Our End of the World

i would give this a middle rating if possible but eh its good enough for a thumbs up, its a grind for achievements and getting all endings and the MC sucks but its eh it will do

煞笔男主建议死一死，玩这么多galgame就你最出生，不符合三观，就像看声之形一样，好评给的是制作不是剧情，无论你男主后面再怎么洗白你开始干的事就是出生事

Summary
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The visual style includes a lot of detail but isn't flashy.

The plot is so-so, better than just there, but don't expect anything special. Although, I would admit that some ideas will make you wonder how much the game lore can be expanded.

There is not a lot to say about music, it's just around 3-5 tracks, sometimes they suit well to scenes, and sometimes they don't. I played for 10 hours and started to become bored rarely by them.

What about a gallery?
The game isn't filled with a big amount of BG and CCG, which will result in you looking at the same 3-5 BG, which can start to be annoying at some point.

There are just 2 characters in most parts of the game, if we include all of them, then it will be around 5, depending on how who you will include (due to the strange flow of events, it looks like a few of them -> same character but from different timeline/world/idk, story is kinda strange to say the least)

During the game, you will come across different types of puzzles, while part of them are easy, another part will make you want to just give up on the game. Not many tips are given for some of the hard puzzles in my opinion.

If we talk about the gameplay, then it is divided into 3 parts: the usual novel, puzzle solving, and kind of Tamagotchi/simulator of taking care. First is your typical visual novel. Second, it differs during the type of puzzle, but most of the time -> you need to type something, be it code, or numbers. The third part is repeated over and over again I don't know how many times (I am not sure, but think that there are 100+ repeat cycles if you try to achieve all endings) From the story preview: "Leaving means death, to protect her safety, I had to keep her under custody." This literally means what it says, not all of the game but most part, you have a girl partner under your care who you should check up on and see if she is okay mentally/physically. You have a few options to do when it comes to actions, I won't reveal all of them but here is an example: feeding, sleeping, or being away from her. (yes, it also counts as an action)

Good point that the game includes a lot of endings -> interesting to see where will you end up.

Overall, despite a lot of bad points, I was satisfied with the game. I started to play this game because I wanted to check a survival story about a guy and girl who was imprisoned by him in order to protect her. As I mentioned earlier, the story isn't great, but it was entertaining.
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Good 👍

✔️ The visual style is classic for an anime-like game, I would say, looks simple at first glance, but has a lot of details if you look closer.

✔️ The plot is so-so, some endings don't make any sense. I can't say that it is just there, but it's not great. (repeatable actions, characters don't change their attitude, which makes some chapters obvious, etc) The story is unique and somehow, remains entertaining -> what makes it special.

✔️ There is not a lot to say about music, it's just around 3-5 tracks, I would give them 7.5/10 about how they correspond to their scenes of use.

✔️ During the game, you will come across different types of puzzles, while part of them are easy, another part will make you want to just give up on the game. Here is an example of an easy one: you find paper with a random number, then you need to type it as a code; the hard one, when you are given a tip with some kind of order of symbols, then you have the option to move a chair, but to figure out in which order and how you move the chair, for that, you need to think about it as a simulator of the gearshift. I have no idea how to figure this out if not for guides in the community -> I've never learned to drive.

✔️ Many endings (I didn't count but around 20)

✔️ Voiced main female character.

Bad ❌

❌The gallery is small and looked to me, how it doesn't include all scenes - it was designed to represent pictures with our main female character. The game isn't filled with a big amount of BG and CCG, which will result in you looking at the same 3-5 BG, which can start to be annoying at some point. As a result -> rare moments when the game shows something different will be more satisfying and look like a reward for achieving one or another stage of the story.

❌ There are just 2 characters in most parts of the game, if we include all of them, then it will be around 5, depending on who you will include (due to the strange flow of events, it looks like a few of them -> same character but from different timeline/world/idk, the story is kinda strange to say the least)

❌ The game involves some kind of point + event triggering system but it's not very understandable how it works, so it is easier to just follow other person's walkthrough unless you don't mind spending who knows how many hours in the game.

❌ Very repeatable but not understandable 'survival system'

Complex puzzles, entertaining and unusual story, cute interaction of characters -> if you are here like me for that, then take the game
Recommended

用了接近10个小时肝完了所有了成就，明白了一个道理：
要想让喜欢的女生喜欢上你，先给他戴上脚镣囚禁几天，然后就QJ他，一次不行，那就在黑灯瞎火下再QJ一次，然后，她就会喜欢上你。

Its a nice story with many option and paths to take and i like the atmosphere of the game, but if you want to do all the endings it takes quite a while to do so.

I reluctantly do not recommend this game. The story is interesting enough, the atmosphere claustrophobic (that's a good thing), but the dynamics are extremely frustrating and the relationship between the two main characters is problematic to say the least (violent narcissist + Stockholm syndrome = nope), I would have liked to get all the endings but I don't have enough patience.

BEWARE before getting into this game: to get all the possible endings you must beat and rape "the girl" in a few scenes. Otherwise, how would you get a few of the bad endings? :)

This is a post-apocalyptic adult visual novel which I would describe as a psychological/emotional thriller. There's some "black mirror-esque" plot twists that make this VN a very interesting one, especially towards the end. The protagonist is a narcissist bastard and the girl eventually develops Stockholm syndrome, resulting in a very toxic interaction most of the time. They're stuck in an underground facility with maze-like branches throughout >97% of the game and you'll end up getting a feeling of claustrophobia from this - believe me, you will.

There's occasional typos and noticeable lack of english skills by the translator but none to the point of making any scene incomprehensible. The 2 unlockable side-stories (read only) were not translated and you can't copy the Chinese text to the clipboard, so we're missing out on that.

Also, there's no explicit nudity.

Why do I recommend this novel after all?
Well, to put it simple, it makes you go on an internal rollercoaster. That's what you want when reading a novel, to be hooked by the story in a good or bad way and for it to mess a bit with your mind. This VN achieves it, so I DO feel it is worth the price even if it ends up being a sado-masochistic and overwhelming mental experience.

Very well done.

Now excuse me while I TRY to relax and fight the insomnia this has brought upon me.

氛围营造得还可以，还是值得推荐的，10个小时差不多就可以全结局了。有些选项看起来有点傻……

I will go on to say that I can't even finish this. I WANTED to finish it, but I can't get myself to.

First off, for the gameplay/reading itself, I felt like a lot of it didn't make sense. For starters, it seems like you have to make certain choices to where her confidence is boosted or you need her to be more trusting, but ONLY at certain time. Normally, visual novels like this have a status page or something to see where the character's status are at. Technically this does offer that, but I am used to a bar graph or percentage chart of what characters are feeling. In this one, you have to judge her face. How can you do that when there are so few expressions!?

Secondly, I am very confused about the choices you are making in this novel. I consider myself to be a moral person. However, *SPOILER* this novel seems to FORCE me to go against those morals. Whenever I thought I made the right choice, I would always get the bad ending. Yet, when I went against my original moral choice, somehow I was able to progress and things turned out well. There were some points where I have to make other choices, but some of those were more logical and felt more right. There were even times where it seemed like things were fine, but then it took a HUGE turn for the worse. Overall, I just don't get this and I honestly felt uncomfortable playing along at times.

For the artwork, I thought that it was beautifully done. However, maybe it was too well done? I say this because a couple locations have been recycled. There were minor changes to these images to make them look different, but you can't help but feel you see the same thing over and over and it gets boring. It is like "Power Rangers" fight scenes; you would watch the show and probably enjoy it, but you can see they obviously used scenes from previous episodes. You won't see new artwork until you hit major events and trust me it takes a while to get there.

Another thing about the artwork, I find that it is too censored. NOT REGARDING THE NUDITY (If there is any...). There have been scenes where I expected to see horrifying images of destruction or blood and gore, but it missed those opportunities to give the scare in the readers. I feel like this visual novel could have offered some psychological horror and didn't take the opportunity. I am not saying I look for that in visual novels, but this one seemed like it would have fit perfectly.

For the music, I have only played almost 5 hrs worth and I think I have only heard 4 tracks. There is not a wide range and it is repetitive. Like the artwork, the music loses its value at some point. I will say this, when they do play, they kind of capture the moment.

Now, I love it when you find that visual novel and there are voice actors. However, the voice actress they chose here was VERY poor. She does have her moments, but overall I can't love this character. There are scenes where she needed to deliver the anger, the sadness, the joy, etc. But in all her scenes you never really get it out of her. Her tone of voice is too soft and it is pretty much the same throughout the visual novel. I was barely able to hear she was speaking Chinese.

In conclusion, at this point, I have invested about 5 hrs, I have achieved 5 endings, and they were all bad. As I have said, this game counters my morals and I am not really comfortable reading this. I would understand if those choices made sense, but this novel fails to help me understand. Even after my death or achieving the bad end, the game would provide "tips" but they aren't too helpful. I question myself and I really don't feel that this grabbed me enough to continue. The "good" ending that I would like to see might not even be worth it. As of right now, maybe I can try again and continue, but I can't get myself to do it.

Overall, I give this visual novel a 3 out of 10.

什么玩意,第一次威胁就直接动手打了?什么傻逼你好歹也口头威胁一下啊.这还同班同学sb男主,口口声声为了女主好.实际上就是自我为是好像自己做什么都是对的,完了还马后炮.说什么我是为你好.真的为她好就不是这个样子了.你就算带她去门口看看也好过天天锁着人家,这样凭什么让别人信任你.看我不把你锁一下,不听话就打一顿,看你如何信任我.价值观有问题吧,这游戏玩的我浑身难受.如果这样都能让女主信任男主的话,女主不是个傻憨憨,就是给打傻了,才相信你的片面之词.

I thought the premise of this game looked interesting... but I don't think I can even finish it because MC is BEYOND cringe-worthy. Just even reading some of the options makes me wonder why someone would even create such an irredeemable protagonist like this? This guy has the social abilities of a juvenile delinquent that was locked away in a basement for most of his life by crazed parents. He's constantly being full-blown creeper and some of the thoughts he has are full blown psychotic!

The interesting puzzles, mysteries of the world, and premise of the story are completely obliterated by the unhinged psychopath that is the MC. I mean, the guy straight up rapes the girl and she only freaks out about it for a day or two, before slowly returning to the "normal" routine that they had before and even sleeping in the same bed as him! I imagine that this writer knows literally nothing about human psychology and the dehumanization and trauma that happens to someone who experiences something like that. This game begins to play out like some guy's sick fantasy...

I wouldn't recommend this game to anyone. Period.

Its as if your playing a Sociopath character with the weird choices...
Shrug, in any case its got some interesting points to it. Tho, the plot is weak and not thought out it does provide entertainment. Buy it on sale.

I've ambivalent feelings about this game. On the one hand, there were moments that I greatly enjoyed. On the other, repetitiveness of some sequences as well as rather bad english translation made the whole experience much worse.

What I like in this game?
From the very beginning I enjoyed graphic. Anime-like main female protagonist is really cute. Background, even if not as detailed, has its own climat too.
I like most of the story. The story unfolds slowly and keeps the player in suspense almost to the end. It is also good that the game has many different endings, some of which are really well hidden. It keeps player focused and interested.
Also, logical riddles that you have to solve throughout the game are nice, even if not really hard. It was probably my favourite part of the whole story.

Despite my rather positive opinion, there are a few flaws.
First of all, most of the choice sequences are VERY unintuitive. This is even worse because of game's repetitiveness - especially at the beginning. There were moments when I felt as if I was constantly looping through the same scene. At one point I just lost count - how many actions did I take? - and then BOOM! - Bad Ending. It's annoying especially when every action seems to be important if you want to reach a good end.
Also, player character is very hard to like. Not because I, as a player, have different point of view or moral system - sometimes his actions and reactions are just senseless and plain stupid. This additionally hinders the game - sometimes I made the decision that seemed to me the most reasonable, after which it turned out that the main character should do something completely different, something that seemed completely wrong to me.
And last but not least - English translation. I know it is not general game's fault. Still, fact that some moments of translation are pretty awkward (and bonuses at the very end are not translated at all) had some impact on my opinion.

Despite the defects I have mentioned, I generally recommend this game. It's addictive (though sometimes annoying), and the plot twist at the end is quite interesting. I certainly would not put this game on top of the list of games that you have to play, but it is still quite interesting.

7/10. A push for gameplay in a medium largely bereft of it and a story with interesting lore and surprising twists are thwarted by a poor translation and uncertainty on where perception ends and reality begins.

First: There's some post-story content that is currently untranslated. I made a machine translation for it, which you can find if you check the Steam guides for the game. I strongly recommend not looking at it until after you've completed the full story (it won't make a lick of sense otherwise), but it should be mentioned.

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It is my understanding that visual novels are called "adventure games" in Japan. As strange as it seems, even the scant few choices one makes are enough to qualify as gameplay. Our End of the World (henceforth Our End) is somewhat niche in that it does have a "real" gameplay element, in addition to the standard VN content. It's no Danganronpa or Zero Escape, but the difference should be mentioned up-front.

Presentation: Not very impressive. The backgrounds are okay, not great. There's only ever one character shown during the game; her art isn't bad, but also isn't special in any way. The music is pretty nice (the main menu music is incredibly relaxing). The game always starts in windowed mode: you can change it to fullscreen (I just used Alt+Enter), but be warned there are certain segments where you'll need to enter information, and the position of the text box (or rather, where you put your mouse to select the text box) seems off in fullscreen. I had to jump back to windowed mode during these segments. They're made more troublesome by the fact that it "checks" your solution when you press Enter (like pressing enter on a password box), and at least one puzzle gives you only one chance to solve it before failing you. You'll likely be saving frequently enough for other reasons, but be aware of this limitation.

Gameplay: There are two, maybe three main types of "gameplay" here. 1) Traditional VN choices 2) Sections where you must pick a correct sequence of actions to take (like dining, chatting, having fun, etc), and 3) Light puzzles where you're presented with information and later must use it to solve a puzzle. The VN choices are mostly used to send you on broad, overarching archs, the action-picking sections typically lead (quickly) to alternate or bad ends, and the puzzles are usually pass/fail with a bad end directly afterwards. The first of these is fine. The last is mostly fine, though there was one puzzle I looked up a solution for (and I don't think I would been able to solve it, just because the way it used the information given beforehand seems so weird). The second of these is where issues arise.

The problem is that there's only one critical path through the action choices, and there are extremely limited hints on what actions to take. You're presented with 5 different options, and usually have to choose between them at least 5-6 times during a "chapter" - that's 5^5 or over 3,000 options. There are just too many permutations to brute-force things, and with a-few-but-simply-not-enough hints on what to do, I wasn't interested in banging my head against a wall. I tried several times during the first chapter to progress, but eventually gave up and wound up using a walkthrough.

Story: The store page has the premise - the world has ended, and the MC and a girl are the only survivors. Pretty much everything in this story should be experienced directly, rather than beforehand, so I'll avoid detailed discussion. There are a couple points that need to be mentioned, however.

The first is translation. It's pretty poor. It's enough to get the gist of what's going on, but detail is lost, and there were moments in particular where what was meant to be an "emotional" scene was harmed by flat writing, or overly emotional language was used during a fairly neutral scene. It absolutely hinders the experience.

My second criticism is a mild spoiler, so if you're already set on getting this you may want to avoid it. Anyway: it's possible for something to be too much of a mind screw. This story does that near the end, and the portion afterwards doesn't do a very good job of explaining the differences between one's initial perception of the story and one's "post-twist" understanding. The untranslated novels only make this worse: the first is set during the same period as the game yet seems to present a third perspective, to the point that I wasn't sure where the truth was anymore; the second is after the game, and uses characters from the main story in confusing ways, while also introducing new elements that aren't clear.

This definitely feels like an experience with meaningfully mind-bending lore behind it, like Himawari or Yoko Toro's stuff, but very poor translation and general lack of clarity of where the truth really lies make it difficult to appreciate the impact of any of the story.

It has a nice premise and setting. The reading is just a bit rough. The parts could be smoother connected.
The possibity to save before entering the numbers for a riddle would be nice.

Nevertheless was worth the money.

If u wannna buy this game just for a new experiance of sex scene (like me) DONT BUY IT!! It has kinda good story but its sex scenes will be only words describe how the girl feels. Strongly not recommended for dirty mind gamers (also me).

If I was half believing this would be a good game at the start, now I'm 100% sure of it.

This visual novel has an interesting setting/plot, and mystery that keeps you thinking. I especially like the different endings. The only issues I would say are that replaying parts of the game to get different endings can get tedious, and that there are a lot of spelling/grammatical mistakes. The first issue can be somewhat addressed by saving regularly and utilizing the skip functionality, and the second one doesn't really bother me, but may bother others if you're picky about that sort of thing.

Overall I recommend this visual novel because not only is it interesting, but it is also very affordable, even at full price.

One last note, I have more playtime then it says I do. Oh, and another note, I still have over half the endings left and it was worth the money for the content I got so far alone.

This is a really interesting game. Each decision you make affects the girl in one way or the other, leading you to different results (endings). However, the game does get a bit weird towards the end (in the last chapter) but overall a great game with lots of replayability. I hope that the devs could pump out the English translation version soon so that interested players from all around the world could enjoy it too. Oh, and the chinese VA for the girl is reaaaaaaaaaaaaaaally good!

This is a meaningful game, the twists and turns of the story is a big selling point, you can freely choose to make the story continues to develop, and attract people to play this game is the game's style is very fresh, great.

I think it would be good to write a review in English. This is a game with great replay value and I highly recommend it to English-speakers as well. I think it is almost impossible to get things ringt the first time, and you have to try mulitple times to get that good end (which I haven't got one yet sad)

The major trick with this game is that you have to place yourself in others' shoes. Doing what you think is right might not be the best for others, a part that gives this game a great replay value.

But I mean the art is pretty good what else do you expect? You got a cute anime girl >.<

A good game to heal my emotional traumas from doki doki literature club
==Chinese review (contains spoilers)==
说实话觉得是个很好的游戏，很有replay价值。正常的思路可能不一定是最好的 一开始对妹子各种好聊天喂饭结果因为我人太好了妹子自己跑了死了..........

个人觉得可能跟常人思路不一样........第四章一开始努力找出口结果沉迷于找出口结果系统强推了妹子be打出GG[/spoiler]

所以才有重玩价值！！！！！（雾）

Good game. But it's too hard to understand Chinese language. Please, translate this game on english. I sure that this game is standing on good idea!