Secret Little Haven

we'll figure it out <3

Amazing at creating an atmosphere and making you feel for the main character in so many ways!

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well then. i guess im gonna be a girl now

A really beautiful and personal visual novel about online friendship through shared interests, the early days of the internet, and the complicated feelings that come from realising that you're trans. I imagine it will hit very close to home for trans women with similar experiences, it certainly did for me, and I cried a couple of times. It also introduced me to some fun new emoticons and for that I am grateful.

Extremely compelling and emotional story. Highly recommend

absolutely gut-wrenching & incredibly accurate dialogue for the early 2000s internet

The LGBT+ version of Emily is Away. Nostalgic and heartwarming, it's a beautiful story about a trans girl discovering herself and finding community with others through a fandom. 🎀

Unfortunately the achievements are broken and you can only officially earn the achievement for completing the game. I hope the developer patches this bug in the future.

This was such a sweet game with an ending that's making my trans butt cry. The aesthetics are absolutely beautiful and fit the vibe so well. The story is so great and I can tell a lot of love went into this game. Thank you for making this.

really cool game!!

Great game !
A short story, from a bygone era, which evokes really nostalgic feelings. The characters are compelling, and the vibes are really there.

The game talks about good topics, talks well about it, and the 5-or-so hours i spent on it were really enjoyable. Wish it was longer.
Anyway, it's only a few bucks, if any of the topics listed on the game description interests you, please consider buying it!

This game has ENLIGHTENED me to the texting styles of millennial transbians with this power i am now unstoppable MUWHAHAHHAHAHAHA

but srsly i love the way characters write in this game <3
Furthermore i also like how in the emails tab the pharmacy only says spiro as an AA since CPA or bica weren't really common at the time AFAIK
I also feel like it encapsulates "figuring it out" rlly well

Big downsides is the lack of variety in music - however when I consider the game only took me 4 hours to beat and i was quite fond of the tracks that were there the music criticism isn't as weighty. However on the technical side this game could be better It felt kinda clunky (unresponsive windows ) at times, i also got locked out of lagunas game since i didn't download it before finishing that part of the game :-<

anyway ty random tttt'er who said "she'll figure it out" in a thread

oh my god.. wow.

i cried twice. this hit my emotions so hard

Note that I've only got the good ending here, I loved the story this game told.

As someone who figured herself out in her teens, living with a parent who had some major issues, finding some solace online in community, I can relate to Alex's story a lot. The game told a beautiful story in a very clear and also very accurate to life kind of way.

Now, I will say this game is not without its flaws. It's not what I want to talk about, but it caused me to restart the game from the beginning. It is possible in this game to create multiple instances of the chat application that have different versions of the same chat in them. It is possible to softlock the game by accepting a chat from a new person at the right time by not triggering the dad event. The reminder program kept its data when none of the rest of the game did when I reset following this.

In addition to the bugs, there are some quirks. It wasn't clear to me whilst playing this game, particularly because I had to restart and all that took was literally closing the game and opening it again, whether or not there was a way to save my progress. The reminder application in the game had the month and day selectors, but even though the first day's date was the 12th of May and that was important story-wise, I am Australian, we use dd/mm/yyyy and so it took me midway through Thursday to realise I had counted to Saturday from the 5th rather than the 12th. The segment with Laguna toward the end was a little tricky to figure out too, though I expect people will probably just check a guide for that.

Overall it's still a fantastic game. It's been out a bit long for me to expect any of these issues to be fixed, but I enjoyed it nonetheless and I think you will too <3

TRANS PRIDE!!!

damn.

I cried.

HOLY FUCK YOU NEED TO PLAY THIS GAME

Game left me an emotional wreck. Would recommend

made me cry a lot

She'll figure it out...

It made me so fucking emotional. I discovered myself on the internet, and I related to so many of the characters's struggles. I just projected my young trans egg self onto this game, and I relived the joys and griefs of discovery through it. It's beautiful.

This game is absolutely wonderful. Very reminiscent of A Normal Lost Phone and hits even harder. This game has brought me to tears at least 7 times and for wildly different emotions. Highly recommend.

Secret Little Haven is a very good game where you're chatting and playing littles games with some friends on an old 1999 Windows interface... it's kinda like an Emily is away game with a touch of eccentricity... It's funny and with his low price, I highly recommend it!!! 💗💗💗

Incredible game, and extremely relatable. I highly recommend you play this, and go in blind. I have found very few pieces of media that have really touched me the way this game has. Made me cry.

She'll figure it out.

Made me cry the best kind of tears...

it is a cute game

The game is presented as if you're using an old computer, so you advance through the plot by using the programs on your PC and solving puzzles using the terminal, which I enjoyed a lot. My only real criticism is that the writing feels too naive for its own good and it would've been better if it was willing to get a little darker or have a less happy ending, but it's still worth playing.

game made me cry. 10/10

This game was really important to me when I first played it.

genuine rollercoaster of emotions later in the game, i do dearly want to know what happens with alex and all her friends

This was such a stressful experience with some of those conversations x.x

but i enjoyed it immensely, it was very reflective of how it is for us.

She'll figure it out

Ah yes, my heart, in a million little pieces.
(Terminal minigame puzzles way to difficult tho.)