Robot Daycare is a short Visual Novel developed by KigyoDev where 3 fellow students get to create and educate a child robot as a college project of their choice.
Game’s details:
- Genre: Cute, Casual, Psychological Horror
- Classification: Visual Novel
- Supported System: Windows Vista or higher, macOS 10.10+, Linux Ubuntu 16.04+
- Developer: KigyoDev
- Platform: Steam, Itch.io
- Price: Free to Play
- Gameplay: ~2h
TW: depression, death mention, gore, violence
Game’s premise:
Strelitzia, Lycoris and Oleander are three close friends who are sharing an important bond that with time becomes more and more damaging to their friendship.
The stated group decides to take upon their shoulders a project involving realization of a child robot dividing respectively the main tasks among them, such as: model construction, personality establishment and coding.
While running few personality tests, Strelitzia does come upon few curious questions the robot asks, which does cause the student to open up about an accident occurred in the past involving a 4th person from their group – Lilith…
The trio:
It seems like the past events did influence a lot the mutual respect and emotional stability of the three – will the bond remain damaged forever or is it possible to repair their mutual trust and support?
A genuinely curious AI:
The robot child does present a logic of his own as well as a quick apprehension of the human world and perspective, to the point of beginning to develop a personality of his own and helping his “parents” reason in clearest way possible during the repetitive moments of shared disputes.
Featurings:
This is a very short Visual Novel presenting occasional choices that will influence the game’s outcome.
You will have a chance to come upon a very heartwarming ending, as well as, a very tense epilogue with horror-esque turnaround.
The art is simple and clean, the character sprites do present a blinking animation and the game offers a couple of CGs.
A casual narration will portray both tense and comic moments among the 3, as well as bright and heartwarming parts once the child robot begins to display the thoughts of his own.
You can choose whether to change the robot child’s name, or leave the default name “Nano”.
The game also does offer a choice coming to picking the robot’s gender based on player’s preferences.
The story is accompanied mainly by casual music with occasional sound effects.
At the beginning of the gameplay you get warned about possible triggers, as well as, you will have the option of turning off the violent parts.
Personal considerations:
I personally enjoyed this little story and the contrast between the offered outcomes.
The casual atmosphere and the simplicity of this game results in a truly relaxing experience.
Overall:
If you are into casual Visual Novels offering wholesome moments as well as horror-ish outcomes and got few hours at hands, then you should check out this title!
Thank you to KigyoDev for reaching out.
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