To Be With You
Illus Seed Games · 2021 · Visual Novel, Interactive Fiction, Psychological Horror, Story Rich, Emotional
PC
Positive93% · 28
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About To Be With You
After finally moving in with her childhood friend and long-distance boyfriend James, Alsie finds herself struggling to keep their relationship together. Can you help her save this relationship from ruin?
To Be With You is a semi-autobiographical interactive visual novel exploring one woman's journey through a relationship that seems to be falling apart. Over the course of her time with James, Alsie must come to grips with her past and present if she wants to create a better future.
To Be With You has multiple endings and is roughly an hour long (variable according to reading speed).
Content Warnings
In order of intensity of depiction, from most to least, this game contains depictions or discussions of:
Please keep that in mind.
To Be With You was commissioned by Playcrafting for PlayNYC.
To Be With You is a semi-autobiographical interactive visual novel exploring one woman's journey through a relationship that seems to be falling apart. Over the course of her time with James, Alsie must come to grips with her past and present if she wants to create a better future.
To Be With You has multiple endings and is roughly an hour long (variable according to reading speed).
Content Warnings
In order of intensity of depiction, from most to least, this game contains depictions or discussions of:
- Emotional abuse
- Gaslighting
- Mental illness
- Divorce
Please keep that in mind.
To Be With You was commissioned by Playcrafting for PlayNYC.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
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Players praise "To Be With You" for its raw, emotionally impactful writing that authentically depicts emotional abuse from the victim's perspective, with many finding the game deeply moving and cathartic. However, some feel it's a one-time experience with limited replay value, while others criticize it as preachy or overly focused on a particular ideological perspective rather than nuanced storytelling.
Every once in a while, there comes a game that elevates itself to more than just a game. In this case, To Be With You, this was not just a run of the mill visual novel game, but is a very candid, raw, and sincere experience written from the POV of our main character Alsie, who is in a toxic relationship. The creator of the game has mentioned in the game store page that this is a semi-autobiographical game that's partly based on her own past relationship with an emotionally abusive boyfriend. The quality of the writing is excellent. As I play through the game, although I've recognized some of the techniques Alsie's boyfriend is using to emotionally abuse her, I couldnt help but still want to "fix" her boyfriend because "I love him", and when you love someone, of course you would want to fix them? Wouldn't you? And that's when you realize that's how gaslighters in toxic relationships trap their victims. They gaslight, they always pin the faults onto you, they make you feel worthless, they make you think it's all your fault. They make you doubt your own self worth and they make you feel useless, powerless. My first run of the game I got the bad end, because I got so fixated on t…3 found this helpful
Didn't really meet the expectations. Good for one time read only.2 found this helpful
Spoilers, obviously I cried so much playing this. In the Safe Ending when Chelsea hugs Alsie and tells her it's going to be okay I felt something fall out from inside me and I couldn't hold it in. The tragic scenes in the Bad Ending are worse (especially with the implication that James is going to eventually leave Alsie anyways and could hurt her before that happens), but the kindness shown by Chelsea hurts a victim of abuse even more. All I needed was someone to help me. It's quite an uplifting ending, to be centered on that small act of kindness. Stay safe out there.1 found this helpful
VN from feminist for feminists. The game promotes hate against men
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