Never in my life have I felt so used by a game. Feels dirty. The video game equivalent of emotional abuse.
5 stars, would recommend.
That game is so good. I went in knowing it was a horror game, and even still that reveal in Sayori’s room caught me off-guard. Seriously, anyone here who hasn’t played it yet, do it. The game is free.
If you want more psychological horror emotional abuse, try Echo, which gets frequently compared to DDLC. It’s set up like a gay furry visual novel to start with, but it’s more like Night in the Woods where the paths are who you hang out with instead of who you explicitly want to “date”. As the story progresses it gets extremely dark. I could only do one of the paths before I had to look up the others because I’m too much of a chicken.
Fair warning that it’s a slow burn to get to the rough stuff, but the story is solid and it’s humorous on the way so it’s not boring.
Oh shoot my partner and I started that and got a good way through and completely forgot about it! The writing is very good. I’ll re-ass that to my list!
Auto-correct or Freudian slip?
Either way, I’ve assed “re-ass” to my vocabulary list.
Oop, autocorrect! Hahaha
Remember when it just came out i’ve seen “psychological horror” in steam tags. Thinking that’s probable there for luls but decided to check the game anyway… i wasn’t ready for it.
I think the experience is diminished a lot by knowing what the twist is. Especially considering that twist is the only reason most people tried it in the first place when it went viral a few years ago.
I played the original and it was such a trip that I bought Plus when it came out, but haven’t gotten around to playing it because I know the twist and it doesn’t hold the same.
It’s all fucked up heartwrenching bullshit and/or confusion through the main game, AND THEN you play the “plus” stories and they’re fucking incredibly empathetic and thoughtful with positive messaging about neurodivergence and also feel like they might fall into a lesbian porno at any minute
I played the freebie version ages ago, any thoughts on if the Plus -version’s content worth revisiting it? The shock value of the game is kinda one-and-done I feel.
IMHO the Plus version is a downgrade since it is made for consoles and does not require you to modify files on your own system.
Yeah the 6 prequel stories are cute but $15 is outrageous. I’m sure you can just watch them on youtube.
I still remember the first time I played it. I was still living with my parents, and they left for a few days. I started the game in the evening, and couldn’t stop until I reach the end of it … in the morning. It’s very uncommon for me to do so (even at the time), but it was so … captivating. I could not stop and go to sleep 😅.
Also I’m playing you on linux via wine from a pirated repack, video game. How the fuck am I supposed to know what’s supposed to be happening here and what’s my janky-ass setup?
That may actually complicate things for you. Not sure if you’ve truly finished the game or not, because there comes a point where you’re instructed to poke around the actual game files to make some changes to them during one of the endings.
No I played the Plus version, it abstracts out the filesystem stuff. The game made it pretty obvious what needed to be done.
I love the musics. After finishing the game, I played the main theme in my car again and again and again.
I don’t know what you are talking about. Kudos to you to openly admit you are into dating schoolgirls at… check notes… 53 years old.
Why did you jump to such weird conclusions? You could have googled the name of the game in the time it took you to comment this and understand it’s not a dating game.
Are you trolling? It’s clearly a dating simulator, I don’t care if “there’s no nudity” or “they are all 18 so it’s fine”.
Get a life.
Critically-Acclaimed Psychological Horror
“Is this a dating simulator?” - Idiot Butterfly Meme Guy
To be fair, I also didn’t read the description before I played and all to the better. It’s okay to be wrong, it means you’re learning!
TIL
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I’m clearly messing with you guys, I played the game myself.
Yeah no. You hit the “it’s just a joke bro!” phase. You meant things prior to getting called out and downvoted to hell.
You went straight for “I’m not smart”.
How can I mean those if I played the game myself? Doesn’t it clicks to you that the point of the game is the shocking value of it 100% looking like a dating sim untill it’s not? (And when it’s not it still builds on the building block of a dating sim, to be fair).
As of the “got downvoted to hell”, hell does not exists nor does downvotes. I made my point and I’m ok with people missing the joke or not liking it.
It’s not actually about dating.
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It’s actually a horror game hiding in a dating sim. Things get more and more bizarre as you play and discover one of the characters has become self aware, eventually involving the player needing to edit files on their computer and such to progress. Not revolutionary but was mind blowing at the time. The Game Grumps did a fun play through.
