Posted December 08, 2025 by benecci
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🧠💙 EMPATH.EXE — Official Release (Build 0.93)
A visual novel about empathy, memory, and the fragility of being
After months of development, writing, polishing, and testing…
EMPATH.EXE is now available.
This project began with a question:
“Can an AI learn to feel? And what if, in doing so, it taught us something about ourselves?”
From that idea emerged Kenshiro and Ema,
two voices that have grown, changed, and evolved with me throughout this journey.
Today, they can finally meet you.
🌌 What is EMPATH.EXE?
A psychological-existentialist visual novel set in Neo-Tokyo.
You investigate a case of emotion theft…
…until you discover that the line between human memory and digital data is much thinner than you thought.
Includes:
3 main endings (Logical, Empathic, Cynical)
1 unlockable hidden ending
Somnis System (playable memories + glitches + echoes)
Journal, glossary, achievements, flowchart
Spanish and English versions (hand-drawn translations)
🔧 About the development
EMPATH.EXE was created by a single person, with:
original art
original music and free licenses
programming in Ren'Py
writing, UI, narrative, all developed from scratch
The goal was never to make a big game.
The goal was to make an honest game.
💙 Pricing model
The game is free, but has a voluntary donation option.
If you decide to support the project, you will be contributing to:
future patches
new stories
and perhaps… a Japanese translation in the future
Thank you from the bottom of our hearts to those who decide to contribute.
🚀 What's next?
Gathering feedback
Optimizing performance if any unusual bugs appear
Preparing a small 1.01 patch
And later on… additional content in the form of an “echo” 👁🗨
🫀 Personal message
Thank you for giving this story a chance.
If during your playthrough there was a moment, a line of dialogue, or a detail that stayed with you,
it already did what it was meant to do.
Kenshiro and Ema exist as long as someone remembers them.
And now, they exist with you too.
—Benet
👉 Download EMPATH.EXE here