

Hydrangea
Meiri Games · September 13, 2024 · Casual, Visual Novel, Interactive Fiction, Choose Your Own Adventure, 2D
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About Hydrangea
Too close.
A romance/psychological horror visual novel inspired by the Hanahaki disease trope. Immerse yourself in a romance with a sweetheart you can customize. But beware, as affection turns to obsession, the petals of love may suffocate.
Features:
- Choose your name, as well as your sweetheart's name, pronouns, and appearence.
- Contains four endings. Aim to see the first three to unlock the true end.
- Original soundtrack, backgrounds, portraits, and CGs!
- Story length: 20k words.
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ABOUT:
Meiri Games is a Brazilian indie dev making free horror visual novels. Meiri lead a team of volunteers to create Hydrangea.
Sprites and CG: Misha
Background art: Banh-mi andJam
Music: Eric Jeffrey Tan
GUI: Abby Jocson / craboozled
Promo pixel art: Mary
Coding: Shie
Technical Artist: Joshua Bowles
Additional CGs and Special Thanks: Nevi
Voice of Yuu: David Finley
Voice of Yua: Liyah Pon
Casting and Directing: Phebe Fabacher (Very Berry Studios)
Mixing: Hayden Davis (Very Berry Studios)
Trailer Edited by Hayden Davis (Very Berry Studios)

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HINTS:
- Ending 3 is not unlocked by default.
- There are some secrets you might not find at a first glance...
Hydrangea — game info
- Platforms
- Windows, macOS, Linux / SteamOS
- Player modes
- Single-player
- Controller
- Partial controller support
- PC Game Pass
- Not included
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
Hydrangea is a visual novel about abuse and illness that players find technically improved from the developer's previous work, with some finding the ending emotionally impactful enough to recommend. The main criticisms center on inconsistent writing quality, including mismatched dialogue for different endings, poor cutscene artwork, and an awkward integration of the hanahaki disease trope that undermines the serious subject matter rather than enhancing it.
"Those bleak white walls manage to drain every bit of flavor from the ingredients in each meal" None of the walls were white in said hospital.
It was interesting enough for me to finish it all, but still obviously raw. If you finish the true ending for Yuu as your sweetheart, it still says "Mom didn't get better, but I will" for YUA. What? Why would she get better, when Yuu is the one who's sick. Was it that hard to switch the text for only TWO true endings? Also what's up with the illustrator that did sprites + ending cutscene, did they refuse to do cut scenes in the end (yua with the knife, siblings hugging etc)? They looked bad. Considering the overall writing and plot, I do not dislike it. The lack of choice is understandable, since we're supposed to follow along the logic of the victim of abuse, I just found it tedious and too unimaginative. The whole mc eating in the hospital and the friend always being there, too, just doesn't make sense to me. Does the hospital just let anyone in and lets them do whatever. Does the friend has nothing else to do other than come to hospital to never even visit their sibling. As a person with CPTSD, am I supposed to believe the ending dialouge about how one twin doesn't talk to another one because boo hoo they are so triggered, but they love them anyway? Your twin will die, get ove…
A step up from "My GF doesn't know what I'm into" but unfortunately still poorly written. It's difficult to take the portrayal of abuse seriously when paired with a fanfiction trope that exists solely to write angsty pieces about your favourite tv characters. This isn't to say that the hanahaki disease trope couldn't be paired with a serious narrative, but it hasn't been done well at all, and the use of the trope feels more like an afterthought, used to get the love interest into the hospital, and then ignored until it's time for some more sickly coughing.
A really well made game, had me in tears ngl at the ending.
certainly a step up from "My GF Doesn't Know What I'm Into"
It's free and worth the play. If you are sensitive the themes of abuse this is NOT for you.
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