The Breakup

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A short game about friendship and self-discovery, created in Ren'Py for Ace Jam, 2022.

You and Casper have known each other since middle school. You know him better than you know yourself, but he's been growing more distant and more unhappy these past few months and doesn't seem to have realized it. So when he calls you in the middle of the night to tell you he needs your help, you know you'll do everything you can to help him make it through the roughest night he's been through in a long, long time.

How To Play

  • Click, space-bar, or enter will advance the text
  • Click or use the arrow keys and enter to pick dialogue options
  • The mousewheel and the page-up button can rewind the text

Downloads

While you can play the game in the browser, the downloads allow for easier saving/loading and higher resolution.

Content Warnings

This game contains themes of aphobia and toxic relationships, but has a happy ending. More specific details (including spoilers) are given within the game.

Credits

Artwork

Character Sprites by Sutemo

Backgrounds by NoranekoGames

Music

All music used was composed by Tim Reichert and licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Public License. The songs can be found here. No changes were made. Songs used are:

  • Death
  • Evans Full
  • Guitar on the Water
  • Relax
  • Splatters
StatusReleased
PlatformsHTML5, Windows, macOS, Linux
Rating
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(18 total ratings)
AuthorDragonQuills
GenreVisual Novel, Interactive Fiction
Made withRen'Py
TagsAnime, asexual, LGBT, Narrative, Ren'Py, Short, Singleplayer, Slice Of Life, Transgender
Average sessionAbout a half-hour
LanguagesEnglish
InputsKeyboard, Mouse

Download

Download
TheBreakup-1.1-pc.zip 107 MB
Download
TheBreakup-1.1-mac.zip 73 MB

Development log

Comments

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Lovely handling of the topic. I really like the separation of aro and ace, and that being ace is a spectrum.

This was a great game

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Aww thanks!

That was lovely to play :'-), very well-made! Thank you <3

Yay! I'm really glad you liked it!

it wont let me play the game TvT

Oh no! I'm sorry to hear that. I know certain browsers and Ren'Py weren't playing nice for a while there, but I think Ren'Py has patched that since. I've updated the Ren'Py version - hopefully that will help. If not, the downloaded version should still work!

I love this game! Its really cute and handled the asexuality topic so well!

Yay! I'm really happy you liked it! Thank you for commenting <3

your welcome!

What a beautiful little story! The topic was handled so tastefully too!

Thank you! I'm glad you think I handled the subjects well, I tried very hard to do so.

This was a very emotional read! I think it's a really well written story between two friends making sense of sexuality and relationships and I'm so happy for that ending!

Thank you very much for your kind words! I'm glad you liked it. And also thank you for the backgrounds pack! They help solo devs like me out a lot!