EMPHATIC TOURMALINE and Jane and NEO_DOMEVILLE

This is a submission for the "Worst Visual Novel Ever" Challenge 2025. It is intentionally bad, on purpose.

Content Warnings: Loud bass-boosted music, non-graphic descriptions of violence, non-graphic depiction of a decapitated body, poor spelling, poor editing.

In the far future, the Martian dome-cities are divine, and their children play guard dog for civilization, against the threats of the Red Planet. You, EMPHATIC TOURMALINE, have been sent to face a fearsome regolith-troll, but this is more than just routine. The fate of the human species itself rests on your shoulders.

Enjoy a thrilling science-fantasy adventure in EMPHATIC TOURMALINE and Jane and NEO_DOMEVILLE!

Explore a bold new future for humanity, and question what it truly even means to be human!

Make choices with sweeping consequences, and see them play out!

Features:

• 1.8k words
• 15 scenes
• 16 possible routes
• 5 endings
• A New Game Plus which literally expands the possibilities to infinity!

All emojis designed by OpenMoji – the open-source emoji and icon project. License: CC BY-SA 4.0

Emojis are added to various sprites and images to represent emotions.

"Kcits A Tog I" is adapted from "I Got A Stick Feat James Gavins" by Kevin MacLeod, used under CC BY 4.0.

"PIA17944: Curiosity's Color View of Martian Dune After Crossing It" by NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS is in the public domain.

"Eden project.JPG" by A1Personage is in the public domain.

The writing and assets of this VN not otherwise belonging to other people or in the public domain are licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license.