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Slay the Princess: (steam, itch.io) ★★★★★
just like it says on the tin, there is a princess. you have to slay her, no matter what those silly voices in your head are saying. don't you want to save the world?

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this is 100% my favourite game like. ever? i played it the first time in 2024 and have not stopped thinking about it. before pristine cut i had all the achievements and i still do have Most of them. but i havent found the time to get the rest.
i think the amount of branching paths is Insane and the devs are incredibly talented & dedicated to be able to do this. my first princess was Stranger and my favourite is either her or Thorn.

a few of my ocs are based on the princess actually, they're a huge influence. one of my favourite things to do actually is to make AUs with mine & my friends' characters- for one of them we wrote out a sort of fic covering a playthrough of the Whole Game with our characters slotted into the roles.

more on the actual game, though- the artstyle is beautiful, both the VAs did a great job(its part of the reason i listened through the magnus archives lol), the characters & story are Super compelling, and basically its the best thing ever made.
if you haven't played it you Should and you shouldn't look anything up first. like you could but you shouldn't its more fun to not know.

In Stars and Time: (steam, itch.io) ★★★★★
your name is siffrin. you're the rogue of a party of saviours, tasked with saving your home. it's going to go perfectly. eventually. maybe. if the universe is kind.

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isat was a Difficult one to play through. what with the timeloops. and being Bad At Games. it took from october 2024 to march 2025 to do the whole thing. but im so insane about siffrin hes so keysmash. and loop,,,,loop my precious little insect of a guy..oh how i want to study them in a little petri dish..
everything around the king and his relation to siffrin & loop through the island is Sickening to me. the king in general is sickening to me i love him. dw old man...vaugarde doesn't understand your vision but i do... he's such a tragic character and i do not see enough people talking about him!! he's awful and mean and cruel but his motivations are so devastatingly easy to understand,,after losing so much it makes Sense that he'd want to make sure that it doesn't happen again! his methods are really bad! but i see the vision! i get it! i wish there were more fics about him. i would write them but i do not want to.

all the characters have sm depth and having to watch siffrin ignore the Possibility that they might want to help him while hes literally killing himself a billion times is Awful /pos
in conclusion. play in stars and time if you like to suffer. maybe watch someone else do it if you like to be happy but it Is better to do it yourself.

Z.A.T.O // I Love The World and Everything In It:
(steam, itch.io) ★★★★★
watch a young girl look for her missing friend and unravel a huge conspiracy (and consider a new perspective)

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such a good one. Such a good one. its not got any choices or anything, no branching paths, But!! its still worth playing.. the atmosphere and everything is done so well and i Love the way its written- i got super immersed and couldn't predict the mystery at all, and i think i'm going to replay it in the future.
i already liked a lot of ferry's work before zato, and thats definitely the main reason i downloaded it in the first place- but even if you don't know anything else they've done it's amazing on its own!!
i would have more to say, but i think i have to do that replay to really get my thoughts in order. maybe i'll update this with more thoughts after that! ^v^

Bad End Theater: (steam, itch.io) ★★★★⯪
bad end theater is a game where you control the flow of pre-defined narratives, uncovering the fates written for the characters by tragedy, the owner of the theater.

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this one takes a lot less time than the ones i've listed above- its more puzzley but not in a way that you have to be super smart for, you just mash traits together until something changes.
its got a super cute artstyle and i like being able to see the same story from so many perspectives!! and you get comedy/tragedy yuri at the end!!! AND maiden/overlord! basically the whole time! the song at the end is amazing and i've gone and listened to it outside the game a ton, it's even on some of my character playlists :D
back on the art though. adorable. i said that already. its very monochromatic for most of the game, but the One Colour changes depending which character's perspective you're looking at. except when they all die together which is the same for everyone and has all their colours. which i think is really cool and creative! because you're looking at the world the way they do! storywise And visually!!
the developer of it (nomnomnami) has made other things as well, i've only played this one and her tears were my light. but they're both good!! and you should play them!!