Chronotopia: Second Skin

After all her struggle, you really grow attached to Kionna, and want nothing but the best for her. You just keep playing in hopes that she'll finally get her happy ending! Please try it out and help her get a happy ending too!

Disclaimer: I worked on some of the art for this game and tested earlier builds. I bought this copy of the game. Chronotopia is fun. In the sort of... twisted... gut-wrenching... thrilling... painful way. Kionna's journey to find a happy ending is one that I loved observing, as painful as it was, with a twist on time-loops and in-depth explorations of each attempt. She grows so much as a character, but has flaws that is equally satisfying and painful to read. I really love Chronotopia - it's a hefty game with a lot of content, and I think absolutely worth it.

I remember playing the demo for Chronotopia back in 2016 and it has been a long road. This game was absolutely worth the wait! Chronotopia Second Skin is a loving homage to Charles Perrault's Donkeyskin fairytale, incorporating the darker elements of the source material as well as a few new twists that will keep you invested from start to finish.

This is a very good game. Well worth the wait.

disclaimer: i've worked with the game's director before, but i was entirely uninvolved with this game's development. that being said, this is a lovingly crafted visual novel with an absolutely stunning style. worth picking up just for the visual presentation alone, and the opening hook is immediately intriguing.

This is a game that I finished on June 21th for one reason. I really felt bad how this has so little Reviews on Steam. so I used the excuse that this had two W/W romance options to try to finish this just to review it. I did play this on Itch io when I first discovered this. so that absolutely gave me a reason to get my hands on this for Steam. The problem was, I had no real good reason to try to finish it. so I decided to use June. that might have been my only mistake on my end, because this is a dark, mature fantasy story that uses Donkeyskin to explore some dark stuff and managed to handle them better then I thought. another thing that helped me get a bias for this game is the fact that this has a love for fairy tales, like you can collect a bunch little facts of fairy tales like this one through out play throughs. I think part of the reason why this is under known, is because of the fact that maybe the languages this has are only are in English and French. I hope there is some way, even if it is through making this review, that I could get more people to know about this game. like fans of fairy tales and dark stuff that are perfect for Halloween . I just love this for a reason that I wrote a very rough and longer version of this that unfortunately went into spoilers and was was not focused on the game at all.

Still have got to finish the game so I'll update it then but so far I can say this is a very interesting and very compelling narrative experience in the form of a videogame. Good job, devs!

A very interesting visual novel!