
Originally released in 2012, Loving Life is a non-fictional auto-biographical visual novel about Zhenghua Yang (Z) and the near-fatal incident which led to the founding of Serenity Forge. This is where it all began.
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Oh wow, I didn't expect this game to hit me in the gut with how realistic it felt to have no control over an unmanageable, rare illness. It got me quite emotional, especially with the message part to not take your life for granted but to make the most of it. It was a great honour to read the of Zhenghua Yang/Z and see they are still kicking thanks to the love of their friends and family. Hoping the team keeps being well and healthy so they can keep making games.
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I wasn't expecting the team itself to have such a rich lore, im so glad you managed to live on with your life, Z. Most of your published projects really changed me in a way I would never forget anyways you should play this game if you like Serenity Forge
After reading through this amazing story game It left me thinking that I should do something with myself either. I'm in happy relationship with my partner and I don't have any health issues but when It comes to career and friends that's where I'm struggling right now. Anyway I wish the Best of Luck to Zhenghua "Z" Yang and Serenity Forge with their other project They are working on and I'm happy that Z is still in this world with us and that I could play this game. It's great for those who don't know what to do with their lives.
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Lovely game, I recommend this game to anyone struggling with finding purpose or just life in general. The plot kept me curious and made me not want to put this visual novel down. Amazing game 10/10
Beautiful story, Serenity Forge seems like a genuinely great team of people especially in their work. I wish the best for Z and the rest of the team in their future projects and lives.
definitely worth the time
This was very touching, and its message is something that many people need to hear
Loving Life 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 is an extremely poorly written fanfiction where the author wrote himself in as a character or something... you know, the kind of fanfiction that exceeds all expectations around the limits of how absolutely cringe something can be. 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 only 2 concurrent readers... this is a dismal public reception. This was so bad they couldn't even give it away. The funny thing is, if you wanted to print this book, you'd only need to print 2 copies to satsify the entire world's demand for 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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