I love niche video games. I also love ridiculous anime culture. And above all of that, I love dedicated artists and creators. And that's why I want to talk about Yandere Sim today!
Note: In my title you'll see I say 1 of ???. Yandere Sim is not a finished game. The Dev (just called Dev or Yandere Dev) is still working on it and uploads the new build every few weeks for everyone to beta test and give feedback on. I've been a part of a few builds now and it has a ways to go, so I intend on talking more about this and in the end, I'll go in and add an actual number. Now on with the topic!!!
If you have not heard about Yandere Simulator, that's okay. It's a very small game right now that is not complete. It centers around the idea of the Yandere, which is a anime trope about a character, usually a school girl, who has affections for someone to the point of being violent and psychotic. You control "Yandere-chan", a school girl who has a crush on her Senpai, who is kind hearted and will go out with girls who confess their love to him. As Yandere-chan, you're still too shy to confess your feelings, but other girls aren't! To stop Yandere-chan from having a broken heart and thus, losing the game, you need to take out her opponents who plan to confess to Senpai. You can do this in many ways, currently limited to kidnapping and straight up murder.
The game play is in a very simple state right now. The latest update included an atmosphere integration, which is kind of like the students will notice when other students are missing and they will be more suspicious of goings on, making it more dangerous and harder to get away with murder. You can pick some weapons near the school entrance (for now, because they're not in their natural places around school yet) and use those to kill your victims. A tactic I like is to befriend everyone and have groups follow you to the incinerator for easy clean up after annihilation. Another tactic is the ability to push someone off a roof. This can either be a faked suicide, or just do it and shove the body into a garbage bin below. Drowning and electrocution are also available, but only in certain circumstances.
There are a lot of parts of the game that are currently not interactive. You'll notice all the NPCs are robotic and some don't move or react at all. Only one girl wants to confess to Senpai, so she's your only competition and once you've dealt with her, the NPC who makes you lose is someone you can't kill anyways. Everything is currently very robotic with little interactivity. But the limitations aren't so bad when you understand that this is constantly being worked on and embellished so you can try and push the limits of what you can do currently with each new update.
The Dev is building this all by himself. He is using gaming animators to help, as well as voice actors naturally, but he's coding this all on his own. His willingness to share and release it every few weeks for us to play with is awesome and shows a level of dedication for the player that you rarely see. He wants us to use it and help him fix it so that he can make the best game possible for people. He listens to the community and interacts with them, making him feel real and like someone I want to show support for.
You can check the game out HERE and download the latest update for free and play with it. If you like it, make sure you bookmark it and check back every few weeks for the new build or bug fixes. There's also a sub Reddit for it where you can get technical help from other players and talk about Easter Eggs, fan art, speculate on theories, and much more. The Dev himself even hangs out with everyone on there. I hope you enjoy this as much as I do. I love Yandere characters so much (which you know if you follow my art pages heheeeeh).
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