Arcadie: Second-Born

I remember feeling gutted to the core when I first read the demo and vowed myself to read the full story—gladly the time has come. I enjoyed the story thoroughly. At first, I feel like a lot of the options are too 'leading towards certain character archetype'. But it was not that linear after all, at least from my own discovery. I certainly will replay this over and over again, trying different routes. This was a great journey. I love it so so much. The prose, the way the story flowed, it was nice. Not too hurried, not too long. Even though I have a lot of questions still... I sure hope it's something we will discover on the second part? Perhaps anything regarding the injected blood... :)

A lot of fun!

im actively sobbing because of this game, thank you very much. now i have to go back in my saves to fix this.

Entertaining! This is a relatively short Twine game. I only played through it once, at time of writing, so I am unsure about how diverse the games options and potential different endings are. The game feels quite linear, at least on the track that I went. It also doesn't REALLY have a lot of variety. You can tell that the authors were very aware of the story they wanted to tell, and were quite direct in attempting to tell it. At the same time, however, I was able to play my character in a way that suited my preferred choices. I wish there was more feedback on my choices. For instance, I went for a bratty and playful character, and beyond a line or two of dialogue in reply to rowdy statements, nobody really reacted long-term to my choices to be saucy and immature. The same goes for all other decisions made throughout the game. I made an awful lot of decisions, but because I didn't really see any feedback on my choices or what they did, I don't know if they were actually meaningful, or...

Despite only 3 hours of play time, I fell in love with this games narrative and some of the characters.