Rituals in the Dark

Rituals in the Dark

released on Nov 20, 2019

Rituals in the Dark

released on Nov 20, 2019

A lesbian romance story with mild horror elements set in the rainy English seaside town of Scarborough.


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A yuri kinetic visual novel game set in the rainy English seaside town of Scarborough. Our heroine, Aspen, meets the mysterious, beautiful Althea in the dead of night, but who is Althea really...? The mystery unfolds slowly, but feels like it was left unfinished.

It had good characters, great art and interesting premise, but sadly it kinda fell flat at the end? It felt like it was an unfinished story and it needed a couple of more "chapters" to be a pleasing finish to the story. Did I hate it though? Not really! I had a lot of fun reading through the story.

I was a little disappointed that there was a lot of parts in the story that was just a lot of constant reading. Usually visual novels have background artworks and character art and character sprites doing things and all that, but this one had a lot of parts where there was just a textured background and there was many lines of text coming on top of that with each press of a button.

I've played a couple of other ebi-hime games and the previous games I played had been major disappointments. Thankfully this one, although still being slightly disappointing, was not that bad and I did enjoy myself. It was a short read of 4 hours and was easy to 100% as there was no different endings or choices to go through.

If you enjoy gay romance and a little bit of mystery in your kinetic visual novel games, then I would definitely say you should at least try this one out! Though maybe wait for a sale? I don't think it's worth 6€.