Lilacs in the Breeze

За бесплатно пойдёт, но фигня конечно.

Short VN. Easy Achievements, 100% / 1min.

Lilacs in the Breeze is a free romance story made for a Jam by a solo developer, that will take about ninety minutes to read through if the Auto-advance is turned on. The story is mostly linear; there's the occasional choice about Thalia and Percy's pasts that might come up again later and change a couple of lines of dialogue (such as why Percy originally left their shared hometown), but the core narrative is unchanged: Thalia left her old life behind to find a place to call home, only for a boy she used to know to suddenly appear at the inn she works at, and over two weeks she goes from trying to keep their shared past a secret to hoping they'll share a future together. The fact that Thalia hadn't always lived her life as a girl was just one of the reasons she left her old life behind, which I think is preferable to having a trans person's life defined solely by their trans-ness. Other than Thalia and Percy, there's not much of a supporting cast, the inn's "Grandma" (who seems to just be an elderly, matronly figure rather than a true blood relation to Thalia) has the occasional line, and I think might have been a bit too pushy early on in getting Thalia to interact with Percy when Thalia was subtly uncomfortable about it, but it's made clear later on that she'll quickly stand down if Thalia truly, 100% doesn't want to do something. Still, the (re-)developing bond between the main duo was enough to keep me interested...though honestly, if it had dragged on for more than those ninety minutes, I might've lost that interest; a will-they-or-won't-they can only go so far before an audience demands one or the other. In the end, judging this to be worth my recommendation was a breeze.

A short and sweet romance. I watched clips from the artist how these otome are drawn, and though it is not an art style I would usually be drawn to, there was something sweet and idyllic about it that really fit the story.

Wholesome. If there is a bad end, I don't want to find it she deserves happiness. Works great on linux.

Lovely little game.

loved it. It was very cute