I played this at the beginning of the year and I still find myself thinking about it now and again. I've always loved the *idea* of visual novels, but find most of them poorly written (why are you describing what the character is wearing when I can literally *see* what they're wearing??), the romances cheesy, and/or the main character so utterly boring or unlike me that I lose immersion. In Aloners, you get a cool dude with a believable romance that actually responds to the MC's personality (i.e., the one you choose to RP as). I'm not even a huge fan of postapocalyptic stuff, and I still dug the heck out of this. 

I should've posted a review a while back, but I recently saw that the author has had some creative block/RL troubles, and wanted to send some positive reinforcement their way. Keep writing visual novels, no matter how big or small. Your characters send me, and in a tsunami of visual novel gunk, yours are diamonds in the rough. <3