＜/reality＞
Fancy Fish Games · 2017 · Indie, Visual Novel, Adventure, Female Protagonist, Anime
PC
Positive87% · 38
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About ＜/reality＞
Supernovas blaze in the night sky, but the gaming world is abuzz over a new virtual reality console. Jacob Lessard, developer of the Penta device, promises a neural experience more “real” than reality itself. But what does it truly mean for something to be real?
When Lilya arrives at InterMense to beta test the Penta, she expects to spend the weekend battling her social anxiety in exchange for the opportunity to enter the Vitalia simulation. But when Ben, another tester, refuses to leave the world of Vitalia, endangering his life, Lilya sees that she has become involved in something much more eye-opening than she realized. As Lilya, Ben, and Jacob’s fates intertwine, they must make some of the hardest decisions of their lives, and confront their own perceptions of the nature of existence.
In this interactive novel, your choices will shape Lilya and Jacob’s beliefs about what is real, or if reality even exists.
When Lilya arrives at InterMense to beta test the Penta, she expects to spend the weekend battling her social anxiety in exchange for the opportunity to enter the Vitalia simulation. But when Ben, another tester, refuses to leave the world of Vitalia, endangering his life, Lilya sees that she has become involved in something much more eye-opening than she realized. As Lilya, Ben, and Jacob’s fates intertwine, they must make some of the hardest decisions of their lives, and confront their own perceptions of the nature of existence.
In this interactive novel, your choices will shape Lilya and Jacob’s beliefs about what is real, or if reality even exists.
Features
- A Thought-Provoking Narrative - with several mind-bending twists and two perspective characters, the story is both philosophically ambitious and deeply personal.
- Choices That Matter - a heavily branching story line makes the game re-playable. Your decisions have major consequences - ranging from shifting a character’s attitude, to placing them on a different story branch, to re-directing the outcome of the entire game.
- Expressive Character Art and Visuals - 14 characters (with various poses and expressions), 13 background scenes, 13 CGs/special illustrations, 12 ending panels.
- Character and Relationship-Building - rich character development, affected by your choices, and with opportunities for both romantic and non-romantic relationship-building.
- Original Music and Sound Design - by the talented composer Chase Bethea.
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What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
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.1 found this helpful
If cheap? Worth it.1 found this helpful
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
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