I'm not sure this really counts as a visual novel as such because it's more like the sort of games Supermassive make, at least that's what this reminded me of (and they make some of my favourite games, so I mean that in a good way :D) I don't actually know what people call those kinds of games, but they're my favourite kind, even more so than VNs, haha. I would guess just interactive fiction, but when I look online it says "Interactive drama survival horror" which makes sense! Anyways, this reminded me of the Dark Pictures Anthology games that they make :3

I like reading VNs and I love making them, but I wish I could make something more like this where it's 3D and you can actually control your characters. I just have no idea how >.<

3D games are hard--there's such a wide Uncanny Valley where things look good but not quite good enough, and unfortunately I think this falls into that. The lack of expression on the models and the voice acting (I actually thought it was a computer-generated voice) did give the characters a sort of strange feel. I really wanted a Skip button for dialogue and a faster walk (nothing personal, I've played 40 games so far, I've skipped a lot of dialogue), and the bouncing walk camera made me nauseous. That said, I can tell you put a ton of work into this game--the environments look really good, and I think the model designs are good as well. I think it's 90% of the way there, but the other 10% is everything.

Plays like out like a movie or one of those old FMV games, with some decent direction. Voice acting kind of intrusive. Camerawork is probably the highlight.

I will also admit to getting got by the jumpscare.