
In the not so distant past, the Isle of Abbot underwent a mysterious evacuation event. Delve into the secrets of this unsettling place and elicit the girls' tragic fate. An interactive visual novel with psychological and lovecraftian undertones.
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The grapes of wrath have fully ripened — their vines bring forth an intoxicating fruit.
Abe never chose to come to Abbotsford. The village glows in a rural backwardness that fills him with a lingering dread. Soon however, things begin to look up, as he is hired as a delivery boy by Ina, the headstrong editor-in-chief of the school paper.
Before long Abe and Ina begin to uncover unsettling details about the island's past, including the mysterious evacuation of over half its populace. Gradually, they become caught up in an intricate web of political corruption, organized crime, and a highly secretive local church.
Deluge: Threnody of Crashing Waves is a mysterious visual novel with psychological and lovecraftian undertones.

Rika
The Leviathan must feel melancholy, coiling all alone through endless depths.
Descending from a long line of reformed preachers, Rika is well grounded both socially and spiritually. Lately, however, she has become captivated by an intense longing for the sea. Her father is the leader of the secretive Kuyper faction in the Abbotsford city council.

Mei
Put your hand on these stones. Can you feel their calming warmth?
Mei doesn't go to school. She can often be found wandering among the giant megaliths that where erected on the island during the late Neolithic. Recently she's been having nightmares about her little brother.

Ina
Scandal, crime, corruption — small town politics are a cesspool of human depravity.
Ina is strong headed and determined. Having recently taken over as chief editor of the Sunday Abbot, she is dedicated to turn the nameless tabloid into a beacon of investigative journalism. Soon however, her inquiry into local political affairs stirs up a force that is better left untouched.
Deluge: Threnody of Crashing Waves is an interactive visual novel. By developing your relationship with each protagonists, the player can unlock that character's ending route. Deluge entered early access in January 2022. The full game came out in July 2022.
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Deluge: Threnody of Crashing Waves is not a game, it's an e-book that's been dumped on Steam masquerading as a game. As a visual/interactive novel, this doesn't feature any notable gameplay, it's just a lot of clicking through badly written dialogue that would never have been accepted or published in print, which poses the question, "How did something this badly written end up on Steam?". When someone hoping to become an author is unable to get published in print, they spend $100 and dump their high school fan-fiction onto Steam, under the guise of a game. This cringefest of an e-book is one of those ones where the author digs up the corpse of HP Lovecraft to spit on it. Apart from being a ham-fisted Lovecraft fan-fiction, it also heavily features the author's imaginary girlfriend/anime waifu, so if you really like cringe and things that aren't actually games, this Ren'Py kitbashed e-book is right up your alley. For everyone else, nope. Visual novels/e-books are tedious at best... imagine the best novel you ever read, be that Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy or 2001: A Space Odyssey or Twilight (if you have terrible taste in literature), but then translate that to a format where the words dribble out and you have to click your mouse every time you wanted to read the next sentence, instead of just turning the pages. You'd think it was garbage. Now imagine that experience, but with much worse writing (because if these guys could write professionally, they'd be published authors and this would be on shelves in bookstores, and they wouldn't have to pay Valve $100 to self-publish this on Steam), and you have your average Steam e-book. One of the chief problems with failed authors polluting Steam with non-game E-books is that E-books can easily just be presented in a web browser... there's no justification for charging money on Steam for what might as well be a webpage. We don't spend thousands on buying a gaming rig to spend money on Steam for something Chrome or Firefox could do. Even though this is "free", it failed to appeal to the 120 million+ gamers on Steam. SteamDB showed the e-book peaked at just a dozen or so concurrent readers, and now there's basically nobody reading it. Even though it's free. This is a dismal public reception, but it's easy to see why gamers rejected it. While this E-book is "free", you can get better quality, professionally written books and comics for free online (from places like Project Gutenberg) or from public libraries. Steam isn't a comic book store, neither is it Netflix, it's for games. Your gaming rig is not a Kindle. It's impossible for me to recommend things to PC gamers that aren't really games.
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Languages: English*, Russian*, Polish*, Spanish - Spain*, Spanish - Latin America*, Japanese*, Dutch*, German*, Simplified Chinese**languages with full audio support
Hours played at review time, across 41 reviews with recorded playtime.
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Обзор: Deluge: Threnody of Crashing Waves — Поэзия тонущего мира Статус: Рекомендую (ценителям психологических драм и меланхолии). Игра от Seventeen Unounces — это не просто чтение, это погружение в состояние. Она берет классический троп «города у моря» и превращает его в экзистенциальное исследование человеческой изоляции и поиска тепла перед лицом катастрофы. 1. Мастерская работа с атмосферой Игра буквально пропитана солью и туманом. Звуковой ландшафт: Саундтрек и фоновые шумы подобраны идеально. Шум прибоя, дождь и меланхоличные клавишные партии создают эффект полного погружения. Вы буквально чувствуете сырость воздуха через экран. Ритм повествования: Новелла не спешит. Она дает игроку время прочувствовать момент, вникнуть в мысли героя и насладиться меланхоличным спокойствием перед бурей. 2. Глубокий и многослойный текст Сценарий написан с большой любовью к деталям и метафорам. Психологизм: Взаимоотношения между персонажами прописаны тонко. Это не картонные архетипы, а живые люди со своими травмами, страхами и надеждами. Их диалоги звучат естественно и часто заставляют задуматься о собственных чувствах. Темы: Игра исследует темы утраты, принятия неизбежного и того, как люди находят смысл в мире, который буквально уходит у них из-под ног. 3. Эстетичный визуальный стиль Арт-дизайн подчеркивает общую концепцию игры. Палитра: Использование приглушенных, холодных тонов отлично передает настроение приморского городка. Рисовка персонажей мягкая, но выразительная, что позволяет легко считывать их эмоции. Композиция: Каждая сцена выстроена как кадр из авторского кино, где освещение и расположение объектов работают на общую идею главы. 4. Честный эмоциональный опыт Deluge не пытается заигрывать с игроком дешевыми приемами. Искренность: Трагедия здесь подается без пафоса, через тихие моменты и личные откровения. Это делает финал и ключевые сцены гораздо более весомыми и запоминающимися. Интеллектуальный вызов: Новелла доверяет своему читателю, оставляя пространство для размышлений и самостоятельной интерпретации некоторых событий. 5. Уникальность на инди-сцене Авторский почерк: Видно, что это камерный проект, в который вложили душу. В нем нет коммерческой выхолощенности, зато есть смелость говорить на сложные темы простым, но красивым языком. Итог: Deluge: Threnody of Crashing Waves — это неспешная, грустная, но удивительно светлая история. Она напоминает нам, что даже когда волны готовы поглотить всё вокруг, человеческая связь и память остаются самым надежным плотом. Это настоящий подарок для тех, кто любит игры как форму высокого искусства. Услышь музыку шторма.
recreate noahs flood with church girl, 10/10
Tema Lovecraft en japon. Recomendado.
An homage to the good old days of visual novels!
For a free, seven to eight hour VN, it isn't bad: but is especially isn't anything to write home about. The standard for free VN's especially seems to be astronomically high, and a lot of the poor reviews stem from a lack of perspective when writing and analyzing these types of games. Deluge is a short VN you can finish in a day and pick up whenever, which inherently means it isn't going to be anything special. The game's art is beautiful, there's no debate about that I would imagine. Everything is beautifully drawn and the sprites were surprisingly well-done especially considering the status of this kind of game. A lot of the horror elements were okay during the earlier parts. The entire story is very unique and very interesting, which is mostly what kept me engaged. Rika's route is by far my favorite and her character was the strongest in my opinion, but that isn't a high bar to cross. Unfortunately, for me, that's mostly where the positives of this VN end. Most of the negative reviews stem from the pseudo-intellectual conversations and complete lack of characterization from anyone in this VN where you'll read fifteen minutes of a girl reciting some paraphrased Nietzsche or Cioran and wonder "where did this come from? aren't we high school students?" Which is exactly what I was thinking. I do think, at times, if you can put the mischaracterization aside, it's interesting reading about it and if you don't read philosophy it can be interesting to read. Beyond that? I don't really think it's worth it. The writers had a great idea and knew where they were going, but lacked the follow through and their execution was pretty poor. Out the gate I was concerned about the unbelievable amount of info-dumps that were thrown onto me, where I would have the entire island's history explained to me in five minutes which is a terrible way to tell a story. At times it felt like some of these characters purely existed just to give me information. If that were the case, why not just have the MC go to a library and have the reader read Abe reading about the island's history for thirty minutes? I would feel the same way. That being said, it isn't necessarily an abominable visual novel. It's a free passion project you find in the bowels of Steam's store page and pick up on a whim. If your expectations for a six hour visual novel with less than five hundred reviews on steam is anything but "this will probably be decent" and then go on about how pitiful it is, you're pretentious. Of course, just because it's a free visual novel doesn't make it immune from criticism, that's dumb. The writing in this VN is objectively subpar and the main character feels like a sheet of paper at times, but I expected as much. If you want a short VN that doesn't take anything to get into, then Deluge is perfect. Very solid and comfortable 6/10, barely good enough to not make it mediocre.
buen huego
Good story. Good soundtrack. Rika's plot was kind of predictable but that's ok. Ina = best girl 7.5/10
petit visual novel sympas surtout les musiques.
Primero, agradecer que el juego esté traducido al español. Segundo: es absoluto cine. Cada ruta y cada chica cautivan muchísimo. El protagonista tiene personalidad y no se siente vacío. La ambientación me gustó mucho. De hecho, en el Reddit del juego publiqué un post contando toda mi experiencia con él (spoilers incluidos). La narrativa, la música, los momentos de decisión y el ritmo están muy bien manejados. Respeta muy bien tu tiempo. Yo normalmente trabajo y solo tengo libre por las noches; dedicándole una hora cada noche, y a veces más porque la historia me enganchó, se disfruta muchísimo. La historia dura lo justo. Me encantó. Me habría gustado que tuviera una opción de galería. Hay muchos fondos muy bonitos que quisiera volver a ver. Además, al principio no iba a comprar los DLC, pero después de terminar la primera ruta terminé comprando el de Ina y el de Mei. En resumen, es un muy buen juego. Dale una oportunidad. Cada chica te cautivará de una forma u otra.
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