this game is so amazing. if youre wanting a story with a "happy ending", or a normal dating sim, this is not the game for you. its a horror game! but more importantly, it's a story about trauma. ive played every route, gotten every ending, and have recommend it to all my friends. i went into this thinking it was a dating sim that just had more of a backstory for the characters then most ive played, but the reality is it is a deeply unsettling, beautiful story that uses its medium in a way that is so unique, ive never read a visual novel and considered it "perfect" until reading echo. its going to be something i think about for years and years to come.