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Let's join hands and go find some sexy monsters at the gas station, hm?
Tonight, my little orbeez, we are exploring Don't Eat The Cashier (itch.io page) by @donteatthecashier, and hopefully won't end up on the menu (depending on how we'd be eaten, I suppose)
Finally dipping my stars into The Freak Circus, let's see how intense of a yandere this is.
Reviewing "Please, Don't Hate Christmas" by Rice Love Coffee
With love, I hated this game. Let me explain.
I hate possessive partners.
I hate overbearing, clingy, manipulative, gaslighting characters.
And Albert is written so well into this character that I seethed with rage through half this game, and I mean that as praise.
If you are going to write a maniacal character, then go all the way, and Albert is a perfect example of when all the ingredients of a yandere man get poured into the same tray.
On another note, this game was created by one person alone, and I've taken that into account when writing this.
~ 𝐹𝐸𝒜𝒯𝒰𝑅𝐸𝒮 ~
Fully voiced
16.3k words
11 CGs (with CG gallery)
4 endings (two bad endings, one normal ending and one best ending)
Custom name
Available Languages: English (US), 繁體中文
~ 𝒞𝒪𝒩𝒯𝐸𝒩𝒯 𝒲𝒜𝑅𝒩𝐼𝒩𝒢 ~
"Please note that this game contains mild violence, paranoid love, and mild horror"
~ 𝒜𝑅𝒯 ~
(Only mentioning character art since the BGs are assets)
The most impressive detail that stood out to me about the character design, particularly Albert, is that he's drawn to look so incredibly innocent and sweet, which creates a fantastic contrast to his other personality when it comes out.
The glee and excitement he exudes made me giddy behind the screen, and whenever that mask fell from his face, the discomfort was palpable.
~ 𝒲𝑅𝐼𝒯𝐼𝒩𝒢 ~
Aside from Albert being well-written into the character he portrays, I did have issues with the MC being utterly clueless at times. I understand that having an MC that's sharp as a blade would've undone a lot of the plot points in the game since they rely on the MC being okay with a lot of weird behaviors and being attracted by them rather than alarmed.
Still, when it's revealed that Albert does some particularly, highly unethical things behind our back, I wouldn't have minded if the MC had been a bit more disturbed.
Storywise, it took me some time to get a hang of what the big juicy secret was, but once I did, many details clicked into place. The storyline does a number of twists and turns; some I felt were left hanging without a conclusion, but in the end most of the threads all got tied together into a lovely, manipulative Christmas gift.
~ 𝒢𝒜𝑀𝐸𝒫𝐿𝒜𝒴 ~
While mostly straightforward, you are served a handful of options that'll lead you to different endings, with my personal favorite being one at the very beginning of the game.
On a technical point, the volume of the voice acting wavers between the scenes, so at times it was hard to make out what a character was saying, and if two characters are talking in the same scene, the volume was uneven at times.
~ 𝑅𝐸𝒜𝒟𝐼𝒩𝒢 𝐸𝒳𝒫𝐸𝑅𝐼𝐸𝒩𝒞𝐸 ~
The game is written and translated by one person, so I won't comment on the grammatical errors and incorrect sentence structures other than to say they exist.
I was still able to understand everything and follow the story.
~ 𝒱𝒪𝐼𝒞𝐸 𝒜𝒞𝒯𝐼𝒩𝒢 ~
No notes; the voice acting is great. Nova Charles, the voice of Albert, did an amazing job portraying that gleeful excitement while simultaneously creeping me the fuck out when the mood took a turn.
The same goes for all the other voiced characters; they did a great job setting the mood and keeping a mysterious shroud over the story with their intonations alone.
~ 𝑀𝒴 𝐹𝒜𝒱𝒪𝑅𝐼𝒯𝐸𝒮 ~
There is a lot of (described) gore.
I like gore.
Overall, a fun playthrough where I got to bitch and moan about the well-portrayed extreme yandere aspect; great job for a single person to write and create the story and the characters, and while I got pissed off at the game multiple times, I had a blast at the same time.
Go play it for yourselves at itch.io and enjoy some intimate moments with an adorable, manipulating stalker.
Saturday stream off!
Happy Saturday, Orbeez!
I'll be off for today, but tomorrow at 16:30 CET we'll delve into the fascinating world of The Freak Circus.
I love you, brush your teeth, and wish upon a star!
Just had to go and ruin the mood with mom's spaghetti our of all things.
I have no shame.
**note that the character is refered to as them in the game, this song just fitted too perfectly with the emotions I went through when they first showed up on the screen
Happy New Year Orbeez!
In typical Thursday fashion, we are looking at 2 visual novel demos today;
Gentle Fall (Stalker vibes)
Falling For The Cold Prince On My Roof (Intruder vibes..?)
Let's see if we enjoy them!
Thank you @vtuber-boostin and everyone who got me to 5 reblogs!
Happy New Year Orbeez!
In typical Thursday fashion, we are looking at 2 visual novel demos today;
Gentle Fall (Stalker vibes)
Falling For The Cold Prince On My Roof (Intruder vibes..?)
Let's see if we enjoy them!
Finaly done with this new stupid animation. Hope, you will enjoy it. music : lacymosa by mozart
Reviewing "Meeting in the flesh" by inkEthic
This game is disturbing, obscure, goopy, and fucking fantastic.
Perhaps I'm a shitty reviewer, but I have nothing negative to say about the experience I had playing through this game, following Yiestol's path (because who can say no to a gentleman with an exosceleton and lanky bony fingers? Exactly) and I can't wait to play it again going through Brattan's and (apprehensively) Nyargh's paths as well.
~ 𝐹𝐸𝒜𝒯𝒰𝑅𝐸𝒮 ~
None mentioned.
~ 𝒜𝑅𝒯 ~
The art style is gorgeous. I love how gruelling and raw the world is, how it's shaded in red and gloom in a way that isn't reflected in the characters we meet. No one is matching the rundown/post-apocalyptic looks of the world or feeling of destruction, like it's the most normal thing, same as when I go down town to do some shopping and stick around to witness a salt bath.
Each character is so unique and I imagine them having their own unique voices simply from looking at them. Every image of the city made me want to walk down the streets myself and peek around the corner, see what other stores and groups of people are around.
The only thing I'm truly missing is a depiction of the Earthwale, I'd stick my foot in a salt bath for one of those.
~ 𝒲𝑅𝐼𝒯𝐼𝒩𝒢 ~
The best thing about this game for me is how obvious everything is. There's no introduction to the world, no "once upon a time", nothing, we just wake up and eat a block of salt like it's the most normal thing ever, because in this world it is, and I was sat immediately.
Everyone we meet are friends or acquaintances since old, no eyebrows raised at humanoid insects or partly-melted bodyparts hanging here and there, because here it's normal, and I love that shit.
The state of the world is never mentioned, it just is, same as the people in it, and I came into this game clueless and left with so many questions, though none of them because I was missing core information about the game or that something didn't make sense; I want to learn more, and the devs caused that tickling sensation in my brain.
~ 𝒢𝒜𝑀𝐸𝒫𝐿𝒜𝒴 ~
The game is straight-forward with a handful of options for certain scenes that mostly makes the decision for which romantic interest you want to lean towards, and I didn't miss anything going through this game or thinking something was 'taken from me' in scenes where I couldn't make any grand decisions of my own.
This is a romance game, not an adventure game, and I wouldn't be opinionated about something it's not. I appreciate those choices we are given and how they affect our day, and that's more than enough to feel agency over the story.
~ 𝑅𝐸𝒜𝒟𝐼𝒩𝒢 𝐸𝒳𝒫𝐸𝑅𝐼𝐸𝒩𝒞𝐸 ~
I noticed about 3-4 typos throughout the game and none of them had a negative effect on story, quickly vanishing from my mind as I continued on reading.
The language is easy to read and understand (coming from a non native English speaker) without feeling 'childish' or 'too simplified', making me feel like I was playing a game for adults which is what I wanted.
Descriptors are enough to be clear and portray the emotions and scenes without getting too flowery or underwhelming, a perfect 'just enough' to have everything come across and for me to feel part of them.
Overall, 10/10 for where my English skills are at.
~ 𝑀𝒴 𝐹𝒜𝒱𝒪𝑅𝐼𝒯𝐸𝒮 ~
EARTHWALES! PROTECT THE EARTHWALES!
No but seriously, I need the lore of earthwales, if they live in the sand/ground/dunes, if they come up for air, how sharp their teeth are, and if they blow soil through their head-holes.
Thank you so much to @inkethic for creating this absolutely amazing experience, and everyone go here play the game over on Itch immediately!
[My heart when Yiestol takes my hand]
It's high time in Our Life: Beginnings & Always -- Will Cove stop moping as a young (?) adult, and will we finally learn to not suck at surfing?
i think the near-extinction of people making fun, deep and/or unique interactive text-based browser games, projects and stories is catastrophic to the internet. i'm talking pre-itch.io era, nothing against it.
there are a lot of fun ones listed here and here but for the most part, they were made years ago and are now a dying breed. i get why. there's no money in it. factoring in the cost of web hosting and servers, it probably costs money. it's just sad that it's a dying art form.
anyway, here's some of my favorite browser-based interactive projects and games, if you're into that kind of thing. 90% of them are on the lists that i linked above.
A Better World - create an alternate history timeline
Alter Ego - abandonware birth-to-death life simulator game
Seedship - text-based game about colonizing a new planet
Sandboxels or ThisIsSand - free-falling sand physics games
Little Alchemy 2 - combine various elements to make new ones
Infinite Craft - kind of the same as Little Alchemy
ZenGM - simulate sports
Tamajoji - browser-based tamagotchi
IFDB - interactive fiction database (text adventure games)
Written Realms - more text adventure games with a user interface
The Cafe & Diner - mystery game
The New Campaign Trail - US presidential campaign game
Money Simulator - simulate financial decisions
Genesis - text-based adventure/fantasy game
Level 13 - text-based science fiction adventure game
Miniconomy - player driven economy game
Checkbox Olympics - games involving clicking checkboxes
BrantSteele.net - game show and Hunger Games simulators
Murder Games - fight to the death simulator by Orteil
Cookie Clicker - different but felt weird not including it. by Orteil.
if you're ever thinking about making a niche project that only a select number of individuals will be nerdy enough to enjoy, keep in mind i've been playing some of these games off and on for 20~ years (Alter Ego, for example). quite literally a lifetime of replayability.
since this post blew up, i've been wanting to do an addition with all of the recommendations from the comments and tags. but there's a lot of them. some people might be crazy enough to sit down and seriously put them all in one post with descriptions. those people are honestly sick in the head.
anyway, here's all of the recommendations from the reblogs. not all of them are text-based, but it's a great mixture of styles. also don't forget the links in the second paragraph of the OP which will take you to FMHY where there are a bunch more games listed.
Games
A Dark Room - text-based science fiction role-playing game.
corru.observer - science fiction adventure web game.
Improbable Island - old-school text adventure game.
Candy Box 2 - incremental clicker game that evolves into RPG.
Arcanum - open source wizard clicker game.
sandspiel, Powder Game, Powder Game 2, The Powder Toy - more sand physics games.
Orb.Farm - fishtank simulator.
Façade - experimental game with a real-time interactive narrative where you try to fix a failing marriage.
The Catacombs of Solaris - trippy art game.
Yume Nikki Online - online version of the surreal classic plus fangames.
The Barncle Goose Experiment - combine element/alchemy game based on antique theories of abiogenesis.
Fallen London - free-to-play text-based open world RPG.
Nested - very unique text-based universe expanding game. described as possibly @orteil42's favorite thing he's ever made.
The Process of Elimination - interactive web novel (by @hypertextdog)
Discworld MUD - multiplayer, text-based, online game (a MUD, or text MMORPG) based on the Discworld books.
Horse Master - surreal text game about training a horse.
EYEZMAZE - flash (RIP) or HTML5-based puzzle games.
You Are Jeff Bezos - text game. spend Jeff Bezos' fortune.
The Password Game - challenging puzzle game where you have to meet password requirements (by neal)
Universal Paperclips - incremental paperclip making game.
Half-Earth - planetary disaster planning game where you try to save the world using socialism.
ChooseYourStory - community-driven website centered on CYOA style story games.
PhD Simulator - random event based text game. make your choice each month and see if you can graduate on time.
Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup - open source roguelike.
Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead - turn-based survival roguelike set in the modern day.
Nethack - open source roguelike originally released in 1987.
FarmRPG - simple, mobile-friendly, text-based farming RPG.
Kingdom of Loathing - browser-based community MMORPG.
PokeRogue - browser-based Pokemon roguelike
Tools
Text Game Builder - works in your browser, with just a little bit of Python (by @grumpygandalf)
Twine - great (free!) tool for making text-based games quickly.
Ink - scripting language for interactive fiction (also free)
Flashpoint Archive - a community effort to preserve games and animations from the web.
PICO-8 - fantasy console for making, sharing and playing tiny games and other computer programs.
Non-Games
Library of Babel - interactive illustration which attempts to simulate what it might be like to browse The Library of Babel.
Superbad - technically not a game, sprawling website full of secrets.
17776 - serialized speculative fiction multimedia narrative about football in the far-future. beautiful, creative, legendary. created by Jon Bois, a legend and one of my favorite writers of all time.
Choice of Games - text-based, choose-your-own-adventure games (interactive fiction). some free-to-play, others can be bought like an ebook.
The Deep Sea - scroll to the bottom of the ocean. encounter the humble squid and his friends (by neal)
Space Elevator - like The Deep Sea, but up instead of down. you can equip your avatar with a scarf (by neal)
Internet Artifacts - an interactive history of the early internet (by neal)
If The Moon Were Only One Pixel - scroll through an accurately scaled model of the universe.
r/incremental_games - reddit community for incremental games.
r/WebGames - reddit community for web games in general.
thank you to everyone who contributed and the creators. please be sure to show them some love where possible.
Reviewing "Burdock" by Butterfly Rocket Studios
I am fucking obsessed.
Okay, fine, "obsessed" is a strong word, but this game hit all the notes for my macabre-loving brain and made me salivate over the art, character traits, voice acting, and the constant feeling of unease vining around my spine.
This game feels right at home with the old Scandinavian fairy tales, which I love dearly, and I appreciate the grown-up tone of this game that's similar to those tales as well.
I am by no means a professional reviewer, or even a novice one, so I won't pretend to know what I'm talking about other than vomiting glitter and praise all over this game.
~ 𝐹𝐸𝒜𝒯𝒰𝑅𝐸𝒮 ~
Nameable Protagonist (gender left undefined)
24,000 words (roughly 1-3 hours playtime)
Four Full Endings—and multiple Bad Ones
Original Soundtrack
Fully Voiced Characters (Winter 2024 update!)
~ 𝒞𝒪𝒩𝒯𝐸𝒩𝒯 𝒲𝒜𝑅𝒩𝐼𝒩𝒢 ~
"Violence, blood, spiders, and potentially disturbing imagery and sound effects. There are no intended jump scares, and no animals are harmed—though the same cannot be promised of the protagonist!"
~ 𝒜𝑅𝒯 ~
First of all, the art style is absolutely beautiful. From the characters to the environment to the choices of colors, there is this stunning mix of brightness that lifts your spirit as you make your way through the game, inspiring hope that you won't get eaten or fall into a trap, only to rapidly shift the mood when the colors darken and you know you're in danger.
Also, I'm not going to lie about simping over both The Fairy and Her Majesty the Deer. I'm a slut for charming royalty and powerhouse women.
~ 𝒲𝑅𝐼𝒯𝐼𝒩𝒢 ~
I have nothing bad to say about the writing. It's put onto 'paper' in a way that helps visualize each emotion the MC is going through, the anxiety and cluelessness, and the fear before each trial. As someone with English as a second language, the writing is a bit advanced for me to understand compared to regular, day-to-day English, but it's hardly a downside, except for anyone forced to hear my attempts to pronounce any of it.
~ 𝒢𝒜𝑀𝐸𝒫𝐿𝒜𝒴 ~
All the choices were clear, and I never ended up in a scene where I didn't understand what was going on or what I was supposed to do to progress (into death or otherwise). There are many choices for each section of the game that make you feel in charge, and there was never a dull moment that I wanted to skip through.
~ 𝒱𝒪𝐼𝒞𝐸 𝒜𝒞𝒯𝐼𝒩𝒢 ~
Glorious. Fantastic. Gorgeous. Each character had the perfect voice and the perfect tone, from sultry charm to quipping annoyance. All the voice actors did such an amazing job, and I'm so happy they updated the game with voices; it added so much personality to all the characters and really helped their traits come through.
~ 𝑀𝒴 𝐹𝒜𝒱𝒪𝑅𝐼𝒯𝐸𝒮 ~
If I can bring anything out from this game to the physical world, it would be The Wisp. I'll wrap them into a little burrito and carry them around with me in my pocket, feeding them little lightning snacks and biting back cuteness-aggression each time they smile that proud smile.
Thank you Butterfly Rocket Studios for this amazing experience and the thrills, wonders, and chills that this wonderful story brought, and I can't wait to set my claws into another one of your games soon!
The mists are full of secrets and the woods are full of fae–so do not go a-wandering, and do not go astray!
GO PLAY IT GODDAMMIT!
First time trying a yandere game and I'm terrified -- and not in a sexy way.
I did have a lot of reluctant fun being absolutely horrified throughout the game. It's obviously not a genre for me but I got to bitch a lot, and the "love interest" is increadibly well written, hence me trying to find a secret path to murder him halfway through the game.
For anyone into the obsessive, manic, gaslighting, toxic type of wandering red flag for a man, this game will be an absolute gem!
Fall in love with a yandere Santa Claus!
Fighting for my newly re-aquired life with help (or just pure malice) from the fae -- and they're all beautiful.
Can't get more Christmas-spirit-y than a snowy novel with a touch of paranoia, right?
Fall in love with a yandere Santa Claus!
Wilhelm Scream™
We can't catch a fucking break, apparently.
