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“Defeat my sleep deprivation monsters. And I will cure your poverty virus.” Living is Expensive... is a visual novel about the cost of existence & minimum wage vampires. 🩸🍷💸😭🥹💀

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About Living is Expensive...

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Vampires & Capitalism

Living is Expensive… is a roguelike deckbuilder visual novel about minimum wage vampires.

(33% roguelike deckbuilder, 66% visual novel, 1% lost to inflation).

Game Features

Working 9-5
Burnout
Expensive Cost of Living
Crushing weight of modern work on human psyche. ---
A card game that feels like a roguelike deckbuilder.
Super Awesome Visual Novel with 2 Happy Endings!

Characters

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Your boss. Works 24 hours a day.

Will cure your poverty virus with money.

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Your colleague. Introverted... No energy for work...

Can’t find the meaning of life.

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Your manager. Funny vampire :3

Wink! (^_

Story

Work Work Work Work Work

Gameplay

Defeat Primrose-sama's sleep deprivation monsters before they become real. 💤

Select the monster card to attack. Get more cards and craft runes to become overpowered. 💥

Work–Life Balance

Overworking is unhealthy. Probably. I guess. Maybe. 😓

You should find something meaningful to do other than work. (Like playing this game? 🥺👉👈) 

After all, what’s the point of all work... if we never had fun, never enjoyed, never had a life? 

(Actually, the card game is not that fun, don't play it! ( •◡

(You can just skip the card game and enjoy the story.)

(… you're allowed to skip the story too... but I will be sad… >

TL;DR

Living is Expensive… is a short and funny visual novel you wouldn’t want to miss.

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