Livber: Smoke and Mirrors

"Livber: Smoke and Mirrors" is a short VN game with a disturbing psychological horror story about love, trauma and mysticism. It does an excellent job at creating the atmosphere that pulls us in with its creepy art and emotion-filled music. The story doesn't pull punches when it comes to unsettling mysticism, gore and body horror, and it truly hits... Read more

I hate giving this a negative review because, objectively, the game is well done and cohesive. You spend most of the game exploring different rooms and experiencing some nicely branching dialogue. The art, the music, the direction, it's solid. I don't have a problem with the translation at all, and while playing I was actually pretty impressed with... Read more

The game is fine. I don't think it's as stellar as some of the other reviews make it out to be, but it's fine. I am writting the review mostly because the games seems like a passion project, and it deserves a bit more of visibility even if it has it's flaws. I don't like assigning numerical scores, but... 6/10? I don't regret playing it, but I don't... Read more

Wavy middle thumb. Livber is a fairly short (few hours) psychological horror narrative game, where after years you revisit the house you and your girlfriend?/wife? lived, before she attempted black magic and you sold her out to the authorities. You inexplicably got a letter from her recently inviting you back, even though she was executed for her crimes. Livber... Read more

Came for the mysterious hot living dead witch girlfriend, stayed for the delicious grief meat. Gross, gothic, emotional, and genuinely memorable. The branching can get a little exhausting and I wish the cosmic horror angle had more payoff, but the core story about guilt, memory, and refusing to let the dead stay dead really got under my skin. Not flawless,... Read more