Love is a Game Demo

Playing video games is a pretty common activity nowadays, especially since they are now available on almost every device you have around the house, including phones, tablets and even TVs. Hence, what was once considered a geeky activity is more popular than sports today, which is not necessarily a good thing. On the other hand, gamers have a lot more variety at their disposal now.

Love is a Game is a visual novel/dating sim in which you play the role of a girl trying to get her life in order and maybe get out of the rut she settled into for quite some time. In essence, there’s nothing very different about this visual novel, except for the fact that it’s longer, bigger and a tad more complex than others. However, the main idea is the same when it comes to gameplay, so everyone should be able to enjoy it from the first few minutes.

As such, you play as a lonely girl who can be named as you desire, a girl who works in a cafe and likes to play Otome visual novels in her spare time. One day, she meets a couple of boys who look very familiar to her, only to realize that they are actually characters from the aforementioned visual novels. Thus, she gets the chance to actually talk to them and even choose a partner at the end of it all.

Although the game is far from finished at the moment, the story branches quite nicely along the way, especially since you are allowed to make choices and say the desired things in order to pursue one guy or the other. On top of that, you can replay the experience and make different choices, which increases the game’s replay value and allows you to get a lot more out of the story.

Speaking of which, the artwork is nothing short of gorgeous, mainly because it’s in full-HD, which goes great with today’s high-resolution screens. The backgrounds are very detailed and cozy, not to mention the characters, all of which have multiple poses and facial expressions. There’s no voice acting at the moment, but that can be added to the full game, at least if the developers receive the support they are asking for.

In the end, Love is a Game appears to be a great visual novel, at least if things continue to evolve in this manner. However, you can lend a hand by backing the project on Kickstarter, as well as by voting for the game on Steam Greenlight.