FICTOPHILE

..is a game about a little girl who spends too much time online. not in a fun quirky way. more like the internet raises her better than anyone else does.

she likes fictional characters more than real people because they listen, they never leave, and they always say the right thing. her world slowly bends around that. forums feel warmer than home. avatars feel safer than adults. reality starts to feel optional.

the game doesn’t tell you who to blame. maybe it’s the parents for not noticing. maybe it’s the internet for noticing too much. maybe it’s normal now and that’s the problem. you make choices, but none of them feel clean, and most of them feel like something you’d regret later.

gameplay is a story-focused rpg inspired by deltarune and omori. you explore warped versions of real and fictional spaces, talk to characters who might care about you or might just need you to care about them, and get into turn-based fights that feel more like emotional arguments than battles.

it’s funny sometimes. uncomfortable a lot. and a little too familiar if you grew up online during the pandemic and don’t really remember when the screen stopped being a coping mechanism and started being the problem.

you’re not here to fix anything. you’re just here to see how bad it gets.