Rakuen
Laura Shigihara · 2017 · Story Rich, Emotional, Puzzle, Cute, JRPG
PC
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About Rakuen
✦ AI summary
Guide a sick boy through a magical storybook world to help his hospital neighbors overcome their deepest sorrows and earn a wish that might save them all. This heartwarming adventure blends whimsical exploration, clever puzzles, and poignant character stories without combat, letting you walk in each person's shoes to unlock the mysteries binding them together.
Rakuen is an adventure game about a little Boy who lives in the hospital. One day, the Boy asks his Mom to escort him to the fantasy world from his favorite storybook, so that he can ask the Guardian of the Forest to grant him one wish. In order to receive his wish, the Boy must complete a set of challenges that revolve around helping his neighbors in the hospital by interacting with their alter-egos in the fantasy world...
...A cranky old man who guards a broken music box with his life while complaining that he never gets any visitors; a young woman in a coma whose husband hasn’t left her side in months; a little girl who laments over a friend she was never able to say goodbye to after growing ill… The Boy slowly begins to realize that his neighbors are plagued by secrets and struggles that are mysteriously tied to the strange hospital.
...A cranky old man who guards a broken music box with his life while complaining that he never gets any visitors; a young woman in a coma whose husband hasn’t left her side in months; a little girl who laments over a friend she was never able to say goodbye to after growing ill… The Boy slowly begins to realize that his neighbors are plagued by secrets and struggles that are mysteriously tied to the strange hospital.
FEATURES
- Heartwarming and character-rich story.
- A unique non-combat adventure that mixes whimsical dungeons, eerie room escape puzzles, and dialogue-based mysteries that are intricately tied to the story.
- Walk a mile in everyone's shoes as you traverse each character's life to learn about their unfinished business and help them through it.
- An original soundtrack featuring multiple vocal songs that are closely tied to each character.
- Collect items and build friendships to gradually make the hospital a better place.
- Go on humorous quests for strange creatures in the fantasy world.
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What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
The art is good, the writing is decent but the stories and characters just didn't click with me, and on the whole feels a bit much like trying too hard at making a sob story, but if you like story heavy games this one might be for you, here's some things that I really disliked about it and why this is a negative review: the game uses the RPGMaker engine and that means you're gonna be playing it in a tiny window squinting at pixel art, I've played it on a 1080p monitor and already had to get closer just to see what I'm looking at; the movement speed of the main character is painfully slow and this is a deliberate choice on the part of the devs, I know from playing other RPGMaker games that it's possible to have faster movement and add sprinting, it's not much of an issue at first but later on as you get access to bigger areas it can be really grating and exactly what made me quit and write this. The part of the game I was in had a big area with with a dozen different things you have go back and forth to, what would be a maybe 5-10 minute puzzle is now a half hour endeavor just because of your movement speed. So yeah, if you have a lot of patience and prefer your games to be text-hea…2 found this helpful
The way I cried at the end was incomprehensible.
I actually pirated this game before (sorry developer team) and finished it with tears in my eyes because of the ending. Suddenly this game came back to mind so i bought it to support the dev hehe~ I just wanna say tht this game is sooo beautiful with the simple way of its story tellingg. The moment i heard the music, i just felt the nostalgia again aahh i miss the feeling ;-; i wish they make more games like this. 100000/100 ⭐
I played this game because I saw someone put this game as their all time favorites story driven game. True to said, it is such a beautifully written story game with wonderful graphics and ost. Rakuen tugged my heart strings so hard, I definitely bawled my eyes out. Everyone should try the game out !
Emotionally rich, sweet, and sad game. With great music and very pretty visuals, it made me feel a lot of feelings. There is a lot less gameplay than story here, so if you prefer story heavy games this is the place to be.
I must just really like being kicked in the nuts. Why else would I be sobbing?
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