unbearable heartbreak

visual novel made for the 2024 yaoi game jam

"unbearable heartbreak have you following the brooding journey of Soli, remembering his first and only crush as he travels back to the land that brought him hope, love, joy and then crushed it all..."

it's a first for me, a kinetic vn (there is no multiples choices, there is no choice at all, you just ride along), i wanted to use the aspects and tools of VN to tell a story, in which nothing can be changed, fate has been sealed, you can only march forward with the weight of your regrets, ultimately cornering you into action...

it's been a while i haven't finished a VN, between my laptop being out of commission during this year's nanoreno and being sick the previous jam, it felt like a real challenge to get back to it at all...

yeah i very often use the same kind of archetype for my characters, ... there i no one to be seen in those in particular, just personal tastes and what i'm into lately.

sometimes it feels like if you want to give deep meaning to EVERYTHING, it stops making sense. it makes it seems like NOTHING has depth in the end, really.

it's kind of an 'ode' to toxic yaoi tropes, please don't take it to heart, as usual no harm wished to anyone, it's just fiction, i don't condemn nor endorse any of the characters views, almost nothing in the world is purely black or white and nothing and no one is to be hated or idolized blindly.

big, big love. take care.

CW:

bad language (no slurs), idiots, possible janky english and possible remaining typos

extras:
the first artbook ('the art of unbearable heartbreak', free) is just a collection of all the art displayed in game, the other one ('beyond the heartbreak') contains extra, researches, some explanations for trivial stuff and some misc sketches.

Made for YaoiGameJam2024