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Oh man, I’m so sorry that happened to Pixel :( I had person in my neighborhood steal my childhood dog, Lady, and there wasn’t anything we could do about it. I just don’t get why people feel like they can just do whatever with other people’s pets.

Comment is full of spoilers, ignore if you haven’t finished:

This was really good, in my head the ‘purify’ ending is really a brainwash ending, because why would you stop being your own species just to go outside? Also, none of his points are good, why would he believe she never considering living for herself, doing things herself? It’s a weird assumption to make. The idea that being corrupted into a whole different species is good feels exactly like some church dogma and I’m here for that headcanon. Plus, it explains how a many hundreds to thousands year old being would act like they have only lived a few years, if the light was actually corrupting her mind and making her dumber, and more human-centric. I do wish we could get it the other way around, where he becomes a spider, and both sides end up being equally evil, but it doesn’t seem that way because he lives in the opposite ending path. Either way, the world building was really good, the characters seem to be pretty fleshed out, when you finish all of the endings (I think I did? I got both death sides, friendship, purify, and corruption) I feel like you know a lot about the world. I do wish there was an ending where our main character finishes raising the kids then gets up and travels more like she used to, maybe the CG could be a shot of the end of the world or something. Anyway that’s just me being wistful about things, it was good!

Yeah I saw this too.

Wow I went through very similar emotions but wasn’t planning to leave a comment. I’m very glad I played until the end, it turned out to be awful (which is to say, filled me with awe as per the original definition, because I am not a CHUD, I am a WORDSMAXXER thank you very much.) Also, I’d like to point out that it is still possible for the creator to blink at least one more time.

Omg I’ve played that! Didn’t even consider it, that’s a good one.

So happy to have an update and I understand, that must have been a real struggle. I’m glad you found a way forward without having to compromise the story!! Also, Rohais sounds very very good 👀 Looking forward to both!

I did! I literally gave him money and I said I understood it because I’ve also made VNs. :)

Played this game because I read all of the comments about the riddles and I assumed they would be difficult (and that most of the game would be riddles.) For anyone else who is really into riddles, that is not the case. Which is fine, the story is still very entertaining, I even read all of the extra lore you unlock at the end.

I liked it! I do think the ‘twist’ (it’s not really a twist, since we all know how we got here, but) was revealed a little too early but he does say it’s because he couldn’t hold it in anymore, which is fair. Edit: Just realised the author is also the artist! I thought you did a really good job with the mmc. A lot of the visual novels on here and also a lot of manga/manhwa doesn’t do as good of a job showing the dead vs normal eyes, but you did a good job with the juxtaposition of the two. I really enjoyed seeing all the light diminish when he realises things aren’t going the way he wants, or when something he doesn’t care about is happening.

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I’m kinda surprised about IN HINDSIGHT, if it’s a nightmare and not a real thing that’s happening, this is the first game I’ve played where the yandere has an ending where he just doesn’t yandere anymore.

You can’t tell me this isn’t one of the best horror games on itch. Plus it’s (secretly, kinda,) about one of my favourite topics. I love it when the plot goes round and round. I did take a couple dollars off of my donation because of the AI, though (I say this as a person who hacks AI for my job, and as someone who’s made a VN before as a private project, like… a decade ago. I kinda understand why you used it, but I really hope you don’t feel the need to next time </soapbox>), and there are a few typos that I noticed, but nothing game stopping. For a first game, (I was shocked to read that btw) this is really good! I also found myself with 10/10 and then saw Distrust and thought ‘oh man, I was wondering about that’ so that was really cool!

I hope you write more, either in VN form or if you just want to write some stories, and I would play more games of yours for sure.

We might need a guide now that extended is out with so many extra endings. But I’ll update this when I actually finish, I haven’t even started the priest route. I just played this game two days ago and now it’s even better, that’s crazy. I’m wondering if there are any easter eggs with the elevator but I know myself and it is unlikely that I will go back to it to find out. (Then again, maybe that’s where these two endings are 🥲)

Edit: Well, I’m missing 3 endings total now, one from the priest and two from the person who isn’t a priest or my boss >> <<. I thought I’d tried every option, I also tried being nice to the priest at every turn, but I’m probably calculating something wrong here.

Last? Edit: Aha I figured them all out. I dunno how I missed the elevator one, that’s on me. The cute mask suit guys remind me of Umbrella Academy. I really liked this! I will give some more dollars for it even though it’s technically an update on something I already bought two days ago haha.

Wow, I did not know what I was getting myself into but it was great! This was so interesting, even if I had to do the 8 again to get the other true ending choice, lol. All of the major character interactions were fantastic, I like how you actually learned more about the backgrounds of everyone involved by playing through both sides (calling dog vs cat ‘sides’ here). I tried to come up with some yandere names for the player and the only one that was accepted was the first one, I tried our beloved cagey childhood bestie. I then tried Nicola, I dunno if he counts, from Piofiore, since it’s really the bad ends that have him messed up, as well as Yang when Nicola didn’t work. Then I tried Tomomori because he’s an example of the thing I love where one character in a work of fiction is just LEAGUES more unhinged than everyone else and you’re just staring like ‘is he really saying that?’ (Bill Cypher is also this fwiw.) but he didn’t ping either so I gave up! :D

This was great, I will definitely follow you!

This was so good! I think there was a delay in my understanding because I got ending 2 first, and you don’t really know how terrifying this creature is, because she doesn’t really end up in a new situation. In the other two endings, there is no good reason that should be happening, and it is far more terrifying, and you get exactly how he’s a yandere. I really liked this, I honestly think you could make a series of these types of creatures! I’d play em, anyway.

I love how well this game comes together and how all of the characters play off each other. It’s nuts. I expected more violence from the literal squirrel but I guess he was just a little punk boy. I would definitely play more games by these writers. Also, the art was really good! Originally I liked the acorn the most and was really amused by his attempt to invalidate everyone else, but my favourite character, by FAR, was Ester, and I am deeply bummed that the hottest character in the game was not dateable. But I shall live.

I liked it! HEAVY SPOILERS to follow:

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The girls are all exceptionally dumb. They theorize that a spell exists. See the love spell and for some reason decide to go with a chance rather than the sure thing that would definitely get them what they’re looking for, or better yet look for a riches spell, what they actually need. Then, after moving past the actually-what-we-want spell, they see the beauty spell, wonder if it has downsides and don’t even read the next page to find out that there are, in fact, documented downsides with a given solution as well. Because of this, my ‘true’ ending (the thing I picked first before just going after all of the endings) is the one where the main three die, because like, you guys are too dumb to live and probably wouldn’t have been able to help the other villagers, unfortunately including the son who will now have to be taken care of by an older person. Finally, the prince didn’t even seem to actually grant the villagers anything after all of this. So personally, I’m on the side of the beautiful girl because she was the only person involved who didn’t do anything wrong. Bro gave that girl a castle and a kid but couldn’t give her family and friends some food and a new well? And the AUDACITY he had to say ‘it’s not just her beauty’ duh. All people have traits other than beauty, but some don’t have beauty. People who don’t have beauty have less opportunities. Bro didn’t even NOTICE the MC at any point during the entire tale and she has more of a personality. So it seems like he is a useless person driven almost entirely by lust and I don’t like him either.

Anyway, good story, most of the characters deserved what they got. Didn’t really like anybody but I liked older woman (she didn’t have a graphic and I’m bad with names) the most and the pretty girl the most out of all of the main people. I would play more by this author.

Nice! I love a game that takes full advantage of the fact that VN players are always forever curious. I definitely wanted to know everything that first run, haha. Took me a while to get the balance right on wasting time, I apparently needed to push further than I thought. Great game!

This was super cute. I actually only got, I believe, three episodes into Madoka. We were watching it as an anime club event thing and that’s how far in we got and I never followed up because I’m awful at watching television or movies. Everyone is always telling me the shoe drops in the next episode after whichever one I watched, and I kinda generally know what goes on but not totally. Anyway, I say all that to say that when there was a four digit number at the front, instead of realising it was probably related to that show, I tried the number for the character, as well as the number for the Red one, but neither of them seemed to do anything that I noticed. It wasn’t until I read the comments that I realised I was mistaken.

Anyway, this was very good, I especially loved the art. If these characters weren’t dressed in such white clothes (which I totally understand) I might have even tried thinking of an inspired piece of clothing, I really loved the designs so much! Alright, I’ve already stayed up too late to get every ending, I’m going to bed, but this was awesome and I hope you make many more games and have a fruitful career.

Omg is that what happened to the yandere tag!?

Whoo~ Played and left feedback, excited for release.

Moar chattercap is always better! It has taken me a while to play this demo but I finally had some time.

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Yikes this is a little too real on the depression front. Both (all three?) characters seem very reasonable so far aside from the stinger near the end, I mean we’ll see if notHusband is even a human in the first place. For most stories, I would get very upset that she can see all these pretty notable changes in her husbands’ behavior, yet do nothing about it, but the way she rationalizes so much away because of her depression makes it make sense. Aside from the confrontation / eyes moment, I can understand how she’s deciding not to push things even as his differences from her husband grow more and more stark and ominous.

As a girlie with diagnosed depression, I thought her experiences seemed extremely relatable. Especially when you try to talk to your friends, it’s too much, and you know you can’t expect regular people to basically be therapists so you end up isolating yourself. So real. Luckily, my situation has improved from those times, though of course I still have depression, since it can’t grow legs and disco dance itself out the back door.

I love the water theme quite a bit, the kelpies, god of the sea, underwater scenery for when she’s feeling underwater, it’s all so nicely cohesive. I love the ‘white thing on the beach’ consistency as well, is it a veil, a boat, something else? I love the set design too, each location really gets the mood across. The only thing I think would be better is if we could see what the studio looked like before the notHusband situation. Of course, I know that could be extremely difficult to draw.

I’m curious about throwing out all but 5 of pills from each container. Especially because the mc says she ‘knows why he did it’. I originally thought, oh that’s a countdown. Five days for a game that will last a total of 7, leaves some room for if you change things around a bit, plus I think he does it after the first day. So, countdown…but her comment makes me think something else may be going on. Hard to say until the whole game is released.

I have all of these ideas and inklings for what exactly could be transpiring. I’m excited to see where it goes. I’ll probably play a second time and pick other dialogue options when I have more free time, see where that leads. All in all, this is great, as always! Also, I appreciated all of the choices in the beginning. I am actually ace, and I definitely sent screenshots to several ace friends as a ‘lookit guys!’ moment. Though, I did pick allo because I don’t mind content in fiction.

All in all, this is a great showing so far and I’m excited to see where it leads! I’m also excited for anything else you release, as usually, hahaha.

Meanwhile it snowed just a couple of weeks ago where I live TT_TT. Right now, it is too cold to snow (closing in on single Fahrenheit digits)

This morning, I hadn’t checked Itch.io in a while and finally returned to see that Chattercap made a new game! A game that’s a take on Pygmalion and Galatea but in Chattercap style? Let me at it!

So, I bookmarked it for after work and it didn’t disappoint.

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So, because the ‘point’ in the description is to be the ‘perfect girlfriend’ I played the role the first time. I knew a guy who was …exactly like this dude so it was hilarious to see her reactions to all the things he would say and do…but it was also interesting playing this route first because I missed the loop mechanics (forgive me for calling them ‘loop’ mechanics, I just played two other games with similar mechanics this week and all three are so good ahhh!)

Of course, when I got to the end, I chose to live my own life, because I couldn’t do that to my lovely protagonist TT_TT. Imagine my surprise when I restarted for the other endings and realised exactly how he’s been tweaking the AI. Literally, brutally and…almost incompetently? removing your choices one by one because he lacks the competence to convince you or to even realise what the actual flaw is. It mimics violence (I assume this is the point) because rather than changing your mind, he’s removing your options–an entirely different and more sinister thing. So, the second ending I got was the outcome of repeated abuse. It’s depressing and fantastic and makes perfect sense. You’re literally trapped in a box with nothing to interact with aside from him, of course that’s the outcome to brute force.

So, then, admittedly, I went back and checked how many endings there were in case there was more than one left. With only one left, the final route became obvious and to me, this route is the most normal/common. Due to the pressure you’ve faced from all aspects of life, you are too afraid to leave. It’s such a common situation that so many people find themselves in and why I think it’s brilliant that you began the conversation about makeup–another thing that women often feels traps us. This game as a whole, is a fantastic statement on what it means to be a woman, and is also quite queer coded. I could see a trans person relating with the idea of being a doll, shaped like a femme, shaped like societal expectations. As a dark skinned woman of color, I’m often rejected from feminine society, by both women and men, so it’s definitely something I’ve had to think about. It makes me relate to the AI–not being ‘real’–I often feel like I’m not a woman, 😅 and like I need to work extra hard to fit in (well, I used to, anyway.)

I noticed that you never see the masculine figure, which I think was brilliant, while also thinking it’s brilliant that you do see the feminine because the entire point is that body. Between the man wanting a perfect body for his ‘wife’ to the AI wanting to escape the box and have it’s own body, to how that body is treated depending on your ending. It’s chef’s kiss.

The last time I played a game about Galatea I was like, 12, and it was also a text adventure. Pretty cool. Thanks for a great game as always, Cattercap! Sorry for the long post, and I didn’t even bring up the art aaa

EDIT: AAA I forgot to mention the Aspect Voices (sorry, didn’t know what else to call these) but it’s so cool that each identity had it’s own voice! NOW I’M DONE FOR REAL AAA

God I love this series so much. I never see people who look like me in yandere stories so I was hooked from the first one, but to see this backstory and realise how well it’s done is flipping fantastic. I actually kept putting this off because I can be quite picky about sequel/prequel content and I was worried I wouldn’t like it as much. No, I loved this. This story flows these characters perfectly into the people they become in Karamu and even explains future actions. SPOILERS

• It feels really strange to offer to eat someone whole to cover a crime until you realise that’s exactly what he did as a child, and for him to realise in this moment that, if he had to be a monster, at least he could be a good one. (Though I’m hopeful he’ll eventually realise that just because he’s spider-shaped doesn’t make him a monster…moreso the yandere tendencies 🤣)
• We all guessed he was the spider in the room but had no real evidence he could turn into a normal spider until now. Of course that was him, still watching over her. Aaaa it’s so cute aaaa.
• This explains how he was able to heal himself in some of the endings.
• I really wondered how we were going to get from ‘retching at the sight of a corpse’ to ‘offering to eat a guy,’ and this was smooth progression that explains everything, including his obsession and his actual love.

I like the mom as a character and hope we get to see more of her, especially as she isn’t dead. She’s got peak villain energy.

I made an account on this site because of Karamu, I wanted to support that game because I want more women who look like me in yandere style stories. I bought that (and this…and your other) game to put positive vibes into the universe 💕 I can’t wait for the last episode in the trilogy. I am so hyped for it now, I’m so happy this game turned out to be as good as it is, I’m like actually tearing up over here. Anyway, please keep up the good work, Chattercap. I am a fan of yours, officially, even beyond this trilogy. I look forward to playing all of your games in the future and I think you should do more behind-the-scenes styles add-ons like your art book. :D Hope you have a good day!

This was great! I really like what a good dude Kalei is because I think it's kind of necessary for him to be a walking green flag for this particular story. 

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Him being the one to inform you that you've probably been having panic attacks this entire time, as well as being able to help manage them (and of course my immediate reaction was, okay, who does he know who has panic attacks--so it was a good touch to get into that.) really works in the games favor with such a limited cast.

I also really like Geist. I think you can tell he actually does care about you, but his way of caring about you is toxic bordering on malicious. That's why I love the bit where you call him out like 'It seems like YOU'RE the one who hates me.' It's also why I like that, in the 'good' endings, he keeps judging you but in a slightly less toxic way. Worrying about your lack of exercise, or how much TV you're watching without doing other things. At the same time, I enjoy the bad ending where you clearly are having a depressive episode without realising it.

It also kind of gave me vibes of that one brain parasite game.

Overall, I think the game was well done, I would have liked more endings (I got three, I think that's probably it since there were approximately two answers per question and one about friendship or romance.) just because I always like moar ending, but it's not because I felt the story was incomplete.

The ArtBook is also cute, and I appreciated having the artistic intent for Geist in there.

Lastly, as this is my second game of yours that I'm playing (I plan to play the other one this weekend, if I have time!) I want to say that I appreciate your use of language in all of your stories! It's cool.