Laugh Track

Awesome story and message and characters and world building and art style and jokes and... you get it. Its kinda crazy its free.

How often do we get a polyamorous bisexual MC? Approximately once in a Baldur's Gate 3. That translates to once every 375 years. Protect Juno at all costs! This game is funny AF. Y'all ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ about this free game need to lighten up. The gameplay is fun. The artwork is great. The callbacks to their previous games are cute. Fact that this game is free is a crime. Y'all should be mad about that, instead you complain. Gather all your butt hurt complaints and put them in Jacked Daniel's JNCOs, dawg. And while you're at it, get bent! Lmao. Crying about good games that are free. That's wild.

Love the art, love the characters, love the story!! At the time of writing this, I've only played through once, but I thoroughly enjoyed it.

I think it was funny, cute, and really ambitious with the scope of the story and the choices you could make. I liked that they had pivitol decisions be obvious as to what effect they'd have, like whether ratings would go up or down so I could strategize rather than me having to guess like other choice based games. And that I could choose the order I wanted to do things. It feels like there must be a ton of diologue contingencies based on the choices people make. I also liked several consent based choices they put the effort into, like letting me opt into a moving street visual and then letting me turn it off if it triggered motion sickness, or to opt into romance or tell the game not to ask me for romance again. I just appreciate that I can have a meaningful relationship with a character as friends and it not be treated as less than romance. I also found the characters very charming in and out of the "show" and while some commentary on real world problems felt a bit ham fisted in their delivery they did mostly have me thinking about a lot and appreciating the topics. I thought them navigating voice acting with an otherworldly language and utilizing renpy functions was fun and clever. I do wish I got to sit in the end game a bit more and explore more of the story once everything was out in the open mostly cause I liked the characters and I wanted to know them better. I'm glad I played it though!

Laugh Track aims for unpredictability, tonal variety, and narrative density, but its execution reveals a fundamental mismatch between ambition and craft. Instead of delivering a layered or surprising story, the writing leans heavily into camp, didactic monologues, and excessive narrative padding. The result is a storyline that feels unfocused and tonally inconsistent. From a structural standpoint, the dialogue is one of the game’s weakest elements. Conversations rely on repetitive phrasing and shallow emotional cues, creating a loop of interactions that neither develop character nor advance the plot meaningfully. The humor suffers from similar issues: jokes are delivered without timing, escalation, or contrast, leaving them inert on arrival. The central cast of four teenagers is positioned as the emotional core of the narrative, yet their dynamic lacks depth. Despite the inclusion of various school‑life twists and dramatic beats, their interactions rarely evolve beyond surface‑level reactions. The writer compensates by adding more dramatic incidents rather than strengthening character foundations, which leads to narrative inflation rather than narrative development. The principal’s decision to ban baking because he considers baking is equal to drug making—framed as a commentary on moral panic—illustrates this problem clearly: instead of functioning as satire, it collapses under its own absurdity because the surrounding narrative hasn’t built the tonal framework needed to support it. The meta‑narrative involving the producer, director, writer, and narrator—presented as a “deep state” operating behind the scenes of a TV station—suffers from similar conceptual misalignment. The game intends for these figures to embody institutional manipulation and hidden power, yet their portrayal is so theatrical and exaggerated that they read more like caricatures than credible antagonistic forces. This undermines the thematic weight the game appears to be reaching for. By the end of Episode 1, the cumulative effect of these issues is a loss of narrative momentum. The story’s pacing, tonal inconsistency, and reliance on shallow dramatic devices make it difficult to invest in the world or its characters. As a result, I found little incentive to continue, and I cannot recommend the game.

What a great experience! Funny, brilliant, amazing transition! So well thought, can't wait to understand even more all the easter eggs and the lore by playing other Fiction Factory Games!

The game does a good job of feeling like a sitcom (as much as a VN can aspire to emulate). There are heavy topics explored in the game, but it holds onto a positive / hopeful message overall. One thing to note, some minor plot / character context rely on knowledge of the game Penny Larceny (and maybe other Fiction Factory Games), so it may help to play that game before this one.

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