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A jam submission

RUENACLEView game page

Turn your favorite streamer into a tentacle monster…
Submitted by jitterrue (@jitterrue) — 3 hours, 59 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Category: Voice Acting#84.7594.759
Visuals#144.8974.897
Category: Music#174.6554.655
Overall Experience#234.7934.793
Story#294.6904.690
Category: Cinematography#344.4834.483

Ranked from 29 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

Content Warnings
This visual novel contains horror, yandere themes, obsessive behavior, some violence, mild language, and romance scenes. There are no graphic depictions. Recommended age 16+

Log Line
Turn your favorite streamer into a tentacle monster... (an unhinged dating sim)

Team Credits & Cast
Core Team: Jitterrue (writer/director/VA), Alex at the Moon (artist), EpyksLion (VA), Artisan (Nato as Code: programming))

Work Start Date
9/1/2026

Which engines and/or plugins did you use? (NaniNovel, Light.VN, etc.)
Ren'Py

University League Participant

No

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Comments

Submitted (1 edit) (+1)

Glad I was able to play this before the voting period ended! It's absolutely a wild ride and HIGHLY recommended. The voice acting is VERY VERY fantastic and all the art/UI is superb. Also it's funny. And it's HARD to be funny. It felt so interactive and there were so many tiny details in the characters, backgrounds, and even in the writing. 

You all did some amazing magic here! 
also I have longed for a game that let me tomato emoji someone so 10/10 

Developer(+1)

Thank you SO much for playing and rating RUENACLE! We deeply appreciate it! Have a Happy Halloween, Pumpkin!

Submitted(+1)

Delightfully, deliciously unhinged--I couldn't begin to guess what direction things would take from one moment to the next! The artwork is so fun and expressive, the music is campy in all the right ways, the voice acting is sublime, and the entire framework is strikingly original. Fantastic work! 

Developer

Garsh, thank you so much for playing RUENACLE and sharing your thoughts! It was a WILD RIDE to make the game. I'm so happy you enjoyed it. Happy Halloween!

(+1)

I love how you own how unhinged this game is! I totally loved it.  My fave ending was the JD romance because I felt it had the most lore although I was sad about Rue.  I felt sorry for JD too.   Watching the stream and interacting with it felt so innovative and the art and VA was top notch.  Also incorporating the spooky stories and the ads from real creators was a neat touch.

Developer(+1)

Thank you very much for playing RUENACLE and sharing your thoughts! We are so happy you enjoyed it 🧡

Submitted(+1)

Wow, such an interesting concept,  a story within a story, with the characters telling the tales themselves! But the way the story ended was something I wouldn’t have expected in a thousand years.

The art is absolutely gorgeous, and as for the voice acting, all I can say is hats off! Although I would have loved to hear a voice for the narrator as well.

What can I say? A story with an ending like that definitely brings Lordi’s song “Would You Love a Monsterman?” to mind. 🤘

Developer(+1)

Monster Lovers Rejoice! (I'm heading off to listen to that song right now.) Thank you for sharing your thoughts! I'm glad we could surprise you with those endings, mwahahaha!

(+1)

Ruenacle has been a wild trip from beginning to end. It feels like a love letter to indie dark romance visual novels and modern visual novel fandom culture.

While I do have a biased view on the game as a contributor to the project, it is a solid game on its own.

While it does have pacing issues as its main purpose is to be a community project for the game jam, it exceeds at that aspect in contrast to its appeal as a standalone work of art.

I was vividly entertained through the authors understanding of the appeal of Monster Girl and Yandere Boyfriend tropes, and I was pleasantly surprised by her understanding of how the "good endings" don't necessarily appeal to moral understandings of the trope.

Overall, it was an entertaining experience and I do wish to see what else to see the creators of this game create as a follow up to this fanmade experience.

Developer

Thank you for the thoughtful review as well as for lending us your amazing talent! 

Submitted(+1)

The emoji affecting the scene were a nice touch! The only thing I’d point out is that there is not much happening on the screen (movement/effects~) wise and it made it a bit more difficult for me to keep attention.

Developer

Thank you for the feedback!

Submitted(+1)

Art is 11/10 Voice acting is 110/10 Amazing game!

Developer

Thank you so much 💜💜💜

Submitted(+1)

Art is 11/10 Voice acting is 110/10 Amazing game!

(+1)

What a fun story! The voice acting really made this feel like I was watching a movie! I can't wait to stream! Be back with the updates soon!

Developer

I can’t wait to watch your stream!! 💜💜💜

(+1)

What a fun story! The voice acting really made this feel like I was watching a movie! I can't wait to stream! Be back with the updates soon!