＜/reality＞ (2017)

What is real? What is fiction? Can the line between both be blurred so significantly that it's hard to tell one apart from the other? </reality> tackles these questions in a backdrop of virtual reality and neural interfaces. The technology side of this visual novel is what initially caught my attention, but as I played I became engrossed in the narrative they were trying to tell here and I kept wanting to see what would happen until the end. I only got one ending, and I'm certain that if I played more times I'd get other endings (as is usual for VNs). That means a good replayability factor, at least until all endings and choices have been picked. Anyone interested in existentialism and/or near-future technological innovations should give this one a try.

If cheap? Worth it.

Game seems to be bugged. After I entered the "in-game" world via the Penta, the left half of my screen flashes black intermittently. Kinda hurts my eyes.

This game is weiiiiiird and yet artistically pretty. Worth the price. :)

one of my very first OELVNs back when i played the demo in 2017! to my minor disappointment, it doesn't go very hard on the science fiction, but i got very invested in the characters instead

It was a neat VN