Unquiet Grey

Unquiet Grey (Demo) ★★★★☆

Unquiet Grey, well, unquiet in our mind, you could say.

You can’t save him… but what if you could meet him again? Unquiet Grey is a heartbreaking timeloop visual novel about a troubled young woman and the kind-hearted musician she loves through countless lifetimes.

Videos:

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  • Gameplay:
    • Visual novel with choices
  • Visual presentation:
    • Wholesome artwork that kind of makes you say “aww”
  • Player discretion:
    • This game deals with loss

Pros:

  • Interesting screen layout
  • Emotional
  • Wholesome artwork

Cons:

  • Can’t really move screen around

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Explanation to Negative Feedback

Can’t really move screen around

There’s a point in the game that allows you to choose the option to look around, but you can only look around you a very small amount. It’s more of a choice you’re making for the character you play to do themselves, instead of you as the gamer in control of the character.

It just kind of felt like a lie in that moment.

We can’t really look around, but we can move around enough to make it seem like we might’ve been able to.

Explanation to Positive Feedback

Interesting screen layout

Instead of your usual visual novel layout of either having icons at the top of the screen or text at the bottom of the text box, you’re more or less looking at a shrunken screen with side bars to give the impression of you being on a phone.

I actually really like the concept for this game, because all of our memories are basically in the phone that we’re looking at in the beginning.

It makes sense for the game to kind of keep that impression throughout.

Emotional

From some of the artwork pieces to the writing, this might just be the demo I’m reviewing, but it’s going to be an emotional roller-coaster I feel like. Especially since it seems like we’re not going to be able to let go, and we’re going to keep reliving moments because of it.

That alone can make grief hit harder.

Wholesome artwork

I said it in my podcast playthrough, but it’s the kind of artwork of scenes that make you think these two characters really are in love with one another and it’s so cute when they’re shown together.