@jennathearcher Thank you for the Ten characters, ten fandoms tag!
I did cheat a little and do Nine Visual Novel Characters!
In order from left to right:
1. Meeting In The Flesh (Complete) - In this unique world where everyone lives off salt who will you choose to spend your time with? The world building blew me away to the point I forgot it was an 18+ spicy monster lover game. Also the MC is named Vil and Nonbinary!
https://inkethic.itch.io/meetingintheflesh
2. This Life Escapes Me (Complete) - Very short ten minute visual novel. You’re brought back to life by a necromancer. You have no memory of him but he seems to know you. Very emotional gut punch of a story.
https://coda-blue.itch.io/this-life-escapes-me
3. Trapped with Jester (Complete) - Another short game. You’re trapped with a Jester, how will you react?
https://ant-san.itch.io/jester
4. See Thru: Need a Friend? (Demo) - Your childhood friend wants you to ditch work, will you?
https://itsyaboi328.itch.io/stnaf
5. Saint Spell’s Love Guide to Magical Student's Handbook (Complete) - If I'm being honest I haven’t beaten this entire game (there’s 29 routes).
I did hear an audio of someone dubbing Bugbear’s lines on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@keybunbun/video/7140783580912848133?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=7121124325585094190
and couldn’t resist playing his route after. It is a horror route not romance buttttt he’s hot. So he can get away with it.
https://jiefinch.itch.io/saintspell
6. 14 Days With You (Demo) - Unsettling things keep happening around you, but on the bright side you did meet a man named [REDACTED] at work!
https://cutiesai.itch.io/14dayswithyou
7-9. Colored Gaze (Demo) - Working nights at the local convenience store causes you to encounter three interesting men.
Well, it's still Valentine's day for at least those of us in the USA.
So.. here's part one of Yiestol's route in Meeting in the Flesh
(it actually went up early this afternoon and it was meant to be one video for the holiday... but I had some issues with my recording and editing software so I basically put up what I'd already had edited and the rest will go up later tonight! ... probably super late though)
Hello everyone, and farewell to 2022! Thank you so much for your support this past year!💖 We bring you our sincere best wishes for a good 2023, as well as a small gift to send out the year: a small update to our demo on Itch and a fresh new release of the demo on Steam!
Our demo on Itch (Windows, Mac)
And the demo on Steam (Windows only for now):
The new version of the demo (virtually identical on Itch and Steam) contains a fix to streamline the opening choice, corrects some typos, and includes an improved version of a background CG. We hope you'll give it a gander sometime!
In the meantime, thank you once more for your kind support throughout the year. We're always grateful for the kind words we've received and will always strive not to disappoint. We both sincerely wish you all the best in this coming year, and promise to continue doing our best!
yeah baby lets go i hate posting things at a time people will see them
Meeting in the Flesh - PWYW
actually im obsessed with this one. holy shit. it fucking rules. its free and i think you should play it
this is a self-described "cozy horror-based dating sim" and i personally didnt think it was like. scary horror. but i absolutely loved it.
the premise is that you are vil, a salt courier in a city that um only eats salt and things mixed with salt? and the eclipse is approaching, a time of great significance in local culture.
i played the full yiestol route which took about 45 minutes. the art is gorgeous, and the writing was compelling enough that i kept playing past the usual 15 minutes. if i have a complaint its that the music was much more "miss" than "hit". you should play this one!!!!!
Flying Frags - World Tour - PWYW
this is. unreal. its a very visually interesting looking fps that is hampered by having some of the least responsive controls ive ever experienced in my life. i have no idea what is going on here lol. it would take two solid seconds of mashing the shoot button (both ctrl and left mouse button) before my gun owuld start firing. i wish i recorded myself playing this thing bc all i could say the entire time was "what in the goddamn"
Eternia: Pet Whisperer - $3
Included in Indie bundle for Palestinian Aid
this is a visual novel about going to a shelter to adopt a pet but all the animals at the shelter can talk. found the loving realistic paintings of the animals very funny when contrasted by the more typical visual novel sprite of the protagonist. also that you have one interaction per day implying you spend like a month at this shelter where the inhabitants kind of hate you lol
Six Match - $2.50
Included in Bundle for Racial Justice and Equality
i forgot to take a screenshot lmao
this is cute! six match is a match 3 puzzle game where you control a little guy who shuffles around the board. you have to make a match within six moves or you lose. it's pretty difficult (im bad at match three...) and kept my attention well the entire time.
i think generally the presentation is extremely good and the sound effects are satisfying but it does feel weird to me that there is zero music at all. overall this is very charming and worth a few minutes at least
Occupy White Walls - Free!
this is "an" "mmo" so kind of hard to get a taste of in only 15 minutes but by god did i try
occupy white walls is an art gallery sandbox. you have your own space to build a place to display art. i spent most of my time running around various recommended player spaces but it looks like it's very robust and interesting to build in
also this runs like ass in "high complexity" spaces despite the fact that it was not really taxing my hardware at any point. idk what was going on with that. this is completely free and on steam so if you want to go wander around some online art projects you could certainly do worse
speaking of fucked up overly hated female twdg characters i find it Super Interesting how people will say carver was the best villain in the whole series, but when lilly is literally just a successful carver (iron fist leader of a community turning children into soldiers) suddenly shes a bad/lame villain for some reason 🤔
Hella from The Master & Margarita “naked girl red-haired, her eyes burning with a phosphorescent gleam...‘Let me give you a kiss,’ the girl said tenderly, and there were shining eyes right in front of his eyes. Then Varenukha fainted and never felt the kiss”