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Live an 'ordinary life' as a game programmer. Go to work, pay your rent, and make time for yourself in your free time. What could go wrong?
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life: Start To Return
SteamAbout life: Start To Return
<i>=== Live an ordinary life as a junior game programmer! ===</i>
~ A 1st Person Bottleneck Style Visual Novel ~
Traverse the bustling Paracoast City through a span of 4 In-Game Weeks and overcome various everyday ordeals such as going to work, paying rent, and making time for yourself on your free time.
Additionally, make meaningful connections with those called Achates Bonds. These are relationships forged from shared moments that promises to give insight on different characters within and out of the Main Story.
=== Key Features ===
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3 Different Endings - Experience the linear Main Story and how you live life will impact the outcome of the ending!
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After Bonds Post Game - Meet the conditions to unlock a new story that focuses on some of the characters in the game, adding 3 More endings that can be achieved.
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10 Additional Side Plots - Each of the 10 Characters include their own Unique Plotlines and 7 can be optionally Dated!
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Point & Click Gameplay - 13 Explorable Areas and 14 Different Programming Scenarios.
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33 In-Game Days - Explore to your hearts content throughout this duration!
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3-6 Hours of Gameplay - Approximately 115,000 Words!
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All Original Music - More than 30 Tracks!
Start your life and unfold the bizarre truths behind this so called, 'Ordinary Life.'
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