optimal conditions for a sacrifice

A really interesting little VN with some gorgeous art. Optimal conditions for a sacrifice is a bit hard to describe, since it's a very dream-like story which doesn't really adhere to standard narrative conventions. The story is about 'you', the sacrifice, attempting to win the archfey's heart. To successfully win her heart, you need to sacrifice parts of your body to three beautiful women who live in the forest (and you need to give each woman the right body part), before the archfey will take any interest in you. The archefey is fickle, however, and it may take a while before she'll deign to speak you. This VN doesn't really have characters in the standard sense. You only get short scenes with each forest dweller, and your interactions with them are pretty limited to them asking for parts of your body and you being able to say yes or no. One of the forest dwellers constantly asks you questions, and another only talks in fish metaphors. The only character who has any real 'characterisation' is the archfay, but most of her dialoge is just musings about the nature of love, what it means to be loved, if there exists a love which can last forever... etc, etc. This VN itself isn't really a story, either: it mostly seems to exist, like the archfay, to ponder the nature of love, and even its own purpose for existing (there's a part in the game where one character straight up asks you "so, what do you think the point of this game is?"). If you want a story with a clear beginning, middle, and end, and some well-defined characters, this really isn't the VN for you. I don't think this is a bad thing, however, as it's not trying to tell a conventional narative. This is a short, thought-provoking work which reads more like the writer's musings on romance and relationships than anything concrete, but I like it a lot regardless; for such a short game, there's a lot to dig your teeth into, and the presentation is gorgeous. The artwork makes this well worth the price tag, imo, despite the runtime being short (I can't imagine anybody spending more than 30 minutes on this). This might be the sort of VN which would be good to stream, since it's short while being engaging. It asks a lot from the reader (especially the naga, whose scenes have a lot of choices in them), so it would provoke some interesting discussion if any Twitch streamers or YouTubers wanted to poke around at it. It's the sort of story you can read with a larger audience, or with a friend, since it's trying to create a dialogue with the reader. It's a very unique experience as far as VNs go, and I would easily recommend it. I hope more people will find out about this gem of a game and give it a look!

Very earnest and personal love letter yuri. It feels like it wasn't meant for my eyes, but I was very happy to be an observer. Resonated with me a lot. Lovely read and great art, worth a few bucks (:

This truly is a lesbian dark comedy fairytale, and I loved it I love it so much EDIT: Achievements were added after I finished it, so I read it again today but this time I also went for the "bad" endings and I have to say... this is a magnificent little VN

我是一条鱼，我不会走路，更没有足迹

This game is funny, silly and sometimes feels quite profound! The art is a highlight. Soooo gorgeous, and as an artist myself I was impressed by the composition of the artworks and how they fit with the UI. The layout of the VN felt very fresh. The music is really nice too - if it's not on YouTube/Spotify or available for purchase yet, I'd like it to be! While I would have liked a little more content for the price, this game is really memorable and I'm sure it will stick with me. The ending made me giggle and it felt very relatable to a version of me from a few years ago when I was too scared to open my heart and truly love someone 😅 Oh, and it works perfectly on Steam Deck (as do most renpy VNs that I have tried.) Make sure to map one of your buttons to 'H' so that you can hide the UI and look at the pretty art some more :D

If I'm being honest I didn't really enjoy this. It's cheap enough though, so there's that. For a positive, the art is fantastic. It's a very nice style with a very good use of colors. For the negative, the writing. It feels like I just read a bizarre ad lib from a tumblr millennial or zoomer girl. The writing is just, ok at best, and sort of just reads like a girl venting about her lesbian exes being overly needy and confusing. It also gets far, far too meta, which took me straight out of the experience. I don't need to have naga in an enchanted forest talk about google documents, or a mermaid mention social media. It's just weird. To be fair the store page description partly insinuates the game would have that sort of thing so... I'm not sure what I expected. I wouldn't go as far as to call it 'pretentious', which the game actually gives you the option to do, but it certainly felt like I was just reading a bunch of "I'm fourteen and this is deep" from some high school aged kid's notebook or something. I feel like I'm being a bit brutal on the writing so let me restate again, in case the dev reads this, your art is honestly fantastic. You have a real talent there.

A sweet and short game and a sweet and short review. I hope everyone reading this finds love that is sweet and bitter and the emotions that make you human.

Мда уж, после моего жизненного опыта прочитывания визуальных новелл это конечно интересный опыт. Какие-то сильно меняли мои взгляды на вещи, какие-то оставляли очень сильные впечатления после себя, но я тип сам по себе достаточно впечатлительный. А есть это. В любом случае. Спасибо что нашли/нашла/нашёл? Время чтобы разобраться с ренпаеем и нарисовать арты и текст этот написать, вывалив так сказать свои мысли на публику. Опыт хоть и короткий, но прикольный. Может быть в будущем что-то побольше получится организовать? О, мой обзор почти половина этой игры по количеству слов. Адью. P.S Как люди эту игру бесплатно получили?

You are a worthy sacrifice, but even more of a worthy human being. Keep going. I wish you well.

I LUV THIS GAME RAAAAAAAA I heart yuri and the script is so well written :3 my favs are the archfey, sacrifice and naga ou.... ANYWAYS YURI FOREVAA RRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA