Hiveswap Friendsim

If you're a fan of Homestuck, then go for it. If you're not a Homestuck fan, it will be confusing but it's designed to introduce you to the alien planet of Alternia and catches you up to the biological and societal mechanics within its world.

I played through this multiple times when it first came out, waiting for each volume every two weeks and doing multiple playthroughs with friends.

The music is wonderful, the writing is hilarious, the characters are all memorable in their own ways. There are very few misses when it comes to the volumes but they're all appealing in different ways. The alien circus comedy we call Homestuck continues to be a delight through these visual novels.

World-building is incremental in each volume. Each character introduces something new about Alternia to the player character, and every now and then something new for the reader as well. It gives me hope for Homestuck as a franchise that future now that Hussie is no longer in the picture.

Clownman we thrist for thy

pmo

I think Friendsim is easily the most mixed bag games I ever played, although that is quite literally by design. This game features 18 volumes covering 36 chapters (38 trolls) with 10 different writers, and the quality between some of these were like night and day.

The context of Friendsim itself is that it serves as a setup for Hiveswap Act 2 as most of these characters find their way into that game. It's probably best to read this before diving into Act 2. Each chapter introduces a troll that the reader tries to befriend, with good and bad endings that will either build their character or try to get a laugh. Big emphasis on try.

Yeah to get to the point of why I don't recommend Friendsim is because I only outright enjoyed about 16 of the 36 chapters, which is a pretty bad ratio. Many chapters had multiple routes that felt underwhelming and didn't have the best of writing. There were a few that were outright terrible, but my main issue is the amount of chapters that just went nowhere by the end of it.

I only lightly recommend against Friendsim, however, as I did state I enjoyed quite a few chapters. There were a lot of moments that humor landed really well, the trolls were well written and i got actually invested in the outcome. I initially was leaning towards a positive recommendation because these stuck out in my mind, but seeing the full list of trolls just reminds me how underwhelmed I was for a bulk of the time.

I won't state what chapters I felt were worth reading as some of these build off of previous chapters. Only reading some of these will miss context, you gotta do the whole thing. I recommend getting Friendsim on sale or just watching a playthrough, it doesn't really make a difference as this is just a visual novel that was probably rushed.

Absolute dogshit with uninteresting characters, butchering what homestuck was once about

it's peak

its so booooooooorin g I dibt care.

It's ight
Friendship sim

it's really fun being able to observe the lives of the trolls on alternia outside of all the sburb/sgrub stuff. i imagine this game would be an...interesting experience for someone who hasn't read the webcomic, though i'd still recommend it either way. as someone who somehow managed to read through all 8129 pages of homestuck in the past i think this would be a great way to pique one's interest in the actual comic especially since the start might be kind of boring

amazing visual novel. bit sad that there's no romance, but some scenes can be interpreted as such if you think really, really hard.

My boyfriend loves this game

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

i love friendsim so much <3

chahut my beloved

so i guess this game is basically trolling fans and this is disgusting. awful. too bad it's too late for a refund

If you like homestuck and big reading sessions, you're ruined, this is the right game for you. A developed social/simgame to make you feel the internal pain of social shame. I feel like some of these routes were rushed, Honestly, in some parts I was unaware of the quality of Hussie's writing, it disappointed me a little. Besides this, it's funny and not the "generic datin sim" kind. It's really interesting to learn more about characters you like while interacting with them, in fact, theres one thing that disappointed me was Marvus' route, I feel like this specific character was made just for weird simps. The premise is simple, the ost is interesting and the characters are ok, maybe some characters had more potential to be used since they came from a Hussie work.

I recommend it if you like homosexual aliens and have a poor sense of humor.

i want chahut

Guys,can we all simultaneously agree that Zebruh,Lanque,Ardata and Tagora deserve what happened to Guts in Berserk times ten?

Also Skylla is my wife i love you Skylla (And Chixie and Bronya and Polypa and Elwurd and Konyyl and Chahut and Lynera and Nihkee HOLY BONES THERES SO MANY WIFE MATERIAL TROLLS)

this game ruined me i hate this game but i love it at the same time. i love these characters, esp my loves Skylla, Bronya, Ardata, and Remele. And DAYUm Marvus and Gorgor be mmmmm. But yeah this game gave me an existential crisis of my own and i'm still recovering love it tho

neat little vn. cant believe i did 16 hours of this but i cant read like 10 minutes of a book. comment about skylla or chixie or charun or remele because they are my favorites

I have a crush on Mallek

I love all the clowns! Chuckle-voodoo lyfe

Fans of the Homestuck universe will understand.

even though marvus's route was weird, hes still my #1

anyways, they can never make me hate you zebruh codakk

cirava kinda chill tho
and scott the woz

I hate read Homestucks Epilogues