SeaBed

$19.99

Release Date:: Dec 19, 2017
Developer:: Paleontology
Publisher:: Fruitbat Factory
Platforms:: Windows

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About the Game

SeaBed is a critically acclaimed yuri-themed mystery visual novel told through the perspectives of three separate characters: Mizuno Sachiko, a designer plagued by hallucinations of her past lover; Narasaki Hibiki, Sachiko's friend and a psychiatrist researching the workings of human memories; and Takako, Sachiko's former lover who has been rapidly forgetting her past, including how or why the two women drifted apart despite being together since childhood.

All three live in different worlds, but seek the same goal. To separate truth from illusion. To make sense of their own lives.

The Steam version of SeaBed has been updated to natively support 1440x1080 resolution.

Characters:

"At times, I'd wake up at night and hear all the sounds around me as if they were amplified. I'd feel like my head could burst at any second."

Although she moved to Tokyo straight after graduating university in order to seek employment, Mizuno Sachiko soon quit her job to establish Clover Design with her childhood friend Takako, becoming its young CEO.

Her main hobby is reading, but only because nothing else manages to interest her. Although Sachiko used to be quite an avid reader during her school years, finding a job means she now only opens a book every once in a while, whenever her schedule allows it.

After meeting Takako – an inexhaustible source of enthusiasm, as well as a stark contrast to her own personality – during her childhood years, Sachiko’s interests began to shift to whatever the other woman was doing at a given time.

"This is as good a time as any, so let's check it out."

Endlessly interested in and enthusiastic about the world, Takako gives the impression of a woman perpetually stuck in her childhood.

She fell in love with Sachiko at first sight back when they first met at the age of five. However, she does not identify as a homosexual, stressing that Sachiko simply happened to be a woman.

Takako discovers that she suffers from developmental amnesia, a condition that severely impairs her ability to recall many of her memories.

"I just like observing people."

A psychiatrist at Narasaki Mental Clinic. She was Sachiko's classmate and friend during her elementary school years, but the two drifted apart as they enrolled in different middle schools. After learning that Sachiko has been experiencing hallucinations, she takes it upon herself to treat her.

She is extremely picky about her brand of coffee, perhaps because the beverage serves as her sole companion during those long hours spent immersed in research.

Though not religious, she is a strong believer that everything happens for a reason, and all things have their place and order in the grand scheme of the world.

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User Reviews

Overwhelmingly Positive

29 user reviews

100%

Positive

User #754055 english

15 hrs at review

Recommended

9/10, a true schizo yuri VN with a depressing story. Pacing is very slow, and relationships between characters can be confusing to the readers at first. The writing is realistic and immersive, almost every action is written in detailed process, most of these actions are things people do in everyday life so the extra realism is very appreciated in this type of VN; and of course, characters' emotion, inner-monologues and conversations are also well-written, down to details, and many of them are relevant and connected to later chapters, some of them serve as hints, so don't just glance through them if you found them boring. The atmosphere audios work well with the writing style, but can be a bit repetitive sometimes, like the phone ringing and alarm sounds. Music is great, fits the VN perfectly. As for the story, there are no grand plans or drama like typical stories featured in yuri games/other works, just a lot of inner-monologues and memories from both Sachiko and Takako, there are s...

User #596192 english

1 hrs at review

Recommended

I think the game has the word bed in the title as a subtle nod to how sleepy you get trying to read trough it.

User #172777 english

21 hrs at review

Recommended

"Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the amber current where the white edges of their fins wimpled softly in the flow. They smelled of moss in your hand. Polished and muscular and torsional. On their backs were vermiculate patterns that were maps of the world in its becoming. Maps and mazes. Of a thing which could not be put back. Not be made right again. In the deep glens where they lived all things were older than man and they hummed of mystery"

User #034304 english

23 hrs at review

Recommended

Reading SeaBed is like walking along the beach on an overcast day. There is a certain feeling of melancholy but also beauty when peering into the salt water marshes and tide pools and seeing the delicate life within. That is the love of two women that transcends physical and even mental space in mysterious ways, delving into the depths of their inner lives as deep as the sea that they live by. Minute, mundane details and interactions with people, both minor and important to them, that fill their lives reveal these characters and are interspersed with beautiful moments only made more precious with time. Underlying all these things is a sense of mystery that pervades the narrative as both women, afflicted by some unknown mental condition, struggle to reach into the recesses of their minds to unlock key memories of their relationship which they have always held dear since childhood. As with all mysteries, nothing can fathomably describe it, but the feelings are real, those of heartache a...