Our Winding Road

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Broke back mountain 2

This is a visual novel of a story about a non-binary couple, Jori and Rowan, who are on a dangerous quest to complete a mission while they try to rekindle their relationship. While tension builds up, we play as Rowan (one of the couple), trying to discover why their partner (Jori) is being distant from them and trying to avoid revealing anything on their mind. Our goal is to reach a complete and achieve the ending we wanted (either a "good" or a "bad" ending) by making dialogue choices that impact the narrative in the direction it is going. So far, there are 4 different endings (from what I found), but you can easily get a bad ending if you don't make specific choices in the right order. In my experience, I found it difficult to get a "good" ending. I believe I have over 61 save files, mostly me testing and experimenting with different choices, and the game kept telling me to “try and try again”, so I did, again and again, more than I should, but I digress. I was really invested in seeing if there was a happy ending, and there's no achievement to tell you, so you can say this was a challenge I must conquer in itself. Despite all of those hurdles, I enjoyed the game even if it was tedious for me to find the “good” endings I was looking for because I didn't want to uninstall the game on a bad note. I'm glad I pushed myself to see the ineffable. Other than the story, there are a lot of things to appreciate about the game. Firstly, there is one of the rare cases where there is a story focused on 2 non-binary main characters who go by they/them, and for one, it wasn't as hard of a read-through as I would have expected if I knew about it at first. I read stories before with multiple characters going by they/them/their, where it was difficult to differentiate between them properly due to the pronoun, so I'm glad this wasn't the case here, making it an easy read. Another little thing about the game was the dyslexique font option. I didn't realise it at first, but once I selected the options, I found it was more useful than I realised, so kudos to the developers for adding these options. All visual novels should include this option to support every reader. In addition to the font option, I also like the little animation with the character's hair waving to whoever is speaking. This is a nice indicator to tell who's talking, even though we don't need that, thanks to the speech bubble... I just like to say I found the subtle animation cute and different much like this game.

좀 많이 병신같은 게임. 선택지에 게임 엔딩이 결정나는 흔한 방식인데 그 방식에서 우리들이 원하는 대답은 보기 힘듬. 아니 걍 병신임 이건

"Contains explicit descriptions of sex. (Can be avoided via an in-game choice)" That's a lie. The game is okay, the conversation variations are nice, although the ending is twice longer than it needs (like Lord of the Rings, you get an ending and then for some reason it keeps going). But why not! The rest is hard but good enough. I probably wouldn't leave any review, positive or negative, if the store page didn't outright lie about the sex scenes. At no point was there a choice (that didn't result in a game over)

Sivil hayattan hayal kırıklığına uğramış eski kahramanlar Rowan ve Jori, gergin ilişkilerini yeniden canlandırmak umuduyla aşık oldukları yolculuğun adımlarını takip ettikleri sapkın bir oyun.

그냥 짧게 적음. 광고페이지에 이 게임에 빈번한 노출, 선정적 콘텐츠가 있다고 해서 플레이 해봤음. 허나 이 게임에 빈번한 노출, 선정적 콘텐츠는 나오지 않음. 비추천.

Great game but look at that kitty, whoever pass by can pet it and give it a thumbs up. 🌹 Have a nice day :3 　　　 　　／＞　　フ 　　　 　　| 　_　 _ l 　 　　 　／` ミ＿xノ 　　 　 /　　　 　 | 　　　 /　 ヽ　　 ﾉ 　 　 │　　|　|　| 　／￣|　　 |　|　| 　| (￣ヽ＿_ヽ_)__) 　＼二つ

Really enjoyed this one overall. Was happy to see a game where both partners are non-binary they/them. The story isn't too short nor too long. It's about a retired adventuring couple whose relationship has gone a bit on the rocks for various reasons, going on a journey to try and rekindle their relationship. The PoV character has some fun puns for some of their choices, and the two character's banter was interesting throughout. There's a fair few "bad ends" along the route. I think I somehow managed to pick most of the choices that lead to the good ending (though it also said a "try again" message so I wasn't sure). Going back later to pick other options didn't get that far before ending though so I think it was the "good end" after all.