Alive

Liked the story and the basic character arc. Just wish it was longer.

A very good obscure novel. Short but good, and more importantly, it's complete and accompanied by an awesome soundtrack. Nikki☝🏻

The game is pretty short. I finished my first playthrough in less than two hours reading everything. I also accidentally ended up with someone I didn't intend to. Usually these games make it clear when you are committing to someone, but here I got locked in without even knowing it, which is kinda annoying.

That said the rest of it is good. It's not up there with the best of the genre, but I've only played a couple games that reached anywhere near the heights of Being a DIK. I'd recommend it, especially at the current sale price.

For the same reason that I gave College Kings a negative rating: what if I don't like and am not good at "twitch" games or move your mouse "just so" punches delivered to an antagonist to follow the story.

Is there an express lane where I can just enjoy the friggin' story?

You don't get to do anything other than die unless you are good at stoopid, twitchy, arcade-style mini-games, which makes this game unfortunately TOO long before I am bounced out-- lots of reading and navigating with intermittent "games" that you don't realize prevent you from reading further if you fail them. For me that was a bad time investment.

So don't call it a visual novel, don't say it has a plot, don't encourage fostering the reader through emotionally involving stories if the reader (now "player") never gets to experience anything other than what is essentially an arcade game with a gallery.

Besides, Mary is not so hot at all, where did you dig her figure up? DAZ bargain bin?

An evenings entertainment worth the price, not the greatest ever, single choice choices are pointless, but other routes to explore as i inadvertently ended up with an LI i didn't select, but good story, and its a whole story, rare in AVN's on steam, Recommended as a fun 4 hour evening filler for lightweight, easy going, complete story(s)

ENG:
In Alive, the first work by Cskin Games and whose development began in early November 2021, we will have to take on the role of Chris (name of player's choice), a programmer who recently lost his job and who thus finds himself having to look for a new one in order to get back on his feet.
With a small nest egg set aside to easily survive this crisis and a relationship with our ex Abigail that ended 3 years ago, it will be the casual encounters with the photographer Nikki, the party girl Erin and the barista Mary that will get us back in the game.
Thus begins our adventure, with a call from our friend Freddie for an invitation to a party and a coffee at Frida's just after training, to start the day off right.

We are faced with a multiple choice visual novel in which the decisions made count in determining the development of the story and the girls we will approach.
Although the girls around which the story revolves are basically 3, namely Mary, Nikki and Erin (plus Stacey who however would be Freddie's girlfriend), there are still a couple of other damsels to enrich the group, in particular Tonya, who however, depending on the choices, could also have a less than secondary role, and Abby, who instead appears only late and has a role only in a certain case. Honestly, while the options are moderately clear, since this is not a harem game and you have a pretty early definitive selection of the love interest, you are going a bit blind in this sense, especially in terms of "judging the book by its cover" and "buying the goods without trying them first", if you know what I mean, therefore, also thanks to a couple of bad endings, using a guide like the in-game one available as DLC is not at all discouraged.

All things considered, the technical side is well done and the game is graphically pleasing, with nice models (even if I have to admit that Tonya's ass has something strange in certain shots) and fluid yet basic animations, even if the, unfortunately few and not exactly frequent, scenes are quite simple, without moans or noises of any kind and generally a bit short, everything is however accompanied by a pleasant and varied soundtrack, offering, especially for a first work, a solid gaming experience, even if a bit short, but with a good replayability thanks to the 10 possible endings, bad ones included.

As mentioned above, the gallery, present and accessible from the main menu, is not particularly substantial and, in roughly two and a half pages, has 24 scenes.
Ultimately, it cannot be called an absolute masterpiece of the genre, but there are no reasons not to recommend this title anyway, especially to those looking for a somehow dramatic narrative experience a little different from the usual with serious implications sometimes more, sometimes less heavy and that places more emphasis on the narration than on the sex scenes.

Personal note: for me here it's Nikki who stands out as best girl, surprisingly followed by Tonya, who gives more than convincing "reasons" for my tastes, with Mary, Stacey and Erin following.

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ITA:
In Alive, prima opera di Cskin Games il cui sviluppo è iniziato ai primi di novembre del 2021, dovremo vestire i panni di Chris (nome a scelta del giocatore), un programmatore che ha di recente perso il lavoro e che si trova così a doverne cercarne uno nuovo in modo da rimettersi in piedi.
Con da parte un piccolo gruzzolo per sopravvivere agevolmente a questa crisi e una storia con la nostra ex Abigail finita da 3 anni, saranno gli incontri casuali con la fotografa Nikki, la festaiola Erin e la barista Mary a farci rimettere in gioco.
Comincia così la nostra avventura, con una chiamata dal nostro amico Freddie per un invito ad una festa e un caffè da Frida's dopo l'allenamento, per iniziare bene la giornata.

Siamo di fronte ad una visual novel a scelta multipla nella quale le decisioni prese contano nel determinare lo svolgimento della storia e le ragazze che andremo ad approcciare.
Quantunque le ragazze attorno alle quali gira la storia siano fondamentalmente 3, ossia Mary, Nikki e Erin (più Stacey che però sarebbe la ragazza di Freddie), non mancano comunque un paio di altre donzelle ad arricchire la combriccola, in particolare Tonya, che però, a seconda delle scelte, potrebbe pure avere un ruolo meno che secondario, e Abby, che però appare tardivamente e ha un ruolo solo in un determinato caso. Onestamente, per quanto le opzioni siano moderatamente chiare, non trattandosi di un harem game e avendo una selezione definitiva piuttosto precoce dell'interesse amoroso, si va un po' alla cieca in questo senso, soprattutto in termini di "giudicare il libro dalla copertina" e "acquistare la merce senza prima provarla", se si capisce cosa intendo, pertanto, complici pure una certa quantità di bad ending, l'utilizzo di una guida tipo quella in-game disponibile come DLC non è affatto sconsigliato.

Il comparto tecnico è tutto sommato ben realizzato e il gioco risulta graficamente gradevole, con bei modelli (anche se devo ammettere che il didietro di Tonya ha qualcosa di strano in alcune inquadrature) e animazioni fluide seppur basilari, anche se le, purtroppo pochine e non esattamente frequenti, scene risultano abbastanza semplici, senza gemiti o rumori di sorta e in genere un po' brevi, il tutto si fa però accompagnare da una piacevole e varia colonna sonora, offrendo, soprattutto per un primo lavoro, un'esperienza di gioco solida, anche se un po' breve, ma forte di una buona rigiocabilità grazie ai 10 finali possibili, compresi quelli cattivi.

Come accennato in precedenza, la galleria, presente e accessibile dal menu principale, non è particolarmente corposa e, in grossomodo due pagine e mezzo, conta 24 scene.
In definitiva, non si può gridare al capolavoro assoluto del genere, ma non c'è ragione per non consigliare comunque questo titolo, soprattutto a chi cerca una in qualche modo drammatica esperienza narrativa un po' diversa dal solito con dei risvolti seriosi talvolta più, talaltra meno gravi e che pone maggiormente enfasi sulla narrazione che sulle scene di sesso.

Nota personale: per me qui è Nikki a distinguersi come best girl, seguita sorprendentemente da Tonya, che espone delle "ragioni" più che convincenti per i miei gusti, con Mary, Erin e Stacey a seguire.

A pretty good game that was influenced by Leap of Faith. It's not as good as that game, but still pretty good. It's got decent animations and they could've been better, but the story was good and the character development was okay as well.

GOOD GAME I HOP AND WISH THERE WOOD BE A PART 2 TO THIS BECOUSE I WOOD LOVE TO SEE WONT HAPPENS NEXT, ( SORRY I CANT SPELL GOOD )

It has one red headed and one blue haired sexy weirdos, definetly tumbs up.

best game ever

Honestly....its boring...just boring i was not attached to the girls at all

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Nice Story, nice Visuals, nothing extodinary, but a Solid 7.5/10

This was a really good game to play some drama and some romance. I think that they need to make Alive 2 because you can go either way with it and then some. But it was a little short. I will give you that. But overall it was really good.