
A surreal dice-based RPG in a cursed city of gut-wrenching suffering. Here, your choices shape your skills and your appearance. Survive the city's hellish trials, meet tortured characters, and develop your own unique identity. Every choice matters as your actions will literally shape you.
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Joy Malignant is a short, surreal dice-based RPG where your past is a tool. In a cursed city filled with suffering, your past shapes your skills and your appearance. Survive the city's hellish trials, meet tortured characters, and develop your own unique indentity. Every choice matters as your actions will literally shape you.
In Visceria, your appearance is shaped by your past. As a faceless, your past has been erased. Through surviving in this hellish city, you will meet characters and make choices that will shape you, developing your personality, appearance, and abilities.
Manage your resources, use dice to perform actions, and play to your personality's strengths to survive in the city. Do what you must to survive, and try not to lose yourself in the process.
Everyone's appearance is shaped by their past. Meet tortured characters and analyze their history by seeing their Mosaic, then use it to your advantage.
Your mosaic starts out empty, then is shaped by your experiences. As you make choices, you will gain more parts of yourself. This will afffect your stats and abilities, as well as your appearance. Be careful, you can't change the past after its happened!
Life in Visceria is twisted and painful, especially for a faceless like you. Try to hold onto your sanity while frequenting dirty ruins, slaughterhouses, decrepit bars, bloody hospitals, and more.
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Небольшая, очень милая и уютная РПГ (скорее - визуальная новелла), где вы обретаете себя буквально "обрастая" элементами мозаики [игровой термин], меняющими характеристики вашего персонажа. Сюжет интересный и, не смотря на то, что игра довольно короткая (с учётом демо-версии я прошёл её за ~2 часа), имеется некоторая реиграбельность: получаемые мозаики зависят от сделанных выборов, затем сами влияют на ваш следующий выбор и так сюжет начинает ветвиться очень быстро. Визуал странный, интерфейс простой и удобный. В целом игра оставляет самые приятные ощущения.
short and tangy, splendid little game with mechanics just strange enough to mesmerise without frustrating
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Languages: English
Hours played at review time, across 75 reviews with recorded playtime.
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love!
horrible and wonderful
The day learnt about this game I knew it was going to be special. I love everything about this game. The eccentric yet beautiful art style, the atmospheric soundtrack, the rich lore of the game, it all comes together to make a wonderful experience of the game’s genre. I find the strategy and challenge addicting, the unpredictably of each outcome making for a lot of surprising fun. I can easily get lost in this game and the stories of the many different characters within this world. To note as well, I’ve been playing on steam deck and have been finding the controls of the trackpad quite immersive and have had no issues with reading dialogue. Please play this game, it is truly an enJOYable experience.
Absolutely fantastic game, very well written the only negative is its too short I need more pleeeeease T^T
Really enjoyable and strange game with interesting world building. If you enjoyed Disco Elysium you will enjoy this one. It’s pretty short and there is probably not a huge amount of replay (though I have only played once so far) though I expect you could probably do a couple of distinct runs with the choices available. I played it on a Lenovo legion running steam OS using the touch screen alone and it worked fine. I will be keeping an eye out for future projects from this team, I hope they consider revisiting this setting in future!
This is a cool take on the Citizen Sleeper format. It is *quite short*, so keep that in mind when buying it, but there's something so tangible about the game that it definitely feels like you are in a grimy, terrible world. Everything also feels kind of gory and gross. I can only imagine how terrible Visceria smells. Which is great! Good worldbuilding!
Милая короткая игра. Система мозаики крута тематически, но на геймплей влияет не слишком сильно. Сюжет хорошо написан, пусть и по сути представляет собой базовую антиутопию про злое правительство (церковь в нашем случае). Покупать стоит, если понравился визуальный стиль, он здесь офигенный. В довесок к нему идут интересный мир и неплохой саундтрек, так что свою цену игра оправдывает.
good, not too long
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