Fascinating Visual Novel! My favorite thing about this is the art. I love the character design of the stranger and all the expressions the stranger has. I could feel all the emotions the character was going through with the animations for them. I think that’s a pretty difficult thing to achieve sometimes, but here, it’s conveyed perfectly in my opinion.
The writing is well done as well, it paints a great picture, but I did feel a bit lost sometimes. I’m unsure if some parts were meant to be vague and left up to interpretation. (I am not the best at reading comprehension admittedly, so this could very well be my own fault.) One improvement I think could be made is the dialogue choices. Some of them felt a bit too vague and the intention of some choices were difficult to understand. I think it’s one of those things where the situation itself could be interpreted in different ways but the intention of inquiring information or asking the stranger certain things could be more direct.
One more note, would it be possible to allow the game to be installed and launched through the itch.io app?
Regardless, great work! It was a very interesting experience!