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What Are You Playing? General VN Discussion Thread (October 2025) (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 weeks ago by Essence_of_Meh@lemmy.world to c/visualnovels@ani.social

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Welcome to the General VN Discussion thread!

If you have something you'd like to talk about but don't think it's worth posting as a separate thread this is the place for you.

Did you start playing something new?
Are there any games you're looking forward to?
Are you looking for suggestions on what to play?
Do you have some feedback or questions about our community?

These and any other topics are welcome here - as long as they are VN or community related.

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[–] Essence_of_Meh@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

While I don't have any personal updates for now, I did bring gifts.

PROJECT MIX, the VR bartending VN I mentioned here before has a Quest 3 demo. Give it a shot if you're interested in a Va-11 Hall-a like experience in VR. It also has a PC demo so try it out if you're on desktop instead.

Rose Academy, an upcoming indie mystery novel just released a demo on Steam. It's about a young detective sent to investigate a murder at an elite girls' academy.
Full version planned for March 2026.

Next, we have Livber: Smoke and Mirrors - an indie psychological horror story with a pretty unique art style.
Planned release date Oct. 28th 2025, it has a demo for Windows, Mac and Linux available on their Steam page.

Lastly, JAST USA has an autumn sale until Oct. 8th. Majority of the games are of the ero variety but maybe it'll be of interest to someone.

[–] asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I started playing "YOU and ME and HER". Got it from JastUSA. And it has no DRM.

Runs perfectly fine on WINE.

[–] Essence_of_Meh@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Oooh, I love the art style. How is the story?

[–] asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I've only played it for a total of 6 hours now, so I can't say much. But from the title of the game, it is supposed to be a love story. Though I feel like it's starting to very subtly lean towards a little bit of psychological horror as well or maybe not.

I am expecting it to be something like a mix of School days and DDLC with a bit of its own original stuff. I might be totally wrong though, I started playing it completely blindly.

[–] Essence_of_Meh@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Initial impressions are completely fine, I'm just curious whether to keep an eye on it for the future. Sounds both worrying and intriguing based on your expectations, I'll probably have to look more into it. Thanks!