A downloadable divorce simulator for Windows, macOS, Linux, and Android

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Cheating (optionally by the player/implied for either), emotional neglect, manipulative behavior, passive-aggressiveness. Divorce. As a warning, the bitter route is particularly heavy and might be a sensitive one for certain audiences.


> [ It's a cold, lonely winter day. As you watch the snowflakes from your window, you come to an important realization: 

you need to divorce your husband. ]


A chatsim where you divorce a beautiful man!


Features:

  • One beautiful divorceable man
  • 14k words
  • Ability to choose player name, profile picture, and pronouns
  • A retro, MSN-inspired aesthetic chatroom
  • Your choices matter: choose why you're divorcing, how you feel about it, and how the conversation will go
  • Two routes: the vanilla divorce (amicable) and the bitter divorce (messy)
  • Original artwork, including stickers, profile pictures, and CGs

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MEET MARLEY

A coincidence lead you and Marley to both find each other online at the old chatroom from when you first met.  You had been waiting and trying to get him to listen and talk properly for a long time...

Will your separation be amicable, or will things go too far?


                

DivChat Development Team:

Writer, project lead: Meiri

Producer: Rafe Altschuler

GUI Artist: Owl

Programmer: Cross Couloir

Character Artist: Oscar Gao

Sticker Artst: munstxr

Profile Picture Artist: cerocerceros

CG Artist: Jam

Bugtesters:  Kristi "HusbandoGoddess" Jimenez, Roxy S.

Support: Nevi

Pixel Art Assets: Fava Beans, Edermunizz


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Published 3 days ago
StatusReleased
PlatformsWindows, macOS, Linux, Android
Rating
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(40 total ratings)
AuthorMeiri
GenreVisual Novel, Interactive Fiction
Made withRen'Py
Tags2D, Amare, chatsim, LGBT, Queer, Romance, Story Rich
Average sessionAbout a half-hour
LanguagesEnglish
AccessibilitySubtitles

Download

Download
divorce-chatroom-win-linux.zip 103 MB
Version 1.0 4 days ago
Download
divorce-chatroom-osx.zip 98 MB
Version 1.0 4 days ago
Download
divorcechatroom_android 108 MB

Development log

Comments

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The endings are too well written and real, amicable route made me jump a few times cause some parts in it remind me of my last conversation with my ex. Also love the typos when he's angry, almost cry from the wall of i̶n̶s̶u̶l̶t̶ text he threw at me in messy route (I sneezed instead)

I honestly did cry, I wish they would've communicated better so that this didn't happen

never thought i'd be crying this new year, nonetheless i rlly enjoyed playing this even though i was REALLY SAD abt the amicable route and i rlly want to scream and cry my heart out... anyway!! loved everything from this game the aesthetics and the soundtrack too r rlly amazingg  !!! (T_T)

oh my god this BROKE me, first route i went on was the messy route and i was actually kind of glad i divorced with him till i got to the amicable route, when i tell you i was SHATTERED. i was just sobbing and yelling that i changed my mind and actually wanted to stay w him. asides from that, this game was generally heartbreaking in a way that i enjoyed it, the art was just gorgeous and i lit ate the whole thing. also i hope you had an awesome new year ^^

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just finished both routes, its 1h42 am right now and wow. the messy route was ROUGH - it was written so well and i really didnt know what to say to him LOL.

i loved how real everything was. in one route he was so sweet, i thought i wouldnt have the guts to divorce him, in the other route i felt so betrayed - HE TALKED SO MUCHHHHH - it hurt to go through both of them, but thats because the story was written so well!

Thank you so much for playing!! ;o; owgh and thank you for the compliments on the writing, means a lot to me!!

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Wow, just wow. I haven't even gotten a boyfriend yet, but I'm already going through divorce xD. 

It's bittersweet, knowing they genuinely care and love for each other but the lack of communication and openness, as well as incompatibility are what truly set them both apart. I wish they can settle their differences and work through it, but I agree that divorce is a better choice. They both deserve happiness. I hope they used the experience to grow more as an individual and eventually, in the future, achieve what they both wanted. 

Still, I'm dreading going through the messy route. I'm a pacifist, someone who hates confrontation, so I know this will be really hard for me. I'll ready myself later for the feels </3

But overall, this is a wonderful game that is very well made! I lovee it, especially the cute stickers. Great job to everyone! Absolutely beautiful story <3

So I just finished the messy route.. I'm speechless, I don't know what to say. It's definitely devastating, and I hate seeing them become like that and hurting each other. It physically hurt to choose those options T_T

I will definitely need time to recover from this. I'll replay the amicable route again to help </3 That's the only route I accept, period.

Thank you so much for playing and for the feedback!! The bitter route is painful </3 but we always have the vanilla route to heal our hearts a little….

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Not me arguing with myself about why I can’t just make it work with my fictional husband of 20 minutes…😭

The writing with this was far too accurate.

Somebody check on the dev team…make sure they’re alright…

Thank you for playing the Marley Experience 🙏

We are okay, no devs or Marleys were harmed in this production (I mean, Marley came out mostly unscathed…)

woah. That's all I have to say. I'm currently writing this on my bed at 11:13 pm on a Sunday night. I didn't expect to cry at all or even get sad, i thought it would just be a simple laugh or something but it's truly more than just a laugh.

Thank you for playing! ❤️ I’m glad to hear this silly concept touched you in some way

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I've been waiting patiently for this and I'm so glad I played! I loved it.

Whoa, thank you for following the development of DivChat! Happy to hear it schieved your expectations :D

I love the game, it just so real. If you have any of the two characters, at least in the amicable, watch yourself. I didn't do the messy one. I am gonna play it, tho

The two love an care for eachother, just that they show it in different ways and the other doesn't see it. It's just so true and sad but at the same way hopefull. 

I kinda love tragedy so I made mi Divorcette still love him romanticlly and want to have kids. But still, even without that it would have fallen apart. In the end it's better if they divorce, they are not happy with the other, even if they love them. In my silly little head they became friends after a time.


I just know I'm gonna cry hard with the messy route.

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Gosh, this was heartbreaking; I did both routes and while one is truly devastating because of how bad it gets, the amicable route is also very sad.

I honestly can't hate Marley nor Divorcette, it's clear that these 2 were just not on the same page, they were not communicating well and barely had anything in common. All of that cost them their marriage. 

There's no real villain here. This is just 2 people who are clearly very stressed for different reasons and not right for each other. 

It's very sad, because it's so often that we see relationships fall apart because of a lack of communication and here there's not only a lack of communication but a HUGE lack of compatibility; and not only about hobbies but also about their love language.

From the story, it feels that Divorcette's love language is quality time while Marley's might be words of affirmation and physical affection. However, they never really talk about it (until it was too late) and they're not able to meet each other half-way. When a couple is so different from one another and neither one is willing to compromise... things won't end well.

This was a great read, the writing was awesome and I loved the art and UI!! 

Great job everyone!!

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Aaaaa thank you so much for the thoughtful feedback, Pri!!

And yeah, as much as we joke about how divorceable Marley is, at the end of the day he and the MC weren’t compatible at all and had completely different needs </3 I’m very happy that you liked the writing, I think it’s some of my best work ;w;b

I will share this comment with the team, thank you for playing!! :D

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 This game is incredibly entertaining! It has a good mix of comedy and moments that really reflect that complexity of real relationships.

 Additionally, the UI for this game is absolutely beautiful and extremely creative!

Thank you for playing!! owl really cooked with that UI indeed >:3

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I haven’t played yet, I will, I definitely will, but I just need you to know what kind of joy it was opening my email and seeing “Meiri released a new divorce simulator” in the subject line. What a funny thing to wake up to! This looks great, and it looks like some great people worked on it. Can’t wait to crack this one open.

LOL I didn’t know changing the ‘game’ term would also change it for emails, that’s so funny 😅 what can I say, it IS a divorce simulator

The whole team did an awesome job, I hope you enjoy it and let us know what you thought of the Marley Experience 🙏

I think, I found a misspelling in this sentence: "Please my read terms on fan content and commercial products."

Do you meant it this way: "Please read my terms of fan content and commercial products"?

Huh. Thanks for pointing that out, fixed it!