Someone to Hold Me

I really enjoyed this game, I may even have teared up a bit with it! I'm ace, and I shared some of the feelings with the main character. I have not, however, gone on a date, and I have no idea how I'd react if I went on one. But those parts of "You'll find someone" and the whole metaphor of flowers blooming... man, I felt that.

And then when the friend is so supportive and has colors and everything... it was so sweet after everything was dark. It was sweet and I liked it a lot!

Beautiful story all around!

Eu fui muito atacada por esse jogo tá? Ç_Ç Tenho passado por uma crise existencial sobre ser ace, medo de solidão, a percepção de que penso meio diferente da maioria etc etc e o tanto que eu falei sobre isso com amigos não me deu a sensação de acolhimento que esse jogo me deu.

Desde o começo com a personagem não mostrando entusiasmo nas conversas sobre garotos até o arco final do desconforto dela de estar em uma situação que ela sabe pra onde tá encaminhando… Tudo muito bem escrito!

Inclusive, eu amei como você passou a sensação de desconforto, é uma situação “tão comum” mas com os sons e efeitos certos ficou vibes de terror/suspense. E pra fechar, um tom melancólico com as opções de dialogo sendo só pensamentos mas não correspondendo ao que ela queria realmente dizer. Perfeito aaaaaaaaaaaaa

A cena final do amigo sendo compreensível salvou minha alma pq antes eu já tava chorando bastante kjhjkhjkh 10/10

This game was... I don't have the proper words to express it. I went through a similar experience, during which most of my friends acted like I was picky for not liking the guy. I couldn't understand why I felt repulsed whenever he flirted with me or why I wanted to run away whenever he held my hand, but this explains it better than I ever could have. For a second, I thought you stalked me, lol. That guy liked me for how I dressed, didn't know a single thing about me, tore my friend group apart (Two of my friends liked him and hated me for "leading him on" despite me letting him know my lack of interest in dating him or anyone for that matter), and made me feel like shit (Not on purpose) for being unable to reciprocate his feelings. I am so glad that a game like this exists. A game that encapsulates what I have felt my whole life. I want someone to hold me the way I want to be held. I don't want to feel replaceable to my friends as soon as they find a partner. I want to be seen for who I am rather than what I can provide. I want to be viewed as a person, not an object. Thank you for bringing those words to life.

P.S. You made me cry hard, lmao.

This game hits so close to home... Uheuheuhe... My little AFAB (aro)ace brain and heart...

I think I almost cried. Also I had to take breaks every other sentence because my emotions were all over the place-

But great game still ! Even though it sent me into a short emotional turmoil. Really good.

oh god... it's too relatable... thank you for making this

YAY, ASEXUAL REPRESENTATION

The uncomfiness worked so well, but I loved hearing a little about being ace (even though I'm demi).

I like this game this story might resonate with people, especially women. I can understand that awkwardness and the way women can't say 'no' and are pressured by everyone. I like the words this game wants to tell us too no one is not normal or normal, we just be ourselves someday we will meet someone like us and like the way we are.

Wow! This is really well done. Also, this story resonated with me: being uninterested in seeing pictures of my friends' boyfriends, not having a mental image of my ideal partner, to more serious things like not being sure I understand the difference feeling-wise between romantic love and friendly love. The quote on this page, "I want someone to hold me, but not the way he wants to," especially struck me. 

Your story was also kinda scary for me because of the red flags the boyfriend kept giving off that the MC didn't pick up on. I wanted to reach through the screen so many times and tell the MC not to meet this boy, that he's not interested in the kind of relationship she wants, that she needs to leave and go home.

The art is great, the font is delicious, and the music goes so hard. 

Spoilers:

I would like to ask that you add content warnings for unwelcome touching and kissing. While the narrative does hint that it's going to happen, I wasn't mentally prepared for it because there wasn't an explicit warning. I'm not mad, and I don't blame you, so please don't worry about it :).

I love how the characters at the beginning don't have eyes, and then you get to the boyfriend, and you see his eyes but they're staring right at you, and then you get to the end with your friend and now there's colors and you can see his eyes but he's looking at you gently.

Overall, really amazing, great work! Thank you for making this vn.

caramba meu deus que jogo IRADO eu ADOREI !!!!! eu tinha visto ele um tempo atrás no twitter e fiquei mt interessada pq tinha tradução em português. 

eu amei o retrato da experiência ace!!!!! muito real e extremamente válida!!!!!!!!!!!! eu sou aroace e por muito tempo me perguntei por que todo mundo tinha interesse em romance e eu não. sinto muito que você tenha que ter descoberto de uma forma tão intrusiva, mas fico feliz que agora você consiga falar sobre isso de forma tão poderosa e sensível. muito obrigada por esse jogo. espero que você encontre várias pessoas pra te abraçarem (platonicamente) :')

this was really nice!! i've recently realized i'm ace around two years ago and following that, i've started reevaluating the things i want in my life. the whole "feeling broken" and "not finding the right one" is definitely relatable lmao. that and when MC went on a date and felt wrong? yeah been there, even made a relationship out of it lmao.
and i don't know, i was really struck by the title when i first saw this on twitter. like yeah, i do want someone to hold me. i want someone in my life. i want the kind of love that promises me that they'll be there for me through all the troubles and mundane stuff in life. and i think realizing that 'yes, i can still have that, it'll just be difficult to find' was what broke my heart the most when i had sat down and fully thought through about what being ace means for me.
but i can live without romantic love, because i'm loved by my family and friends. and honestly, i've never more felt more at peace with myself than when i realized i was ace. so yeah!! thank you for the game!! made me think about a lot of things lmao.

Eu realmente amei e chorei muito com esse jogo! Obrigada por traduzi-lo para português do Brasil!!! ❤️❤️💫

Thank you for creating a game with asexual representation. I love it and it really made me emotional and made me remember experiences from the past that were very similar to the MC, like pressure yourself to be like the others and go out on dates or convincing yourself to love someone and waiting to magically feel that "butterfly and special feeling" just to discovering that you just don't feel things in the same way that others do and it's totally fine. 

Also reading the comments, I noticed some people requesting translation in another language. It'll be awesome to spread this game in another language since there is little representation of asexual and I'd like to help with the translation in Spanish since I'm native, but I don't really have experience with translating games. If it's not an inconvenient, I'll gladly help <3

I really like this game, It looked like I was reading a story about myself. I don't usually play casual games, I have a Dota, but this caught my attention. Try it, you'll like it. Good luck !

Espanol? plis

God, I'm speechless... this was beautiful, BEAUTIFUL game and it made me cry a lot.

I could relate so much to many of the struggles the main charaacter faced. How she pretended to be interested in things she wasn't as a sort of defense mechanism, so others wouldn't call her "not normal". How she would agree to things either because she thought that's what she was supposed to do or because she didn't want to hurt the other person, not because it was what she WANTED to do. How she didn't understand the differences between certain types of love. How she longed for closeness, how she longed for a connection... but not in the way that the guy was imagining (not to mention all the red flags he gave).

The artstyle and sound effects really enhanced the writing and overall experience, you can really FEEL how confused, lonely, sad and/or disgusted the MC is depending on the scene. It's heartbreaking, especially taking into account what she says about society expecting certain things from women... it rings so true. 

This was a wonderful game, thank you so much for making it. It has definitely found a place in my heart and I don't think I'll ever forget it because of how much it made me feel. 

I'm looking forward to more of your games! <3

Hey! I played the game and it was extremely good! First, I loved the art, both evocative, explorative and adapted to the story! In a world where you're either "allo" or "broken", there is no room for nuances, the grey ones in the ace flag, everything is black and white! So it was very appropriate, and made the ending even stronger.

The sound design was particularly excellent too, from the music to the UNCOMFORTABLE sound effects (I have one scene in mind, and I really felt like I was in the protagonist's shoes).

The writing was very striking, and captured very well this feeling of trying to fit into allonormative expectations, as if sexuality were something to get, and beyond that, something we had to get, to finally "bloom" into our balanced selves.

Overall, a very strong game, with excellent pacing and coding effects, making the story hurt even deeper, but in a good way! Congrats!!