Divorce Chatroom
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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Status | Released |
Platforms | Windows, macOS, Linux, Android |
Rating | Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars (64 total ratings) |
Author | Meiri |
Genre | Visual Novel, Interactive Fiction |
Made with | Ren'Py |
Tags | 2D, Amare, chatsim, LGBT, Queer, Romance, Story Rich |
Average session | About a half-hour |
Languages | English |
Accessibility | Subtitles |
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Development log
- DIVORCE CHATROOM is out!34 days ago
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I didn't expect it to be so realistic about those emotions. I was sad that we have to divorce that adorable man at the beginning but as I continue I become to understand why we have to. I really love how the story unfolds. <3
CONGRATULATIONS this effectively made me nauseous AND called out my self-sabotaging tendencies thankssss *cries*
The way I would have INSTANTLY folded a day after the authentic conversation(╥﹏╥). I really wish they gave a shot ya know? it's the first time they're finally looking at each other transparently. Vulnerably and acknowledging their contribution to the player's prospect of divorce.
Even though they would have to address the limit of compromising needs again. With the newfound open communication (if the affection is still there) why not try the relationship again?
cry so hard, can’t stop. how can i stop crying in the middle of the night T_T
cried
crying
lo siento pero lo amo tanto que no puedo hacerle esto (entiendanme, no puedo con esto)
Quiero jugarlo pero, me pasa un poco así, no sé como sentirme al respecto. :(
jugalo, es una bonita experiencia aunque me dolio horrible en el corazon
The Cats obsession is worse than the cheating allegation to be sure
I really didn’t know what to expect going into a game about divorce, but it was so well done! I felt the frustration of trying to say something while someone isn’t listening, the sadness and heartbreak of a relationship that just isn’t going to work out. I loved how much this made me feel, and I loved that it is possible for both parties to acknowledge their faults. The music worked beautifully with the story, and I also loved the extra window that popped up so that we could work though our thoughts privately as well. I admit I was a bit confused about the setup of the desktop screen when I first started the game, but I really liked it once I figured it out!
Overall, great story! And I loved how feelings could still be messy and people didn’t always say the perfect things in order to end things amicably. I haven’t played the messy route yet because I don’t know if I can handle it right now, but I’m very curious about it!
damm... yk ahhh my tears stop pls for a sec
anyway a great sad story I tho there is a better ending hnn.. my nose
but its great but as my tears start dancing out of my eyes I see the letter and what do you think has happend??? it start dancing MORE!
soo thanks for this experience ദ്ദി ༎ຶ‿༎ຶ )
It is a feat of this game's amazing writing that in about 20 minutes, I was able to fall in love with Marley, and then experience an absolutely devastating heartbreak as Divorcette, well, divorces him. This game does not hold its punches, and I'll be thinking about this game for a very long time!!
its 4am and i can tstop crying
how am i goign to sleep bruh
im so devastated like what do i do with msyelf
im cuddling with my dog ofmg im so sad liekr eally i cant stop crying
i think i cried for like an hour straight, i couldn't even do the messy route because i liked him so much and couldn't bare to make a fuzz.
sobbed so hard on my stream playing this... 10/10 its perfect
I am now sad. Five stars. Would divorce again. 👏
i hope theres a wife verison soon:)
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 ^^
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!!
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….
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
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.
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!!
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
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
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!