Length and replayability

[Phoenix]

I am interested in length of the game.. The price seems high for what seems like a short game/experience? Also how about replayability? Once you know what is about to happen you would never make the same choice again, would you? This software seems more of an experience then a game, is this the case?

[Eudicots]

3-4 hours for the first playthrough

There is a good amount of replayability if you intended to go down different routes. I say that you should get 13-16 hours if you try to 100% the game while always picking something new.

Its a visual novel. Not more like a software instead think of it as more like a picture book.

[GodfatherPlunger]

Depends completely on you and your expectation of what a "game" is or how long it has to be for a given price. I have reached a point where I just want a great experience and not some slog game where you technically get a lot of playtime, but that playtime is 90% filler (A LOT of games do that). I expect to play it for around ~10 hours, doing a couple of runs. Thats more than enough for 15€ for me, quality over quantity. If you want "more" than that, you might want to look elsewhere.

[Roshanbo82]

I'm 10 hours in after doing two full runs. I still have princesses I haven't seen and two endings.

[Havean]

Despite the simple start it branches off quickly into a lot of different possibility. There is plenty of replay value.

[Locklear]

The amount of effort that went into this game is absolutely worth the price. I feel it is too cheap even.

[Ferry]

Someone was complaining the game was too short lol something tells me they only got the good ending. But yeah it takes some good hours if you wanna explore all the routes

[arsenicBumpnip]

About 3.5 hours for a playthrough, but you only see a fraction of the total content in one playthrough. You'd easily hit a 1-hour-per-dollar ratio or better if you wanted to experience the stuff you'd miss on your first run.

Very slight spoilers to explain it better: The story has numerous different "routes" that you can take to various conclusions. One "full playthrough" is finishing 5 routes (plus a finale), but there's something like 15+ routes total iirc. Some routes do have overlap during their first halves, but in terms of "fully distinct routes" I'm pretty sure there's at least 9-10, so even if you wanted to skip getting some back-half permutations to minimize re-reading/skipping, I'd bet you'd still get a solid 8+ hours of content.

[Mentor Diver]

I am still going with out any guide

[Snailor Lazzy]

I'll never understand this whole fixation of length VS price.

[arsenicBumpnip]

Originally posted by Snailor Lazzy:

I'll never understand this whole fixation of length VS price.

IMO it's something you typically see more with people who either don't have much spare $$$ to buy games, or don't have much spare time to play them and thus can't justify spending $$ on them too often.
In either of those cases it's pretty understandable imo: If you can only afford/justify one $20 game purchase per month (or whatever $$$-to-timeframe ratio), you probably want some assurance said purchase will actually last you the whole month.

My advice to people so concerned with their purchases' length-to-price ratio is to just buy bundles/get a Humble Choice sub or etc for a few months. Those tend to be such solid deals that your backlog growth rate will rapidly outpace your play rate, and once your backlog gets big enough, even if you can still only afford one $20 game per month, you won't care about $$$-to-hours anymore, because you know you have a backlog to fall back on!
Then they can just focus on buying the best games, rather than the longest ones

[box3rtwin]

I just beat this game in 10 minutes on my first play through

[Mazzle Dazzle]

My first play-through was an hour and forty minutes. I was not rushing, but I did enjoy it thoroughly. I feel it was worthwhile. I feel the playthrough was satisfying and complete enough i will likely not touch it again though.

[cricharddavies]

Originally posted by box3rtwin:

I just beat this game in 10 minutes on my first play through :raksasiproud:

So what did you think of the meteor strike scene?

[box3rtwin]

Originally posted by cricharddavies:

Originally posted by box3rtwin:

I just beat this game in 10 minutes on my first play through

So what did you think of the meteor strike scene?

there weren't any : o
I got the "good ending" too : o
can't recommend to players who've seasoned years of horrible love lives that have tempered them into stoic, woman-hating machines.

[box3rtwin]

aside, after I revel in my achievement for a few more hours, I will likely play it a dozen more times. The voice acting/art is pretty legit.