
399 days ago, the world ended. Epimutation is a horror visual novel that follows seven survivors as they attempt to navigate life in the apocalypse. Make life or death decisions, form bonds with your fellow survivors, and attempt to unravel the mystery behind the outbreak.
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Spencer, a former investigative journalist, lives in a small bunker with six other people who have also managed to stay alive after a viral outbreak brought the world to ruin. They're attempting to adjust to this new normal, until they stumble across some notebook pages written by a scientist documenting the infection.

Approx. 20k Words, 60 - 90 minutes playtime
6 Endings
Animated CGs
Original Soundtrack
10 Unlockable Achievements

Epimutation contains:
Blood
Adult language
Disturbing imagery/audio
Discussions of animal death and illness
Depictions of panic attacks
Flashes
Player discretion is advised
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Languages: English**languages with full audio support
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Reviews
Themes across 41 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
Reviews
oh my god. oh my god. i just completed the entire game. i did every achievement. a few things: the art style is super awesome! i love that we can collect knowledge over time, and with character development, identify changes! i love that we get to choose different storylines! the writing is so good that, when trying to complete the bad ending, i was frantically chanting "i'm so sorry" under my breath the whole time. the characters are so real, and have their own mannerisms, and i feel like the way it's carried out is so human. the others will love you, should you play along. but if you try and actively save yourself over anyone else, you're no longer part of the group. mwah. i love it. god bless i need to consume every piece of media about this. one piece of EXTREMELY MILD criticism is that i wish we had access to gallery art, like art from specific cut-scenes! i wanted to review the scene where we comfort luca, as i adored that art, but i had to replay lol. it would be an amazing feature to see! thank you all so much for creating this, it's one of my favorite visual novels overall. it was brilliantly written. godspeed
The story for this Horror NV was really good. its not too long def a god read. 6 endings in total. The art and the animations were phenomenal
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the game was short but so well-written, i really enjoyed getting all the endings and the character design, animation, and soundtrack were awesome. wish it was longer!
I really enjoyed this game I just wished it was longer. Maybe they will have another part come out and a continuation.
there was a section where you had to exhaust 4 dialogue options with each character, and it forces you to say some really stupid dialogue. If you skip ahead because that section totally breaks immersion, you get punished later for not paying attention.
A really fun game honestly, for me this all started with mlp infection series on youtube shorts but I now I think monsters and infections like this are pretty cool and all. I liked this game a lot, the endings were interesting and the achievements were not that complicated. The characters are all pretty interesting (I think Amber is the best) to interact with and I love the design of the game.
If it had romance it would be a 10/10
A fun, quick little horror game. The game feels like it rushes through a lot of plot points you would tend to see in these kinds of games, but this feels more like a test game for a small studio just starting out or a group of friends making something to see if they can. Its free, its fun for what it is, try it out.
A nice little short visual novel featuring a virus that transforms people into horrifying creatures. I wouldn't have minded it being a bit longer, but I did well enjoy what I got and the creature designs were very creepy indeed.
Gioco molto bello, mi sono immerso nella storia così facilmente dal sembrare naturale, direi che a livello di gameplay non ho riscontrato problemi. Devo dire che però ho avuto i miei problemi, come ad esempio capire chi era infetto, (spoiler per chi non ha giocato) si avevo trovato il testo che parlava della stanchezza ma non pensavo che era quello il sintomo, credevo di non aver trovato l'indizio necessario ed ho passato mezz'ora a cercare di capire chi era l'infetto; visto che non sono madrelingua inglese ho avuto anche delle difficoltà come ad esempio ad un certo punto quando hanno usato i pronomi "them" e "they" verso la fine, e confuso ho detto "di chi stanno parlando?" e poi mi sono ricordato che nel diario c'era scritta una didascalia sul protagonista il quale lo accennava, mi sono divertito/inquietato con questo gioco, davvero bello. So che è gratuito e quindi dura anche poco, ma mi sarebbe piaciuto tanto che estendessero la storia oppure raccontare delle prime settimane nel bunker, all'inizio di tutto; se mai uscirà un seguito o un prequel, anche se a pagamento lo comprerò!
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