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Your Diary

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53%Game Brain Score
Most mentioned positive aspects:story, emotional
Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, optimization
63% User Score Based on 35 reviews

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Your Diary is a single player shooter game with romance, drama, comedy, anime and others themes. It was developed by Cube and was released on August 10, 2018. It received mostly positive reviews from players.

Your Diary is a visual novel game that explores the seven ways humans experience happiness in the stories of its seven heroines. What does it mean to be useful to someone? To be loved? To trust someone with your heart? Rediscover the importance of these everyday joys.

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63%Audience ScoreBased on 35 reviews
story6 positive mentions
stability1 negative mentions
  • The game offers a deeply reflective and sentimental experience, exploring emotional growth and different shades of happiness through multiple heroine routes.
  • High-quality voice acting and polished art style with warm, intimate character designs and fitting soundtrack enhance the atmospheric and emotional impact.
  • The story and characters provide a gentle, patient, and occasionally poetic tone, valuing mood and reflection over drama, delivering sincerity and emotional honesty.
  • The English translation is widely criticized as poor, awkward, and sometimes machine-generated, significantly affecting readability and emotional weight for non-Japanese speakers.
  • The Steam version lacks original Japanese text, limiting options for players who want to experience the story in its original language alongside English.
  • Technical issues such as bugs, broken resolution options, cut and censored content, and an abandoned state with no updates diminish the overall player experience.

  • story

    18 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    33% positive mentions, 50% neutral mentions, 17% negative mentions

    The story is praised for its emotional realism blended with subtle supernatural elements, offering heartfelt and distinct character routes that explore themes of warmth, passion, and kindness. While the narrative structure follows a traditional visual novel style with branching paths, its slice-of-life tone and emotional honesty create a lingering impact. Some reviewers note translation issues but still find the story enjoyable and well-crafted overall.

    • “Her arrival sets the tone for the rest of the story, blending supernatural elements with grounded emotional realism.”
    • “Yuhi, the childhood friend, offers a story about rediscovering familiarity and warmth; Sayuki explores the feeling of being acknowledged; Kanade represents passion and creativity; while Hotori’s route brings in a softer tone about kindness and vulnerability.”
    • “The supernatural undertones—particularly Yua’s connection to the diary—are never overbearing; they function more as allegory than plot device, representing the unseen emotions that guide human relationships.”
    • “Besides the translation problems, the characters of this visual novel seem to play well off one another, offering a slice of life kind of story.”
    • “Other than this, I can't really say much about the story considering I can't read this without getting a headache.”
    • “But still I did try to read all of it and the story is just actually pretty decent even with how it's translated.”

  • emotional

    14 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    100% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    Your Diary + excels in conveying heartfelt and nuanced emotional experiences through its intertwining stories of love, friendship, and personal growth, enhanced by a cohesive art style and fitting soundtrack. While the translation quality detracts somewhat from the emotional impact, the game’s sincere exploration of everyday happiness and subtle magical realism creates a lasting emotional resonance that feels genuine and relatable.

    • “Your diary + is a romantic visual novel that delves into the many shades of happiness through intertwining stories of love, friendship, and emotional growth.”
    • “Each path explores a different emotional core—love born from friendship, self-acceptance, the pain of loss, or the warmth of being needed.”
    • “It doesn’t rely on contrived drama or grand revelations; instead, it finds emotional power in small, relatable experiences—helping someone smile again, rekindling an old bond, or finding hope after disappointment.”

  • music

    3 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    100% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    The music effectively enhances the game's emotional themes with a mix of gentle piano and uplifting melodies, creating a fitting atmosphere. However, some users found the soundtrack decent but fairly generic, often overshadowed by issues with poor translation.

    • “The soundtrack complements the mood perfectly, alternating between gentle piano pieces and uplifting melodies that underscore the game’s themes of nostalgia and emotional renewal.”
    • “Avoid if you're going to depend on the translation, but the game had good art and music at least.”

  • character development

    2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    100% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    The character development is visually impressive, featuring delicate art direction and expressive designs that enhance the overall experience. The thoughtful character design combined with appealing backgrounds and color palette creates a visually joyful presentation.

    • “Visually, Your Diary + is a polished experience, enhanced by Cube’s delicate art direction and expressive character design.”
    • “The character design, backgrounds, color palette, and layout is a joy to behold.”

  • graphics

    2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    100% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    The graphics feature a cohesive, distinctly Japanese art style with muted, pastel color palettes that effectively highlight emotional tension. The gentle piano and strings complement kantoku-sensei's soft, paperback-like visuals, creating an overall harmonious and evocative aesthetic.

    • “The art style is cohesive and distinctly Japanese, with muted color palettes that highlight emotional tension during key moments.”
    • “The pastel shades, paperback feel, and gentle piano/strings complement Kantoku-sensei's art style so well.”

  • atmosphere

    2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    100% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    The atmosphere is widely praised for its calm, dreamlike quality, effectively capturing the game's themes of ordinary happiness and fleeting connections. Many users highlight it as a standout and memorable aspect of the experience.

    • “The overall production evokes a calm, dreamlike atmosphere, aligning with the title’s focus on ordinary happiness and fleeting moments of connection.”
    • “The first and best impression on me is the atmosphere.”

  • gameplay

    2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    100% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    The gameplay adheres to the classic branching visual novel format, using dialogue choices to shape the story's direction. While not groundbreaking, it effectively conveys heartfelt emotions of youth, memory, and longing through its narrative style.

    • “The gameplay follows the traditional structure of a branching visual novel, where dialogue choices guide the story toward different routes and endings.”
    • “It may not be revolutionary in its structure or gameplay, but it achieves something subtler: it captures the emotional texture of youth, memory, and longing in a way that feels heartfelt rather than forced.”

  • stability

    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 100% negative mentions

    The game experiences occasional bugs and lacks complete Traditional Chinese translation, affecting overall stability and user experience.

  • replayability

    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    100% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    The game offers strong replayability due to distinct storylines for each heroine, providing unique perspectives that together enrich the overall narrative experience.

    • “The replay value is considerable, as each heroine’s route presents unique storylines and perspectives that collectively complete the thematic puzzle of the game.”

  • humor

    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    100% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    The humor is highlighted by the strong chemistry between characters, enhanced by Kaho's voice actress delivering a perfect and dynamic performance.

  • optimization

    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 100% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    The optimization aspect received positive feedback for well-matched voice performances that enhance the overall experience.

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Your Diary is a shooter game with romance, drama, comedy, anime and others themes. Common tags for Your Diary include indie, hentai, choices matter, relaxing, atmospheric and others.

Your Diary is available on PC, PlayStation 4, Windows, PlayStation and others.

Your Diary was released on August 10, 2018.

Your Diary was developed by Cube.

Your Diary has received mostly positive reviews from players. Most players liked Your Diary for its story but disliked it for its stability.

Your Diary is a single player game.

Similar games include Love's Sweet Garnish, If My Heart Had Wings, A Sky Full of Stars, Kanon, Ethereal Enigma and others.