Last Chance in Xollywood

Free to Play

Release Date:: Sep 19, 2023
Developer:: A. Hagen, Shea Kennedy
Publisher:: A. Hagen
Platforms:: Windows

Simulation Indie Free To Play RPG Single-player Partial Controller Support

About This Game

Live the life of an extraterrestrial movie director in the intergalactic future. You work for Last Chance Productions, a low-budget movie studio full of sleazy, desperate, and eccentric aliens. Will you risk your health, sanity, and ideals to get the movie done on time and under budget? It's a living! Sort of.

Last Chance in Xollywood takes place in Ingress, an alien metropolis orbiting Earth and populated by people from across the galaxy. Beneath its shiny, cosmopolitan surface lurks inequality and corruption on a galactic level. At least the rent is cheap! (It's not.)

Make movies, make money, make friends, or fail spectacularly in this highly interactive RPG/visual novel.

Last Chance in Xollywood is completely free. Although the Special Edition DLC adds another playable character and some additional scenes, the base game can be fully experienced for free without the DLC.

Features

3 playable characters, each with their own story: Be a grizzled movie-making veteran, an idealistic kid fresh from art school, or a family man trying to support his twenty-three kids.
RPG skill system with 9 stats: Use your persuasion, creativity, technical knowledge, connections, or financial know-how to overcome challenges.
Relationship system with 8 characters to befriend or antagonize: You can't make everyone love you, and you probably won't even want to.
6-8 hours and 100,000+ words
Countless choices and endings! (Seriously, there are a lot.)

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User Reviews

Overwhelmingly Positive

2 user reviews

100%

Positive

User #904849 english

1 hrs at review

Recommended

According to Science Fiction criticism, the "novum" is considered one of the fundamental pivots of the genre: literally the "new thing..." That introduction of the strange... Something that kicks off a dynamic that hovers between fascination and shock... Something that will expand our worldview into the "what if..." Last Chance in Xollywood is one of the most novel frameworks for interactive fiction and visual novels I have ever seen. Not only is the premise completely out of left field, it's no quick gimmick. "Alien movie director" could have easily just been an excuse to dump a bunch of superficial of "Sci-Fi" tropes on a decision-tree and call it a day. Instead, this game takes the idea quite far, working through the actual political, social, aesthetic and logistical aspects of producing films for the "alien market." That means thinking through what different cultures would want, how things like violence and humor and romance translate in different worlds (yes, kissing a severed h...

User #980623 english

5 hrs at review

Recommended

Andi is one of my favorite game developers. As always your new game is yet again oozing with atmosphere and humanity. Glad to have immersed myself in this strange world you've created. Loved it!