Pyrena has everything. Line boil, animation, a hot older guy in a leather jacket, ACAB, and suicide ideation.
To call the story of Pyrena bare bones would be doing it a disservice, because while it keeps itself tight at a respectable 6.5k words, it fits so much into its allotted run time. As a mentally ill queer person in small town america myself, like, I get it lmao. It's undoubtedly a setting that speaks immediately to me, but the rest of the people I played it with are all non-americans, so the feelings represented still translated well even without my personal predisposition. Everything about this game drips with the purposefulness imbued by the author, the camera angles, the dialogue and narration, the animation. Even the character designs, which are relatively simple, speak a lot to their respective nature.
As an aside, I know some people may ding you on the implementation of theme category, but 1) anyone who has worked at a gas station, especially any sort of late shift, knows that that pretty much just is American Folklore, and 2) despite the late introduction of the actual folklore, I feel like its presence is pretty retroactively visible. I also don't mind the ambiguity of the later events. While I wish we got a little more post climax, I respect the decision to say what you have to, and then end it there.
Either way, it's easy for me to say that Pyrena is one of my favorites of the jam, and another Aderie banger. Martin, if you're looking to settle down, please call me. 😌