Labyrinth is a Straight Line
A downloadable game for Windows, macOS, and Linux
Things distort when I feel dizzy, and it gets worse when I'm anxious...
I should be feeling calmer by now.
But I don't feel any better. I feel like there's something wrong.
Something permanent.
Ru lost her little brother on the train - and everyone else in the train seems to have banished with him. The 15-year-old girl is alone. She does not know where the train has stopped at, there is nothing but green plains outside - and it is slowly getting swarmed by nightmare creatures... Good thing there is a person she can talk to over the phone, her only company, because, otherwise, it would be only her, the monsters and her memories.
A daylight_horror experience with survival elements: Silent Hill meets Madoka Magica meets the Babadook.
ATTENTION: This game uses 3D spatial sounds. Use headphones for better gaming experience.
Labyrinth is a Straight Line is a Horror Visual Novel made for the Spooktober VN Jam of 2023.
The current version consists of the entirety of the "Magical Girl Ru" Route. Two other routes are in the making but here, currently, they both end in cliffhangers.
Features:
* Animated 3d backgrounds
* Uncanny valley CG and sprite art
* Over 14 music tracks
* Minigames that use 3d/spatial sound
* Original monster concept designs
* 3 branching routes, each telling a different part of the story
Recommended: 8 ram of memory or more.
Trigger warning: Nightmare fuel, monster nudes, and situations of great vulnerability involving kids.
CREDITS
Rey Nadia I
Writing-Directing, Music and Visual Assets
Marcelo Pepice
3D Backgrounds and animations
Paula Molina
Flashbacks CGs
Andres Bertoni
Monsters SpritesCGs
Angelina Perotti
Additional Visual Assets
Lucas Alvarez
GUI
Programmers:
Androbas
Kayel
Small Bunny
Cast:
Estelle Son as "Ru"
Cecilia Indurain as "Willow"
Collaborators:
Mariana Suarez Otero
Aielen Luna
Madrigal
Sound FX by Echo Cinematics, SoundsChonky, ArchDweller and soundguy3328.
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This game really reminded me of the movie Sucker Punch, especially the Magical Girl Ru pathway. Good job on the game!
Before I begin my review, lemme say something:
I LOOVE THE SILENT HILL VIBES THIS WHOLE GAME HAS.
Incredible use of the silence, ergo, incredible sound design and use of it. Also, as someone who prioritizes narrative over everything else in any sort of media, I really loved this entry. And maybe I'm just a sh fan, but Ru VA is my personal winner for best voice acting so far.
And yup, both of our entries share a lot of similarities in theme, but I truly believe they're both pretty unique in their own way :3
If I had to nitpick something would be that as much as I liked the BG animations (and they do tend to be heavy-sized), you should try to hide the "loading" part (with a black screen, preloading it somewhere, making it a prerendered video, etc), cuz I have 32 GB of RAM and they still took a noticeable 5~ seconds to load hehe.
Great entry overall! Y si buscas fanboyear de sh siempre toi disponible en discord heh.
Awww Thanks, Purechito!! So nice to see you here, and I'm so glad the Silent Hill-ness was appreciated~ XD I'm also very glad about the sound design, I was really hoping for that. Yeah, you're completely right there's an issue with the rendered animations, we are already working on that too. Thank you for your kind words in general, dudette! Estelle (Ru's VA) will also be very flattered for sure!
And you're also completely right about our entries being similar but different. I just cannot help appreciating the fact you also went for [SPOILERISH] train travel + looking through the eyes of somebody who struggles with... serious health issues. And, ngl, your theme choice... was beautiful. Honestly, the only reason I mentioned the similarities was because, yeah... Maybe I'm susceptible because I'm playing all these horror games but, goddamn, the many similarities scared me a bit... like what kind of black magic is this?! O_o
Jajaja te voy a tomar la invitacion~ Uno de estos dias quizas XD
Would be cool if you put on steam w/ gamepad support
Interesting. I guess we could consider that, if the programmers are up to it~