The Letter (Visual Novel)

Link on the visual novel database.

The Letter is a visual novel released this year by Phillopino based game company YangYang Mobile. The game is inspired by the company’s love for Asian Horror and visual novels. This is their first game. The Letter was initially a Kickstarter project. They successfully raised over $30,000, had over 500 supporters, and hired some of the most talented artists and voice actors around the internet. The game was got the go-ahead by Steam and was released earlier this year.

I like horrors that are shrouded in mystery, unpredictable, and set your heart racing. I enjoy visual novels as well such as Long Live The Queen, the Ace Attorney series, and the legendary Clannad. I like visual novels because of their alternate branches and endings, it makes each first experience a bit more special. Merging these two together brings absolute joy. The merge of horror and visual novels isn’t something that I’ve seen often. Other than The Letter, the only game I can think of that does this is Corpse Party.

The Letter is a wonderful game in my opinion. I’ve only had it for less than a week, but I’ve injected over 20 hours of my time aiming to get as many Steam achievements as I can. It shows what an addictive game it is, but I still have NaNoWriMo to do and I don’t want to fall behind on that. Oh well, just shows you how much I love this…