Yonder World: Interview with the Void

HUGE disclaimer- I'm Dethiral's voice actress! No, I haven't been asked to write anything in terms of a review or paid to write anything kind; I was only paid to voice act, and was given a copy of the game to play. With that in mind, onto the review! The concept from day 1 had me hooked- demonic romances, a more realistic approach to a romance VN, and complex characters. Seeing the art on the casting call, I couldn't live with myself for not trying out! Thankfully it went well! Recording the lines for the game, we were mostly in the dark; obviously character motives and some info was given to help us deliver the lines, but other than that we didn't really know much, especially with the nature of branching narratives and bad endings. So when it came to actually playing the game for the first time, I was absolutely blown away by the quality of the stories and sheer number of routes! Replaying was also super easy as you can skip previous conversations, and there's absolutely enough room for one choice to drastically change the way a route goes, and I can't recommend exploring these avenues enough! I can't hide the number of hours I have in this game, and trust me that I don't bl…

Great: - Character writing. Every NPC was given plany ob time and dialogue through different routes. (Con: occasionally felt like the character depth and backstories were the result of 2D narrative greebling instead of thought-out backstories intentionally left mysterious) - Romance partners (Baron from the Baronies vc.). Extremely hot women. They are so hot. - Story writing. Somewhat frustrating due to various mysteries that are never directly answered, and relationship threads and backstories that remain unresolved. Fits with the theme of the game though to never find catharsis Bearable: - Current iteration of game has some coding bugs preventing player from getting certain achievements and endings. Doesn't really matter since steam profile features limited - Heavily reliant on the official guide to obtain certain endings

I just started playing the game and really enjoyed it to the point of wanting to leave a review. This game has such a fun, unique concept -- after all, who wouldn't want to romance a mysterious, alluring, and yet sinister eldritch abomination who rules over her own nether-realm?! It really helps that the game is STUNNINGLY beautiful, with some of the prettiest and yet, most unique looking sprites I've ever seen, as well as great and frequent CGIs and beautifully polished backgrounds. I really enjoyed the non-standard gameplay as well, had fun with the object puzzles, and enjoyed the great writing also. The storyline moves quite fast but I was always able to follow it and most of all, I always sympathized with the MC and winced during the bad endings. (Which I stumbled into quite frequently!) I also wasn't sure who I wanted her to end up with, since all of the love interests are so gorgeous and compelling and sinisterly fascinating. I ended up choosing Dethiral, which lead to some really tense but exciting scenes! Overall, Yonder World is a wonderful romance/horror romp with a compelling storyline, a very vulnerable yet lovable main character you can't help but root for, and really…

Bought the game for Dethiral and I overall loved it, but have a few qualms. I went at it organically for around 3 hours, then kept getting stuck, but the guide made it a fun experience there after. Made it super easy to explore all the dialogue too, which is always one of my concerns with visual novels - not getting to experience the whole story. Skipping dialogue already read worked smoothly, which is sometimes an issue for some games, but not this one, so another plus! Love the ending tracker, made it so easy to replay the endings I liked. Of course my favorite and most anticipated route was Dethiral, scary, powerful and devastatingly hot woman, what else could you ask for in a love interest to be honest. While I loved her character, I felt like her story could have been fleshed out a bit more. It felt a little rushed, which made her ending less satisfying for me. Big spoiler ahead but in her route [spoiler] we never find out the whole reason why she is the way she is. How she got her powers or lost her ability to love. And we never see her problem resolved - retrieving her heart - despite many hints. Was really excited when I got bad romance end that maybe the time loop woul…

The guide is confusing..it doesnt tell which things you should choose specifically in order to get the specific end. It kinda makes you guess sometimes. Like it shows you the options and the points you gain or lose but it says little about how many points are needed in which of the two categories in order to trigger all endings. I think maybe even the good ending for Deth was bleak so Im hoping for an epilogue where things actually resolve one way or another. Ive only done the one character, two routes. It says theres a good ending and a good romance ending and a friendship ending and an archangel ending but the guide isnt great at getting you there. All this aside the game its self is amazing, and the story is heartbreaking and unnerving and beautiful all at once.

Yonder World is a dark fantasy/psychological horror visual novel about a young angel (default name Vellus)—recently promoted to her first ever "real job"—accidentally getting transported to a dimension ruled over by an eldritch being named Dethiral. The game is also marketed as a romance (yuri/otome), but while it does have character-centric routes with romantic endings, I feel that the romance elements are very light throughout the vast majority of the game (the exceptions mostly being the endings). In particular, [spoiler]Dethiral's romantic route largely boils down to Vellus developing a crush on her that can't possibly be reciprocated. This makes sense with revelations you get about Dethiral's backstory but some players might be more disappointed to realize that it doesn't ever amount to anything.[/spoiler] The gameplay is a bit complex for a visual novel; choices increase and decrease each major character's friendship and romance, with fairly strict requirements for endings necessitating long-term stat management if you want to see everything. There's an official guide here on Steam, but it's honestly kind of confusing and I think one of the bad endings might be literally imp…