"Penny Larceny is warm. It overflows with love, empathy, and hope. It won me over right away with the genuine affection and trust Penny has for The Voice and Gibson, even when things go wrong; they’re such a perfect team! Same goes for all of the relationship interests; despite the fast progression, their friendships or romances with Penny all felt right, and their depth and character growth meant I soon grew to care for them, too.
Not that it’s all fluff and sugar; there’s plenty of adventure, too! There may not be any real challenge here, nor any wrong choices. But there were still several moments when I felt concerned about Penny’s fate, and even more when I was impressed at her badassery. And when she couldn’t solve something on her own … well, let’s just say that I got to do some badassery of my own, too!
Like all Fiction Factory games, Penny Larceny does not pretend it is not political. The world Penny moves through is full of unfairness, discrimination, and exploitation, clearly mirroring the issues present in this reality. However, the story never feels heavy or overwhelming, since all that truth is balanced with plenty of hope for the future and just as much excellent humour. Oh, and being able to steal from all the bad guys and make a positive difference helps, too!"
hi everyone \o/
since it's april 1st in most parts of the world, i figured i'd share these cute mock screenshots of my yandere yuri vn, it gets so lonely here, drawn in ryukishi07's art style by Gud91_ on twitter!
aren't they cute? 💕✨
Junior is a strong guy. While he's as friendly as they come, he may be a little intimidating at first. He's the pride of his Flight, and he boasts just as much. #visualnovel#dragon#adventuregame
My historical #yuri#visualnovel about cute maids, Blackbery Honey, has 491 reviews on Steam rn!
It's so close to 500; if anybody could help out it would be really appreciated 🙏✨
Dating sims aren't usually my jam but occasionally one that's a bit creative crosses my desk and that's the case with this week's game, the post-life introspective horror-comedy loveliness of Speed Dating for Ghosts!
My free #yandere#yuri horror #visualnovel It gets so lonely here has been translated into Simplified Chinese!
Now even more people can enjoy the cute cannibal lesbians. Yay 🎉
It's the last day of the Itchio spring sale! All of my VNs are 50% off 🎉
I bundled all of my #yuri VNs separately so you can buy them together for an even bigger discount if you're interested!
The spring sales are still going strong on Steam and Itchio!
Do consider checking my VNs out if you wanna read some cute (or disturbing, I make a lot of different VNs lol) stories with pretty anime art!
I recently added Steam trading cards to my spooky #yuri#visualnovel Rituals in the Dark!
Rituals is a short, atmospheric sapphic story set in Scarborough, and it's currently 40% off on Steam, so do consider checking it out! 🙏✨
The Steam spring sale is now live, and you can pick up all of my VNs at various discounts!
I write a lot of VNs spanning a lot of genres, so if you want to read about sad Victorian lesbians or plucky sword-fighting lesbians I have you covered 🙏✨
My VNs are all 50% off on Itchio during the spring sale! Consider checking them out if you like cute anime girls falling in love with other cute anime girls!
I also bundled my #yuri VNs together for people who're only interested in anime lesbians 🙏
I'm not one for "New Year's resolutions", but I am one for overly ambitious projects.
For 2023, Project365 is "One New Game Per Day".
Given that I have 634 unplayed games in my Steam account and {mumble} unredeemed bundle Steam keys, there's a reason my unplayed collection is tagged "Pile of Shame".
I'll pin this to my profile, and give a brief summary here each day (or x, if I miss x days due to work or stuff).
I'll play 15-30 minutes of (at least) one new game I've never played before (or played less than 15 minutes of). I'll give every game at least 15 minutes, even if I hate every minute of it.
I'm also open to suggestions; if you reply to this thread with a game, I'll schedule it, or tell you what I thought of it.
One of the things that's come up is that I have a bunch of games that I've played once, and not touched again.
March 23, 2024 - Day 448 - NewPlay Review
Total NewPlays: 483
Game: Werewolf: The Apocalypse — Heart of the Forest
Platform: Steam
Released: Oct 14, 2020
Installed: Feb 2, 2024
Unplayed: 50d (1m21d)
Playtime: 25m
Werewolf: The Apocalypse — Heart of the Forest is a visual novel RPG, that is apparently based on a TTRPG called Werewolf: The Apocalypse
You play as an American student, Maia, who's travelled to a small village outside Białowieża Forest on the border of Poland and Belarus, to try and find an explanation of her family history, and the forest that haunts her dreams.
I'm not familiar with the source material at all, but as visual novels go, this feels like the closest I've gotten to the experience of a "Choose Your Own Adventure" book since I was a kid.
Werewolf: The Apocalypse — Heart of the Forest is:
If Found... is a 2D hand-drawn visual novel, that's telling two seemingly disconnected stories.
One is the story of an astronaut, Cassiopeia, and her entry into a black hole.
The other is the story of Kasio, a young Irish trans woman in the 1990's, and the fallout of her coming out as trans.
The UI is unique in my experience; you only have an eraser. You move through the story, partly as presented in Kasio's journal, by erasing your way through Kasio's life, and experiencing different memories as you go.
Sci-fi? A trans woman's coming out story? It's very much right up my alley, thematically.
I just wish I enjoyed it. There's a story there I want to engage with, but I wonder if it's the autistic part of my brain that's just struggling to connect with the story of a early-20's trans woman in a queer share house in Dublin (I think?).
The metaphor inherent in the UI is lovely, but it starts to get frustrating after a while.
I appreciate the love that's gone into the story, but I just found myself struggling to remain engaged, and that's something I often experience with visual novel style games, so I found that particularly disappointing in this regard.
I wonder if it's the kind of game that I could play in a different context and would be more enjoyable (perhaps remote Steam on the iPad).
In the end, I would say that for me If Found... is: