The Novelist

A small indie game about the tensions between parenthood, following your dreams, and compromise. It is not fun in the "regular" sense of the word, but if you are willing to reflect on life-choices and responsibility towards your loved ones, this game is for you. Besides, you can beat it in a few hours.

A somewhat interesting story but overall a forgettable experience.

I see the vision the devs has with this, but I'm at a point where I'm too bored to finish it for the plot. It's just far too repetitive jumping from light to light in the same house. I'm sure a lot of love was put into this, but it's not for me.

Here's a game about work-life balance. Could it be better? Sure. Does it get repetitive and a bit predictable? Yeah. Is it worth playing? Definitely! None of its flaws negate the game's biggest value - making you think about what matters in life. Showing - with your choices - that most of the time you really can't always get what you want. But if you try, sometime you'll find you get what you need.

My wife left me and my son hated me and became a loner. Mission accomplished. And Linda always remember: Write drunk, edit sober. B with an itch.

Personally, I loved The Novelist, but I will caveat that with it is not a game for everyone - it is very much a game that seeks to tell a story - the gameplay in itself is not terribly deep or complex, but I loved the story it told. It is short - at a quite leisurely pace, 3 hours to get through, but I really don't feel it needed to be any longer.

2/10

I really enjoyed this game, its one of those very few games that stayed in my mind for ages after playing and finishing it. Its very unique and made me really feel those consequences for the choices I made. I’m looking forward to replaying it and trying some of the other choices.

Wow, what a game. It's like the trolley problem but for real life! Or just real life! I honestly don't know how people with kids do it. When I think about all the things I'm balancing and all the things I know I have to sacrifice to get other passions accomplished I am in awe when I think of the people who after a long day of work also have to basically clock in to raising a human being. Some really crushing decisions have to be made but hey that's how it goes. If you decide to sacrifice the time you could spend doing other precious things in your life to play a game about the decisions and sacrifices made with those decisions then you may enjoy this game.

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