The Miskatonic

“The characters are cute, the setting is funny, and the writing had me laughing and snapping screenshots to share the entire time I was going through the story.”

“The dialogue is charming and very funny, had me laughing plenty of times.”

“The writing is absolutely hilarious, the Lovecraft love is so real and heartfelt, and everything is my kind of messed up, lighthearted, and absolutely delightful.”

“The art style is absolutely stunning, incredible, beautiful – I can't stress enough how much I like it; it gripped me the instant I first saw it.”

“The art style, character design and world design is great; every character you see, whether a random background character or central to the plot, looks unique and interesting in their own special way, but not to such an extreme degree that it's overbearing.”

“The visual novel has a very distinct art style that shows off the cutesy but creepy Lovecraftian abominations that make up the majority of secondary and background characters.”

“Despite the lack of flexibility in controlling the story outcomes, the artwork and the jazz-steampunk background music make the reading experience more immersive.”

“Most of what you'll be listening to is subdued music with ambient sounds on a loop: bells ringing, crackling fires, distant explosions, thunder and creaking, indecipherable chatting, etc. The music that does play may not be something you'll be humming after a playthrough but it’s easy on the ears and suits the narrative well enough.”

“I've read a good few of Lovecraft's original works, and I gotta say compared to most Lovecraft related games on Steam this is as close as we're going to get to Lovecraft: horror that's beyond the imagination, a disturbing inhospitable world that would sooner betray you in the name of its own insanity than help, a post-apocalyptic hellscape that really coalesces with a Lovecraft story... and ominous music that has kept the serious moments more serious and the lighthearted moments a respite from the disturbing.”

“The 'gameplay' doesn’t require any special mouse skills, as it only wants you to point on certain characters and posters to pop up additional dialogue.”

“The gameplay was nicely simple; all you really need to do is click on characters or certain prompts to advance the story, nothing too complicated.”

“A unique art style with quirky and interesting characters along with a fairly relaxed style of gameplay mostly being what is expected of a visual novel.”

“The character design is excellent, and while not all of them are winners, I'm blaming that on the Kickstarter 'create a student NPC' reward threshold – all the main characters' designs are fantastic, and that's what matters.”

“The artstyle, character design, and world design is great; every character you see, whether they are a random background character or someone central to the plot, looks unique and interesting in their own special way, but not to such an extreme degree that it's overbearing.”

“The art style is unique and works really well for the story, and the character designs are on point.”

“The atmosphere is spooky, with many fun cosmic horror crossovers, and an imaginative cosmic horror alternate reality.”

“A humorous and comedic interpretation of the Cthulhu mythos, featuring charming and entertaining characters set against a dark, madness-filled atmosphere.”

“The first thing that captured my attention was the menu music; I'd happily purchase the track to listen to occasionally. The ambient sounds created a nice atmosphere and didn't hinder reading the dialogue at all.”

“The writing is absolutely hilarious, the Lovecraft love is so real and heartfelt, and everything is my kind of messed up, lighthearted, and absolutely delightful.”

“Reading experience - the all-caps dialogue has me straining to not mentally evoke the entire cast shouting at each other - it ended up ruining perception of the emotions in some situations because by later points I was reading everything with a subdued tone when things got emotional.”

“"Thistle tongue!" I cried.”