposite. Here is a beautiful mixture of art, music and writing to play with emotions and in what they may result. This 'game' is definitely not for everyone but for those who dare to explore their inner world by exploring a fictional, dystopian world in this kind of 'self-repeating' story. Only 8 user reviews by the time of my review shows how less people are interested in pieces of art like this. At least all of them are positive. Brave new world...

The audio perfectly supports and enhances the emotion of each stage. It's so good!