the earth is a better person than me

The Sun needs to be sent to horny jail. Solid and short visual novel with several paths to multiple worthwhile endings. Each ending can be achieved in just a few minutes and all of them are well written and thought provoking pieces on the protagonist's mental state and struggles. The price is low and the game is unique. Give it a try!

This is an interactive novel/"video games as art" indie effort featuring very lazy/minimalist MS-Paint tier graphics (possibly made to look bad on purpose, possibly incompetence, it's difficult to tell when the developer throws "art" up as an excuse for poor quality). In this one, you metaphorically have sex with the planet Earth. There's not enough drugs on the planet to explain this kind of storytelling. Whenever "games as art" comes up on Steam, there's two courses the "developer" will take when trying to justify it. 1) It's genuinely art and was never intended to be a serious video game. In which case, why is this not in an art gallery as an interactive exhibit? Why is this on Steam if it's not a serious video game? Why are you charging $10 for this crap? 2) It's intended to be a serious video game, and not just art. In which case, why are the graphics so bad? Why is it just a crappy hippy weirdo interactive novel thing and not a proper video game? Why are you charging $10 for this crap? $10 gets you actual, real, playable, enjoyable video games. If you want hippy weirdo art, you can find an infinite amount of it at your local art gallery, usually for free, and …

It's difficult to describe how special is this experience. It's personal testimony about life. Poetic and at the same time without any trace of usual bull**it mumbo jumbo. Just pure honesty in all it's strength and vulnerability.

A young woman walks into a forest. The forest is herself. This is a short CYOA game, perhaps 90 minutes across all paths, built on anthropomorphised encounters with the natural world. Each interaction is a different angle on the same interior: an interior psychology in pain, examining itself with the specific combination of clarity and helplessness that comes from bearing the burden of genuine self-knowledge without self-repair. The author writes from inside the experience of mental unhealth rather than observing it from a clinical distance, and the work carries that texture throughout. The forest as externalized interior allows the game to follow lines of thought that direct examination in oneself would make intolerable. The mechanic of each path enacts its psychological argument rather than illustrating it. You do not watch a character make a choice. You make it, and the game ensures you understand what you are doing while you do it. In one path, the gap between the mechanical simplicity and emotional enormity of asking for help is laid bare and for me, that was the game's most quietly devastating detail. I get the feeling that the author is not a healthy person, and that the …

the earth is a better person than me recommanded if you like visual novel!

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