A quiet town awaits death. Two young women fall in love.
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Set Yourself on Fire is a linear visual novel about decay and inconsequential love.
Soundtrack by Denhop, Saliclaire, Woebegone, Jason Calhoun, Kirishemma and Lone Mesa.
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“描绘树木摇曳的方式，终究只有那么几种。” 树每天那样摇，于是日子就过去。清晨、上学、回家、等待，一切仿佛事先排练过。重复让人麻木，也让人赖以生存。人总是在不经意间褪入背景。 飞机从铁皮顶掠过。 战争在米歇尔身后留下空洞。家，只是房车营地里一具生锈的壳。 门、窗户、墙，只是假象。亚历克斯注视着伤口。客厅散发恶臭，建筑在腐烂。 砰。 她们像两块湿布紧紧挤在一起，试图从对方身上取火。 米歇尔游离于自身躯壳之外，几乎只存在于亚历克斯之中；亚历克斯则把她的残影烧印在视网膜上。 子弹呼啸而过。 烧痕是真的。 描绘树木摇曳的方式，终究只有那么几种。 描绘爱，也是。
This is the best game I've played in a long time. Every scene could be a painting, every paragraph a poem. It's teenage angst and late-stage capitalism anxiety and blossoming love all in one. It warmed my heart. It made me cry. It showed me the beauty of the world through a cracked lens. You owe it to yourself to play this.
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I don't usually write reviews but it's a MUST for this game, the soundtrack is beautiful and the story it tells is beyond that word, it does something I don't think any other stories have done for me and that is turning my inexplicable emotions into gorgeous words and precious artwork, thank you for creating this story. Please play this game.
也许要成为这个人今年最喜欢的短篇视觉小说了… 剪贴簿一样的零碎展开被文字的触角填满… 场景融合了某几个季节的气氛——黄昏、密林与小鹿，时而静止时而紧张的音乐中，宛如被火焰烫到卷曲的纸的边缘，发生的稍微有点跳跃性的叙事 于是，在焦黄的静寂的战争时期的城镇，只剩下彼此两人的对话来连接时间：幻觉与转世、血肉与渴望、麻木与幸福...——构成这近乎是一种挥霍的存在主义的日常... “我们是在浪费时间吗？” “我不知道。 （但）我一直有这种感觉…所以我们才会去爱，对吧？”
While the writing didn't resonate with me on a thematic level, be it from age or lack of lived experiences, I was left enamoured with both the love story and the game's overall presentation. lt cleverly uses the medium for its visuals in ways that wouldn't have been possible otherwise. Every frame a painting. Every paragraph a poem. Pretentious at times, but earnest. It's free, so the only limit here is whether you vibe with it or not.
beautiful story of two depressed lovebirds existing in a suffocating empty town but at least there's nature and calmness and a friend around
This game is a masterpiece of a masterpiece and all of that it contributes, THIS GAME IS A BLOODY MASTERPIECE, as it tackles the dullness of life. Yet the vibrant nature of love and how war deteriorates both children induced in the surplus of war and the timid emptiness from a routine one finds dull.
I played this on stream for the first time last night. I am shocked this game is free because it is one of the best games I have played in a long time. Incredible art, writing. Everything. Seriously make more games, get into film also if you have not already haha! 👍🗣
Yeah I'm bawling my eyes out. This hit me spiritually and felt so real and connected to me and my experience with reality and having consciousness, alongside the love story being beautiful and heartbreaking. I love this work of art.
Can someone please pick this up into a movie starring Sadie Sink and Sophia Lillis
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