Dr. Lilith Fleischer - Lily, please - is a gifted therapist, a licensed psychiatrist, an exceptional hypnotherapist, and a mildly dangerous solipsist. She has concluded, after careful consideration, that she is the only person who is actually in there. Everyone else runs on chemistry. Fortunately for everyone else, chemistry is her whole job.
Her new patient is a 24-year-old game store clerk with six weeks of flat nothing, a single-car accident she is very done talking about. The chart says depression. The chart is a liar, but then again, so is she, and so are you.
SOLIPCYST is a puzzle visual novel inspired by Phoenix Wright, Return of the Obra Dinn, and grade school polymino puzzles: one patient, eight weeks, one hour at a time. Peel apart everything she tells you in good confidence to dig for clues. Pack her mind like a suitcase. Medicate, manipulate, stabilize, groom - anything necessary to heal the patient. Among other things.
A brain is a board: Therapy is polymino packing with a license.
A diagnostic interrogation: claims, evidence, challenges, and a woman who fights the label with everything except the truth.
The classic blunder: A visual novel that responds to your actions.
Eight endings, with variation. Designed to be replayed.
Average playthrough will discover around 12,000 words of Visual Novel, and hundreds more trying to pry apart all her testimony!
Content warnings: therapeutic abuse from the therapist's POV, grooming/manipulation of an adult patient, gaslighting, bipolar disorder, mania, depression, medical coercion, grief and parental death, a serious car accident (recounted and depicted), sexual themes. All characters are adults. The game does not endorse what it lets you do. Obviously.
Made for the Toxic Yuri VN Jam II.
Future case files to come, probably.
Credits below the read more.
CREDITS
Team
BSTDev - code, UI, design, script, music (that's me!)
Roxy Pop - portrait art; music & SFX consultation (@lonestareq.bsky.social)
Special thanks: Moon, Pallas, Quinn, and Eight - script feedback, plot workshopping, UI feedback, and moral support.
Third-party materials
Therapy office photograph via Unsplash
SFX/instrument samples adapted from the Phoenix Wright: Trials and Tribulations soundfont and the Mother 3 soundfont, both under CC BY 3.0
Guitar chord sounds from the YouTube channel JP SFX (released free to use)
I know I indulge in deeply parasocial behavior on here but there is a big, big difference between speculating and being silly with your friends in fan spaces, where any actor who sees what we're saying will know that they've chosen to enter a space where people are saying things that are not meant for their eyes, and going into the comment section of an actor's own account and acting like you know them. We do not know these people. It is creepy and disrespectful to go to someone you don't know and say "Hello total stranger, I know that the words coming out of your mouth are not what's in your heart and I'm so sorry that you are being forced to do something that you say you love when I know you're lying". Stop it.
Quite frankly yall need to be projecting more on the doms. Make the DOM have guilty sexual fantasies !!! Maybe the DOM is shamefully staring at the ceiling after waking up from a dream!!! Yall are cowards. Do none of you have any appreciation for the noble dom identity crisis. Do none of you have any respect for guilty sadists with control issues and who desperately want autonomy for once in their damn lives and who just want to Keep someone, for once, who want to be allowed to Want and Take . Do NONE of yall have any respect for sadists realizing with horror how badly they want to hurt the person they would do anything to protect and take care of and make smile? Cowards, all of you.
I don't know why people think "I am thinking about Thing in a sexy way" equals "I want and definitely will do Thing in a sex way in real life if I have a chance"
Because like this is how it actually works for me at least:
Some of the things in the green circle would literally disgust me in the other tiers
Some of it is even stuff that other people would find very normal and pedestrian
Sexual partners calling each other "babe" > outside of written fiction is an immediate boner killer for me but in a piece of writing can be hot
Like c'mon
Some things are only fun in your head when there are no actual bodily fluids or clean up or effort needed
Imagination does not equal actual real life actions
i really wish people could show attraction towards black bodies without making it a racial humiliation fetish thing like you could just find my art of myself hot without talking about me breeding black babies in you to make bigots upset you are being fucking weird.
i just, noticed that within these spaces these people cannot separate their progressive racial politics from their fetish fantasies and project that onto racialized minorities who not only feel objectified by this dehumanization but also feel tokenized by conflating our existence with "making bigots mad"
i think I'm just upset because I'm a gnc fem black guy and the concept of white people projecting their BBC breeding dom fantasies onto me with the extra commentary on making nazis mad is fucking absurd and might be the reason why I might limit the white people I talk to.
it's just the weird hyper-masculinized black fantasies these people have that just, low-key make me feel awful.
I think that making deeply self-indulgent porn is a good way to make peace with how your work can’t be all things to all people, you have to make genuine tradeoffs about what gets focus and trust that the people who aren’t into it will peacefully self-select out of your audience
Arthurian knight kink, by which I mean our RP scene must be prefaced with a lengthy apologetics establishing that it totally happened exactly like this and any other chronicler who tells it differently is full of shit.
I'm going to need you to approach me three times in a series of increasingly flimsy disguises by which I will be utterly fooled, each time asking me one of these five riddles, and you have to act like you're genuinely mad when I get the answers wrong. I can't get it up if the scorn isn't sincere.
I don't have many plans to continue this AU but I think it'd be fun. Whowever I am still working on commissions so, perhaps when I'm done with them, I will work in this AU in the future lol.
Im so tired of noncon fantasies being defended exclusively from the standpoint of women who fantasize as the victim
"Accusing ppl with rape fantasies of wanting to be raped is disgusting apologism!"
I fantasize as the rapist. I like imagining scenarios where someone isn't attracted to me because I'm used to being treated as an object and it pisses me off. The only fantasy that feels empowering is one where I'm 100% sure the other person isn't using me for their pleasure because they aren't experiencing pleasure at all, because I'm in control, because it's all about what I want and nothing else.
That doesn't make me a rapist, and most of the people condemning rape fantasies have people like me in mind, so it would be nice if that was acknowledged more.
Working on travel maps for the population centers of the Lotus Galaxy. Here's one for Plear, the homeworld of the hegemony. It's surface is flooded by constant rain, but its moons are home to a majority of the galaxy's population, when they aren't falling from orbit.
Screaming Metal: Vector Soul is my solo, juggling-act of a mecha game, where you play either as a pilot, taking missions and getting fucked by your handler, or as the handler, waging political war and sending your pilots on missions that fuck them.
It can be played:
alone, as either role
two-player, with one pilot and one handler
or with as many players in as many roles as your discord server can handle.
The bare-bones rules will be available for free on my blog this month and the game and all of its horny, messy art will be part of backerkits zinetopia in february.
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