Dead Wishes

Updated review after fully completing the game: Absolutely amazing. I've never felt such a mix of unfiltered loathing toward some characters while being fully willing to die for others. Great stories, great characterization for everyone (including the atrocious ones, but that does NOT excuse them being themselves ohoh no!), loved the art, definitely would've paid more for it if it was asked of me. And, uh... the thing about the trigger warnings holds up now. Extremely. If Dead Dove was a tag on steam, this game would be the reason. Worth the trauma, but *please* be careful. Anyway you should totally play-! (review from 6 initial hours of gameplay) This is a very good game. I've only completed 2 storylines and I'm already invested. Granted, if you do decide to play, MIND THE WARNINGS. They are definitely accurate... The story I've most recently completed was pretty triggering but it also made me feel a lot better about my trauma and made me feel like I was healing with the character. Definitely my favorite character and story so far. The music design is pretty good, the art is lovely, the choices you make actually matter (a lot of choice based games seem to forget that nowadays...), the characters are all very dynamic, the stories in each are so far very well thought out - all in all, great game I recommend. Just mind the trigger warnings because they'll come in hard.

My friends an I play this game together, it's really fun and the Characters can go 0-100. I think its a good investment and I love Every ending, we did all of then 10/10

eeeeeeh I've been waffling on this review for a bit, but I think I'm settling on DNR because even though I mostly enjoyed it, I don't want anyone just stumbling into this game. Some of the Steam descriptions feel inaccurate and this is the sort of game that people should avoid unless they know it's their cup of tea. TL;DR - 'Dead Wishes' is more akin to games like 'Boyfriend to Death' than 'Doki Doki Literature Club' Dead Wishes poses an interesting dilemma in that the game is better spoiler-free (that first romance hits you like a bag of bricks), BUT there are some pretty significant and needed content warnings. The description in Steam says that it just 'references' some stuff, but if you are going to play this game (especially if you want to get the true ending because you need to complete all the romances), know that it deals VERY explicitly with Sexual Assault and Coercion , Murder , Violence and Gore , Cannibalism , and basically every type of domestic abuse there is . So like, yeah. Obviously not for everyone. All that being said--of these types of game, Dead Wishes is far and away the best of them. The issue with pretty much every other game in this genre is that without a good protagonist or thematic core, it turns into unplayable snuff porn (looking at you, BtD). Dead Wishes, though, *does* have a really cool (even beautiful!) storyline running through it, and is definitely about more than all the content warnings. The developers clearly put a lot of heart and thought into each of the characters and storylines, and there are even several routes that skid far away from the violence, creating nice moments of breathing room in an otherwise pretty dark game. Those moments feel deeply intentional, and it's clear that the developers actually give a *** about the players. And even though I've compared it to BtD, I'd say it's less *** stupid intense than those games, in part because of Dead Wishes' superior thematic heart, but also because it's not gore for gore's sake. Something deeper is at play. It's probably the one and only game in this genre I would ever recommend, but I just don't see a scenario where I ~would~ recommend it. Because even if it's the best of its ilk, it is still of its ilk. Or whatever. ... Anyway, Anise is my dream girl ~~