

Rainbow Heights Academy: Year 1
White Room Studios · November 11, 2022 · Choose Your Own Adventure, RPG, Immersive Sim, Interactive Fiction, Visual Novel
Rainbow Heights Academy: Year 1 is free to play — no purchase needed. We track it so you know if that ever changes.
Rainbow Heights Academy: Year 1 price
Rainbow Heights Academy: Year 1 is free to play — there is no purchase price, on Steam or anywhere else we track. We keep watching it, so if it ever stops being free the price history on this page will show when that happened and what it changed to.
About Rainbow Heights Academy: Year 1
Rainbow Heights Academy: Year 1 is a choice-driven visual novel where you play as a book club member uncovering the mysteries of a strange tome while navigating friendships, romance, and the challenges of an elite academy. Your decisions shape the story's outcome through branching paths, character relationships, and stat-based skill checks that determine your success or failure.
Members of this book club are known to read
the latest and most riveting books that they can get their hands on
They soon stumble across a strange book called "The Fractured Oath"
The book synopsis reads...
"When Tyler Lee decides to risk it all to get the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity
to attend the most prestigious school in the country,
He soon realizes that he may have bitten off more than he could chew.
Whether he rises to the challenge or accepts defeat,
That'll be solely up to you!"
Actions have consequences in this Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Visual Novel!
Play as a member of a book club that uncovers the mysteries behind a strange book
Meet a cast of lively characters as you delve deeper into the story
Gain stats and pass skill check events to achieve desired story outcomes
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Genre: Drama/Slice of Life/Dating Sim
Writer/Programmer: Ory Dubenion, Peta Clarke
Composer: Composer Squad
Sound Effects: freesound
Art: Uncle Mugen, Peta Clarke
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Rainbow Heights Academy: Year 1 — game info
- Platforms
- Windows, macOS, Linux / SteamOS
- Player modes
- Single-player
- PC Game Pass
- Not included
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
[h1]Before I played Rainbow Heights Academy: Year 1, I had a small pp, no friends, no gf, depression, and no life. These things havent changed, but the game is pretty good[/h1]3 found this helpful
Come on man, this was way too good to be this short. Any time-frame for Year 2?3 found this helpful
It's a CYA VN in high school with some light RPG mechanics (a stats system and different builds). Story has fewer mistakes than the typical Steam VN. Not for me really but I'll give it a thumbs up because the crow did.1 found this helpful
Rainbow Heights Academy: Year 1 is not a game, it's an e-book that's been dumped on Steam masquerading as a game. As a visual/interactive novel, this doesn't feature any notable gameplay, it's just a lot of clicking through badly written dialogue that would never have been accepted or published in print, which poses the question, "How did something this badly written end up on Steam?". When someone hoping to become an author is unable to get published in print, they spend $100 and dump their high school fan-fiction onto Steam, under the guise of a game. This isn't even a complete e-book, it's just chapter 1 (presumably the "author" intended to charge money for more fan-fiction cringe but never got around to writing it). Anyway this is once more your usual high school anime club dropout fan-fiction cringeware... and of course it's all about the authors favourite topic, his imaginary girlfriend/waifu. The cringe is almost guaranteed to make you throw up in your mouth a bit. Visual novels/e-books are tedious at best... imagine the best novel you ever read, be that Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy or 2001: A Space Odyssey or Twilight (if you have terrible taste in literature), b…
nice game, but a little annoying that this "year 1" version ends with the game freezing
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