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When seven people fall prey to a vicious curse, they will discover that horror rests not from the shadows lurking about, but within themselves. To what ends will one go in order to survive?
The Letter - Horror Visual Novel is a visual novel, horror and choices matter game
developed by Yangyang Mobile
and published by Yangyang Mobile and Neon Doctrine.
Released on July 24th 2017 is available on Windows, MacOS and Linux
in 3 languages: English, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese.
It has received 1,448 reviews of which 1,249 were positive and 199 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.2 out of 10. 😎
The game is currently priced at 4.74€ on Steam with a 75% discount, but you can find it for 2.06€ on Gamivo.
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Windows
- OS *: Windows XP/Vista/7/8/10
- Processor: Intel® Core 2 Duo
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: GTX 260 or equivalent
- DirectX: Version 9.0
- Storage: 5 GB available space
MacOS
- OS: OS X 10.5 or higher
- Processor: Intel® Core 2 Duo
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 3000 or better
- Storage: 5 GB available space
Linux
- OS: Ubuntu 12.04 or newer
- Processor: Intel® Core 2 Duo
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: GTX 260 or equivalent
- Storage: 5 GB available space
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just finished game and well here is my honest review ; 10/10 Arts : the background arts, CGIs , everything is beautiful, its not a cheap drawing you would see in other games. 10/10 Musics & SFX : its not only empty "text" messages, there is SFX sounds here and there that makes the atmosphere more realistic, plus amazing soundtracks that adds up to it, be it horror, sorrow or just calm. 10/10 Voice acting : it fits the characters and also its amazing, voice actors did a great job on this, anger or sorrow or fear, you can feel it from the voices and its so real, not some emotionless voice acting in other games. 10/10 characters : all characters are lovely (especially becca), different personalities they have really brightens up the atmosphere of the game. 10/10 Story : every decision you make, even the tiniest one, has impact on the story, its not like one or two decision matters then the rest are for decorations, all of it matters. plus the story itself is amazing, there is a fine balance between horror, humor and sorrow, you get jumpscares, laughs, and crying (trust me cuz i got them all) plus people, don't complain about the endings, you do realize there are multiple endings not only one? i do agree i prefer the good ending where everyone lives MUCH MORE than.. true ending itself. 10/10 achievements : one of the good things about this game is the achievements, it gives you a purpose that makes you want to start from scratch and try different decisions. there is a problem with the game btw, which was fine for me but it might not be for some people, its that there is alot of dialogues, well, alot of "character thinking" dialogues, but again as the developers said "over 700K words. Expect a lot of reading!" so yeah, if you are that kind of person who is always like "i don't have time for this" "i don't have time for that" well this game's not for you, its meant to be played with patience, sure "some" of the "character thinking" dialogues are unnecessary and useless but most of it is important, it gives details about the surroundings and also about the characters past or their life and etc so its best to read them all. TL;DR i really recommend this game, it DOES worth it price with the amount of content honestly, but again if you want to buy it on a sale or not is up to you.
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One of my fav vns! The writing is very immersive and the characters feel alive. What I love the most is that there's so many outcomes and your choices actually matter.
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The Letter is an incredibly large visual novel—my first playthrough alone took around 19 hours to complete. While there certainly is a lot of reading, the whole thing is fully voice-acted (with great actors), which helps a lot. It wasn't until my second playthrough, however, that I truly realized just how much this story could drastically change. A character I assumed to be essential to the plot the first time around was written out in my second playthrough with just a couple of bad choices, and the game didn't abruptly end with a non-standard game over (or gloss over their ensuing absence). Instead, it continued, with their loss factoring into the continuing story in a way that almost felt as if it was meant to happen. I was also convinced at the time that characters I lost the first time around were meant to go with how naturally the story played out without them—only to find out in subsequent playthroughs that their loss was not necessary at all. Achievement hunters will love finding all the ways they can shape the story, with dozens of achievements to earn for doing so. Completionists, however, will likely find exploring every possible path in the final two chapters to be quite difficult. Fortunately, the developers have included plenty of quality-of-life features to help with doing all of this. An option to instantly skip all previously-seen text up until the next choice (allowing playthroughs to potentially be completed in mere minutes!), a branching tree to track what choices have been made while showing what choices remain to be made, and a gallery of all that you've seen thus far are all very helpful.
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So far, it's good. I've been playing on Deck. I had read the game's QTEs require a full keyboard, so I disabled QTEs in the options. On Deck it defaults to trackpad as mouse and using A to proceed text, so it's easy to play this as a purely reading visual novel and use the trackpad to save and exit.
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This visual novel is great because it's long, the dialogues are fully voice acted in English, you play as different characters so you can understand the story in different perspectives (but that also leads to repetition), and it have different endings to offer which depends on the choices you made. There are mini animations and mini-games where you fought against the ghost, which makes the story more immersive.
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The Letter - Horror Visual Novel is currently priced at 4.74€ on Steam.
The Letter - Horror Visual Novel is currently available at a 75% discount. You can purchase it for 4.74€ on Steam.
The Letter - Horror Visual Novel received 1,249 positive votes out of a total of 1,448 achieving a rating of 8.22.
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The Letter - Horror Visual Novel was developed by Yangyang Mobile and published by Yangyang Mobile and Neon Doctrine.
The Letter - Horror Visual Novel is playable and fully supported on Windows.
The Letter - Horror Visual Novel is playable and fully supported on MacOS.
The Letter - Horror Visual Novel is playable and fully supported on Linux.
The Letter - Horror Visual Novel is a single-player game.
There are 2 DLCs available for The Letter - Horror Visual Novel. Explore additional content available for The Letter - Horror Visual Novel on Steam.
The Letter - Horror Visual Novel does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
The Letter - Horror Visual Novel does not support Steam Remote Play.
The Letter - Horror Visual Novel 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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Developer
Yangyang Mobile
Publisher
Yangyang Mobile,
Neon Doctrine
Release
24 Jul 2017
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