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A marvellous romance with a hint of murder, where every playthrough is different! Seek love, friendship, or more... intimate encounters. Help a murdered man find justice. And watch out for the bats.
Mask of the Rose is a visual novel, dating sim and detective game
developed and published by Failbetter Games.
Released on June 08th 2023 is available in English on Windows, MacOS and Linux.
It has received 366 reviews of which 285 were positive and 81 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.3 out of 10. 😊
The game is currently priced at 19.50€ on Steam, but you can find it for less on Eneba.
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Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS *: Windows 7 64 bit and Windows 10 64 bit
- Processor: Intel Pentium 2GHZ or AMD equivalent
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: DX10, DX11, DX12 capable
- Storage: 3 GB available space
- Sound Card: DX10, DX11, DX12 compatible
MacOS
- OS: High Sierra 10.13+
- Processor: x64 architecture with SSE2
- Memory: 3 GB RAM
- Graphics: Metal capable Intel and AMD GPUs.
- Storage: <8 GB available space
Linux
- OS: Ubuntu 20.04+, ArchLinux
- Processor: Intel Pentium 2GHZ or AMD equivalent
- Memory: 3 GB RAM
- Graphics: OpenGL 3.2+, Vulkan capable
- Storage: <8 GB available space
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This is an incredible visual novel and as you can see I liked it enough to painstakingly get every rare achievement. The characters are really interesting and diverse and you, the main character, are very different depending on choices you make and dialogue options you select. I cannot even imagine the amount of text and branching behind this game because the variety in each playthrough was nothing short of astonishing. It's the perfect mix of romantic, unnerving and fascinating.
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look motr isn't perfect but the browser game refuses to let me kiss the giant space bats so i bought this solely to have my mc make out with mr pages i would fr give failbetter 40 more dollars just to make out with mr veils specifically i'm a very simple lady
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This review is a "yes, BUT." Read the other reviews; people have been thoughtful in them and I agree with much of what they have to say here. This is long, sorry; I'm invested... I've played about 15 hours of this game now, which amounts to about two and a half playthroughs. My first one was awful. I understood nothing. I got nothing done. I semi-accidentally stumbled into the Drowned Parliament ending very early on while trying to pursue Griz's friendship, which got me a conclusion to solving the mystery without me fully realizing it'd done so. Then, not knowing I'd found a solution, I faffed around for several hours trying to discuss the mystery with the characters and not really getting the opportunity to. I think I misunderstood something about the story-building mechanics. My second playthrough, having already failed to make much headway in the first play, I ended up solving the mystery and getting what I would consider to be a very well-written and interesting conclusion. It was a good time, but I felt a bit like I was fighting against the game to get there. The good: Very rarely do I find visual-novel-style games where I am genuinely this interested in learning more about most of the players involved. I'd be interested in developing relationships with almost any of them, just to see how things played out. More to that point, if you like Fallen London / Failbetter already, you'll like this. The writing quality and tone is exactly the same as it is in the browser game; if that style is something you enjoy, great; you'll enjoy the work they've done here too. For folks who are already fans of the universe, there's interesting lore here, and it's fun to poke at the edges of that and see where it leads. The bad: This game expects you to fail, as most other FL installments do, and to play again. I imagine my two playthroughs I outlined above might be considered a success of the mechanics in some ways, on paper. With that said, despite being genuinely curious about the other characters in the story, I don't think I will be doing any additional playthroughs because getting anywhere in this piece feels like trying to run a machine that keeps repeatedly stalling. The game is full of loading screens, intermediary steps, and breaks to the pace. Huge amounts of progress can be lost in a single wrong statement that are not always clear. Every character interaction requires clicking through several UI dialogues, with the interaction sandwiched between them. Text repeats. Autosaves happen regularly, but manual saving isn't offered. Something about the design has distorted the pacing of the story in a very strange way, so there seems to be both never enough time to do anything but also every action you make takes forever. Somewhere under the belly of Mask of the Rose is a very interesting snappy FL mystery that has been all but smothered by its mechanical design choices, and I don't think I would recommend the game to anybody without this huge caveat in mind. Can I say that I didn't like it? Not really. (Steam, why won't you let me give mixed reviews!) I enjoyed going through it and I'm glad I paid for it. But even after all the patches were done to it, Mask of the Rose still feels somehow unfinished. If you know the setting, you know it's one that asks you to grind in order to reach interesting content on the other side-- do a lot of repetitive clicking, watch a lot of progress bars creep up. I bought this title because I'd hoped to engage with a Fallen London that felt less like a narrative compromised by its own gameplay. I'm sorry to say that this is more of the same pace in a different shape. If you're all right with that, play it and you'll most likely enjoy; if not, you can probably find a summary of all of the cool new lore on a wiki somewhere.
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I ended up really liking Mask of the Rose. I think there are caveats, and for someone who doesn't know any of failbetter's other games, it might not be for you. But I really liked it! It grew on me kind of suddenly, and got me back into the browser game. I wanted to write this review after digging around the community and looking at general impressions and complaints that came about from the early onset of the game. I doubt there will be a lot of readers and I'm not sure I'm going to convince anyone this far out from release lmao but. Failbetter is also releasing some new game information soon so I wanted to get back into their stuff and share my experience. I think there are still some problems that people disliked in the beginning: mainly the saving system. I had to dig around for how to copy and return saves on the forums. This is pretty easy to do, but I think it would be better if it was in the game naturally. The romance can be a little jarring with the regular requests to update your relationship with someone, but I think there are some good experiences to be had. I came to enjoy trying different options and matchmaking some of the characters together. I love the characters and the stories around them. I love the art style, the writing, and the music. The romance is nice, though I used the wiki extensively to get the options I wanted ngl. Storycrafting can be a little confusing but it's something I think you get used to eventually. Overall, if you've played failbetter games before (especially Fallen London,) I think there's probably something to enjoy in it for you. It's worth giving a shot, in my opinion. This last bit is kind of unnecessary but like. Idk if the devs would still read the reviews at this point. but I wanted to say thank you, cause I'm sure you worked hard on this game, regardless of how it was ultimately received. I like it. And thank you, specifically, for Milton. I know I am some nerd on the internet you will never meet, but you made him just for me
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Commenting this right after I got 100% achievement on this game at 58 hours. It took a long time for a game that shouldn't have taken so long almost solely because the devs didn't implement manual save. It's unthinkable for a visual novel with multiple endings -- so many times I had to started the game from the very beginning just because I missed a small thing or two, or had to utilize the save files. As a veteran Fallen London/Sunless Seas/Sunless Skies player, I enjoyed the writing of the game and the more deep Neath lore (Ascension and Reunion are both so well written). I have prepared for the hardship of the grind that is the tradition of the series but not from the lack of a key function. Forcing us to play without manual save doesn't contribute to the narratives or make sense to the game play. I would still say I had some decent fun playing this game, just wish the devs did things differently from the beginning.
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Mask of the Rose is currently priced at 19.50€ on Steam.
Mask of the Rose is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 19.50€ on Steam.
Mask of the Rose received 285 positive votes out of a total of 366 achieving a rating of 7.32.
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Mask of the Rose was developed and published by Failbetter Games.
Mask of the Rose is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Mask of the Rose is playable and fully supported on MacOS.
Mask of the Rose is playable and fully supported on Linux.
Mask of the Rose is a single-player game.
There is a DLC available for Mask of the Rose. Explore additional content available for Mask of the Rose on Steam.
Mask of the Rose does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
Mask of the Rose does not support Steam Remote Play.
Mask of the Rose is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
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