I came across Bloomic on a game rec list and when I read the "depressed day-in and day-out from a draining corporate job, you become invested in a fantasy webnovel" bit of the description I thought ah, finally an MC who is 100% me, so ofc I had to play it.
And you effin' delivered, damn. I loved everything about Bloomic, and I mean EVERYTHING. The setting? *chef's kiss*. The tracks (that we can change)? Living in my brain now. The fandom discord server dynamic? Spot-on. The zine, oh my gods, and the art too, that's just such a very fandom thing, and on a scale from cute to outright gorgeous too. The voice acting that at some points had me going "omo, dangerous >////<". And of course, first and most important--
--the characters. So relatable, and I genuinely had fun with all of them, and I sent a screenshot of one of toasty's lines to my very straight guy friend who's a blond FFXIV freak catboy to tell him I found his game alter ego. I have a fav route but I liked playing all of them, the good and the bad ends, and in each of them was something that made me care enough to lowkey want to know these people irl. My only tiny little regret is that onion doesn't have a route, because hell do I get attached to people who use proper spelling and punctuation even in chats. (I'm. Not kidding. Anyway--)
I also went through your profile to see if I can please throw some money at you for this epic gem but I see you've got that covered lol so I'll honor your wishes and donate instead :) I just! Would have! Given you a kidney probably! If you wanted. Really love the game, A+ job, all the virtual cookies for you and the whole team. Will replay whenever I'm feeling down from my mess of a job (which has been often, recently). Thank you, thank you, thank you.