
POTENTIAL MAN is a role-playing experience where you must navigate the whims and woes of a humble seed. This wacky story features fully hand-drawn visuals, zany characters, and a classic JRPG-styled soundtrack to boot. Are you ready to achieve your true potential?
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Your story-driven experience unfolds as turn based combat with a twist- you can beat it no matter your skill level!
So long as you can read, you can see it through to the end! It's like a novel... with visuals... what wizardry!
One night, a blustering storm sweeps the forest. Amidst the tempest, one great tree stands. A burst of lightning strikes from above, splitting the tree clean in half! But as luck would have it, one last acorn is given the chance... and the POTENTIAL... to become the next great tree!
This is you!

You are beautiful, powerful, and handsome! You have everything you could possibly need to reach the perfect spot, and grow big and strong. And what's this? You can speak! What an incredible gift!
Throughout your venture, you harness two core abilities: ATTACK and TALK.
You will need to utilize both to succeed, so choose wisely!


As you ATTACK, you may seem weak at first. But give it time… and your potential will truly show!
As you TALK, you may have to choose your words. Ask what speaks truest to you!
This is NOT you!

This person is strange. Be cautious of him, and other obstacles that you may meet on your journey. You're no doubt well equipped for a character as fearsome as this one.
You may find that he has his own tales to tell. Will you partake in them?
This is the game!

Wow. What a sight to behold! You live in this. But only if you buy it first!
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Languages: English**languages with full audio support
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Fun story game
Fantastic OST, very unique and great sprites, and the story, as short as it is... does work pretty hard*. At least it did on me. It is a very small game, but very much worth the price. I launched it and instantly felt the vibes of "an amazing flash game in the 2010' ", and I mean this in the most positive way possible. *HOWEVER... SPOILER FOR THE ENDING, and where the criticism will come from: There is no way to avoid the ending. You cannot change it. I tried every combinaison of choices, I tried to change the things that Potential Man and Murphy can remember, but it does not matter. You cannot avoid killing Murphy. You can talk to his friend, doesn't matter. You can try to seek some wisdom by going back places, doesn't change anything. And I really dislike that, because the game does make you feel ATTROCIOUSLY BAD for this. It's even worse with the "Extras" which have Murphy's computer, and you just... have 10 of the most wholesome heartbreaking photos because Murphy is DEAD now... and everyone else is. And there's an "easter egg" somewhat when you go back to the main menu in the extras where sometimes it goes instead to a unique image of murphy appearing sad and with some text. I've had 2 of those. One saying something about wet eyes but no tears falling down. And one with murphy in an empty black background, looking away, alone, and the text saying "I really care about you. Why can't you." And so... I saw that. I saw those extras allowing you to see Murphy's friends and life, and I saw this 4th wall breaking where Murphy is somehow talking about his sorrow to "someone".... So naturally, I thought "This game has ALL the vibes of a game you NEED to replay to get the right ending, to make things right. To just... avoid such a terrible fate." ... But no... There's no other ending... And I understand it's kinda asking a lot more work. But like... **You can't really name a game "Potential Man", have a lot of philosophical and real discussion about potential and not wasting it and changing yourself. And the ending cannot change. Even giving you access to further heartbreaking images of how bad this ending is AFTER getting the ending.** Don't go telling me about change and potential if the path you've drawn ahead of me is a straight line
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Oh yeah just so you know this game isn't an rpg. It's like. A novel with rpg elements i guess? It's quite a short game indeed, had me asking a few questions a bit too deep for my understanding a few times. I guess im inserting into my review too much but i should also say that the music is pretty good and i would probably buy it on steam if they release it here i mean even if they didn't i would still just gamerip it and throw into my music library that has like 10 other game soundtracks. I've also felt that the ending was quite out of nowhere like ok Spoiler warning but like idfk if i can spoiler text here but like [spoiler]Why did pontential man just kill him. I feel like a lot of the ending was pretty much avoidable if he either didn't say some things or just you know. Walked around him like i might be giving bad points but i feel like this was all avoidable. And it just felt out of nowhere.[/spoiler] I don't really know what to say about this im kinda on the edge here. And that's apparently the only ending here outside of refusing to do anything at the start of the game i guess. And like. I don't know?????????? i don't know what to do??????????? like whether to give this a good or bad review?????????? man im just gonna hope they add like. At least another ending. like at least one other where you [spoiler] Don't just kill him out of nowhere for like little to no reason because you pissed him off with your tree gibberish and now he won't leave this Very Perfect Spot On The Hill For A Tree To Grow™.[/spoiler] Like. Yea.......................
Frankly, I like the game. Short and worth the price, good music, jokes, animation, the likes. I'd recommend it, yes. My only complaint is that the end felt quite... jarring. Obviously I haven't done EVERYTHING I could possibly do in the game, it just felt like the entire game was us getting introduced to the main cast, only for that to be stripped away by such a cold ending. I'm actually surprised and impressed by the game having the balls to pull such a move and not have it be some phony fake-out. Either way, the quality was impressive and I hope to see more from the developers in the future.
This game is like an hour long and four bucks just play it
Well explored character piece in which we compare character that refuses to grow as a person to the one that refuses to stop growing. Succint and surprisingly vulnerable.
a short little game, but concentrated with love and flavor. endearing from beginning to end, and awesome in a lot of ways i didn't expect. WONDERFUL soundtrack and art that is so fun to look at. i want to shake hands with murphy cashew
It's a fun game, even if a bit short. I just wish it had more than one ending.
Played this on steam deck, it ran very well. In terms of the game, if you're down for a short Visual Novel, then we highly recommend this game :3 we loved the characters, the topics explored, and the navigation of POTENTIAL and MAN, both it's heights and horrors! It terms of gameplay, minimal but serviceable, no glitches/bugs in our first playthough. Some goodies too for those who like to 100% things! Visuals have a nice art to them, and we think they help to service the story and it's themes pretty well! A joy to the eyes, especially the more goofy things :3 Overall, a solid 8/10 experience and once again we do recommend <3
Dude if you can't save murphy I'm gonna lose it I've been trying for HOURS
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