LINGERING
An LGBTQ+ Mystery Visual Novel with comic panel style aesthetics and pixel styled backgrounds. Join The Heart Breachers operatives as they navigate the world of desire, treachery, and emotional turmoil while learning to understand lofty concepts such as friendship, hope, and belief in oneself.
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July 7, 2020
6 years and 26 days ago
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Positive29 reviews82.8%
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13 itemsAbout the Game
Warning: Lingering is lovingly crafted to bring forward stories with darker topics such as portrayals of mental health issues, self-harm, mentions of suicide, depictions of hetero/homo sexual acts and violence. Some themes and contents might be more suitable to mature audiences.
The Heart Breachers is an organization committed to keep humankind safe from the harmful manifestations of their own emotions. Contained within every burst of feelings is an Ignite, the purest form of energy. Negative feelings bear Lingerings, and positive feelings produce Astrays. Astrays are typically tame, but Lingerings could wreak havoc in the real life while driving its host to madness. However these projected forms pale in comparison to the Ignites. Often unruly and violent, killing an Ignite means killing its host’s ability to feel emotions permanently.
It is your job to tame the beasts within human hearts. Will you succeed and discover yourself among the way or will you fail and lose yourself?
Remember, there is darkness in everyone. And everyone has the right to be broken.
Story
The Heart Breachers is an organization committed to keep humankind safe from the harmful manifestations of their own emotions. Contained within every burst of feelings is an Ignite, the purest form of energy. Negative feelings bear Lingerings, and positive feelings produce Astrays. Astrays are typically tame, but Lingerings could wreak havoc in the real life while driving its host to madness. However these projected forms pale in comparison to the Ignites. Often unruly and violent, killing an Ignite means killing its host’s ability to feel emotions permanently.
It is your job to tame the beasts within human hearts. Will you succeed and discover yourself among the way or will you fail and lose yourself?
Features
- Experience the story with both female and male protagonists, each with their own story to unfold
- Enjoy 100+ comic panel style CGs, some saucier than others
- Over 100 K words
- Uncover 13 Endings
- 20+ pixel-styled backgrounds
- Solve some puzzles, play a few mini-games and test your reflexes with some QTEs
Remember, there is darkness in everyone. And everyone has the right to be broken.
