I've mentioned it a few times elsewhere, but today is the opening of the store page for Life as Designed!
Life as Designed is a romance story with coming-of-age elements that focuses on Cho Fukuda, who first appeared in Eldritch Academy. There are three main storylines planned for the game, each of which follows from the paired endings in Eldritch Academy. (It's not required to play that game to understand this one, but some character traits are assumed to be familiar to the player.)
Life as Designed takes place about ten years after Eldritch Academy. Cho now lives in the city of Yamashiya with her girlfriend, who both reside at a share house. All four main characters from Eldritch Academy have jobs in this city, but Cho's freelance work ends up sapping her motivation after a string of projects that feel unfulfilling or end in failure. Each story shows a different path Cho's life could take, depending on who she was closest to before the story began.
In addition, near the end of each storyline Cho has to make a choice of which career path to follow. Neither of these endings are the "correct" or "wrong" choice, simply different ways Cho's life could go as she moves forward.
The game script is projected to be about the same total length as Eldritch University, with the possibility of one or more bonus scenarios depending on how development goes. The game will have custom BGM, with a few tracks returning from the Eldritch Academy v3 update. However, the game is not currently projected to have event illustrations. The final price is not yet decided, but will likely be in the same range as Eldritch University.
If you have any questions about the game or its development, let me know! I hope people look forward to Life as Designed!
Eldritch University
Nightshade
Nightshade
2020-06-11
Indie Singleplayer
Game News Posts 14
🎹🖱️Keyboard + Mouse
🕹️ Partial Controller Support
9 user reviews
(9 reviews)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1132290 
Kasumi Kawamura just wants to get through university while rekindling her relationship with her girlfriend. But not long after she arrives at school, a strange epidemic starts to infect the city, causing the afflicted to have terrible nightmares and lose the motivation to live their lives. Coinciding with the appearance of this "Nightmare Syndrome", an old wound that Kasumi thought healed starts to burn and cause frightening visions to those around her. Caught in the center of this situation, Kasumi and her friends try desperately to find a solution. Yet all the while, Kasumi wonders if she might be to blame...
Features:
- A horror/romance visual novel with multiple endings. Kasumi's decisions determine whether she finds a way to end the nightmares or succumbs to them. And even if Kasumi survives, she may damage her relationship if she isn't careful...
- Continue not only the story of Eldritch Academy, but also the story of the amateur paranormal detectives Shizuka and Yuri from the Shireishi anthology of short stories.
- A collection of bonus scenes taking place after the main story. See how the main characters recover from the ordeal and try to move on with their lives after the nightmare.
- Memory: 1 GB RAMStorage: 150 MB available space
- Storage: 150 MB available space
- Memory: 2 GB RAMStorage: 200 MB available space
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