We love a good twist so we’re so glad you liked ours! And we’re glad you enjoyed the atmosphere and design too🫶 We definitely want to create a longer circus game in the future…maybe you’ll see Angel there, who knows🤭
Aaa thank you so much for playing and for the really sweet words !! We’re glad that you found the plot twist enjoyable! :D It didn’t feel complete in our eyes without the angel getting his good end (or the best he could get in the situation :’)) thank you again! <3
Wow, this was so incredibly stunning and haunting! I love love the glowing and flickering animation (in both the menu and the sprite), the menu sound effect scratches my brain right lol. The GUI is so polished, and I love the painterly art style! And omg the writing is so descriptive and evocative for the given limit, I caught the hints of foreshadowing alluding to the twist in the second playthrough, so genius. Absolutely amazing work 100/10
Wow, this was such a beautiful and somber entry. I’m in love with the BGM, it’s very fitting! I love how glowing and cozy the background is (and I like how it draws a contrast to Serpentus’ feelings of being tethered there). I really felt for him, a stagnant being in an ever-changing world, and his lines about happiness in Ending 1 were hard-hitting. Amazing work!!
AHHH THIS IS SO ADORABLE MY HEART!! The GUI is very stylish and the textbox variations are so cute! The comedic delivery, vampire puns, and 4th wall break were hilarious LOL. At first I felt bad because he was so not on board with the whole vampire thing, but MC’s reaction to it reassured me that they’ll be just fine hahah. Amazing work!
AHH TYSM FOR PLAYING!! And thank you for the kind words :D It’s so flattering to hear that you guys want to see more of this hahah. We’re definitely thinking of creating a full-length circus game down the line (which will most definitely have clowns and more😂) thank you for the support!!
Thanks for playing! We tend to favor darker stories so we decided to go with a twisted freak show concept. Hopefully the secret end made you feel the slightest bit better🫠
THANK YOU sm for playing and for all the kind words!! :D We’re super happy you enjoyed exploring the endings<33 (hopefully the third end erased some of the guilt haha)
Wow, that ending was amazing! Your writing is really evocative. I also love the choice of music here, everything felt super atmospheric and I have a weakness for characters like Silas LOL. You drew him so beautifully! Congrats on releasing your first VN and I can’t wait to see more :D
That was so funnnn. I immediately shot him in my first attempt and died LOL. The art was really good and I liked the intense music and horror elements. The lore sounds really interesting, makes me wanna play Emerald Wasp<3
The Russian roulette mechanic was super creative, and the atmosphere was also my favorite.
WOW, this was such a beautiful entry!! So polished and I can tell a lot of love was put into this :D The GUI is so sleek and I really appreciated all the minute details. I love how beautiful and somber the music is (really matches the tone of the story), and the sprite work/voice acting is phenomenal! Loved witnessing a glimpse of the team dynamic here and even with the time skips everything fell into place contextually. Amazingggg work
CRIPTICCC THIS IS SO POLISHED AND WELL-DONE WAAA!! The background and art are so so stunning and sets the story’s tone really well! I loved the banter/exchange between them, and the world-building has me intrigued! I’d love to see more of them or anything set in this universe really lol. Amazingly well done! :DD
AAAAA Thank you so much for playing!! :D We love a good dark circus theme, so really happy you enjoyed it too! We’re glad we were able to still keep some element of surprise even with the word limit 😂
AHHHH THANK YOUUU! ksdjfksndk Hopefully, it wasn’t too difficult to get to the secret ending!
We’re glad you felt something for our little Angel. We could’ve written thousands of more words on his situation and the emotions the MC felt seeing someone in such a wretched state (especially the talk in the secret end…had us ripping our hair out trying to squeeze such an important convo into the word count). Still, we’re glad we managed to get some of the emotions across.
Iggy’s just too adorableeee. I can’t tell you how many times I replayed it because of Genzou’s stamina cutting me off before THE moment at the end. The art was cute, the GUI was so nice, I just enjoyed everything about this game!
I am so INVESTED. I really liked the point-and-click aspect of it, and I found myself replaying it 700 times to see all the clues (on that note, I was confused as to whether you can avoid getting arrested or not because I seemed to keep getting the same outcome). The art was very nice and the dialogue was very natural and funny. I got a laugh out of shining the UV light on Crow.
It’s pretty easy to have your side characters end up flat, but I felt like every character in Gerda had some dimension. I can’t wait to try the future chapters and find out what happened to Kay. I hope he’s not dead :’(
OMG thanks for playing, we really enjoyed your commentary! And yes, we plan to bring Jason back in future stories, so you’ll definitely get to know him better!
AAHH THIS WAS THE CUTEST THING EVER !! I could tell that so much love was put into this game, from the different art of Iggy in his room (my personal favorite was the burrito blanket LOL) to the beautiful story sequences to the witty and endearing text conversations. Iggy as a character felt relatable, and it really had me rooting for him till the end. :D
I also really enjoyed his exchanges with Orlam and I was laughing through a lot of them. The after-credits scene was so cute too AAAAA!! I was overall super invested in this game and it was a super enjoyable experience! Amazing job Carrot!!
Thank you so much for playing our game!! We’re super glad you enjoyed the setting and atmosphere- as fellow dark fantasy lovers we really wanted to deliver on this front.
There is so much more to come with the introduction of the LIs and routes we have planned, so you can look forward to getting the full otome experience soon! :D
Thank you so much truly, your kind words mean a lot to us!! We’re glad you’re looking forward to the story progression, we’ll work hard to try and bring justice to our vision hahah.
We really tried to deliver on atmosphere from the art to the special effects, so we’re super super happy that you enjoyed it. Perrin’s journey is far from over so we hope you’ll enjoy future updates as well as meeting the LI’s for the true otome experience!
Aaaa hearing this really means a lot to us, thank you!! :D
Especially as a newcomer to the VN game genre we’re glad it lived up to your expectations.
Hahaha we’re really glad you you enjoyed the art, albeit being a bit rushed from our end LOL. We definitely plan to give the prologue a full revamp and just polish things up in general (like the sprites you mentioned/ certain aspects of the story) and update that along with the first of three routes. Thank you for playing and your feedback, it’s really valued to us. We hope you’ll enjoy the future updates for this project and meeting the Love Interests! <3
THANK YOU SO MUCH OMGGG WE’RE SO GLAD YOU LIKED IT<3
We really wanted to get the atmosphere right since we love creepy and spooky vibes, so we’re glad that seemed to come through! And we definitely put a lot of energy into finding the right music and enough sfx (actually the process was almost hellish with the time constraint lol).
So glad you liked the art! That mom one is actually our favorite! We also felt incredibly rushed with the art actually (one of us drew Ivan while she had a fever 😭) so we’re actually going to release a revamped version of the sprites and CGs along with the release of the first route!
We’re so glad you liked the story! We were a bit worried about our writing and whether it flowed right or conveyed all our ideas properly, so it’s nice to hear that you were so invested!
AND LOLLL THE FOREST CHASE SCENE. We were actually wondering whether it was too difficult, but one of us enjoys dishing out a tiny bit of suffering and decided there’s no such thing as too difficult<3 So glad you liked it, though!
There is absolutely so much more to come! We’re going to be including a good amount of romance in the story, so you can look forward to getting the full otome experience!
Everything about this game was spectacular, from the art, the spooky effects, and the character writing. The game drew me in almost instantly from the start. I really liked the level of interaction at the beginning and the sense of (kind of) normalcy which caught me off guard when the jumpscares happened.
I was sad when I got the third ending because I wanted to see what happened next lol. I will definitely be following this project and I can’t wait to see it further developed. I also would love to see an interface/menu to be able to skip past dialogue and explore the other endings faster. Other than that this is an amazing piece of work.
Thank you for the feedback and for playing our game. We have chosen to select an otome tag, as Perrin although disguised as a man at the beginning of the game, identifies as a woman. Her gender presentation is moreso tied to her familial situation rather than her gender identity, and we plan to incorporate more of the otome-like feel as we further develop the game and introduce the Love Interests.
We were inspired by a lot of the genderbend otome out there and wanted to try making something akin to the trope. Additionally Perrin herself is just tomboyish in nature and had she been allowed to live as a woman, she would still have masculine personality traits.
If the reasons behind Perrin’s presentation are not super apparent in the story (like why she is called Prince), we would love to hear more details so we can improve the writing when we update the game next.
Please let us know if you have any more questions!
Omg chim thank you so much for the kind words, we’re super flattered and happy that you liked it!! 🫶 I’m glad you think that the story progression/ set-up was done well because it was something we were kind of worried about given all the world building we had to incorporate first hahah. We’re really glad that you’re looking forward to seeing more of this project, we’ll work hard! 🙏
This was such an adorable game! We loved the atmosphere and the art/animations so much! The way the Prince was characterized was refreshing and relatable. People are scary :’)
Thank you so much for the sweet and thoughtful words! I'm glad you enjoyed it :D Yes, honestly we would have loved to go over the word limit to fit more lore/make the pacing more seamless, I think the concept could be worth revisitng in the future. If you haven't read our devlog yet you're free to check it out, (we go into our thought process a little regarding Jason). But again, thank you for the lovely comment and I hope you have an amazing day!
