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Doubts is A Surprisingly Powerful Yet Short Visual Novel

Post author:mrdavepizza
Post published:April 11, 2021
Post category:GAME REVIEWS VISUAL NOVELS

Doubts is a short interactive fiction game from a talented solo developer by German artist, Fulmen. Play the role of Gerda, a woman in 1926 Berlin, Germany. She has decided to run away with her boyfriend and is left by herself during her boyfriend, Joseph's, temporary absence. She contemplates her surroundings and decisions in a session of examining items around their hotel room while he is away. Without certainty, she wonders if her decision to be with Joseph is such a good idea.

Lab Rags is a Freebie Hidden Gem By Students With a Unique Feature

Post author:mrdavepizza
Post published:April 10, 2021
Post category:FREE GAME REVIEWS GAME REVIEWS

Lab Rags is an upcoming title from the student project studio Salt Mine Studios. It is an art-deco era puzzle level game that shares mechanics with games like Portal and its descendants. Get started right away as a mechanical android with a neat gun similar to the classic gravity gun. You can advance within the game by respawning and then grabbing your previous housing to fling at door-opening buttons, traverse over spike pits, and even build structures like stairs out of crushed cubes made from your metal leftovers. The environments and music are very charming, and it is an appropriate level of challenge and enjoyment.

Scarlet Hood & the Wicked Wood Demo Review

Post author:mrdavepizza
Post published:April 8, 2021
Post category:DEMO REVIEWS GAME REVIEWS VISUAL NOVELS

Scarlet Hood and the Wicked Wood is a new visual novel/interactive fiction game. The story follows Scarlet, a budding musician in an aspiring band of close friends. Start your journey on route to your band's major performance at a club in the city, plus the opportunity it provides with a heavy offer from the club's boss. In an unexpected twist, you'll soon find yourself, through unforeseen circumstances, in another world! This land is filled with popular themes from classic fantasy stories and solvable puzzles, all blended nicely into a one-of-a-kind story.

Taranasus’s Vecter is the Long Time Indie Sadly Ending Now

Post author:mrdavepizza
Post published:April 7, 2021
Post category:GAME REVIEWS

Vecter is a free racing game available on Steam from Taranasus. The game is a procedurally generated vector based graphic racer/flyer with a catchy background. It has thousands of overwhelmingly positive reviews on Steam. It has recently come to a conclusion and left a legacy of the power of free game and participants from an adoring community. Up until April 3rd, 2021 the game was served with constant improvement and imaginative gameplay. It is still available for free on Steam. It has also left a legacy of inspired indie developers who have created their own games based on it, which is expected to continue moving forward.

I Played The New Visual Novel The Last Act

Post author:mrdavepizza
Post published:April 5, 2021
Post category:GAME REVIEWS VISUAL NOVELS

The Last Act is a visual novel with a theatric theme about an actress in a lead play character. Interact with a social group of charismatic characters, while find yourself getting more and more into the script as the serious drama unfolds. The choices you make unfold the story in different ways, but ultimately you'll find yourself interacting with supernatural characters that seek to interact in your fate. Will you continue on with the play? Or is it too much? Or do people just need to mind their own business? It's up to you.

By Night by John Allison and Christine Larsen: Volume 1

Post author:mrdavepizza
Post published:April 4, 2021
Post category:BOOK REVIEWS

Jane Langstaff is a technician at a biomedical lab in Spectrum, South Dakota. Lately, she's been feeling things haven't panned out for her after college as much as she would have liked. In a turn of fate, she bumps into a somewhat estranged but best friend from high school, Heather Meadows. While in many ways things have changed significantly since they last saw each other, Jane and Heather find themselves into their old hijinks in a small-town night adventure with the aid of some plucked security keys at the Charleswood Estate within no time, although Jane might have some feelings of hesitancy about it. It doesn't take long before they discover something very mysterious, perhaps even mystical in the midnight of some urban exploration.

Half Past Fate is the Only Dating Sim I’ve Seen Attempt to Address Love During Lockdown

Post author:mrdavepizza
Post published:April 4, 2021
Post category:GAME REVIEWS VISUAL NOVELS

Half Past Fate: Romantic Distance is a visual novel about a dating during the pandemic. It was released February of 2021. The story revolves around a mutual interest involving a young man and his broken laptop named Stephen and a clerk at a computer repair shop named Robin. Soon after they meet, the city goes into lockdown because of the pandemic. They try to make it work using video dating for multiple months, and test the limits of distant relationships. The game has a very pleasing 2.5D pixel art aesthetic and a catchy chiptune soundtrack.

The Colorful Art is Must-See in the Visual Novel //TODO: Today

Post author:mrdavepizza
Post published:April 3, 2021
Post category:GAME REVIEWS VISUAL NOVELS

//TODO: today is a visual novel and dating sim. You'll follow the main character through a crisis involving life direction in the context of paying rent, becoming an artist, working in a bookstore, dating, and the help of a cute but invasive artificial intelligence named Joyce. The game takes advantage of bright pastel colors and hand-drawn art. It conveys a message of getting out of a rut as an adult and using a motivation to solve life's problems. The gameplay is a few hours and very interesting.

K. Thompson’s Sabrina the Teenage Witch (2019) is Smart and Biting

Post author:mrdavepizza
Post published:April 2, 2021
Post category:BOOK REVIEWS

Sabrina the Teenage Witch (2019-) is a new comic book incarnation of the epic story settings of its namesake, written by author Kelly Thompson, artists Veronica Fish and Andy Fish, and letterer/author Jack Morelli. Readers can expect, delightfully, a contemporary imagining of the long-time universe of Sabrina The Teenage Witch, her two spell weaving aunts, and their speaking cat Salem, plus a whole ton of high school drama that is just as much a part of the series as anything. This review of Volume 1 covers issues #1-5 of this series, or in other words, Volume 1.

VA-11 Hall-A is THE Classic Cyberpunk Bartender Sim

Post author:mrdavepizza
Post published:April 2, 2021
Post category:GAME REVIEWS VISUAL NOVELS

VA-11 Hall-A (Or Valhalla as it's known) is an interactive cyberpunk bartending simulator with elements of visual novel character interaction. Play from the perspective of Jill, a young woman who lives in the year 207X in a city called Glitch City. You'll learn to mix drinks for customers using a unique interface and alter them based on customers' needs and personal touch. Customers are customers, but many are absolute troublemakers. You'll talk them through their problems, as compulsive as they can be, and keep them from causing too much trouble--and hopefully, close their tabs. "What'll it Be?" The first time…