Scriptur

Scriptur

Relativism Games · December 5, 2021 · Adventure, Visual Novel, 2D, Hand-drawn, Detective

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About Scriptur

Scriptur is a kinetic visual novel featuring original artworks, soundtrack, and characters.

The main character woke up on the train, he does not know how he ended up in it and where he was going. On top of that, he has the same strange dream all the time. What does this all mean? What is the secret behind all this? Will it be possible to reveal it and finally restore the lost memories of what happened?

Visual novels are a genre of video games that leans heavily on plot and literature contents, which most resemble that of a book. The kinetic novels are a sub-genre that defines visual novels with little to no choice of the characters' actions, leading to a single-optioned, linear story with a strong narrative direction. Typically, kinetic novels are known to trade variability and replayability values for a stronger and/or more emotional delivery of the plot, following the directorial idea more precisely, although the absence of that is not always the case with the multi-routed player's choice-based type visual novels.

The main gameplay loop of visual novels usually involves the implementation of user controls to ensure the conduction of the player's ability to express their will to continue with the story by clicking or tapping the free space on the game screen and reading the appeared lines of dialogues or author's descriptions. Simultaneously, the game screen may change accordingly with the progression of the plot: background images change, character sprites take turns going out on the stage, the music suits the needs of the moment.

It is not only suitable but also useful to subtract the conventions of the experience and see this kind of media for its origins — theatrical plays — to esteem the possibilities of digital realms in storytelling.

Scriptur — game info

Platforms
Windows
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.

Not recommended Dec 23, 2021
What the heck did I just read? I have no idea. The whole thing felt very cyclical and pointless. Could be a translation issue, but I doubt it. There was a scrolling wall of text part way through that was completely in Russian, so that was swell. And to top it off, clicking Help results in a Ren'Py error and watching the credits in a premature ending route crashes the game. What a waste of time.
8 found this helpful
Not recommended Nov 24, 2023
Cool art style and direction, however the story was not it. It was hard to understand due to English translation but even the contents of the story feel completely pointless/nonsensical for the most part.
3 found this helpful
Recommended Mar 25, 2023
[h1]Before I played Scripture, I had a small pp, no friends, no gf, depression, and no life. These things havent changed, but the game is pretty good[/h1]
1 found this helpful
Not recommended Sep 10, 2026
its an experience, i couldnt get through all of it since the game keeps crashing
Not recommended May 15, 2025
Scriptur 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 is a badly translated Russian e-book that eschews the normal Steam e-book formula (a high school anime club dropout fan-fiction about the authors imaginary girlfriend) and instead tackles the issues of an amnesiac Russian man on a train. If that sounds like this could therefore be interesting, you are wrong. It's garbage. And boring. And badly translated. I mentioned that already but like so many things with garbage on Steam, it's worth mentioning twice to try spare other gamers from the pain. On the upside there is at least a bit of FMV... badly filmed, nonsensical, and has nothing much to do with the rest of the crap writing. This was sl…
Recommended Feb 27, 2025
It's a very interesting game First and foremost, the game's strongest suit are the aesthetics. The artstyle looks very unique and it fits the vibe of the story. This plus the fact that all of it takes place on a train window creates an amazing atmosphere. The story is difficult, that's the best way to say it. It's not easy to understand, but it's not impossible either, and I myself came up with a couple of different interpretations. It feels hard yet simple at the same time. The game only takes about an hour to complete, and despite the fact that it may be unclear at times, it's amazing that it manages to tell the whole tale within such a short time. I personally really enjoyed the storytelling, but I can see how others would dislike it. The biggest issue with the game is that it's just generally kind of scuffed. The text doesnt fit inside the text box, the menu screen can get easily bugged, and then there's the biggest problem so far - the translation. Sadly the writing just sounds like it was put through google translate. Some smaller parts of the story are fully incomprehensible because of that, but if you're able to put your critical thinking to use and make some assumptions…

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