Fourth Energy

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.71
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.58
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.29
Theme★★★★★★★★★★4.29
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★4.02
Audio★★★★★★★★★★4.09
Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.21
Mood★★★★★★★★★★4.08
A visual novel about your first day working at the Fourth Energy Research Lab. Fourth Energy is a radical new concept, pioneered by Dr. Right. It harnesses the energy of atom splitting, but on a small and manageable scale.

With such a renewable and clean new energy source, what could possibly go wrong?

It’s up to you to find out.
Genres: visual novel
Tools: RPG Maker

Comments17

Tyler Miller5 Oct 2021, 00:11
I played through 2 endings! Don't want to spoil any, Diane is a savage though :laughing: I had fun with this, I think it was my first text adventure that I can remember. Only constructive feedback, the typing sound can be loud or repetitive. Ya'll did a great job of keeping my attention, good job :thumbsup:
kenster
kenster6 Oct 2021, 00:55
The character naming was a nice touch. Very good sound design.
OminusGalaxy446 Oct 2021, 00:57
this game was pretty fun to play :smile: it was fun seeing all of the different endings. however, i think you should add a skip dialogue option because i wanted to replay the game from the beginning to see how many different ending i could get and it was kind of annoying clicking through all of the dialogues.
Zapturk
Zapturk6 Oct 2021, 00:59
Love the art!
LDJam user 265360
LDJam user 2653606 Oct 2021, 01:06
Sound and music are great! Very dynamic for a text-based game. Definitely a lot of variety with the choices you can make. My biggest piece of feedback is that it's very easy when you're skipping through previously seen text to accidentally click on a choice you didn't mean to.
Turquoise Moon
Turquoise Moon6 Oct 2021, 01:15
That was really cool. I really like the art and the story. Playing through different routes was fun!
yojammerjammer6 Oct 2021, 01:28
This one was really interesting. I love this take on unstable. Kept me hooked in.
maxds98
maxds988 Oct 2021, 19:40
Very nice! Thanks for your game and for web build! I really liked the story :)
CozyGamePals
CozyGamePals8 Oct 2021, 19:46
Wow this felt really ambitious! So much writing and endings. It appreciated the "go back a few steps" option after hitting a wall. Made it feel like a choose your own adventure book. Nice work!
PenguinMunch8 Oct 2021, 22:25
Super fun game! I love the concept and the sound design. Great job!
Linkwin
Linkwin8 Oct 2021, 22:51
Great story and dialog! Very nice writing, I felt attached to the characters. Overall I enjoyed it thoroughly .
rufson
rufson9 Oct 2021, 00:39
Nice text, humor, drawings of characters and of course the musical transitions at the right moments increased the mood even more. Nice one!
guimoliveira
guimoliveira9 Oct 2021, 01:19
After letting them die twice I managed to save someone. Great game! :slight_smile:
Kamuniaft
Kamuniaft9 Oct 2021, 09:45
Great job! This sci-fi novel features surprisingly big amount of content, like a whole solid chapter! Story is catching and sound effects are awesome. I opened 3 endings (except those where u end up dead) and it was really fun :)
Johnsensei
Johnsenseiauthor14 Oct 2021, 15:23
I had to publish the post jam version for technical reasons. It incorporates some of the feedback here, like offering to skip ahead to choices if the player has already read a scene on that playthrough. Thanks to everyone here for the plays, ratings, and feedback.
LeReveur
LeReveur14 Oct 2021, 19:40
I found four endings, I'm not sure but I think I've explored all the ways and saw all the scenes. Fine graphics and sounds, it's helping a lot for the mood. And this is a very decent amount of scenes for a LD entry! Even if I was expecting one ending for each character saved with me, and one alone (instead of the four actual endings), but I guess this would have need much more scenes, so, much more time :laughing:
Very well done!
Johnsensei
Johnsenseiauthor17 Oct 2021, 21:00
Just shipped the game to the Apple App Store for iPads and soon macOS. And shipped to Google Play, soon for tablets only.

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