linux vers?
(please....)
Hello! Late reply.
So to play it on linux (mint) I have used 'proton', which is a fancy way of saying I just added this game on steam as 'a non steam game'
- Add new non-steam game from bottom corner in steam
Find the location where you have extracted the game, make sure to select 'all files' format, and select the .exe file
After that, there should appear an instance on the left named "Game.exe" (an other thing that confused me quite a bit as I was searching for "Clinical Trial" but the instance took the file's name... I guess that was to be expected though?)
and that's kinda it!
I have used this tutorial
Make sure to watch it closely,
I happen to not tick the 'Force Compatibility' thing and it sent me on a preeeetty long tangent
A little specification though, I tried multiple variants of proton and the one in which the game runs QUITE smoothly is 'proton 11.0;
I think the latest version?
It plays as if it was on native hardware,give or take some weird visual quirks, like how I haven't found how to make the game fullscreen yet
Oh also, if there appears a half/full white bar at the top of the window, restarting my pc made it disappear, just make sure you save your game before, it seems it doesn't autosave
I hope this helps!
Yeah I totally get the confusion and frustration lol
I am neither a very tech savvy person myself and Linux can seem just so nebulous at times like these
linux is linux though and nobody was born knowing it!
And this game was totally worth the struggle it gave me to emulate it, listen
I haven't even finished it yet and it is just so beautiful; Genuinely, just so beautiful and touching, I have no words.
As somebody put it here best "I'm incredibly grateful to have stumbled upon this through another developer's favourites"
I hope you have found / will find a way to experience this beautiful game for yourself, hope you have a good day<3
I have actually finished this
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jesus christ man...
I thought the scary parts were just the fear (like the first scene with the corridor) weren't that much hinting at the horror undertone but at how somebody who had went through such abuse may feel scared and unsure even by normal stuff as they are in constant tension
I mean, of course, it could still be that very thing. I just didn't know it was actually going to derail into horror. Which just serves to say: this was masterfully built, tittering just on the edge of the player's expectation which is a REALLY hard line to keep on threading.
FOR the most part (and after looking at the story from my refreshed perspective, for probably all parts) the writing was phenomenal and surprisingly very, very mature which I admire a lot.
Especially for the scene where Angel talks about how she doesn't want to feel different now about sex, despite the sexual assault she went through, the frustration, the guilt for not being 'bothered enough' was portrayed just so tearingly human and real.
very interesting, thought provoking and beautifully crafted but I hope people who had played this, and the authors themselves didn't see this as a cute-but-twisted love story.
I hope, and I don't want to be judgy. I do not know how the main creator is as a person.
so even after seeing what 'homie', homonculus100 has made before, I hope that this is a good kind of disturbing, some sorts of exploration of the macabre, abuse by our closed ones and the systems that surround us and how it can derail into even more abuse (e.g. how Angel froze when Lee came in the basement like how she described when she got sexually assaulted)
I honestly want to believe the stay-with-Lee-ending is not the canonical rout, even if more 'beautiful' from the epilogue
As Angel had said, it isn't real real respect, it isn't real love, it isn't real happiness, it isn't real.
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I guess thank you for making something that will stick in my brain for a long time, not because it was cheap, but because it had a lot of meat on its bones to chew and think on
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I hope you have a wonderful day and that you are indeed a sane person (which let's be real, you probably are, I am biased and I am not apt for psychoanalysis) because it would honestly make things unbearably awkward
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