This Visual Novel Isn't Like Other Visual Novels
A downloadable shitty visual novel for Windows, macOS, and Linux
You want to make a visual novel like no other, but you fell in love with the anime girl you created. Then you got hit by a truck and got isekai'd into your shitty visual novel, and unfortunately you are in a visual novel that's not like other visual novels.
This Visual Novel Isn't Like Other Visual Novels is a visual novel that isn't like other visual novels because it's a visual novel that isn't like other visual novels.
because it fucking sucks
Made for the "Worst Visual Novel Ever" Challenge Jam! Therefore there's going to be some good shit in here that you've never ever seen in any other visual novel ever made!
- 135,000+ words of super skippable text. Everyone likes high word counts, right? That means more content!
- Gameplay mechanics! Everyone loves gameplay mechanics in their visual novels, right? Everyone knows gamers hate reading, so why bother when yuo got Games.
- A totally functioning quick menu with quality of life accessibility, straight from the + Create New Game button for Ren'Py!
- A whole novel's worth of a timeless love told through the centuries.
- A riveting story between a girl and a cisgender boy that's bound to pay off with a special, gorgeous CG with enough perseverance.
- Character driven narrative where every choice matters!
- There's only one ending. Good luck getting it lmao, you're going to need it.
Content Warnings: death and dying, getting stabbed a lot, mentions of bird taxidermy, and loud and crunchy audio so be very, very careful if you're going to play this game with headphones!!!
Everything else in this visual novel that isn't under Ren'Py's MIT License, an audio asset under a CC0 License, or other people's respective code under their respective CC Licenses, are licensed with a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial (CC-BY-NC 4.0) license. This means you can use and edit the art assets and writing in your project so long as you credit me (Knickknack PJ) and the project is noncommercial, as in, you don't place a price on your project.
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Development log
- Devlog # 17: Postmortem for This Visual Novel Isn't Like Other Visual Novels, or...Jun 06, 2024
- Changelog for 4.20May 29, 2024
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Jokes aside, the fact that you actually simulate a crash and have the story keep going once you open the game again is pure genius... actually the whole game is pure genius
What does it mean to do ten "loops"?
As in time loops because MC is stuck in one. You'll know you've reached the end of a loop when the game crashes. When it crashes, hit Ignore and start the game up again to do another loop!
Idk if it's intentional but at some point I got the same loop sections even without the "fuck you you're starting back from 0" one.
Only means it goes from 11/10 to 10/10 though.
Oh no that's intentional lol
You're an evil genius
game def lives up too the name but its very fun and funny, I didnt realize how high my volume was so the car crash jumpscared me LMAO ill be trying to finish it tomorrow :D
Lmao hope you enjoyed(? Should I even be saying this lmfao) the game! Thank you for the kind comment! :D
Why would you submit this to a "worst visual novel contest" ?This Shit fire.
I truly appreciate the kind comment (thank you! :D) but I absolutely refuse to believe this is a good game lmao
The game crashed so I think that means I won lol
Had me laughing quite a bit too!
edit: omg lol. I kept going
second edit: ultimately, I was defeated. T.T lol
I won't lie, when I saw you post this before you made the edits I was like :). With your current edits I'm grinning like a cheshire cat lol
Omygawd... The title really lives up to its name... Reminds me of DDLC but this is more infuriating lol. I was wearing headphones the first time I played it (with 8% volume for my PC and 100% default music volume for the game). Yet, my ears still weren't safe from the impending doom of the sound effect🥹. Loved the concept, the crashes, the missing petal errors, the glitching of choices... until she typed soooo slow (damn you, Violet!)🥹 It doesn't even have a skip function sdsjfdsgjskfjs. Overall, this is a creative take on breaking the 4th wall concept for the worst VN game jam. Just be prepared to bring a looot of patience.
OH NO I am genuinely really sorry about the loud music busting your ears. Thank you for bringing that to my attention, I'll put a bigger warning about the sound volume on the game page. Thank you for the kind words regardless, I appreciate it!
goty (i cannot play 2048 to save my life though) (also i'm unsure if it's a bug but sometimes even without me force closing the game violet gets mad at me the next time i open it) (this only adds to the experience)
If this is goty for specifically terrible not-good games then Hell Yeah!!!!
Sorry, but this game is the best game I've played in my life.
I refuse to believe that lmao
(but thank you regardless)
np
holy shit this really is the most annoying game ever made i did the pizza puzzle after 20 mins and accidentally clicked "replay". i played this lousy vn and all i got was tinnitus
:)
I've waited wayyyyy longer than 5 minutes and nothing happens
So that was an actual bug and not intended to be like that lmao. It should run normally now!
Schweet. Thanks
It is truly astounding how someone managed to make a game this terribly infuriating. When I started this game, I had so much hope in my eyes. I was excited to see what this game had in store for me. It is now 2 am. It has been hours. I think I almost contracted carpal tunnel from spam-clicking through the entirety of pride and prejudice. I could have spent the time I used completing this game towards any other purpose. Quite literally any other purpose. And I would be a better person. This game is something I would only give to my worst enemies. If this is not the worst visual novel ever, I cannot comprehend the beast that title must belong to.
Also I finished the puzzle.
Dang, huge kudos to you for managing to get through the worst parts of the game. You are a braver and more resilient person than I
this is the most ridiculous and goofy/funny game I have played in a while but if you didnt post this image I might have been stopped at the puzzle lol. This is what I
had.
Glad I could indirectly help! It's the same image that's used for the intermission iirc
funny thing about that, I only got the intermission thing after the puzzle. and have landed myself on another mini game. I shall be attempting to complete it on another day at 2am
also thanks for the help
this is a masterpiece. once i finish playing i will wipe it from my computer and never speak of this again. 10/10
actually that's a lie i will tell my friends to play it
That's the spirit! :D
I'm sorry to say this but this is genuinely fricking good
I refuse to believe this game is good
(but thank you for the kind comment regardless haha)
for those having troubles, try putting nothing as your name - it seems to go through the game when you reload (sometimes having a name just repeats the same dialog)
It it's intended that crash too soon?
Yes, the game crashes are intentional! :)