Hello and welcome to all Steam Festival readers and anyone else who comes across this post! This is basically just to say/announce that LoveSick Darlings will be doing an official livestream in partnership with! Check out the image below to know when we go live for the listed timezones!
AND WE WILL BE GOING LIVE HERE!!! The official LoveSick Darlings Twitch channel! Drop a follow to know the second I go live! ;) BUT THAT'S NOT ALL! But during this stream I will be playing through brand-new never-before-seen LoveSick Darlings content! Let's break it down! What's the stream schedule? The stream will be broken up into three parts! Each part is an hour long, and the stream will go for about 3 hours (or might go slightly over that). 1. First on the livestream agenda! I will be doing a general overview of LoveSick Darlings for those who may be unfamiliar as I cover the game's first major event and play through it all with you guys! I will provide commentary as we play and talk about the design process. This will go for about an hour. 2. I will be publicly debuting brand new gameplay for the first time! This is the spicy new content I alluded to above! This new gameplay covers the next in-game event, and is set after the events of the demo! Tune in to check that out and be among the first to see! This will go for another hour. 3. I will host a QNA over Twitch with voice chat via the LoveSick Darlings Discord! Join here to chat to me when I enter the Q&A portion! https://discord.com/invite/4YAgnvd This will go for as long as we can/or when we run out of questions! Over these events, I will be taking suggestions of choices from the audience, so please don't be shy! The choices I make will be decided by you! Also, please go ahead and ask me ANY question ANY time! I love chatting with you all, so give me an excuse to talk and I will! This is my way of engaging with you my community and the wider public! I'm a bit green at streaming, but I really love talking about my game and everything to do with it. Ask me anything about the game and I'll be very happy to answer it, and go into all kinds of discussion regarding the characters, story, and world I have created. Apart from that, I like talking about all kinds of things. I love video games, anime, memes, writing and pretty much all things within and around those spheres. I love over-analyzing media, so ask about all of my favourite shows, movies, and games and I will go on and on about it at length happily. Feel free to look around here and the store page for more info on LoveSick Darlings! I look forward to seeing you all join me for the livestream and hanging out! Thank you, and have a great time at the Steam Festival checking out all the cool games in development! :D

[ 2020-06-16 14:57:44 CET ] [ Original post ]

LoveSick Darlings is a visual novel where the player is put in the role of Syd, a sixteen-year old boy as he navigates the social landscape that is a friendship group that doesn't realize it's on the verge of collapsing at the end of the school year.

Syd goes to Foster Hills High, a school in a quiet town in New South Wales (Eastern Australia). Navigate this unique setting for a visual novel by interacting and learning about the characters in Syd's life with "Free Time."

"Free Time" is a gameplay element that is heavily inspired by the Danganronpa and Persona franchises. With "Free Time," Syd can choose who among his friends he wishes to grow closer with by spending time with them during the afternoons after school. But be careful, your free time is limited, and there's only so much Syd can do before the end of semester.

LoveSick Darlings boasts a cast of diverse characters with three main heroines in particular for Syd to interact with. A supporting cast of friends, parents, and rivals add colour to Syd's life and the gameplay experience. The three heroines, Maisy, Jayda, and Steph all feature extensive story-lines ranging from happy to the most utterly tragic. Get to know them and form unique bonds with each of them as you play.

Decide the fate of Syd and all his friends as he makes some of the hardest decisions in his life. Choose whether to confess your feelings, accept or deny the feelings of others, sabotage or repair broken friendships, and get to know Syd's friends in a way that he never did before. Enjoy these last few weeks of the school year while they last!

Game Features:

- A grounded, realistic, emotional story about people growing up and trying to understand their own feelings
- Gorgeous original artwork. From sprites to CGs, you can see the art in this game is top-notch from the highly-skilled artists working on this project. These same artists will be doing the rest of the art too.
- Heavy romance elements
- Original soundtrack with 15+ songs
- 15+ CG artworks
- No set "routes." The game seamlessly flows between events and scenarios based off of your decisions in a natural way
- Multiple unique outfits for each heroine
- Week and day system where you choose how you spend your limited free time!
- Highly customized playthroughs featuring dozens of variables and several endings
- 15 hours of gameplay per run - with dozens more hours in alternate endings and scenarios!
- Comprehensive "Player Review" system that assesses your relationships at the end of each play-through! Tells you what each character thinks of you by the end, how to get other results, and maybe even hints at a few secrets!

Content warnings:
Suggested age rating: 15+ (Not yet officially rated.)
Sexual References
Coarse Language
Mature Themes
Descriptions of and allusions to sexual content (nothing explicit)

- The game is still in production you encounter any bugs or issues in the demo at all, let me know ASAP. Contact me over Twitter (@LoveSickDarling) or via Steam, and I will make sure that it gets fixed :)