Kenikari
A downloadable game for Windows
Lare is just a normal 15 year-old that wanted to learn some french. Unfortunately, she gets kidnapped and thrown into an unknown facility with other people from different ages, nationalities, and social statuses, all strangers.
If she wants to make it out alive, she'll have to play a death game with lethal puzzles and much more, all run by a masked stranger that talks to them through a screen.
Will she survive? Or will she meet a gruesome fate? What about the others, will they make it out as well? Only time will tell.
This game contains:
- 30+ unique GCs
- Over 300 character sprites
- Puzzles
- A completely original soundtrack
- Point-and-click elements
- Overworld walking sections reminiscent of traditional RPGMaker games
- Narrative branches depending on your choices with lasting impacts
- 1 ending
- Gay losers trying to survive
Currently, only chapter 1.1 is complete.
This is an indie project made (mostly) by one person, so please be patient!
Trigger warnings that appear in the demo:
- Death (I mean what did you expect)
- Ableism
- Mentions of hanging, burning, stabbing, shooting, strangling, etc
Trigger warnings that will appear in the full game:
- Actual hanging, burning, stabbing, shooting, etc
- Acid and fire burns, severe scars and injuries
- Panic attacks
- Suicidal thoughts and attempts
- Hallucinations
- Eating disorders (?)
- Alcohol intake and drunken violence
- Blood and dead bodies
Please play this game at your own discretion and take care!
This was originally meant to be a YTTD fangame, but it deviated so much from the original in both story and game mechanics it ended up becoming its own standalone title. If you find any
similarities between Kenikari and YTTD, that's why. You do not need to have played Nankidai's work to understand/play this game.
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There is also a very high chance that you'll get a certain error message when trying to boot up the game. If that happens, there is a .txt file with that same error message in the same folder as the game's .exe file. I also made it able to be downloaded separately just in case. Read the file and follow the instructions, and sorry for the inconveniece ^_^"
Updated | 19 days ago |
Status | In development |
Platforms | Windows |
Rating | Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars (2 total ratings) |
Author | SobreDunas |
Genre | Visual Novel, Puzzle |
Made with | Krita, RPG Maker |
Tags | 2D, Female Protagonist, investigation, killing-game, RPG Maker, Text based, your-turn-to-die, yttd |
Average session | A few seconds |
Languages | English |
Links | Blog |
Download
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Development log
- Updates on game progress!65 days ago
- I'm not dead lol (+Discord)Jul 26, 2024
- Thing I have noticed with gameplaysApr 25, 2024
- Another kenikari stream! :DApr 22, 2024
- CHAPTER 1.1 IS OUTMar 12, 2024
- I'm not dead lolOct 13, 2023
- Progress updateSep 12, 2023
- Character popularity pollAug 04, 2023
Comments
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I am liking this game but the sorting puzzle is making me insane i literally have no idea what am i doing wrong! ;-;
I don't know exactly what you're doing wrong but I'll repeat some rules I've seen some players misread/forget about:
- Murasaki wants to be in a team with Uzomi, Alex, and Detah, but he's fine with only two of them
- Mako wants to be in a team with Lare or Murasaki
- Alex doesn't want to be with Mako or Detah
If you had already completed all those rules but the game still says you're doing it wrong (I've seen it happen), then you should close and reopen the game and put the correct combination again. I don't know what causes that glitch so I don't know how to fix it but yeah, that's how I've seen it get fixed
Thank you for playing! :D
Ok, it was just a bug. Thanks.
Pog :]
I AM LOVING THIS GAME! made this account just to comment
however i am stupid and cannot solve the sorting puzzle before the first game for the life of me, but the characters, art, story, EVERYTHING so far is amazing!
cant believe i saw this cause i accidentally clicked your toyhouse profile on some team6x111 stuff
i hope this continues development! though the fact that there was a devlog yesterday is really promising :]
AAAAAA TYSM!! If you'd like any hints for the puzzle just ask and I'll gladly tell you. You still have a lot of game content left to explore and if you liked everything up to the sorting puzzle I'm sure you'll enjoy the things left to come
The game is in active development, and a decent chunk of backgrounds, maps, and art has been done already. I've also fixed a few errors and glitches that appear in the demo so when the full chapter releases those will be fixed too
I hope you enjoy the game! :D
i'm so glad this game is in active development, though yeah i'm still stuck on the sorting puzzle, a couple hints might be nice :,]
but i am LOVING this game, the characters are all really intriguing and i love all of them, the story has me begging for more i NEED to see it all- DEFINITELY going to do multiple playthroughs for the stuff i maybe missed!
For any hints to give I would definitely tell you to revisit Alex's and Murasaki's demands, as I found that a lot of people tend to forget them. Also, a friend of mine misread Mako's and thought that she didn't want to go with Murasaki, when that wasn't the case, so watch out for that as well
The main purpose of the sorting is to make everyone happy. There is only one correct combination, and don't forget about Lare
For future playthroughs, I recommend asking questions in the tutorial in a different order ;] you might find some interesting info. Also, check up on different people during free time, those choices will add up and change future dialogue! Thank you so much for the kind words <3