Xi-Portal

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Xi Portal is a lot like Doki Doki literature club in the since that they way the approach horror and story telling are similar but this is NOT a clone. This game has challenging puzzles, good twists, spooky scariest like DDLC but implements more game features (like an inventory and phone) as well as (in my opinion) just having more secrets and things to explore. Bonus! The person who made the game also made a guide so you won't miss out on anything

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better then i thought, the first 30-45 mins might not make it seem a good game or feel cheap but it become better with time, i hope the dev update the game more and wish them all the best, you should try it, it is free game

Xi-Portal 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 your usual high school anime fan club dropout fan-fiction where the author has psychic powers he always pretended he had and also has lots of friends at school. Seriously, that's what this fan-fiction is all about. Oh boy. Visual novels/e-books are tedious at best... imagine the best novel you ever read, be that Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy or 2001: A Space Odyssey or Twilight (if you have terrible taste in literature), but then translate that to a format where the words dribble out and you have to click your mouse every time you wanted to read the next sentence, instead of just turning the pages. You'd think it was garbage. Now imagin…

("we're consulting ChatGPT for further ideas" killed any interest I might've had for the extended version, and if I'd seen it earlier I wouldn't have invested 8 hours into this in the first place) Honestly, I just didn't really have a good time. The true endings start being interesting (because we learn the relationships between characters, not because of the plot. I never cared about the secret organisation stuff) but until then, it's very basic. New school, new friends, guy tells you there's an impostor, you get rid of the impostor. There's no tension because the playable character is never worried or suspicious of anyone, he just hangs out with friends like nothing is going on. (and the writing is incredibly basic too, when you hear everyone's backstories it's like you're reading the prompt, not actual people talking about something they personally lived, and before that they're plain uninteresting) If it was just that I wouldn't review at all though, but you haven't yet heard of the game's worst sin: the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ UNSKIPPABLE VIDEOS. The story would easily fit in 3-4h, but nooo, each playthrough has to waste my time with unskippable transitions and black screens. I also h…