Backstage Pass

- DIFFICULTY - 🔲 My 90 year old grandma could play it ☑️ Easy 🔲 Normal 🔲 Hard 🔲 "Dark Souls" - GRAPHICS - 🔲 "MS Paint" 🔲 Bad 🔲 Meh 🔲 Graphics don't matter in this game ☑️ Good 🔲 Beautiful 🔲 Masterpiece - MUSIC - 🔲 Bad ☑️ Not special 🔲 Good 🔲 Beautiful - STORY - 🔲 This game has no story 🔲 Like playing "Temple Runners" for the story 🔲 It's there for the people who want it ☑️ Well written 🔲 Excellent story ~ VOICE ACTING ~ 🔲 No voice acting 🔲 Oblivionly bad 🔲 Acceptable ☑️ Good 🔲 Pure talent - PRICE - 🔲 Free 🔲 Underpriced 🔲 Perfect price 🔲 Could be cheaper ☑️ Overpriced 🔲 Complete waste of money - REQUIREMENTS - ☑️ You can run it on a microwave 🔲 Average 🔲 High-end 🔲 "NASA" computer - LENGTH - ☑️ Very short (0 - 3 hours) 🔲 Short (3 - 15 hours) 🔲 Average (15 - 50 hours) 🔲 Long (50 - 90 hours) 🔲 Extremely long (90 - 110 hours) 🔲 No ending - FUN - 🔲 I'd rather watch paint dry 🔲 Hard to enjoy ☑️ Repetitive 🔲 Actually pretty amusing 🔲 Ride of your life - REPLAYABILITY - 🔲 It's a one - time experience 🔲 Only for achievements 🔲 If you wait a few months / years ☑️ Definitely 🔲 Infinitely replayable - WORTH BUYING - 🔲 No ☑️ Wait for sale 🔲 Yes

Bought this game today and a few times it stopped saying there was a problem now I uninstalled it mow its not even installing and keeps telling me to install but it doesn't happen.

Just realized I never made a review for this game! It's a great dating sim - gorgeous art and great characters. Overall, I really enjoyed it. Though I wouldn't say it's the best story I've read, the characters were likable and I still look back at this game with fond memories!

I enjoyed the stat and outfit mechanics but in the end I never completed it due to annoying randomness. I think were it not for the chance that crucial things wouldn't trigger, I would have enjoyed more. If you're fine with not completing all the routes you may enjoy. The art is not my favorite but the characters are fun. Voice acting for a few characters is so awful I had to turn them off.

The game may look like a dating sim that glorifies romance and working in entertainment industry, whereas in fact is a narrative dating sim/time management game that glorifies a good hustle and friendships. I genuinely think friendships and main plot are a much more fun part of the game, and I believe I unironically learned something about a responsible attitude to organizing my own life by playing this visual novel. I wish there was more content toward the late game stage though, I feel like it is quite dense with the story events at first, but that bar does not stay as high, while the game just keeps going. Nevertheless, definitely a fun experience to play through at least a few times for different branches/storylines. I wish the developer had more games, not necessarily dating sims or games like this, just stories. This game means a lot to me personally, and I wish there were more people who knew about it, if only to check if it could become just as dear to them. Also the game has an amazing voice over for a lot of scenes, which I do not think is super common for the niche.

The stat raising and calendar planning got too tedious that it ruined the game experience for me. I like the plot and all, the English VAs, CGs and art look great, but as a completionist/perfectionist, I couldn't even handle to try to get the achievements anymore and continue all the routes. Stat raising took too much time (10 hrs of gameplay, while the whole plot/story reading would probably just be an hour, more or less). Overall, I wouldn't even call this an otome game/visual novel but just a dating sim with a LITTLE bit of storytelling. Very lacking in romance, and I really tried to like this game. I am just overall disappointed.

Really liked this

First things first: this game has a star studded English dub cast. Go check it out here: https://sakevisual.itch.io/backstage-pass You are a makeup artist starting college with your BFF. It has 16 endings: three secret romance routes (including a female and an asexual character 👀), a friendship and romance ending for the four main boys, the obligatory you got kicked out of school ending, and then some solo ones. My favorite routes were either John or Matthew. John was an older man that spoiled me rotten, and Matthew was such a sweetheart. My least favorite element was the stat building component (surprise surprise, I know lol). In this case, it was TOO picky. For one of the guys in particular, you have to have exactly 2.1 hearts in order to get his friendship route. 2 gives you a solo route, and 2.5 gives you romance 🙄 I’d definitely recommend giving them game a try though. It was entertaining as heck!