The Miskatonic

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It's real short, and not super expensive, but fun. Worth your time, I promise.

Grilly Cheese.

This is a great little game, and for £0.79 it's an absolute bargain. The atmosphere is spooky, there is a lot of fun cosmic horror crossovers, and I really like how they have imagined a cosmic horror alternate reality. EXPECT SURPRISE BOOBIES! I was streaming this and had a very amusing panic covering them up. So if you are in a place where boobs would be inappropriate, just be aware of them in this game. I would have liked to have seen some extra game features/options - Being able to go back to the previous area would have been good. I missed a fair amount of conversation I would like to have seen cause I accidentally hit the "Move-on" trigger. Some options around volume and not having subtitles all in capitols would also be good accessibility options.. but for a 79p game, I can't really complain. P.s. Lizzie is the bestest

Groovy an` hilarious an` kinky lovecraftian ♥♥♥♥♥. Still better than Derleth`s load`a bollocks.

If You want to spend time in someone else's world, meet their fun and interesting characters, You like dark and Lovecraftian themes, but don't need to take it seriously all the time, and/or You dig the art-style presented on screens, this game is for You! The most common criticism I see in other reviews is thus - the game has literally no choices (beyond essentially the order of speaking to people in the room). And that is true. However I have to push back a little on it, as a be-all, end-all. I really, really love meaningful choices in the games, and VN's are really great for that. However... I played games that masquerade their singular story with choices that are pretty meaningless, or make the story actively worse. And I also played VN's with no choices at all, but characters, story, or art-style made them great experiences anyway. And "The Miskatonic" is squarely in the second camp for me. So if lack of choices is a deal-breaker, that one is probably not for You. But would it necessarily be better to be given choices? That depends. I would like to have some too, if they were well made, but I'd rather see someone's singular vision, than badly implemented, uninteresting branches that kill the immersion, and lead to a lesser experience. The way I see it - this one can really be taken as a webtoon. And a pretty cool one too. It literally costs a dollar and it's really forth the prize. Why not just make it a comic then? Well, (and I say it as someone that has some experience trying to create both games, and comics) making a comic is usually a waaay bigger task, because it is fine to repeat assets in a game. This story could be one of those that were to either be told in this form, or not at all. And that, would be a real shame and a loss. I adore the artwork, I think it's really charming. The music (though there is only 1 track, and the ambience) is fitting and got a very nice beat to it. I like the characters. Some of them are really fun, and some have a great chemistry between them. And they can be a little silly, but that's comedy here. The story is logical (for this setting), and I had no problems following people's motivations, which already puts it above a lot of triple A titles XD The ending was described by some as "open", but I really don't see it this way. It closes a big chapter in all the characters' lives, and at least for me - was satisfying. You learn who went where, to do what, and have an idea of how their lives will look from now on. There is a possibility of further events that may lead to conflict... but isn't that in every story, unless all the characters die, or something? The only thing I really don't like is... I don't know what engine the game was made in, but it defies a lot of conveniences, I'm used to in a typical RenPy' visual novel. No options menu, limited save slots, mouse-only input, no scrolling back to see the previous text. And I just see no reason for it to be this way.

The characters are cute, the setting is funny, and the writing had me laughing and snapping screenshots to share the entire time I was going through the story. The intro is maybe a little dull, but it's good setup, and it picks up fairly quick - then there's the big reveal scene, which was conceptually horrifying in a way I really rarely see. For the price tag, it's a steal.

absolutely a hidden gem of an exploratory visual novel. the art style is wonderfully charming, the world is a very imaginative take on Lovecraft's expanded mythos, and the characters all feel like unique beings. the dialogue is fun, and nothing really condescends or takes its reader for granted. best impulse buy I've had in a long long time

Weird, fun, and a decent length for the price. Kinda wish there was more side material, with most of the characters getting maybe 4-5 lines each, but I enjoyed the both un-serious yet dark tone of the read. If you like dark humour, crass jokes, and eldritch horror lore, wrapped in cute characters, give it a try. If you dislike visual novels, gore, or the fact one character shows a boob later on (it... wasn't what I would call lewd) then maybe steer clear.

You can't just stick a dog and a war veteran into a centrifuge and rejigger the mush into a living being.