Without a Voice

Before playing the game, I did not know who had published or developed the game but found my self thinking, this is giving me the same emotional depth of Please Be Happy. Although a shorter game in length, it is by far one of the better VN I have played in a while. The multiple endings have me hooked and emotionally attached to each one regardless of "good" or "bad" (there are multiple of each btw). I love that the writer, tongue in cheek, makes fun of themselves for giving our characters such a hard time but you wouldn't notice it unless you had played the other route first. I adore the poems and how it reflects each day. The music is wonderful as well. I have not finished the entire game yet ( I have 4 more endings to go) but the voice acting absolutly makes this game 10x's better and gives the VN so much life that I could not imagine the story would hold the same weight without it. Hauntingly beautiful. KInda makes me wanna go hug a tree.

비록 시놉시스는 평범하지만 과정과 결과가 다양한 이야기로 가득 차 있어서 좋네요 한글화 만세

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Reading this as part of the Fall in Love VN Festival 2025. ✔️ Verified Steam Deck compatibility. Feels a bit rushed and underpolished. The romance part jumps from one extreme to another so quickly it feels completely unrealistic. The narrative is overly ambitious for such a short experience. Also, the UI is a bit laggy: the text boxes linger on screen longer than they should, which makes the reading flow hard to follow. I don't like leaving negative feedback especially for a free game made by a small team, but I wouldn't recommend this even as a short past time. It lacks too much on proper execution.

"Without a Voice" is not a game, it's an e-book that's been dumped on Steam masquerading as a game. As a visual/interactive novel, this doesn't feature any notable gameplay, it's just a lot of clicking through badly written dialogue that would never have been accepted or published in print, which poses the question, "How did something this badly written end up on Steam?". When someone hoping to become an author is unable to get published in print, they spend $100 and dump their high school fan-fiction onto Steam, under the guise of a game. This garbage high school anime club dropout fan-fiction is exactly what we've come to expect from non-game e-books being dumped on Steam... it's a fan-fiction about the authors imaginary anime girlfriends who are also lesbians. At least the author has a vivid imagination, but the cringe here is so extreme it's guaranteed to make you feel queasy. This e-book isn't that linear and works more as a Choose Your Own Adventure, but the point still stands... nobody read a CYOA book and then said "Wow, what a great game I just played." Books aren't games. This was slapped together with the godawful Ren'Py visual novel construction kit... enabling terrible authors to publish books as if they were games when otherwise we might have been spared the pollution. So, just like no professional writing took place here, no professional software development took place, either. Visual novels/e-books are tedious at best... imagine the best novel you ever read, be that Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy or 2001: A Space Odyssey or Twilight (if you have terrible taste in literature), but then translate that to a format where the words dribble out and you have to click your mouse every time you wanted to read the next sentence, instead of just turning the pages. You'd think it was garbage. Now imagine that experience, but with much worse writing (because if these guys could write professionally, they'd be published authors and this would be on shelves in bookstores, and they wouldn't have to pay Valve $100 to self-publish this on Steam), and you have your average Steam e-book. One of the chief problems with failed authors polluting Steam with non-game E-books is that E-books can easily just be presented in a web browser... there's no justification for charging money on Steam for what might as well be a webpage. We don't spend thousands on buying a gaming rig to spend money on Steam for something Chrome or Firefox could do. Despite having no up-front cost, this failed to appeal to the 130 million+ gamers on Steam. SteamDB showed the e-book peaked at just a dozen or so concurrent readers, and now there's basically nobody reading it. Even though it's free. This is a dismal public reception, but it's easy to see why gamers rejected it. While this E-book has no up-front cost, you can get better quality, professionally written books and comics for free online (from places like Project Gutenberg) or from public libraries. Steam isn't a comic book store, neither is it Netflix, it's for games. Your gaming rig is not a Kindle. It's impossible for me to recommend things to PC gamers that aren't really games.

It was really great for me to find and play such Visual Novel Games. The game's backstory, narrative, characters, music, and artwork are all excellent. I would recommend it to anyone who wants to play it. And if you have the time, I hope you'll check out the other endings as well.