Analogue: A Hate Story, is a game created by indie developer Christine Love, this game has a detective like story where you pick from two dialogue options to choose from so basically yes or no questions in order to progress through the game. You also take control of various computers, and us some really basic linux terminals if you could call them that. Honestly it’s interesting but it’s not adult, there is no nudity and well as the story goes your going to fall in love with a computer.
Here’s a summary of the game’s story:
Back in the 25th century, Earth launched a generation ship into deep space, with the goal of establishing the first interstellar colony. It dropped out of contact and disappeared, never reaching its destination. Thousands of years later, it has finally been found. Uncover the mystery of what happened to the final generation aboard the generation ship mugunghwa by reading through its dead crew’s logs, with the help of a spunky AI sidekick!
There are two character paths. A grand total of five endings, wonder how many are good or bad. This is a dark visual novel that further extends the non-linear style kind of and Digital: A Love Story in a mystery featuring “transhumanism” – aka computer love, traditional marriage – aka Gay computer love, loneliness aka sad computer love, and cosplay – aka costumes for your computer.
I’ve played the demo and I was not to impressed overall. It’s only $10 bucks on Steam, it’s indie, and well it’s western made. Though the art is good, the flow of the game is nice, but I don’t care for story, the characters and the lack of depth, it just did not draw me in. The bottom line is that western made visual novels are just not quite there yet, but they are getting better and they are slowly gaining in popularity.
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