Autumn Memories Demo

There are times when the family business is not the free ride everyone thinks it is, unless your family happens to own a bank or something similar. When it comes to small business ventures like shops or restaurants, it actually takes a lot of work to manage one, especially if you also have to be one of the employees at the same time.

Autumn Memories is an interactive visual novel in which you play the role of a teenager trying to lend a hand to his parents, who run into trouble when the bakery they own starts losing customers. Unlike most other visual novels out there, this one is a lot more interactive, since there are many decisions you have to take on your own. Not only that, but you can also make a few friends along the way.

The story starts when a rival bakery by the name of Bon Bon Bien opens up in town, which causes your family business to quickly lose customers and money. In order to avoid a disaster, the main character’s parents decide to send him as a sort of undercover agent, which means that you’ll have to take a job at this new bakery and try to figure out how come they are so successful.

At the beginning of each week, you get the chance to plan each day as you see fit, although you have to do so in advance. Hence, whether you want to pay more or less attention in class, work harder at your job, or socialize with your friends, everything affects your main character’s stats, which in turn affect the story. You have to keep an eye on your grades, stress level, cash balance and a few other things in order to make sure you are on the path to success.

It is also possible to make friends by interacting with other characters, although it’s not at all enforced. You can always choose to antagonize everyone as well, just in case you do not need any friends. On the other hand, you find out more about the bakery and about the story itself by talking to other people, so it can be good idea to do so.

All things considered, Autumn Memories is still in development, so there’s a lot more content on the way. However, everything looks pretty exciting even now, especially thanks to the week planning mechanics and the stats system, albeit the latter does not seem to have too much of an effect on the gameplay just yet.