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Post by Kachayet on Nov 14, 2024 16:27:11 GMT -5
Hello everyone!
I've been getting a lot into reading Furry Visual Novels recently. It's a beautiful genre full of queer representation and artistry that has inspired me to start taking my first steps into producing them one day... But I've only read very few of them.
I feel like we need a mandatory thread to share, discuss and recommend more of them! Talk about your favorite popular ones, hidden pearls, or even that one you know it's kinda bad but you still like. They can be complete or incomplete!
Or maybe tell us about the one(s) you're working on and share tips with others!
For myself, I just finished the current update of Dawntide (incomplete) and I believe it has permanently changed me. It's but it has such art style, story and writing, I definitely recommend it. Besides it I've only played Dawn Chorus (incomplete) and Jørgen is the best boy.
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Post by botswanaiguana on Nov 14, 2024 17:58:17 GMT -5
Man I HAVE to get out of the Echo Project rabbit hole. I've read everything they've made but haven't strayed much further. Echo (complete) consumed by life and now I'm reading it together with a straight non-furry friend who is now deeply invested. (for those interested in route order so far: TJ->Flynn->Carl). Just peak mystery and horror and romance and just MEANINGG. This and Mouthwashing where inspired by Twin Peaks, which I'm getting more and more convinced I need to see.  I could rant about the creative choices in echo, adastra, khemia's singular update and all of Arches for hooourrrs But anyway this thread will be nice to hear what else is going on in this genre  (downloading dawntide as we speak)
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Post by feengoid on Nov 14, 2024 18:36:56 GMT -5
oooo yes yes yes !!! thank god for this megathread lalalal.
i'm also on an echo project rabbit hole. finished up adastra a while ago, and currently going through echo before anything else (current progress: carl->leo->route65->TJ->flynn), but i'm very interested in arches and the smoke room..
definitively adding dawntide to my watchlist, and hopefully there's plenty more good VN recommendations to come here! |
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Post by kez on Nov 14, 2024 18:58:58 GMT -5
Besides it I've only played Dawn Chorus (incomplete) and Jørgen is the best boy. Dawn Chorus is, hands down, my favorite VN I've ever played. It's so beautifully written, and the visuals/music really do add so much to it. I have to keep myself from replaying it too often so I don't lose that spark of loving it lmao I am a huge Remember the Flowers fan; another incredible story, great characters, and phenomenal music. Big recommend. |
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Post by Kachayet on Nov 14, 2024 19:37:16 GMT -5
Man I HAVE to get out of the Echo Project rabbit hole. I've read everything they've made but haven't strayed much further. i'm also on an echo project rabbit hole. finished up adastra a while ago, and currently going through echo before anything else Damn I had some moots that liked Echo on twitter but I thought it was just a bubble I was in but apparently Echo fans are everywhere  A friend told me there's a correct route to understand the story which idk if I'll like but I'm downloading it right now to check it out before judging!! Dawn Chorus is, hands down, my favorite VN I've ever played. It's so beautifully written, and the visuals/music really do add so much to it. I have to keep myself from replaying it too often so I don't lose that spark of loving it lmao I am a huge Remember the Flowers fan; another incredible story, great characters, and phenomenal music. Big recommend. I adore the simple cozyness of Dawn Chorus, it really does keep it everything simple. I've heard about Remember the Flowers!! I keep seeing people post stickers of the yellow wolf staring at the screen on a friend's server  |
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Post by feengoid on Nov 14, 2024 19:53:52 GMT -5
there is a dev-intended route i believe? which, iirc, is also the order the routes were released. should be listed somewhere on the echo wiki page.
but i feel like you don't really miss out on anything by through the routes differently, as the only thing that really changes is the order in which the information and story is given to you, but not the content itself.. if that makes any sense. (though, i guess going through the games is a different story..?? like the prequels, the smoke room and route 65, or the sequel, arches. but really haven't experienced any of those other than route 65, which i played right after leo's by a friends recommendation, so i wouldn't really be able to tell when or where is best to play those.. but really it shouldn't be a problem, so don't worry)
...i'm rambling quite a lot here haha, sorry, i'll cut it cut it short. if you do go through the game really i'd suggest just going in your own pace, if anything! it takes a bit to settle in, but i think it's worth it. and also, have fun. |
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Post by xroshtag on Nov 14, 2024 20:40:04 GMT -5
This may be beating the dead horse, but Echo and Adastra by EchoProject are must-plays (must-reads?). I've played a few others that have indeed caught my attention, but EchoProject's novels are what have most captivated me.
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Post by xroshtag on Nov 14, 2024 20:45:50 GMT -5
Man I HAVE to get out of the Echo Project rabbit hole. I've read everything they've made but haven't strayed much further. Echo (complete) consumed by life and now I'm reading it together with a straight non-furry friend who is now deeply invested. (for those interested in route order so far: TJ->Flynn->Carl). Just peak mystery and horror and romance and just MEANINGG. This and Mouthwashing where inspired by Twin Peaks, which I'm getting more and more convinced I need to see. Don't blame you, Echo alone has so much lore to unpack. One playthrough alone isn't enough, you get insights in the various characters and their histories and how they all intertwine with one another depending on which you pick. And honestly, it gives off such an enthralling but equally powerful aura of pure malaise as you play, which consumes you.
I don't consider myself impressionable, but every time I did any of the routes in Echo, I would think of them singularly for days, weeks on end.
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Post by catboy on Nov 16, 2024 19:18:08 GMT -5
echo is just absolutely peak fiction imo. i try to convince every furry i know to play it. arches is also incredible, i think arches is criminally underrated and is kinda like required to be experienced after echo. i enjoyed adastra but it didnt hit as hard personally for me, and i lost interest in finishing the smoke room. i really gotta reach out and try some non-echoproject FVNs. gonna use this thread as a reference point for things to try out
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Post by kingcat on Nov 19, 2024 5:12:40 GMT -5
Remember the Flowers is excellent and Silver is my boyfriend and no one will ever take this away from me.
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Post by Wicker on Nov 19, 2024 6:28:14 GMT -5
I've only ever really been into the actual Echo of the Echo Project VNs. I've played some older non-furry VNs (I'll gush about the (incredibly flawed) Yu-No for hours if you'll let me), so those kind of inform my take on the genre a lot more than otherwise.
Me and some others from elsewhere are trying to get a VN going (though I'm the only excplicit furry involved), but circumstances keep getting in our way.
The basic idea is that, after many years of war, a peace is now declared between the human realm and the beastkind (i.e. anthro) realm. There's now an exchange of knowledge between the two, and the main character is a cartographer sent to survey and map a particular area of the beast realm, mostly a small town and the surrounding areas.
Along the way he encounters four women from this realm (it's hetero, so you can stop here if that doesn't interest you), each of which has a different style of story (one a mystery, one an adventure, etc.).
There are also going to be 'set piece' elements that I've coded the really basic groundworks of, like Snatcher-style exploration, and Radical Dreamers-style battles.
But again, this is having some real issue getting going due to parts of our lives throwing a spanner into the works (I've just bought a house. Enough said...) so to call it anything other than a concept isn't quite fair.
How furry you can consider a game with a human protag is up to you as well.
The basic theme was going to be a kind of 'self discovery' story, a sort of 'where do you find yourself' in all sorts of ways, whether it's physical, spiritual, or a point in your life (one character is the older baron who commissioned you, who at one point laments that he's been alive for so long and still feels like he knows so little).
I could go more into the characters, story, setting, but I think this is enough for now.
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Post by Pagu on Nov 19, 2024 9:08:03 GMT -5
Man I HAVE to get out of the Echo Project rabbit hole. I've read everything they've made but haven't strayed much further. Echo (complete) consumed by life and now I'm reading it together with a straight non-furry friend who is now deeply invested. (for those interested in route order so far: TJ->Flynn->Carl). Just peak mystery and horror and romance and just MEANINGG. This and Mouthwashing where inspired by Twin Peaks, which I'm getting more and more convinced I need to see. I could rant about the creative choices in echo, adastra, khemia's singular update and all of Arches for hooourrrs But anyway this thread will be nice to hear what else is going on in this genre (downloading dawntide as we speak)
I came here just to talk about Echo, and I'm glad someone else already did hahahaha. What an amazing game! I've been playing it for about a month now, and there's still so much from its universe I'd love to explore. I didn't know it was inspired by Twin Peaks, but it does make a lot of sense.
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Post by collie on Nov 19, 2024 14:36:17 GMT -5
A visual novel that a friend of mine has recommended to me, which (as far as I know) doesn't inflict as much emotional damage upon the user (I'll still have to play Echo sometime xd) is Komorebi (made by Klace, the person who also made Major/Minor, an older VN I first encountered while I was in middle school xP). It still deals with some serious themes though, and has genuinely sweet romance, no explicit stuff (I think). Do note that basically all of the character you'll interact with (and thus romance) are guys, but the player character is referred to with gender neutral pronouns
ANyways, Komorebi is set in a dystopian-ish future world where you are monitored daily, and is about how basically a lot of people in this world have "visions" of how they're going to die, except a very rare few, including you, the player character. The VN starts with you moving to a different city where you had one close online friend, and you move in with him. The story follows you and your furry roommates and close friends just messing around, forming friendships, having squabbles, and it eventually evolves into all of you trying to figure out more about this evil corporation monitoring everyone. I haven't finished it yet, learning and uni stuff got in the way, but I definitely want to sometime :3
Sorry for rambling so much ::::,3 I hope what I wrote is comprehensible
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Post by rafy on Nov 19, 2024 18:39:49 GMT -5
Tennis Ace was one of the first VNs I ever read and was on my top 3 for so long till I started reading more and more VNs. Plot is pretty simple and not really unique at all: The story follows the protagonist, Yuuichi, as an 18-year-old aspiring tennis professional in his last year of schooling before finally going pro. Some of the CGs in the game were really cute and I really had a crush on Shoichi (blue husky) xdd, but lookin back at it, it's not really an outstanding VN. Lookouts definitely was a really cute one I read when it first got released for a Jam competition on itch.io. Lookouts is a romance visual novel about two gay trans masc outlaws in the old west, finding refuge in each other, and a little hope for a better life. When I first stumbled upon it, it was a simple 10-15 mins long VN, but it has been developed into a full one with now at least 4-5h of reading material! If you haven't really heard of it, read it ASAP, it's super worthy. Morenatsu it's a pretty classic one. The game takes place during summer vacation. The main character, Hiroyuki Nishimura gets a letter from a friend in the village he spent his childhood in. He moved away to the city 5 years ago. His grandparents currently live there, so he decides to return there. While the full VN never really got finished due to unfinished development, some of the routes are fully available (I think the only one that never got finished was Torahiko's) Same as Tennis Ace, this one isn't really outstanding either, but it's a pretty chill one to read. Last but not least, Burrows. I absolutely adore Burrows, the mix of absolute horror and "romance" hooked me on so quickly, every update that gets released is way better than the last one. The story is absolutely crazy. While it does touch really triggering topics and it's content is 100% +18, it's worth giving it a try if you really love jumpscares/horror stuff. |
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Post by Kachayet on Nov 21, 2024 4:16:32 GMT -5
Lookouts definitely was a really cute one I read when it first got released for a Jam competition on itch.io.
I was eyeing that one for a while but I'd have never thought it'd be a 5 - 6 hour story!! I need to check it out now because the art style seems very cute too
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(downloading dawntide as we speak)
A friend told me there's a correct route to understand the story which idk if I'll like but I'm downloading it right now to check it out before judging!! 
