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Beautifully melancholic. I love a lot of stories like this that focus on the pain of yearning, of tying yourself down in the name of love. I love all the little quiet moments between Goldie and Lourdes and the feeling in the back of your mind that things won't end well but you still want to stay in the moment when everything still just feels right. I enjoyed this one a lot.

I'm kinda scratching my head thinking of exactly how to describe this one. There's this deeply frustrating feeling of being used up by those around you, having bits of yourself consumed by others in the name of progressivism that was done well. The Rita's Birthday scene was particularly skin-crawling. I'm still kind of chewing on these feelings but I think there's a deeper aspect to this that I really like. A lot of mixed media was neat too, the final scene utilizes it the best I think.

A good piece of short horror, and for its length, left me with some stuff to chew on and interpret . Good art direction too, I like a lot of the sprites.

A very beautiful piece of work. Two deeply traumatized people hurting each other even more. It's also painful seeing how much Daisy fears herself and her fucked up desires and how that enables the both of them to make each other worse. I feel for both of them so much and watching everything unfold hurts. Beautifully toxic.

I did get a bit distracted by the temporary sprites for the characters and was a little sad because the painted backgrounds look good and I think the writing holds up even without them but I'd love to see the finished ones if there's an update planned.

thank you so much for playing! I'm glad it was a particularly affecting story for you.

Bitter and sweet. I like the ways that pain and harm can draw us closer to people rather than push us away. I like it a lot, very classic gothic romance. Interested in reading again once the CGs are finished, though the sketches are very good.

thank you for playing!

Title alone is obviously a really good hook and it delivers. A well made little bit of erotic horror. My girlthing recommended I check it out and she was right, this is very cool. Lack of personhood has always been a scary thing for me so I think this kinda got me lol.

Cute short little thing. I like these types of bite sized VNs and I think it works well as a scene. Piss is very beautiful.

Super fucking cool. I haven't really interacted with a lot of Mech type stuff but this one really got me. Good mix of different types of visuals. Really good start to a story about hatred and bitterness and want and desire. Excited to see where it goes.

Cute little vn, I thought it was charming. I think exploring the 'toxic' dynamic between a new learner and someone more experienced is cool, definitely been in both seats.

Wow, this one is really good. Occasionally roguh around the edges but has some really stellar moments and the mystery element is really neat. Aesthetically really amazing, highly recommend using a crt filter program for this, I personally used ShaderGlass.

If you're into old school vns, this one is definitely worth it, I hope more people check this one out.

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The ultimate reveal of plurality was really well done and I like how throughout the story there's a lot of things that don't quite add up or make perfect sense. I'm tempted to reread to try and take all of it in.

I also really love seeing the dysfunction of a system, when there's so many thoughts coming in at once, and using the framing device of a fucked up polycule is really good. There's so much bitter cruelty. Amazing.

Gut-wrenching. Every moment of this is a slow twist of the knife that only gets worse and worse. A horrible suffocating prison built from wanting to protect oneself from themself. I think this work deeply understands how tortuous false progressivism is, both experiencing it and performing it. It's a soulless self defense mechanism meant to ward away an out group from oneself.

Visually this also does wonders, I love the little expressions that occasionally pop up when a character is trying to hide their disgust. The sound design is also really good, I like when VNs rely a lot of ambiance and sound effects rather than music.

One of my favs so far, thank you for making this, I feel very seen.

Effective storytelling with very few words, I'm intrigued by how vivid of a picture this is able to paint with such little runtime. A lot of things are left to implication, there's a lot to read between the lines. I think this VN really digs into children being used by their parents as an emotional support animal in a way that's particularly unique. Very beautiful.

Both of the main characters in mine are trans

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End to end a beautiful mess of poor decisions made by deeply wounded people. The art initially brought me in, I really like the red highlights around Illix's face in some of the shots, but the narrative did not disappoint. I really like how it digs into the isolation and self-isolation kink and how it deeply wounds people and can push them to hurt others and make poor choices in their own isolation. 

A very touching small piece. I think it's nice to tell small little meaningful stories like this. A good reflection on how the guilt people make us feel for being transgender feels.