Dude....the shoehorning of exposition in later chapters is annoying but it does NOT greatly affect the overall whole. Well done. This is a story that is greater than the hook and dammit I am happy you have released this into the world.
Saw a review about where the story is going that makes me want to try this game. Any vn that could lose the sex and still be good storytelling is for me tbh
This story is great and really picks up after the first few chapters. Cro is easily my favorite character, completely invested in where this story goes.
I do have a question for the dev; I know this VN is relatively straight forward as far as alternate or winding paths in comparison to many VN's, but are there story impacts to some of the choices made in the current iteration of the game? I'll likely be going through this whole game again and delving into all the side content this time around but I do want to know if I should keep a closer eye on choices and try to pick differently than I did the first go around.
I was humming so many 80's songs reading through this because of the title. So many word choices that were just pop songs from that era in the first few chapters.
The giant Chad Thundercock is Gianni Matragrano, Jasmin Barlett does a voice, Sarah and Cro are voiced by Alekirser, and Victoria is voiced by Yumprincess
I believe the voices for Sarah, Cro, and Victoria are only for sex scenes.
Yeah, I noticed that once I played them, but characters having voices outside of H-scenes tends to indicate them being important to the story so I left that out.
i know it is definitely not intended but intelligence and genetics have lets say "bad history" while there is some link it is not that major factor thing.
I Downloaded Out Of Touch Recently, And A Day Or Two Later, Chapters 50 And 51 Release. I Have No Idea What I’m Doing, So Can Anyone Explain How To Update My Out Of Touch. I’ve Already Downloaded The Update Files, I Just. Red To Know Where To Put Shit. I’m On Windows As Well.
Yes, though they are, admittedly, few and far between. Even so, you shouldn't let this stop you from playing it. I really mean that! It's unbelievably good. I've never read a more excellent VN. This even tops every professional JP VN release I've ever read.
But... maybe you feel like reading a bit more than that..?
longerBetter?RIGHT!
The BEST Answer
OK. Cool. So! I mean, sure, it doesn't have, like, a ton of animated sex scenes, especially later on in the story—more on that later—but it makes up for that with the ridiculous amount of depth that each and every character is given. Hell, labeling this game as a harem eroge is flat out wrong. This isn't a harem, it's a polycule. Which is to say, the truth of what's going on in this story is that the writer(s?) very clearly have a comprehensive understanding of how polyamarous relationships actually work in the real world, and they've done an absolutely amazing job of portraying that kind of dynamic accurately within this story, without sacrificing the eroticism of such a dynamic.
“I actually find the majority of the female characters downright unattractive; big titties and supermodel bodies just really ain't my jam.”
I genuinely can't even put into words just how difficult it truly is to portray such complex relationship structures within fictional worlds, and yet, the writer(s?) have done so seemingly effortlessly. It's truly exceptional in so many ways. I don't even find most of the characters all that attractive—if I'm being honest, I actually find the majority of the female characters downright unattractive; big titties and supermodel bodies just really ain't my jam—and yet… this is still my all-time favorite VN. I picked it up maybe five days ago now and I've literally not been able to put it down since then. Seriously: I started the app up and I've not even once had to visit the main menu after that, because it's practically the only thing I've been using my tablet for.
The amount of content and story—and the fucking depth of it—is truly unbelievable, too. I didn't actually realize this was such an old project—nor did I realize that it was still getting updates—but after reading for an ungodly number of hours and still not being at the end, it's clear that the writer(s?) have put an unquantifiable amount of love, care, time, effort, and energy into this story, and it shows.
“Nothing gets on my nerves more in a story than silly, repeated misspellings or grammatical errors.” “… ‘dumbie’ is not a word.”
I just… I really wish they'd pop open the story files, press CTRL+H, and replace ‘dumbie’ with ‘dummy’ already. If you didn't know… ‘dumbie’ is not a word. To be blunt, I've even debated doing this myself, because it's truly that maddening to me—yes, yes, yes, I know; I'm neurotic as hell. Nothing gets on my nerves more in a story than silly, repeated misspellings or grammatical errors. Technically, dumbie is an obsolete word meaning “a mute person” that hasn't been used since the mid-70's. It's also a known misspelling for dummy, meaning “like a wooden puppet or doll; brainless, stupid.”
Calling someone a ‘dummy‘ isn't a…articularly common thing for people to do these days—and, to be blunt, it hasn't been for at least a few decades now—but, when it is used, it's typically used in a joking, friendly way. You'd call someone a ‘dummy’ if you thought they'd done something silly or stupid, albeit inconsequential, and you wanted to poke fun at them in a way that they'd almost certainly know you're not being serious.
In any case, it's clear that the writer(s?) want to be using the word ‘dummy,’ given the way they always use (the non-word ) ‘dumbie,’ and it's absolutely maddening to read. Honestly, it's weird enough that a bunch of kids—okay, okay, they're technically not kids since they're like 16 to 19 years old, but still—in the 2050s (or later?) would be calling each other dummies (which is the correct spelling for the plural of 'dummy'), but I'd be able to accept that… if only it were spelled correctly.
A Brief Warning
on the
Weird Part of the Prologue
The only real complaint I have about this game is that before the story really fully kicks off—that is, before the reader is given the opportunity to even have a tiny inkling of an idea as to what the hell is even going on—there's a section which… well, very nearly debases the entire concept. I feel as if the writer(s?) maybe weren't really sure where they actually wanted to go with things at the time they write this part, and the result was an important aspect of the protagonist, CJ, was inextricably linked with an old, stale-as-fuck, unbelievably lame, and incredibly immature meme. To be honest, at that point in the story, I very nearly uninstalled the app—it was simply that stupid, that obnoxious, that idiotic, that I figured: if the writer(s?) were stupid enough to include something like that in their story, then the rest of it is undoubtedly going to be hot garbage. I'm very glad I didn't.
“Then, out of fucking nowhere: crazy ass psychedelic trip plus the games first sex scene—fully animated, and highly relevant to the story. And the soundtrack… mmph, my god, baby, the soundtrack just fuckin' kicks.”
Without spoiling anything, the game starts with a very... I guess emotionally dark bit of plot, which has a distinctly psych-horror vibe to it. This is then followed up by CJ having an absurd, psychedelic, 80's synthwave, sort of acid trip adjacent "experience." Both of those sections are absolutely excellent and I love them both quite a bit—though the suddenness of the tonal shift between the dark psych-horror intro and the part that came next was… eh… unexpected, and maybe a bit unpleasant? In the beginning of the prologue, you'd be forgiven for thinking you'd downloaded a depressing psychological horror VN. Then, out of nowhere: (stupid cloud scene, followed by) crazy ass psychedelic trip plus the games first sex scene—fully animated, and highly relevant to the story. And the soundtrack… mmph, my god, baby, the soundtrack just fuckin' kicks.
Now, what I didn't love is what was sandwiched between those two scenes. Again, without spoiling anything: I'm referring to the damned cloud. I suppose it's possible that this scene has elements of an unreliable narrator; or, in other words, it's possible that we've been shown what CJ experienced, but because it was impossible for him to comprehend, it was adjusted by his subconscious in order for him to understand it… and while there's certainly some evidence that points to this—hell, some of the characters even allude that they suspect something similar—that evidence is, unfortunately, relatively miniscule.
This singular event has a very lasting impact on CJ's character, and—at least up until the point I've read at the time of writing this, which is Chapter 35 or so—it at least appears to be canonically true. I can only hope that it later turns out to not be what it appeared to be, because, just… ugh, come on, seriously..? To be fair, it's quickly made up for by the rest of the story, but… I don't think I'd blame anyone for immediately uninstalling the game at that point in the plot, if they didn't already know that it would get so much better immediately after that. Of course, I believe they'd be making a huge mistake in uninstalling it. It'd be very easy to write the entire VN off as some kind of lame shit in the same vain as poorly written fanfics; as in, it's not difficult to think that this event exists purely as a ridiculously silly excuse for the protagonist to build out a harem. Which maybe would be fine, but that's very clearly not what's happening here. The writing is far too mature, far too god damned excellent for that to be the case.
Regardless, this is truly an unbelievably good visual novel that I highly suggest you read. Obviously, it's NOT quick fap material. If that's the only reason you're interested, I'd recommend you just go watch some hentai or whatever. Most VNs are more about the story than they are about the sex, especially early on in the plot. If you read through to about chapter 30, you'll be rewarded with numerous and frequent sex scenes. Most aren't animated, but it's about this point in the plot that the characters begin regularly fucking. It does take time to get there, but it's so worth it. By that point, you'll know so much about each of these characters that they may even feel somewhat real to you, which only makes the eroticism that much more appealing.
It's one of the hallmarks of an excellent author when many different characters in a work have been so thoroughly fleshed out to the point that they feel like real individuals rather than simply characters in a story. I think the only aspect that detracts from this is how absurdly horny the characters get in the later parts of the story. I mean, it's not really that bad, and it certainly doesn't bother me, for obvious reasons, but I do think the characters would feel a bit more real if they didn't constantly want to fuck.
IN ANY CASE!
JUST DOWNLOAD IT!
IT'S THAT GOOD,
FOR REAL.
Like, yeah, sure, the sex scenes are nice, and, certainly, more animated scenes would always be great, but the story is so fucking good that you won't care about any of that. Hell, you might even find yourself crying during a sex scene, something I've done multiple times in the time I've been reading this VN . You might make a savefile at the start of a sex scene and skip over the majority of it because you want to get back to the damn story, something I've also done multiple times—well, I don't exactly skip them, more like... I skim through 'em, just to make sure I don't miss any story stuff, because the majority of the sex scenes in this VN are actually used to build up the characters and their relationships, rather than simply existing for reader gratification—now, that's not to say the game doesn't also have many sex scenes that are only there because they're hot; there are, in fact, quite a few of those (especially in the later chapters) and although they're usually relatively short, albeit, they do occur frequently.
BUT ANYWAY, JUST DOWNLOAD IT ALREADY! COME ON! WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR!? STOP READING THIS NONSENSE AND GET TO DOWNLOADING ALREADY!
Omg....OMG... OH MY FUCKING GOD.... ummmm - ok first 8 or so chapters I just felt I was watching a cheesy VN movie with some dark undertone back story meets 80's film Brazil/Miami Vice/drug induced fever dream... uhh I just hit the end of Ch 21... I don't think my eyes could go wider... somehow based on how things are going I'm fairly sure I'm lying to myself by stating that.
Hat's off to you for making this... it's something else... honestly I don't even care about the sex... I just want to know where the fuck this story is going.
Also please tell me you got the rights to "Out of Touch" and put it somewhere as some BGM!
I had this happen to me, too, though in a different scene later in the series, and I was able to sort of… wiggle my way through it. I have solutions that might work, for both Android and PC—if you're on iOS, most of the solutions for Android should work on iOS, too.
It would seriously be a huge shame to miss out on this game because of this bug, so I genuinely hope you see this message!
Tip: The UI still works even when it's hidden from you! This means you can tap on the invisible Back, Forward, Skip, Settings, History, Save, and Load buttons, even when they are hidden during animations.
Your best bet is going to be to:
Open the Settings menu and set Skip...
Transitions: ON
Animations: ON
Unread Text: ON
Load up your most recent save, but prior to the point where you got stuck.
If this is an autosave, make a manual save here.
Press Skip and wait a few seconds until it (hopefully) skips right past the scene you're freezing on.
You can simply tap/click anywhere to make it stop skipping.
Make a manual save after you've skipped past the broken scene.
Tap History and scroll up until you find the location right after the broken scene.
Tap the text and you'll be brought right back to that point.
Make another manual save, just in case.
Don't forget to switch the Skip settings back to your personal preferences.
When in the frozen scene, try clicking/tapping in the spot where the "Go Back" button is then either using Skip or just tapping, see if you can make it past the frozen scene. This is how I managed to solve it, personally.
On PC, you can simply press the key bound to Go Back. Look at the Input section of the Settings menu.
You can use a key on Android/iOS too, but only if you can connect a wired or Bluetooth keyboard to your device (or, I suppose, if you have one of the few devices that are still manufactured with hardware keyboards built-in).
Gamepads might even work, though you'll need to bind the button manually in the Input Settings.
Try clearing the cache for the Out of Touch app:
Open the app switcher/recent apps menu.
Tap the app icon of the Out of Touch app.
Tap App Info → Data/Storage.
At the bottom, tap Clear Cache.
Try again to make it past the scene.
Tip (Android/iOS): You can tap with two fingers to open and close the menu.
If that doesn't solve it:
In the Main Menu, tap Settings and set your Autosave timer to the minimum of 1 minute.
Load your most recent save and try to tap through to the next scene using any of the above methods.
If you manage to get past one scene, but get stuck again, then wait for an autosave before quitting and reloading the game.
Tip: When this happened to me, I had to break through three or four of those frozen animated scenes in a row before I could keep playing.
As a last ditch effort, make a backup of your game saves, redownload the entire game, uninstall, and reinstall again. This one is less than ideal, IMHO...
You could try switching platforms temporarily, as well:
On Android, copy your save files over to PC and see if you can view the scene there.
Or, on PC, copy your save files over to Android yadda yadda.
Fuck, it's still not working!
(or…)
I'm too fucking LAZY
to try all of that shit!
… … …
…the fuck do I do now? :(
Don't fret. I could send you a copy of my save file at practically any point in the game (well, up to the end of chapter 49, at the time of writing).
Alternatively, you could send your save file to me (or anyone else, really), and I could tap past the scene, save it, and send it back to you.
I don't necessarily see comments here very often, so don't be surprised if I miss a reply on this post; just message me instead.
You can reach me here, and I'll get back to you ASAP.
so i'm not technically done yet but i'm at the beginning of chapter 44 so i think i have seen enough to comment on how i'm enjoying it so far.
if i am to try and sum it in just a couple words i actually think this game is great honestly. the start is pretty rough i'm not gonna lie the characters are so emotionally fragile that a stiff breeze could break them down into a crying fit. the descriptions of the main cast felt mostly like a "look at me i'm a rebellious teen i smoke and steal and have this tragic family life that no one understands." and in general felt like the emotional beats were rushed .
the best part about the beginning honestly is the tongue in cheek feel any time CJ's dad shows up. and i'm actually a bit sad that that cheesiness disappears entirely at some point cause it mixed some levity to some of the heavier moments.
if i were to pin point the big points it gets better at story wise i would say the first good arc was the one focused on jamie and became fantastic around the one focused on leah. the lore of the world is actually really cool and feels like it ties together really well.
it's funny in the sense that as a porn game it's kinda meh with a couple pretty hot still frames but nothing that really speaks to me to much in an erotic sense. but as a just straight story that just happens to have erotic elements attached to it it's actually pretty great.
the characters still feel pretty vulnerable emotionally from start to finish but the later parts feel much more natural and there is good reason for it. while it starts off pretty cheesy over time it actually starts to lean more and more in to an almost Lovecraftian horror feel without the tentacles.
carpo in particular gave me a very hastur the king in yellow vibe and i'm not sure if that was intentional or not. the back story for each girls parents in every arc are just good stand alone short stories honestly but get even better with how they tie into the main one. i can really appreciate how things can be painted black and one at one point and then later it gets so much more complex that it really makes you think about how you might have reflexively hated someone before .
reading this you can almost see how a writer improves in real time as each chapter gets better and better than the last. so much so that it's hard to even believe it's the same person at the start to where i am now.
to be honest it wouldn't shock me if the author started this either in highschool or fresh out of it with all the stuff that screamed rebellious teen energy and what feels like a fair amount of anime influence with jojo in particular being a stand out. and then as they spent more time as an adult that maturity bled into their writing over time.
this might be a bit incoherent to read as it was mainly me just dumping my thoughts out into this review as they come to me. i'll probably be leaving this for chapters to stack after this arc cause i kinda don't want to get caught in a mid arc cliff hanger.
to anyone reading this and thinking about playing this game i would say its pretty rough at the start but if you stick it out for a couples hours it's actually really freaking good. and with how short the chapters are at the start you might think this is much shorter than it actually is cause somewhere around the 20's to 30's the chapter will frequently be multiple hours long.
and to the author congratz on making make such a great game and the only real advice i have is to try and fit some more levity here and there. obviously it's important to keep a consistent tone at some points but it can be almost mentally exhausting to the reader if there is a constant tension to it.
i won't even try tell you how to fit that in cause i know there so much that goes into writing well from pacing to developing characters, fitting exposition in without it just being an info dump. it was just the feeling i had while reading like i enjoyed everything happening but the good moments like when the main cast was turning the tables or them just getting up to silly antic was so short lived i almost don't even get the chance to breath it in before the tension of danger or drama rears it's head again.
again your doing a great job and i'm excited to see where this goes and i got full confidence i'm gonna enjoy whatever comes next.
for what it's worth i do love the dark parts and i suppose it does depend on how you read it but i tend to binge stuff like this for hours on end and being kind of mentaly high strung for that long can be a bit exhausting. to be honest i wrapped the arc i was on not too long ago i really liked how it went and that didn't have much levity at all so it might just be that i need to take more breaks lol.
i got a bit into the next arc that appears to be focused on kieran and sarah if you don't mind do you know when that arc ends? just want to do the arc in one sitting if i can so i don't get stuck on a cliff hanger.
wanted to ask if you touched up some early parts of the game at some point. i played the first big arc around a year or so ago and i don't remember flashes of some shadowy figure that looks like they have animal ears at the very start. i could of just forgotten but i feel like that's new.
just at the very start atm and ill probably give a full thoughts/ review here when i'm done. i was just curious on if you had gone back to touch up older stuff.
That's because the overall size of this game is more than 7GB, and Android cannot run applications of that size, unless you can update the application with just one click like in Playstore.
Alright, I'm still before chapter 10, but holly fuck, had to come here. This started weird, what a freacking acid trip, and at first I kinda hated the change you made to the MC, like, I thought "he was better the cute but nice one" and then... Then every line changed my mind, he's dumb AF and I love him. And the story... Damn, you got me crying some 5 times so far, and not in a bad way. Just came to say, thank you for the game, it's been surprising, and surprisingly fun, and surprisingly deep, for as silly and crazy as it is.
fuck me i dont know how you where able write such a story, but i actually cried after playing it, im still not done but maaaaaaan this is genius.
Only one other vn made me feel such emotions as this, it was lessons in love, and for me lessons in love is the purest schizo shit ever, so you are reading this and thinking about downloading OOT
DO IT
and if you have any money subscribe to this beautiful bastards patreon or subscriber star.
Holy shit, I wasn't expecting the narrative to punch me in the gut that many times, that quickly in succession. In just the first few chapters....damn.
Just finished this game man but fckin damn anon ya fckin cooked the voice acting is just fckin good top notch I meant it that really played it well especially at the onsen part in chp15 damn I don't know if ya chance the voice line or not but damn that was damn good cro's voice acting was really good I can't even get enough of it now to the main part I love ya game bro everything I love it especially when there's some comedy times and plus the writing too damn ya made it good too and plus the soundtracks too I like it a lot it fit it well especially Cj's theme music damn that was iconic and plus the emotional stuff too shiyi that got me crying cuz some other scenes is I can relate a lot plus gotta give credit to you cuz all the backstory of each characters was well written there's some bad shit out of it and there's some sad shits but still I learned somethings too but ngl really this game made me tear a bit not just a bit but maybe a lot I'm just happy that I played this game man this is really good every characters are good they fit well.
And sorry for my long ass comment again I loved your game and everything is just good I even feel like that I'm part of the story fck Haha but still Can't wait for the next chapter and I can't also wait about who really is Jacob Roberts cuz CJ and him are a lot familiar can't say this because idk maybe I might spoil some new players but still I loved it and I can't wait for the next chapter!
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Dude....the shoehorning of exposition in later chapters is annoying but it does NOT greatly affect the overall whole. Well done. This is a story that is greater than the hook and dammit I am happy you have released this into the world.
Saw a review about where the story is going that makes me want to try this game. Any vn that could lose the sex and still be good storytelling is for me tbh
This story is great and really picks up after the first few chapters. Cro is easily my favorite character, completely invested in where this story goes.
I do have a question for the dev; I know this VN is relatively straight forward as far as alternate or winding paths in comparison to many VN's, but are there story impacts to some of the choices made in the current iteration of the game? I'll likely be going through this whole game again and delving into all the side content this time around but I do want to know if I should keep a closer eye on choices and try to pick differently than I did the first go around.
hi id rlly like to know the name of the ambient track at the end of the khione fight pls ty
This VN has a unique feel to it, the 80-thies aesthetics in some moments is top-notch, this VN is really worth trying out.
story anon, my heart cant take it ive cried about 20 times on this avn alone😭😭(FREE KIYOSHI)
So my comments on the full RGB (Part 1 apparently) Arc?
"Holy shit"
I will be back for more. THAT was a great start for the second half.
I finished the game and oh boy, its a doozy. 10/10 will come back for more updates.
TBH this feels like 40K with legally distinct waifus, and I'm all for it.
Girls have moans?
You're out of touch
I'm out of time
But I'm out of my head when you're not around
You're out of touch
I'm out of time
But I'm out of my head when you're not around
I was humming so many 80's songs reading through this because of the title. So many word choices that were just pop songs from that era in the first few chapters.
I thought you were going to and you still might, hope you don't. 'Grandfather' is a crutch.
okay, this is amazin, but i need to know who does the voices?! im so curious because they all sound so familiar.
The giant Chad Thundercock is Gianni Matragrano, Jasmin Barlett does a voice, Sarah and Cro are voiced by Alekirser, and Victoria is voiced by Yumprincess
I believe the voices for Sarah, Cro, and Victoria are only for sex scenes.
These last two chapters have had voice work outside of erotic scenes
Yeah, I noticed that once I played them, but characters having voices outside of H-scenes tends to indicate them being important to the story so I left that out.
i know it is definitely not intended but intelligence and genetics have lets say "bad history" while there is some link it is not that major factor thing.
I Downloaded Out Of Touch Recently, And A Day Or Two Later, Chapters 50 And 51 Release. I Have No Idea What I’m Doing, So Can Anyone Explain How To Update My Out Of Touch. I’ve Already Downloaded The Update Files, I Just. Red To Know Where To Put Shit. I’m On Windows As Well.
to update avns save wherever u are in the story and then download the new verison
soon some text in game might be outdated lol
also congrats to gay
Are there gonna be more chapters?
The developers have plans for 100 chapters total. So with Chapters 50 and 51, we've JUST reached the halfway point.
Anyone know where the save files are stored on PC / steamdeck?
C:\Users\user\AppData\LocalLow\Lightning Rooster Productions\Out of Touch
Thanks!
Does this game have animation scenes?
The Simple Answer...
Yes, though they are, admittedly, few and far between. Even so, you shouldn't let this stop you from playing it. I really mean that! It's unbelievably good. I've never read a more excellent VN. This even tops every professional JP VN release I've ever read.
But... maybe you feel like reading a bit more than that..?
longerBetter?RIGHT!The BEST Answer
OK. Cool. So! I mean, sure, it doesn't have, like, a ton of animated sex scenes, especially later on in the story—more on that later—but it makes up for that with the ridiculous amount of depth that each and every character is given. Hell, labeling this game as a harem eroge is flat out wrong. This isn't a harem, it's a polycule. Which is to say, the truth of what's going on in this story is that the writer(s?) very clearly have a comprehensive understanding of how polyamarous relationships actually work in the real world, and they've done an absolutely amazing job of portraying that kind of dynamic accurately within this story, without sacrificing the eroticism of such a dynamic.
I genuinely can't even put into words just how difficult it truly is to portray such complex relationship structures within fictional worlds, and yet, the writer(s?) have done so seemingly effortlessly. It's truly exceptional in so many ways. I don't even find most of the characters all that attractive—if I'm being honest, I actually find the majority of the female characters downright unattractive; big titties and supermodel bodies just really ain't my jam—and yet… this is still my all-time favorite VN. I picked it up maybe five days ago now and I've literally not been able to put it down since then. Seriously: I started the app up and I've not even once had to visit the main menu after that, because it's practically the only thing I've been using my tablet for.
The amount of content and story—and the fucking depth of it—is truly unbelievable, too. I didn't actually realize this was such an old project—nor did I realize that it was still getting updates—but after reading for an ungodly number of hours and still not being at the end, it's clear that the writer(s?) have put an unquantifiable amount of love, care, time, effort, and energy into this story, and it shows.
I just… I really wish they'd pop open the story files, press CTRL+H, and replace ‘dumbie’ with ‘dummy’ already. If you didn't know… ‘dumbie’ is not a word. To be blunt, I've even debated doing this myself, because it's truly that maddening to me—yes, yes, yes, I know; I'm neurotic as hell. Nothing gets on my nerves more in a story than silly, repeated misspellings or grammatical errors. Technically, dumbie is an obsolete word meaning “a mute person” that hasn't been used since the mid-70's. It's also a known misspelling for dummy, meaning “like a wooden puppet or doll; brainless, stupid.”
Calling someone a ‘dummy‘ isn't a…articularly common thing for people to do these days—and, to be blunt, it hasn't been for at least a few decades now—but, when it is used, it's typically used in a joking, friendly way. You'd call someone a ‘dummy’ if you thought they'd done something silly or stupid, albeit inconsequential, and you wanted to poke fun at them in a way that they'd almost certainly know you're not being serious.
In any case, it's clear that the writer(s?) want to be using the word ‘dummy,’ given the way they always use (the non-word ) ‘dumbie,’ and it's absolutely maddening to read. Honestly, it's weird enough that a bunch of kids—okay, okay, they're technically not kids since they're like 16 to 19 years old, but still—in the 2050s (or later?) would be calling each other dummies (which is the correct spelling for the plural of 'dummy'), but I'd be able to accept that… if only it were spelled correctly.
A
BriefWarningon the
Weird Part of the Prologue
The only real complaint I have about this game is that before the story really fully kicks off—that is, before the reader is given the opportunity to even have a tiny inkling of an idea as to what the hell is even going on—there's a section which… well, very nearly debases the entire concept. I feel as if the writer(s?) maybe weren't really sure where they actually wanted to go with things at the time they write this part, and the result was an important aspect of the protagonist, CJ, was inextricably linked with an old, stale-as-fuck, unbelievably lame, and incredibly immature meme. To be honest, at that point in the story, I very nearly uninstalled the app—it was simply that stupid, that obnoxious, that idiotic, that I figured: if the writer(s?) were stupid enough to include something like that in their story, then the rest of it is undoubtedly going to be hot garbage. I'm very glad I didn't.
Without spoiling anything, the game starts with a very... I guess emotionally dark bit of plot, which has a distinctly psych-horror vibe to it. This is then followed up by CJ having an absurd, psychedelic, 80's synthwave, sort of acid trip adjacent "experience." Both of those sections are absolutely excellent and I love them both quite a bit—though the suddenness of the tonal shift between the dark psych-horror intro and the part that came next was… eh… unexpected, and maybe a bit unpleasant? In the beginning of the prologue, you'd be forgiven for thinking you'd downloaded a depressing psychological horror VN. Then, out of nowhere:
(stupid cloud scene, followed by)crazy ass psychedelic trip plus the games first sex scene—fully animated, and highly relevant to the story. And the soundtrack… mmph, my god, baby, the soundtrack just fuckin' kicks.Now, what I didn't love is what was sandwiched between those two scenes. Again, without spoiling anything: I'm referring to the damned cloud. I suppose it's possible that this scene has elements of an unreliable narrator; or, in other words, it's possible that we've been shown what CJ experienced, but because it was impossible for him to comprehend, it was adjusted by his subconscious in order for him to understand it… and while there's certainly some evidence that points to this—hell, some of the characters even allude that they suspect something similar—that evidence is, unfortunately, relatively miniscule.
This singular event has a very lasting impact on CJ's character, and—at least up until the point I've read at the time of writing this, which is Chapter 35 or so—it at least appears to be canonically true. I can only hope that it later turns out to not be what it appeared to be, because, just… ugh, come on, seriously..? To be fair, it's quickly made up for by the rest of the story, but… I don't think I'd blame anyone for immediately uninstalling the game at that point in the plot, if they didn't already know that it would get so much better immediately after that. Of course, I believe they'd be making a huge mistake in uninstalling it. It'd be very easy to write the entire VN off as some kind of lame shit in the same vain as poorly written fanfics; as in, it's not difficult to think that this event exists purely as a ridiculously silly excuse for the protagonist to build out a harem. Which maybe would be fine, but that's very clearly not what's happening here. The writing is far too mature, far too god damned excellent for that to be the case.
Regardless, this is truly an unbelievably good visual novel that I highly suggest you read. Obviously, it's NOT quick fap material. If that's the only reason you're interested, I'd recommend you just go watch some hentai or whatever. Most VNs are more about the story than they are about the sex, especially early on in the plot. If you read through to about chapter 30, you'll be rewarded with numerous and frequent sex scenes. Most aren't animated, but it's about this point in the plot that the characters begin regularly fucking. It does take time to get there, but it's so worth it. By that point, you'll know so much about each of these characters that they may even feel somewhat real to you, which only makes the eroticism that much more appealing.
It's one of the hallmarks of an excellent author when many different characters in a work have been so thoroughly fleshed out to the point that they feel like real individuals rather than simply characters in a story. I think the only aspect that detracts from this is how absurdly horny the characters get in the later parts of the story. I mean, it's not really that bad, and it certainly doesn't bother me, for obvious reasons, but I do think the characters would feel a bit more real if they didn't constantly want to fuck.
IN ANY CASE!
JUST DOWNLOAD IT!
IT'S THAT GOOD,
FOR REAL.
Like, yeah, sure, the sex scenes are nice, and, certainly, more animated scenes would always be great, but the story is so fucking good that you won't care about any of that. Hell, you might even find yourself crying during a sex scene, something I've done multiple times in the time I've been reading this VN . You might make a savefile at the start of a sex scene and skip over the majority of it because you want to get back to the damn story, something I've also done multiple times—well, I don't exactly skip them, more like... I skim through 'em, just to make sure I don't miss any story stuff, because the majority of the sex scenes in this VN are actually used to build up the characters and their relationships, rather than simply existing for reader gratification—now, that's not to say the game doesn't also have many sex scenes that are only there because they're hot; there are, in fact, quite a few of those (especially in the later chapters) and although they're usually relatively short, albeit, they do occur frequently.
BUT ANYWAY, JUST DOWNLOAD IT ALREADY! COME ON! WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR!? STOP READING THIS NONSENSE AND GET TO DOWNLOADING ALREADY!
Omg....OMG... OH MY FUCKING GOD.... ummmm - ok first 8 or so chapters I just felt I was watching a cheesy VN movie with some dark undertone back story meets 80's film Brazil/Miami Vice/drug induced fever dream... uhh I just hit the end of Ch 21... I don't think my eyes could go wider... somehow based on how things are going I'm fairly sure I'm lying to myself by stating that.
Hat's off to you for making this... it's something else... honestly I don't even care about the sex... I just want to know where the fuck this story is going.
Also please tell me you got the rights to "Out of Touch" and put it somewhere as some BGM!
I'm stuck in an animation in chapter 15, it keeps freezing on an attack animation from Cro Dhearg, what do I do??
I had this happen to me, too, though in a different scene later in the series, and I was able to sort of… wiggle my way through it. I have solutions that might work, for both Android and PC—if you're on iOS, most of the solutions for Android should work on iOS, too.
It would seriously be a huge shame to miss out on this game because of this bug, so I genuinely hope you see this message!
Fuck, it's still not working!
(or…)
I'm too fucking LAZY
to try all of that shit!
… … …
…the fuck do I do now? :(
Don't fret. I could send you a copy of my save file at practically any point in the game (well, up to the end of chapter 49, at the time of writing).
Alternatively, you could send your save file to me (or anyone else, really), and I could tap past the scene, save it, and send it back to you.
I don't necessarily see comments here very often, so don't be surprised if I miss a reply on this post; just message me instead.
You can reach me here, and I'll get back to you ASAP.
Doesn't it have animated sex scenes?
Or only sex scenes sliding through frames?
Uhm do i need to allow all folder when i downloaded it?
linux?
That Japanese hip-hop techno funky BGM at the mall was TOO GROOVY~ 🎶🎶🗿🗿🎶🗿🎶🗿
I was unable to focus on the VN lmao
*focus lost & imma groovin' 🎶🗿🎶🗿🎶🎶🗿🎶🎶🎶🗿
so i'm not technically done yet but i'm at the beginning of chapter 44 so i think i have seen enough to comment on how i'm enjoying it so far.
if i am to try and sum it in just a couple words i actually think this game is great honestly. the start is pretty rough i'm not gonna lie the characters are so emotionally fragile that a stiff breeze could break them down into a crying fit. the descriptions of the main cast felt mostly like a "look at me i'm a rebellious teen i smoke and steal and have this tragic family life that no one understands." and in general felt like the emotional beats were rushed .
the best part about the beginning honestly is the tongue in cheek feel any time CJ's dad shows up. and i'm actually a bit sad that that cheesiness disappears entirely at some point cause it mixed some levity to some of the heavier moments.
if i were to pin point the big points it gets better at story wise i would say the first good arc was the one focused on jamie and became fantastic around the one focused on leah. the lore of the world is actually really cool and feels like it ties together really well.
it's funny in the sense that as a porn game it's kinda meh with a couple pretty hot still frames but nothing that really speaks to me to much in an erotic sense. but as a just straight story that just happens to have erotic elements attached to it it's actually pretty great.
the characters still feel pretty vulnerable emotionally from start to finish but the later parts feel much more natural and there is good reason for it. while it starts off pretty cheesy over time it actually starts to lean more and more in to an almost Lovecraftian horror feel without the tentacles.
carpo in particular gave me a very hastur the king in yellow vibe and i'm not sure if that was intentional or not. the back story for each girls parents in every arc are just good stand alone short stories honestly but get even better with how they tie into the main one. i can really appreciate how things can be painted black and one at one point and then later it gets so much more complex that it really makes you think about how you might have reflexively hated someone before .
reading this you can almost see how a writer improves in real time as each chapter gets better and better than the last. so much so that it's hard to even believe it's the same person at the start to where i am now.
to be honest it wouldn't shock me if the author started this either in highschool or fresh out of it with all the stuff that screamed rebellious teen energy and what feels like a fair amount of anime influence with jojo in particular being a stand out. and then as they spent more time as an adult that maturity bled into their writing over time.
this might be a bit incoherent to read as it was mainly me just dumping my thoughts out into this review as they come to me. i'll probably be leaving this for chapters to stack after this arc cause i kinda don't want to get caught in a mid arc cliff hanger.
to anyone reading this and thinking about playing this game i would say its pretty rough at the start but if you stick it out for a couples hours it's actually really freaking good. and with how short the chapters are at the start you might think this is much shorter than it actually is cause somewhere around the 20's to 30's the chapter will frequently be multiple hours long.
and to the author congratz on making make such a great game and the only real advice i have is to try and fit some more levity here and there. obviously it's important to keep a consistent tone at some points but it can be almost mentally exhausting to the reader if there is a constant tension to it.
i won't even try tell you how to fit that in cause i know there so much that goes into writing well from pacing to developing characters, fitting exposition in without it just being an info dump. it was just the feeling i had while reading like i enjoyed everything happening but the good moments like when the main cast was turning the tables or them just getting up to silly antic was so short lived i almost don't even get the chance to breath it in before the tension of danger or drama rears it's head again.
again your doing a great job and i'm excited to see where this goes and i got full confidence i'm gonna enjoy whatever comes next.
Thank you.
I’m a little old to have started writing this in high school, but this project is my first piece of fiction.
If you would like some more levity in my style, check out my other game Tropicali which is *much* lighter in tone throughout the game
for what it's worth i do love the dark parts and i suppose it does depend on how you read it but i tend to binge stuff like this for hours on end and being kind of mentaly high strung for that long can be a bit exhausting. to be honest i wrapped the arc i was on not too long ago i really liked how it went and that didn't have much levity at all so it might just be that i need to take more breaks lol.
i got a bit into the next arc that appears to be focused on kieran and sarah if you don't mind do you know when that arc ends? just want to do the arc in one sitting if i can so i don't get stuck on a cliff hanger.
It ends on November 30th (for patrons) with the release of Ch50+51.
thx so much i'm looking forward to it
wanted to ask if you touched up some early parts of the game at some point. i played the first big arc around a year or so ago and i don't remember flashes of some shadowy figure that looks like they have animal ears at the very start. i could of just forgotten but i feel like that's new.
just at the very start atm and ill probably give a full thoughts/ review here when i'm done. i was just curious on if you had gone back to touch up older stuff.
What's the requirements for Android? I got a 4/128 and an octa-core processor. Will the game run smoothly on my phone?
Why tf does the Android version has 5 installers
That's because the overall size of this game is more than 7GB, and Android cannot run applications of that size, unless you can update the application with just one click like in Playstore.
Alright, I'm still before chapter 10, but holly fuck, had to come here. This started weird, what a freacking acid trip, and at first I kinda hated the change you made to the MC, like, I thought "he was better the cute but nice one" and then... Then every line changed my mind, he's dumb AF and I love him. And the story... Damn, you got me crying some 5 times so far, and not in a bad way. Just came to say, thank you for the game, it's been surprising, and surprisingly fun, and surprisingly deep, for as silly and crazy as it is.
Best game ever !!!
(Chapter 49) Well shit, that escalated quickly...
fuck me i dont know how you where able write such a story, but i actually cried after playing it, im still not done but maaaaaaan this is genius.
Only one other vn made me feel such emotions as this, it was lessons in love, and for me lessons in love is the purest schizo shit ever, so you are reading this and thinking about downloading OOT
DO IT
and if you have any money subscribe to this beautiful bastards patreon or subscriber star.
Have a good day my fellow degenerates.
Holy shit, I wasn't expecting the narrative to punch me in the gut that many times, that quickly in succession. In just the first few chapters....damn.
Through chapter 4, very nice so far!
Just finished this game man but fckin damn anon ya fckin cooked the voice acting is just fckin good top notch I meant it that really played it well especially at the onsen part in chp15 damn I don't know if ya chance the voice line or not but damn that was damn good cro's voice acting was really good I can't even get enough of it now to the main part I love ya game bro everything I love it especially when there's some comedy times and plus the writing too damn ya made it good too and plus the soundtracks too I like it a lot it fit it well especially Cj's theme music damn that was iconic and plus the emotional stuff too shiyi that got me crying cuz some other scenes is I can relate a lot plus gotta give credit to you cuz all the backstory of each characters was well written there's some bad shit out of it and there's some sad shits but still I learned somethings too but ngl really this game made me tear a bit not just a bit but maybe a lot I'm just happy that I played this game man this is really good every characters are good they fit well.
And sorry for my long ass comment again I loved your game and everything is just good I even feel like that I'm part of the story fck Haha but still Can't wait for the next chapter and I can't also wait about who really is Jacob Roberts cuz CJ and him are a lot familiar can't say this because idk maybe I might spoil some new players but still I loved it and I can't wait for the next chapter!
What the hell even is this game XD! I love it sooooo much! On chapter four atm!
为啥没中文
为啥不学英文
amazing! I just finished Chapter 5, but I've already in love with it
Any chance this will have a Linux version for the Itch app?
No, use Wine/proton with dxvk, it’s better than native linux version could ever be.