Warning: Violence and light cursing.
You play as Ashley Chu, a high school student who just wants to be a successful Digital Artist so he can break away from his abusive parents and find his own freedom! He may need the help of his childhood sweetheart, Daisy, and maybe his beautiful and mysterious new classmate??

The backgrounds and characters are absolutely gorgeous, although the English translation probably came off Google translate. It’s approximately 30 hours per route. Unlike what I did, I recommend picking whoever you fancy first, finishing her route, then restarting and set the skip to “skip all text you have already seen." And then do the last route.

Also, I can’t believe that this VN is $2, it typically goes on sale for $0.79 and that is an absolute steal for this kind of content. Also, to give you exactly how amazing this VN is, I want to mention again, it's about 30 hours per route, 1 million words, and each character has about 450 different expressions, and 35 music tracks. Also, you can mute all voices or just specific ones if they get on your last nerve.

You are the MC. While taking a shortcut home you stumble upon a broken and rather High-Tec Android about to be demolished. So, what do you do? You take her home and try to re-activate her, of course.

Lucy -The Eternity She Wished For- is a rather emotional VN that features Lucy, an Android with emotions in a human society hellbent on destroying her. This VN also features voice acting, for Lucy only, in Korean and Japanese. While playing, I couldn’t help but be reminded of The Turing Test, a test to see if a human could tell the difference between another human and a machine. If the human could not tell the difference, then it is said that the machine could think. That it was intelligent. If Lucy didn’t have the aspects of her that showed she was an Android, she could have passed as a human, perfectly.
There are 2 routes in this game chosen by your final choice, a True Route and an Alternate Route. After the True Route more extras are unlocked. This VN can take anywhere from 3-5 hours to finish.

If you liked this game, you may also like TACOMA and The Turing Test on Steam.

You are Lin Yang, you finished college and you finally have that degree that you worked so hard for! Except one thing. You can’t get a job. At all. It really sucks. Practically broke, you decide to head back to your small hometown and take over your late grandfather’s convenience store. Digging through your grandfathers’ things, you discover a mystical wind chime! You ring it, and three animal girls appear before you! Meet Cherry the fox, Purin the Rabbit, and Puff the Bear! You decide to hire them as employees in your shop! Except one problem, the girls are bound to the wind chime and can’t stray too far from it, and they have no recollection as to who they are! You decide to be a good example of the human race, and help them out.

This VN is very cute and well written! Also, a surprisingly dark story? I noticed that during the gameplay, Cherry’s and Purin’s backstory is revealed and they get their memories back, but Puff doesn’t so it feels unfinished.

Pastry Lovers is a sweet and wholesome game about a girl, Sakura, who was abandoned by her family and raised at an orphanage in the West Isle. Her former family left nothing to her except a note with her name on it and a notebook filled with pastry recipes that was her fathers. Using this book, she aspires to be a famous pastry chef! She will have to go to the main continent of Carseland Kingdom and enroll in the prestigious St. Patras College to pursue her dream! During her time there, will she find clues to her hidden past?

While in the College, she meets Prince William, Christopher DM, Henry Yin, and Hannan Ye! Will she find her fated partner?!? There is another character you can date, Henin the art teacher, he is a hidden character.

This was a surprisingly enjoyable stat management VN, and for the $5 price tag is an absolute steal. It took me about 9 hours to do everything the game has to offer. I want to note that while some people complain about needing to repeat the game to get the other routes, if you get everyone’s affection to 110 and get your status up (and with 9999 gold, you better.) All of their routes are available to you if you simply save on THE DAY BEFORE (To lower/increase your “Blackening” stat via eating at the restaurant.) when you need to pick which route you want to complete.