Four Horsemen

Played Four Horsemen (itch.io)

Four Horsemen is a visual novel / SLG about homelands and the immigrant experience. Play as a group of four contemporary immigrant teenagers squatting in a World War II era machine gun bunker, trying to find a place for themselves in a pre-apocalyptic, present-dystopian country that has no place for them. Will you go native, turning against your own people to bury the past your parents fled to escape? Will you cling to your parents’ identity at any cost, at the price of being a permanent stranger in your home country? Or will you strike out on your own, turning against both your homelands to shape a destiny for yourself? Love is all you need…and also improvised firearms.

ok, ok, this is my last review for today, but who knows when my next « get sick, break down and refuse to get up from my desk all day » day will be? Four Horsemen has four immigrant children moving into an abandoned building. From there, a lot can happen based on your choices.…

Lore Distance Relationship

Played Lore Distance Relationship (itch.io)

Follow user StaircaseHaven14 on a Neopets-esque site called Ruffians as she faces life’s challenges, RPs with her long-distance BFF (or more than BFF?) Bee, and encounters familial hardship, from age 8 to 18.

I went into this 2000s Internet visual novel game with absolutely no idea what was going to happen, and that’s what made it so magical and moving to me, so I can’t really review it. Or tag it appropriately on this blog. Or anything else. Here’s what I can say: it’s a text-based visual novel…

com__et

Played Com__et (itch.io)

Everyone has always shown You the path to follow. And so You do, because you ____ ____ ____ want to end up with Him.
But then You can play again, maybe if You say something different ___ ____ ____ to Her, it could go another way.
Maybe You’ll even see the hidden _____ ____ ____ __ _ ____ End.

A visual novel about words and choices being hidden from You until you find a way to reveal them.

📝 6000 words
💿 4 songs, including a dynamic track
☠️ 5 dead ends
❌ 1 false end
🕛 1 ____ End

A tiny visual novel which can be played (with slightly weird formatting) on Android or on a computer. The concept of sentences in the game, but new words completely changing the meaning of the sentences when they’re added after a couple of runs, is really excellent. Highly recommended. From the authors, there are content warnings…

Order a pizza

Played Order a Pizza (itch.io)

A visual novel where you play as a divorced dad trying to order the perfect pizza.

In which you are a divorced dad trying to order a pizza for your estranged daughter and your new girlfriend. You realize you’ve been selfish and do some deep introspection (with some nightmarish elements, a death, and a lot of deep dread). It’s a very short visual novel and I highly recommend playing it, if…