LOVE SHORE IS 60% FUNDED WITH 9 DAYS LEFT!
Love Shore, a LGBT+ Cyberpunk visual novel is currently on the last 9 days of its Kickstarter running. The support has been absolutely amazing! In case you’ve been on the fence about pledging or dying to know more first, here’s a bit about what we’re trying to do here!
Love Shore is a city that never sleeps. After a fertility crisis paved the way for Life.S Incorporated, S.Humans emerged. Wealthy families gathered sums of money to the single year of the crisis to create their child. A perfect child. Carrying the same genetic makeup of the parents, a child was developed in an inorganic body, with an organic brain. The body was designed based on inferences on appearances based of genetics. Unfortunately, this child needed to be up-kept. The mind developed but the body did not.
So, parents were tasked to bring their child every year to update the body. Than every three. Than every five. The fertility crisis only lasted only a single year and in that year, 100 S.Humans were born. With the end of the crisis, families saw no reason to keep their children up. Why bother when they can “birth a whole new real son” as Sam would claim. Therefore, the Life.S Inc fell, vanishing into history and 100 S.Humans struggled to find a place for themselves in Love Shore.
This is where we begin our story. Follow two protagonists. Sam and Farah. Both recently released from Prison. Both with different involvements in the underworld. The cool thing about Love Shore is the deep dive we do about the consequences of extreme capitalism.
Sam and Farah react to their situation entirely differently. Farah, being ex-military, and having further development from her time in the military, lost it all with the destruction of her legs. With Life.S gone, replacements were impossible. Prosthetics let her continue move forward. Sam, having lost all relation to his family after the birth of his brother, turned to a found family in crime. He suffers from depression stemming from his ever-locked appearance. While Farah finds a way to push forward, Sam struggles with what he is.
And this is what we explored. This complexity of being somewhat preserved in time while surrounded by others who weren’t. That bodies were not their own and yet, they had to find a way to claim an identity for themselves. Many of the routes in Love Shore deal with the importance of learning to understand yourself. There’s deep sadness in the overarching story but there is also a lot of room for love and found family. You see it already in the trailer. Which how our protags are greeted by friends.
We often bring up LGBT+ content in Love Shore because what attracted us to Cyberpunk is a chance to go into depth on sexuality and identity. Maya is an S.Human and could transition in a day. Conrad spent the majority of his life transitioning.
What more, the characters in Love Shore suffer from how much everything is *breaking* due to the capitalistic society. The story of Love Shore, depending on who you play, deals with the outside looking in on this system, and the trapped in the middle of it.
Everyone is searching for something. Even Sam and Farah, something deeper than any of them realize at the start of the game. And it’s the player who guides them down the path. Will you reach into the underworld and learn about the gods that reside there? Will you instead, choose to keep your focus small, and try to understand what truly happened in with Life.S? The fertility crisis? The reason behind S.Humans? Will you fine the closest friend Sam or Farah ever had? A lover? An enemy?
All this and more are in Love Shore. And ultimately, it’s a story that we’ve been dying to tell in all facets. The good and the bad. We can’t do it without you, so if you want to dive into this sleepless city, play our demo and support us on KS!