I kinda like the 1990's video point and click vibe.

Since when "normal" = "boring"?

Since always. normal = standard = predictable = boring Q.E.D.

After you open the drawer to pick up the utensils, you notice the knob getting looser than before.

[ignore it for one more day]
[fix it today -2 energy -15min]

Oh no! After trying for 30 min, looks like you need a new knob after all!

[go to hardware store −30 min −$8]
[use the cap of a recently emptied detergent bottle]
[accept that you need to open it with a pair of pliers now]

use fingernail to tighten

You notice your fingernails are getting long:

Bite nails

Cut nails

Ignore nails

If someone made this I bet it would do okay. Like a tiny bit viral. Not like ddlc but like a popular joke title amongst vn fans. Maybe class of 09 level

The KFC dating sim was great. This would also be great, for completely opposite and equally wonderful reasons.

i have been exhaling through my nose for 3 minutes now, this is very funny.

like really, wow..... like - the idea of just nothing of note happening in a visual novel....... thats good.

not even like - going into the whole the world is awful and boring angle, but just genuinely being about completely normal people going to work, sometimes going out to some restaurant and maybe some other time reading a book-.....

like - unrealistically normal, u kno?

this is genuinely the funniest thing i have seen in multiple months

Back in the day of DOS and such, there were multiple ‘economic simulator’ games about the daily loop of a typical abstract worker. With the actions like ‘go to work’, ‘pay rent’, ‘go see a movie’, etc. With the management of money, hunger, and boredom, and usually with a prospect of getting a better apartment and a better-paying job. These games were very simple, but surprisingly widespread.

Conspicuously mundane life as a new genre of psychological thriller

Or just mundane as an isekai for people lacking such normalcy around them.

Reverse Isekai! A battle hardened warrior wakes up to find himself in the suburbs of Columbus, Ohio. He quickly learns that the skills of an adventurer don't translate into a profession so easily here and tries to make the best of this new life.

[Go ahead and have another slice of cheese]

[Yes please]
takes a slice of chese and places it on the bread on my plate

omg I haven't had a wild smorty sighting in a while - glad you're still around 💖

is the visual novel for normal people or about normal people?

also.... why is it meaningless?

Who are visual novels normally for, and why is it so funny if they’re for normal people? Genuinely have no idea.

My impression is that 99.999% of visual novels are dating simulators for teenagers. Basically the same audience as all the teenage ‘school life’/romance anime, and equally produced in bafflingly huge quantities.

this is hilarious.

like wow, genuinely.

its like salamander county but... not interesting.... which makes it incredibly funny >//v//<

like gosh, how is this not a thing yet? this is an amazing idea!

(highly recommend salamander county btw, u can also just watch a playthrough, thats enoguh to "experience" it. its a shorter game)

enoguh

😩

nono, i experienced it like that too! its fun! I watched rtgames playthrough.

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