Retention: A Love Story

Ive played this game for about an hour now only broke twice its a win in my book 10/10 kool kids klub!!!

Free game made by students, but I cannot recommend it. It definitely needed way more polish than it got, with clunky controls and so many bugs. Puzzles are basic but annoying and will often break, and there are no actual "saves", just checkpoints, that don't persist after exiting the game. There are at least 2 game breaking bugs, where the only fix is to close the game and start all over again, and after the second one I just couldn't force myself to get through it again for the story, which just feels miserable even without the Alzheimer's angle they're going for.

normally even if a game is "bad" or buggy ill still play it and find reasons to enjoy it but the bugs here is just completely game breaking. im totally stuck right now because its impossible to interact with the only door thats in the area and there are no other visible exits,, unfortunately unless this game gets a little polish i just cant finish it which is kinda sad i really loved the idea of it

Yes.

[h1]Before I played Retention: A Love Story, I had a small pp, no friends, no gf, depression, and no life. These things havent changed, but the game is pretty good[/h1]

I got stuck at the end of the hallway with the invisible floor, but I think you guys did an amazing job with the time and resources you had! 10/10

From a playability perspective Retention: A Love Story would have more enjoyable if the development team stripped away some of the puzzles in favor of a simpler more story driven game. Alzheimer's, Dementia, and other forms of cognitive decay are excellent themes to explore because most of us have seen someone we love impacted. Last year 3-Fold Games explored similar themes in Before I Forget and to many, it was one of the more emotionally moving titles released that year. Retention does an excellent job making interesting stylization choices and the voice acting is fairly decent. Those two aspects prove to me that if some of the more buggier aspects of the game were removed there was potential for this to be more dynamic than the finished product.

Игра "Retention: A Love Story" подкупила своей необычной концепцией и ретро-эстетикой. Пиксельная графика и простая механика идеально подходят для истории о забытых компьютерных персонажах, пытающихся сохранить свое существование. Юмор здесь специфический, но иногда действительно заставляет улыбнуться. Сюжет, хоть и кажется простым на первый взгляд, поднимает интересные вопросы о ценности, устаревании и смысле жизни, пусть и в цифровом пространстве. Выбор, который предоставляет игра, пусть и не кардинально меняет концовку, создает ощущение личного влияния на судьбу персонажей. Не могу сказать, что игра идеальна. Иногда сюжет может показаться затянутым, а темп повествования - неровным. Однако, оригинальность идеи и искренность, с которой создана эта игра, делают её достойной внимания. Это не блокбастер, а скорее инди-жемчужина, которая оставит приятное послевкусие и заставит задуматься о виртуальном мире, окружающем нас.