LINGERING

LINGERING

Ceylon Entertainment · 2020 · Casual, Visual Novel, Interactive Fiction, Choose Your Own Adventure, Dating Sim

PC
Mostly Positive77% · 22
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About LINGERING

Warning: Lingering is lovingly crafted to bring forward stories with darker topics such as portrayals of mental health issues, self-harm, mentions of suicide, depictions of hetero/homo sexual acts and violence. Some themes and contents might be more suitable to mature audiences.


Story



The Heart Breachers is an organization committed to keep humankind safe from the harmful manifestations of their own emotions. Contained within every burst of feelings is an Ignite, the purest form of energy. Negative feelings bear Lingerings, and positive feelings produce Astrays. Astrays are typically tame, but Lingerings could wreak havoc in the real life while driving its host to madness. However these projected forms pale in comparison to the Ignites. Often unruly and violent, killing an Ignite means killing its host’s ability to feel emotions permanently.

It is your job to tame the beasts within human hearts. Will you succeed and discover yourself among the way or will you fail and lose yourself?

Features

  • Experience the story with both female and male protagonists, each with their own story to unfold
  • Enjoy 100+ comic panel style CGs, some saucier than others
  • Over 100 K words
  • Uncover 13 Endings
  • 20+ pixel-styled backgrounds
  • Solve some puzzles, play a few mini-games and test your reflexes with some QTEs

Remember, there is darkness in everyone. And everyone has the right to be broken.

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

Not recommended Dec 3, 2021
This game has a big potential to become something greater than it is, but I didn't feel that got any kind of reward or deep constructive thinking out of it. Just so you know, this is not about romance. This is about mental health. Dealing with mental health is not simple, it's a personal struggle that involves the people who loves you and care for your well being. They did mention about society not caring to take care of people who are suffering (which is not something easy to do), but instead treating them as outcasts, and other super deep stuff, but still, it did not give us a real chance to help those characters in a active way. Only watching as the end arrived in a helpless way. The begining was so cofusing and boring. It took me a while to get used to all the random chatting and apparently irrelevant problems from other people. Finally, all was put together and bam! it's over! At the end, I felt no real interest in looking up all the endings so that could, maybe find something that I felt good seeing. But, for real, it's not worth it. There's another thing, they gave us the opportunity to go throught all the main characters (sometimes even repeating the same scene from th…
7 found this helpful
Not recommended May 2, 2024
My review is pretty much just complain after years of butthurt after all the triggers it given me (well yes, I played this game years ago when it come out, just forgot to give it a review). The only non-spoiler advice I could give you is: if you up for the romance with no happy end then go ahead. Even more so if you have played the dev's preivous games. If you still keep reading to this point mean you ready for the spoiler. I hate the easter egg and the romance in this game, along with the game ending. If you wonder what happened then lets talk about the dev's previous game - Amplitude. Amplitude male protagonist have 3 LI - 2 female and 1 male. The game kinda imply that the male protag canon love the male LI, which that guy also have unavoidable death in the end of the game. Then in this game, you will find out what happen after that: the male protagonist married 1 of the female LI, then she died, he re-married the other female LI and she also died, which left him with 2 daughters that hint to be the reincarnate of the female protagonist of the dev 1st game (Freak-Quency) and the female antagonist of the previous game (Amplitude). Also, Amplitude's male protag now have a lover w…
5 found this helpful
Recommended Aug 1, 2023
I am still playing this game. [strike] I just got the worst ending ever. [/strike] [strike] It was horrifying. [/strike] [strike] I had full body chills. [/strike] Don’t worry babies, I’m going to make sure you all get the endings you deserve ( ˘ ³˘)♥ Right after I go and create each character in sims. Review: As another reviewer noted, Lingering is about mental health and features some dark themes. It has a unique storyline that the player uncovers from the perspective of 6 different characters, which was fun to see. Weeks have passed since I finished this game and I am still thinking about how insane but wonderful the story is. After years of playing visual novels, it can be hard to find something new and feel surprised anymore. Lingering has fresh ideas and is exciting. The characters seem so strong, cool and mysterious but they’re all hiding something, secrets or their true feelings. They are a strong cast with distinguished personalities. I was constantly trying to figure out what motivated them and what they desired. My favourite things are: Goldie's personality and relationships (no spoilers) and the relationship between Lock and Keyes. Big fan of the LGBT+ components an…
3 found this helpful
Recommended Jan 24, 2024
As a long-time fan of Xero's works (first discovered them when Freak-Quency was in progress - more than a decade ago), it's been great to see their how their works have matured and become more polished with each subsequent VN. Pros: Pretty art, smooth animations, interesting story with some mature themes. The mini-games are easy enough for those who dislike them. Cons: I had some issues trying to obtain all the endings and like most VNs of a similar genre it does get repetitive at points trying to get all the achievements. There's a few easter eggs for fans of the previous VNs as well. Would highly recommend Lingering as a whole :)
Recommended Mar 10, 2022
Let’s not talk about how many hours I’ve played on this game. This game hit me close to home. I work in mental health and there was a lot here that really made me sit and think. And I got some romance feelings from it as well. I actually pay for Ceylon Ent. Patreon after playing and it’a been worth all of it. Not just a random studio that doesn’t care, but someone who loves their art and cares about our thoughts on the games. I can’t wait for the next project to come out.
Not recommended Jan 10, 2022
Good Art, nice but overly used references to popular phenomenons, boring story. Played it because I liked Amplitude and a free one in the Amplitude world that was before. With this story happened, the same thing that happened with thousands others like it. Author tried to make it more dramatic and deep and over-complicated it to a point, when it lost all the charm.

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