You are Helios, the newest fighter aboard the starship Kepler. Join Cain, Abel and the crew from Hamlet Machine's webcomic, Starfighter, on board a brand new, interactive adventure. Your mission: join an Alliance surveillance team with Selene, your newly-assigned navigator, to investigate a derelict alien spacecraft. But when you return from the away mission, something is amiss, and it's up to you to figure out why.
Okay so I bought this on recommendation of my girlfriend who read the comics and played the game and hoooo boy I was not disappointed, I've played it through once so far, got a game over, then an ending with Selene, It's genuinely fun and I was theorising the entire way through. It's a yaoi game no doubt, there's penises to prove it, but it's still...
Tip - READ THE WEBCOMIC FIRST. This is still ok without that, but it adds a LOT. You can find it and the walkthroughs with a quick Google search.
Overall - I liked it, but it's quite stark and not terribly sentimental or romantic. Though neither is the webcomic it comes from. And really - how warm and fluffy can you realistically be when it's a story...
Background: A retrospective review based on multiple playthroughs originally completed in 2017. Let it be stated for the record: having this title in my library and completing it multiple times is a fact I look back on with profound, unyielding pride.
A highly competent and tightly focused sci-fi visual novel that holds up surprisingly well.
✅ PROS:
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Short Review:
– One main storyline, which was mysterious and fun
– Sex felt sudden and forced into story
– Lack of depth to characters and relationships
– Not enough save slots
– Skipping text is slow
– Beautiful art, lots of it NSFW
– Overall, I was disappointed but would rec it if you mostly just want something steamy and nice to look at
Full Review:
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