
In the not so distant past, the Isle of Abbot underwent a mysterious evacuation event. Delve into the secrets of this unsettling place and elicit the girls' tragic fate. An interactive visual novel with psychological and lovecraftian undertones.
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The grapes of wrath have fully ripened — their vines bring forth an intoxicating fruit.
Abe never chose to come to Abbotsford. The village glows in a rural backwardness that fills him with a lingering dread. Soon however, things begin to look up, as he is hired as a delivery boy by Ina, the headstrong editor-in-chief of the school paper.
Before long Abe and Ina begin to uncover unsettling details about the island's past, including the mysterious evacuation of over half its populace. Gradually, they become caught up in an intricate web of political corruption, organized crime, and a highly secretive local church.
Deluge: Threnody of Crashing Waves is a mysterious visual novel with psychological and lovecraftian undertones.

Rika
The Leviathan must feel melancholy, coiling all alone through endless depths.
Descending from a long line of reformed preachers, Rika is well grounded both socially and spiritually. Lately, however, she has become captivated by an intense longing for the sea. Her father is the leader of the secretive Kuyper faction in the Abbotsford city council.

Mei
Put your hand on these stones. Can you feel their calming warmth?
Mei doesn't go to school. She can often be found wandering among the giant megaliths that where erected on the island during the late Neolithic. Recently she's been having nightmares about her little brother.

Ina
Scandal, crime, corruption — small town politics are a cesspool of human depravity.
Ina is strong headed and determined. Having recently taken over as chief editor of the Sunday Abbot, she is dedicated to turn the nameless tabloid into a beacon of investigative journalism. Soon however, her inquiry into local political affairs stirs up a force that is better left untouched.
Deluge: Threnody of Crashing Waves is an interactive visual novel. By developing your relationship with each protagonists, the player can unlock that character's ending route. Deluge entered early access in January 2022. The full game came out in July 2022.
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Deluge: Threnody of Crashing Waves is mechanically well done and looks nice. It does a wonderful job with sprite expressions, music, and scene transitions. Its fatal flaw is inept writing that makes the characters and settings bland and the dialog feel like it was written by a robot. There are no conversations, only info dumps. All characters speak in identical, dry, world-building essay form. No one talks or acts like a real human. They are simple, one-dimensional story cogs. They even spout the same secondhand negative worldview and drone on about how everything is corrupt and falling apart, even though nothing we see suggests that is true. The overall plot ideas are borrowed but okay. Logical inconsistencies didn’t bother me; the exposition-dialog and constant stream of trite philosophizing kept the experience too abstract and impersonal to care much about anything. That said, it’s not all bad. I could appreciate what it tried to do. It showed enough potential that I also read the disappointing slop of a sequel. That one *is* all bad. Deluge: Sermon for the Dead is such a poorly conceived and stupidly written failure that it isn’t even worth a separate negative review.
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Languages: English*, Russian*, Polish*, Spanish - Spain*, Spanish - Latin America*, Japanese*, Dutch*, German*, Simplified Chinese*, Portuguese - Brazil*, Portuguese - Portugal**languages with full audio support
Hours played at review time, across 46 reviews with recorded playtime.
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"A caballo regalado no se le miran los dientes."
Ультрадушный кал с тонной текста истории не существующих земель, которые читать максимально нет интереса. Кривой перевод, ублюдские персонажи, которые кроме как отвращения толком то и ничего не вызывают. Если вы являетесь воплощением гиперболизации калового пожирателя, корча при этом гримасу нетакуси и что мол "Да вкусно же, чё вы, ♥♥♥♥, в самом-то деле?", то можете потратить какое-то количество времени на эту дрочь и вероятно получить какой-то извращённый вид наслаждения. Ко всему прочему следует хотя бы мало-мальски увлекаться религией дабы понять хоть что то из всего этого сюрреализма.
Deluge: Threnody of Crashing Waves — это завораживающая визуальная новелла, которая искусно сплетает воедино мистику и повседневность маленького городка. История о подростке Абе, вынужденном начать новую жизнь в провинциальном Абботсфорде, превращается в захватывающее расследование тайн, скрытых за фасадом тихой гавани. Особенно впечатляет визуальное оформление игры: от изысканной цветовой палитры до детально проработанных персонажей. Музыкальное сопровождение идеально дополняет атмосферу, усиливая напряжение и драматизм происходящего. Несмотря на некоторые шероховатости в повествовании, игра покоряет своей глубиной и неожиданными поворотами сюжета. Каждый путь повествования открывает новую грань мрачной загадки этого городка, заставляя игрока с нетерпением открывать новые главы этой захватывающей истории.
This visual novel was really unique. I loved the slow burn of the Lovecraftian genre, and after the 2h mark, it was a ride til the end. I've only completed Rika's ending, but her ending fits her narrative as she descends into madness. I thought the story was good, and it didn't make sense at first, but you really have to understand well what it is trying to convey. There are a lot of historical and biblical references that I thought were good, but sometimes they were too much and just confusing. But a flaw for me is the MC. The character we played felt like a side character, more of a bystander than an MC. But other than that, the story, the visuals, and the pacing were superb, and I can't wait to indulge in the other series as this is my first. Solid 7/10.
Si bien no es ninguna obra maestra, trata temas bastante interesantes y bien ejecutados, aunque hay bastantes detalles, especialmente en los finales (hay 3), que no cuadran mucho, y que son bastante convenientes para la progresión de la trama. Sin embargo, al ser una VN corta y gratuita, la recomiendo, ya que está entretenida.
Deluge: Threnody of Crashing Waves is not a game, it's an e-book that's been dumped on Steam masquerading as a game. As a visual/interactive novel, this doesn't feature any notable gameplay, it's just a lot of clicking through badly written dialogue that would never have been accepted or published in print, which poses the question, "How did something this badly written end up on Steam?". When someone hoping to become an author is unable to get published in print, they spend $100 and dump their high school fan-fiction onto Steam, under the guise of a game. This cringefest of an e-book is one of those ones where the author digs up the corpse of HP Lovecraft to spit on it. Apart from being a ham-fisted Lovecraft fan-fiction, it also heavily features the author's imaginary girlfriend/anime waifu, so if you really like cringe and things that aren't actually games, this Ren'Py kitbashed e-book is right up your alley. For everyone else, nope. Visual novels/e-books are tedious at best... imagine the best novel you ever read, be that Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy or 2001: A Space Odyssey or Twilight (if you have terrible taste in literature), but then translate that to a format where the words dribble out and you have to click your mouse every time you wanted to read the next sentence, instead of just turning the pages. You'd think it was garbage. Now imagine that experience, but with much worse writing (because if these guys could write professionally, they'd be published authors and this would be on shelves in bookstores, and they wouldn't have to pay Valve $100 to self-publish this on Steam), and you have your average Steam e-book. One of the chief problems with failed authors polluting Steam with non-game E-books is that E-books can easily just be presented in a web browser... there's no justification for charging money on Steam for what might as well be a webpage. We don't spend thousands on buying a gaming rig to spend money on Steam for something Chrome or Firefox could do. Even though this is "free", it failed to appeal to the 120 million+ gamers on Steam. SteamDB showed the e-book peaked at just a dozen or so concurrent readers, and now there's basically nobody reading it. Even though it's free. This is a dismal public reception, but it's easy to see why gamers rejected it. While this E-book is "free", you can get better quality, professionally written books and comics for free online (from places like Project Gutenberg) or from public libraries. Steam isn't a comic book store, neither is it Netflix, it's for games. Your gaming rig is not a Kindle. It's impossible for me to recommend things to PC gamers that aren't really games.
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ホラーが好きなのでこちらをプレイさせていただきましたが、ホラー要素はほぼありません 一応ラヴクラフト?要素が入っているらしいのですが、ホラーというより歴史に傾倒しているように感じました 話はわりと哲学的で政治が複雑に絡んでいてちょっと難しいなと思いましたが女の子たちは可愛くてよかったです そして思ったより闇深くて(こういうところがホラー要素?)驚きました
Rika is insanely pretty, and I say "insanely" for a reason
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