malViolence - Definitive Edition

Incredibly fun puzzles and story.

Interesting for sure, I didn't regret playing it one bit, but the puzzles...meh.

cool vn! puzzles made me feel a little stupid sometimes but I enjoyed them, and the story was quite engaging! Cautionne is cool

This game has a lot of shortcomings: the puzzle UI ranges from "jank" to "atrociously jank", some of the puzzle instructions are hopelessly vague or just wrong (e.g. the plushie puzzle said "sets of four unique" when it is in fact five), the VA for Cautionne sucks, a lot of QOL like "undo" or "notes" or "drawing" is just missing, some of the hard puzzles are ABSURDLY complicated, the final puzzle of the game doesn't give enough information to actually solve it. But the biggest problem is that the game corrupted my savefile, my attempt to recover the savefile softlocked me because a puzzle kept throwing a RenPy error, and restarting robbed me of my Pro Puzzle Gamer achievement for solving all the hard mode puzzles. Cannot recommend, which is a shame, because the puzzles have potential, and the music is very good.

Short yet emotional! The 2d art is really eye-catching, the music is fun and fitting, and the voice acting is really well done I'm not really good at the puzzles, buuuut I think that's just a skill issue on my part lol.. They're fun but I'm a bit of a dum dum when it comes to stuff like this But yeah I really enjoyed myself with this! Def gonna be checking out the prequel and the next game when it comes out.

A clever little sci-fi visual novel with fun escape room puzzles, memorable characters, and multiple endings. The story keeps you hooked, the presentation is polished, and it's especially impressive for a free game. Definitely worth checking out if you enjoy puzzle-heavy VNs.