Anomalous
A downloadable visual novel for Windows, macOS, and Linux
The Robot is disgusted by organic life, but her Manager gives her new orders: handling the Flesh, a stubborn and unserious shape-shifting monster of gore—exactly the kind of creature she'd love nothing more than to kill. It was bad enough having to deal with all the disgusting humans she hates, but now she has no choice but to endure the advances of an organism that sickens her far, far more.
------Anomalous Entity Report------
- Class: 3 - Organic and sentient, biological anomalies
- Containment: 8 - Observation room, no roaming access
- #: 1
- Description:
Formless organism of human-like flesh and bone. Often shapes itself into a young woman, appears roughly age 19-21, black hair, green eyes, lithe build. Has a good grasp of the English language, and speaks often to Facility staff. Frequents joking, childish behavior, self-aggrandizing, and vulgarity. Converts organic material to body tissue with an unprecedented efficiency. Stores excess tissue as deposits disjointed from the main body for later assimilation. - Agendum:
Conduct lab testing on it's metabolism, healing capabilities. Interrogate about it's origin. ALL STAFF HANDLING AE-381 MUST EXERCISE EXTREME CAUTION, IT WILL CONSUME ALL ORGANIC MATERIAL AVAILABLE.
------Anomalous Entity Report------
- Class: 6 - Inorganic and sentient, technological anomalies
- Containment: 3 - Management offices, full roaming access
- #: 4
- Description:
Large humanoid weapons platform designed and assembled within the Facility's workshops. Weaponry is disabled. Has four action protocols; Strategic, Offensive, Defensive, and Civilian. Was made as a prototype of a potential commercial weapon, but failed initial control tests. Shows unusual independence, emotion, and human-like personality. Personality varies with protocol. - Agendum:
Serving as assistance in management until further notice.
This is a kinetic visual novel. No choices, no alternate endings. What you see is all there is.
20k words long. Features an original soundtrack from artist helionic.
This novel is written for adults. Please consult the content warnings below before downloading.
Content Warnings
Body horror, gore, sexual content, dubious consent, discussions of sexual abuse
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From all the submissions I've played so far, this is probably my favorite one.
Anomalous is full of hype moments and aura. I love the sceen transitions and all the animations and all the chemicals that get namedropped. This has so much love and detail put into all of its crevices that elevate it into a thoroughly polished visual novel.
Visually speaking, this is absolutely delightful! The art style and general art direction are really appealing to me, it's all really pleasant and unique. It kinda reminds me of the well-practiced-but-doing-its-own-thing of styles I'd have seen on FurAffinity in 2016, and I mean this in the best way possible. The artwork is fucking sick. And you even added small details such as playing with the sprite coordinates to properly convey the height differences! That added so much charm to these goobers. As did all the shit you did with the text boxes. So many custom fonts and the furigana?? Ah,, my designer heart feels cozy here :3
And god... where to even start with regards to the story?! The solidarity between the Flesh and Buki so sweet. The way they tease each other ever closer and share in their plight. Also, the sex is so good. Fucking mindblowing & hot & awesome & queer. They're so awesome. I wanna see them murderfuck and chat and be horrible together so bad.
The protocols are so fun, Lambda especially. The Flesh's care while inside Buki and how her demeanor shifted was so so important and sweet.
The ending hit me like a fucking truck. Tragic toxic yuri that turns out to be super doomed to fuck??? Ow my feels
I genuinely have nothing but praise and adoration for Anomalous. The story, the characters, the audiovisual presentation; It all coalesces into a beautiful and surprisingly heartwrenching story about emotional vulnerability, intracommunal solidarity, and bodily autonomy.
Palette and team; You did an amazing job <3
AAAAAAAAAA thakn you so muuuuuch auauauau!!
I'm so glad you loved all the little details, I loved making all of the animations and it was really fun to imagine the way a robot would sense and conceptualize the world around them through their inhuman senses.
I love all the art in it too aaaaaaaa Temteno and Luci Lemonseed, the artists on the project, did so, so, so much good work on it, it looks so good thanks to them! I didn't actually use any custom fonts at all, hehe, the bit at the end is a pretty popular font for sitelen pona, a writing system for toki pona, a language I speak and had her speaking. I'm glad you appreciated it so much though!! I had a lot of fun designing the UI and visual language of the game, hehe.
I'm so glad you liked the two of them, hehehe~ I love both of them so much, hehehe. And I'm glad you liked the sex! It was a real struggle, it was rewritten like three or four times, hehe. The hardest part of it is that your point of view both has never felt pleasure before and was never meant to, she has to learn what it is and explain it through her artificial body. It was really fun though, hehe. I also wanna see more of them together, I've got plans for a much larger visual novel about them, the Choir, the Manager, and a new character not in this one that I was working on long before this, but I really really wanted to make something with the characters already and the larger project is a little far out right now, hehe.
Thank you again auau!!
THE TOKI PONA ANGEL WHAT THE FUCK
that's so awesome
And yeah, the struggle to even conceptualize pleasure and sex came across well I think. You know what they say that sex horror and action writing are all basically the same, and at points it really was just like horror writing in that scene, which was so eerie and cool
I'd fucking devour a followup project nyaa
awawawa!!!!
its cool when i see she changed personality i instantly interested kinda hoped to see her other personality but yeah quite interesting ending
very good game palette
thank you!^^
i was locked in by the first 10 seconds just seeing the boot up animation. the rest of my time spent reading was a dream. this is so many things i love wrapped together so nicely like oh my goddddd this was so good. you all made something really incredible here. I WANT TO PROTECT THEM !!
I'm so glad you liked it auauauau thank you thank you!!