Jishogi

It's an enjoyable and unique puzzle game. It's got a good story with interesting worldbuilding. I found it worthy of 100% completing. I found most of the endings satisfying and appropriately spicy. (You are in full control of how toxic this yuri gets, and consequences play out quite nicely) The only complaint I might have is that the difficulty of the puzzles are a little inconsistently paced in the 2nd half, but perhaps that's the price of freedom. The music is also a little bit repetitive, and I felt like I wanted to lower the volume sometimes but I think that's probably just my taste. But I forgive a lot of these flaws because I think the game was made with a lot of heart.

Game was really cool! I've never seen puzzles like that and a narrative to go along with it so that you actually want to get through those puzzles to see what happens. On my first play through I got the BEST ending cause I'm not a psychopath. I beat it on hard, but I think I can take on 9th dan, we'll see.

Quite a good game for someone's second go at creating something. The story is absolutely something rich, the puzzles are something I think most unique, and wished it could be expanded on in some sequel. The endings that let you do your desires or not, its freeing compared to other games, and the changes in the story depending on the swapping of genders or completion is a nice touch. The ost I actually really like, Sunny Sigh being my favourite as it just feels so resigned to the SuperEgo, Endgame being the most focused, Twin Desires being the most depressing, but absolutely right to how the bad endings play out. I wonder if I should make a video about this game's full scope, as I've data-mined it, this game is made in godot ( the best engine I personally think ). Wish walking was able to be faster and more "free-er" as in after opening a door, I could immediately start moving so I wasn't stand there watching fade outs. In fact there's a lot of fading and fade out time like when getting to watch a memory, which can be a bit annoying when trying to complete endings ( which is why I have it unfinished, but data-mining gets me more than I could ever want for dialog anyways ) I... really feel like this game has potential, as long as it made the puzzles more easier to do. I've seen a note about making it a mouse click and drag, and I think that would've been nice, but also a guide-line so that when pieces are placed down I could see where they'd hit. This is because my eyes can't track properly the shogi board, because there's almost no lines I could see, its hard to guess where the horse will land, leading me to just spamming it on different locations, this is lesser with chess board, but if it gets too big, it nearly becomes impossible. I love this game, re-ignited my passion for yuri, and I think I will make a game in honor of it. ( Don't think I am good at pixel art either... ) If there was a sequel, I'd hope Mayu to be alongside Fifi in it, it felt lonely to solve the trials with only Mayu, who's speechless about lots of things so I can't read her. And every other character in the real world are ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. I sympathize with Mayu, I have done similar things as her and similarily, if Fifi was my childhood friend, I'd have fallen in love the same. Id seems awesome, Super ego is just kinda trying her best in her own way. Ego ( Mayu ) seems to just let it happen, but since we decide her actions, it wouldn't matter much anyways, we would be her Ego in that case. I'd bet that if the creator was an artist, they'd have drawn more art for the game than it has currently, but best of a bad situation. Thanks for making the music room, dev "room", and adding those extra lines of dialog for foswap and moswap. Its kinda like going to the theatre and getting another scene at the end credits, satisfies the soul. I never liked yumi nikki, or omori that much, I just skipped past them for the story and feels usually, but this time I think I liked the ost, the unique puzzle design which I stayed for a while but solving old puzzles again that I forgot the solution to, made me tired, so I used the shortcut, otherwise if there was more linear design of which door to go to, I think the difficulty spike would be easier to handle! Similarily I didn't like pixel art, pixel sounds much either, but your game changes my mind a little, I think pixel art is fine for games if they're detailed enough, sometimes there are games that just use it for quickening their development, but these characters are what we stare at most, it doesn't feel like the same person if it is pixel art, and then line art, its too much whiplash. The puzzles could be very fun to play, because I was having so much fun listening to the sounds of claiming another pawn, its like a feeling of one step closer to the end, the sound design for the puzzle is nice. Could be very fun to play as in, being able to zoom in, making the camera follow the chess piece itself as it goes along, when hitting a block and stopping or going back around, making the pawn shift towards the direction, it just familiarizes the player a lot better with what's happening ( I didn't know why my horse kept randomly stopping on the walls ) As a game developer who've seen many, and only stares for the unique ones deeply, there's definitely... A big opportunity for something, you just do it right on the sequel, I'll be there supporting you.

Good puzzle game vn with interesting premise, usually games like this only focus on puzzles or story but with this one you get both, legitimately head scratching puzzles and an interesting story with quite a few endings it could use some polish here and there but it's impressive for a game made by basically one dude

good puzzle game with a twist you can see coming a mile away as soon the first flashback starts, if the store images haven't clued you in already. the story was still pretty decent, but that "dark" tag on the steam store page needs to be several hundred miles away from this game. even the worst ending is strangely upbeat, especially in the spoiler genre this game belongs to. (i may or may not be desensitized) i especially like that there are multiple solutions to the later more difficult puzzles, and that literally chucking random pieces in random directions and figuring out where to go from there is just a valid solution as taking a methodical approach. experimentation is encouraged, which is great overall, but this IS to the game's detriment for some of the later puzzles if i'm totally being honest, especially the extremely nasty one near the end of the game. It also doesn't help that a proper explanation for what the pieces do is buried in the Knowledge section of the pause menu, shoved within multiple pages of info and lore dump. Highly recommend you buy at its extremely generous price for the playtime (5 dollars for 7+ hours of content, even longer on harder difficulties). Indie game pricing has gotten completely out of hand these days, and I'm glad to see that indie games that don't charge 20 dollars for 3 or less hours of content total still exist.

Immensely enjoyable despite it's faults. NO SPOILERS The bad: The art isn't very consistent, and there are a few odd decisions made in the design like unnecessary confirmation prompts, but they didn't interfere with my enjoyment of the game very much at all. EXCEPT for the movement speed. I was constantly wishing I could move faster, but even that only became annoying when I was repeating content for all the different endings. A lot of background info for the setting is placed in basically "lore books". These are completely optional, so if you don't want to spend around half an hour just reading them, you might miss some interesting info. Obviously it would be ideal if this information was naturally included in the game's narrative, but I understand why the dev made the decision to do it like this. I didn't mind at all, but this goes in the negatives section by default. The good: The puzzles are interesting and very unique. The concept is very original as far as I know, and they were enjoyable to solve (save for one or two that I got stuck on for a while). If you don't like the puzzles, or are just here for the story/characters, you can skip them by pressing backspace. Speaking of the story, it's very good! The writing is great and I would say it's the strongest point of the game. It starts a little slow in the first act, but never felt like a drag to get through. Total length is fairly short too, so nothing overstays its welcome. I enjoyed every minute of it, and went out of my way to test out different combinations of choices just to see the small changes in the dialogue and endings. As for the characters, the star of the show is the cute blonde girl. She's the best, I love her. She's sassy and annoying. She makes bad jokes and insults the protagonist. She can be incredibly rude and selfish too. So basically she's perfect... Jokes aside, she and the protagonist are very well written, and the look inside their heads that we get really makes them grow on you. Even the side characters were interesting and compelling additions to the story 10/10. (btw the dev says they weren't completely satisfied with Fifield's sprites, but I think the artist knocked it out of the park). Finally, the music. I'm not the type to actively focus very much on background music, but I can still say this: it's good. I genuinely did enjoy the OST and each piece fit the scene where it played very well and contributed to my enjoyment. Overall I'd highly recommend giving it a try, even if you're not into the puzzle aspect of the game (just skip them if you want). I wish the dev had more time to polish this up to it's maximum potential because it deserves it. As it stands, it's still great and most importantly, I wish I had more of it.

small hidden gem, puzzles gave me a run for my money though