Approx length: 29 chapters, but you should be able to get through it in a weekend if you get engrossed. This is not a five-minute fandom, it's a "whoops, it's 3 AM" fandom.
What is it, in summary?/What do you love about it?: Do you like visual novels? Puzzles? Five strangers who wake up in a creepy abandoned hotel together and need to find a way out? Philosophical musings on the nature of games, life, consciousness, and identity? Just the right amount (IMO) of creepiness? Snappy dialogue? If so, then Exit/Corners may be the visual novel for you.
Seriously. This is dark and creepy and at some points quite gory, but it's handled tastefully. (More content warnings will be available at the end of this comment, but many of them spoil important plot points, so read with caution.)
It starts with a college student named Ink waking up in a strange hotel, with a strange woman in his bed. The two of them start looking for a way out and find three other strangers who are in the same situation. And then comes the creepy synthetic voice informing them that they have twenty-four hours to find the way out. Or they could die...
The puzzle elements are actually quite light, and I really like the hint/skip mechanic for them. You get commentary from whichever characters are in the room at the time!
What sort of things are you likely to request for it?: What happens next? Interactions between characters! Missing scenes! Exclamation points! (I've requested this before, and my previous letters are at my Yuletide tag.)
Content warnings (ie, rape, incest, racism, gore/violence): E/C is an amazing game, but it does include (in no particular order) blood/gore, limb amputation, gaslighting/manipulation, abusive parents, transphobia, suicide references, and character death.
Exit/Corners (visual novel)
Media: Visual novel
Approx length: 29 chapters, but you should be able to get through it in a weekend if you get engrossed. This is not a five-minute fandom, it's a "whoops, it's 3 AM" fandom.
Where to find it: Free at http://exitcorners.com/
What is it, in summary?/What do you love about it?: Do you like visual novels? Puzzles? Five strangers who wake up in a creepy abandoned hotel together and need to find a way out? Philosophical musings on the nature of games, life, consciousness, and identity? Just the right amount (IMO) of creepiness? Snappy dialogue? If so, then Exit/Corners may be the visual novel for you.
Seriously. This is dark and creepy and at some points quite gory, but it's handled tastefully. (More content warnings will be available at the end of this comment, but many of them spoil important plot points, so read with caution.)
It starts with a college student named Ink waking up in a strange hotel, with a strange woman in his bed. The two of them start looking for a way out and find three other strangers who are in the same situation. And then comes the creepy synthetic voice informing them that they have twenty-four hours to find the way out. Or they could die...
The puzzle elements are actually quite light, and I really like the hint/skip mechanic for them. You get commentary from whichever characters are in the room at the time!
What sort of things are you likely to request for it?:
What happens next? Interactions between characters! Missing scenes! Exclamation points! (I've requested this before, and my previous letters are at my Yuletide tag.)
Content warnings (ie, rape, incest, racism, gore/violence):
E/C is an amazing game, but it does include (in no particular order) blood/gore, limb amputation, gaslighting/manipulation, abusive parents, transphobia, suicide references, and character death.