All Roads Lead to Me

by lemonink

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.79

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.12

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.18

Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.98

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.76

Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.92

Mood★★★★★★★★★★4.22

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A game about identity and the denial of such.

I'm going to be honest, I made this within the last half of LD up to the deadline, as such it doesn't have nearly the amount of content nor quality that I usually hold myself up to providing. However, it's a dearly personal game to me, so I hope that in spite of its roughness, there may be some aspects of it that call out to people. Thank you for checking it out!!

NOTE: If you receive errors on the LD website running this game, please use the Itch.io link provided.

Tags: #coming of age, #cozy, #lgbt, #lgbtqia, #minimalist, #narrative, #pixel art, #short, #time travel

Genres: visual novel

Tools: Ren'Py

Comments15

poboy7 Oct 2025, 06:02

Appreciated this a lot. I was the character in this story once. It's hard to grow up in a world where your parents see you as an extension of themselves. Very well-written game and thank you for sharing

Nyla J7 Oct 2025, 20:07

touching storytelling!

SergS Workshop7 Oct 2025, 21:50

The story is really strong! The simple visuals and soundtrack help you stay focused and work great for immersion.

T C8 Oct 2025, 03:25

Great game! It's obvious the game is personal, and it comes across very well. I like the way the gameplay flowed: having the same options, but ultimately everything ending up the same. Well executed storytelling!

zelew8 Oct 2025, 09:40

absolutely stunning!

Xichan Zheng9 Oct 2025, 18:59

Really lovely game! I love narrative games that feel this personal and moving.

Prunus Padis9 Oct 2025, 19:09

Nice game, its rare for me to have patience to properly play/read full story jam game like this to the end. Writing is nice, though gets repetetive for obvious reasons. The mood is really nice. Imo the ending felt slightly flat for me since I did not really get the collector, but i like the direction and story the game told.

LDJam user 3835109 Oct 2025, 19:14

God this hit hard for some reason. Good work, nothing else to say... Except I think there was a "Them" nametag missing in some screen at the mall I think

Aincrad11 Oct 2025, 02:50

cool art!

firellon11 Oct 2025, 09:51

It's touching.

Would be good to have a bit more agency, but perhaps, that the point of the game - to NOT have it?

I'd call it more of an experience than a game, then :)

Still, thank you for making it!

automatonvx11 Oct 2025, 10:41

Not a big visual novel buff, so I don't have a lot of point of reference for the execution, but it worked for me. The night character as 'collector' didn't make that much sense to me, felt a bit like tryng to shoe-horn the theme in, but that's ok :grin:. For me personally the music kind of carried the mood quite a bit, so sort of a shame since thats not ranked I assume its third party. Anyway the main thing is that the story-telling worked pretty well emotionally, and I have to admire going for such a personal theme. A welcome change of pace while doing ranking.

stephenwhoskins11 Oct 2025, 21:32

OH, Ren'Py! I want to use this as well, but the team that I usually do game jams with can never seem to get on board. I guess I also lack writing skills, lol. This was a very cool entry. Great job! =)

orangeoceans12 Oct 2025, 06:26

I'm curious what content you left out due to time constraints, as it seems entirely complete! In particular I thought that it was a good choice to end the game before actually coming out. It felt like anything else would've undermined the long buildup. There's a sense of liberation no matter what They might say in response.

Ynnon12 Oct 2025, 11:38

A very relatable story — I went through something similar with my parents. I think many people will find something familiar in it too. I really liked the music, it added a great atmosphere. Good job!