Retrocausality
Thanatos · 2023 · Visual Novel, Adventure, Story Rich, Anime, Time Travel
PC
6 user reviews50% · 6
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About Retrocausality
Retrocausality is a kinetic visual novel where you encounter paradoxes, causal loops, inversions and metaphysical fallacies. Set in Akihabara between the years 2000-2069, the story follows a group of college students who survive an anomaly only to find themselves in the midst of a temporal war.
Timeline
This world was fated to end since its inception.
And on it, we mortals wait for its inevitable end.
To travel through time, one must be willing to leave everything behind and be self-centered enough to change one's own fate.
And changing one's fate means going against the very same God who placed us here."The grandfather paradox is impossible. In fact, all paradoxes are impossible. The Everett-Wheeler-Graham or multiple world theory is correct. All possible quantum states, events, possibilities and outcomes are real, eventual and occurring." - John Titor
Timeline
- circa 2000 - Root timeline is newly constructed with the appearance of its creator
- circa 2020 - Time travel is proved to be possible
- circa 2039 - Temporal wars conclude
- circa 2064 - Temporal wars begin
- circa 2069 - The world's first time machine is built
- Kinetic Visual Novel - In this predetermined world that we live in, there is no free will. We don't afford such a luxury.
- Cyberpunk setting - Dive into a futuristic cyberpunk dystopian world where everyone resides inside a megastructure ruled by a authoritarian regime.
- Temporal War - Fights partake in ways never seen before, with characters inverting, completing paradoxes, and sometimes even causing causal loops.
This world was fated to end since its inception.
And on it, we mortals wait for its inevitable end.
To travel through time, one must be willing to leave everything behind and be self-centered enough to change one's own fate.
And changing one's fate means going against the very same God who placed us here."The grandfather paradox is impossible. In fact, all paradoxes are impossible. The Everett-Wheeler-Graham or multiple world theory is correct. All possible quantum states, events, possibilities and outcomes are real, eventual and occurring." - John Titor
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
Well it's a good game for $2.99 if you shut your brain off and suspend all belief. I swear I have seen some of these assets before like a lot of them and the credits were as mysterious to me as all the science talk. It's a great visual novel! Fun with a nice little ending. No choices but all the assets look good even though I wonder about certain things like they are all generic looking assets which could be for a reason idk. They are still nice and serve the story but I would have preferred a more distinctive art style with more characterization instead of nonstop action and science talk but for $2.99 it's a good deal. It looks like it might be setting a sequel which I will definitely buy and play depending on price. Seems like what Steins Gate is supposedly about without the distinct art style and story/characters but it was fun and sci-fi and time-traveley which I like. It is a good game 7/10 but I say buy it it was a great 1.8 hours.9 found this helpful
[b]IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN TIME TRAVEL OR QUANTUM MECHANICS PLEASE READ OVER THIS REVIEW[/b] I really REALLY wanted to recommend this game. I am going through trying to experience several time travel visual novels and this was first on my list. I picked it up on sale when it was near two dollars, and I still do not believe it was worth it. Including the main story and the side stories, it takes approximately 1 3/4 hours to read. That's a decent amount for the price IF it is written well. So I am going to break this down into the parts that I think were done well and the parts I think could use some work and then why I eventually decided to give it the review I did. [h2]GOOD THINGS[/h2] Honestly, the side stories were some of the best parts of this novel. Why? This novel actually really shines in its ability to explain certain physical and mathematical paradoxes in layman's terms. Explaining a Cantor's Diagonalization argument visually using a spreadsheet is a very neat idea. Furthermore, when the game attempts to explain CPT symmetry to me (a realm of quantum mechanics I did not know well), it actually really succeeded in supplying the gist. The Feynman diagrams were a nice tou…5 found this helpful
time travel really does make it confusing i dont get it extremely short vn with interesting concepts but the presentation is weak but i did enjoy it its nice1 found this helpful
This game was recommended to me and seemed alright even if a bit weird. It starts to look like ♥♥♥♥ a few minutes in when the style changes and once I suspected it was AI generated I just skipped through and it goes from plausible to hard not to notice. I wanted to confirm it and yeah the games files clearly separate backgrounds and music that were bought from asset packs, in which they had good choice and were well used, and then AI generated slop that completely ruined it.
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