project; VIRAI: DOOMER’s LIFE ESCAPE
A psychological horror RPG with visual novel elements, where you live the life of Hicha, a shut-in hikikomori trapped in an endless cycle of depression, anxiety, and routine.
Be Happy. Be Perfect. Be Popular.
Who needs a real life when I have a virtual one!
What will you do if the only thing that you live for disappeared?
Hicha is a nobody in real life, she does not go out of her apartment. No friends. Does anyone know she exist? The only people who probably knows her existence is the landlord and her mom. Her life is Virai.
Virai is a VTuber idol singer star in VITA, the virtual reality platform. Everybody loves her. Everybody adores her. They wait for her live online concert.
One day, in Hicha's ordinary 'life sucks day', she can no longer be Virai. You know, the only reason for her to exist...
Do you give up or fight to get back what gives her reason to exist? or "fix" her? Good luck with that.
Key Features
Enjoy Simulating Hicha's Life
Live Hicha's everyday life in a psychological life simulator. Hate life. Sleep. Cry. Eat? (optional)
Every decision affects Hicha's mental state.One bad habit becomes another. One good day doesn't erase yesterday.
Can you fight your own mental state to survive?
Discover the world of VITA
Escape into VITA, a flawless virtual reality, the perfect world... for imperfect people, where they help you achieve your impossible dream of becoming a star!
But everything comes with a price... in Hicha's case, her life?
Unlock 10 different endings.
What's your perfect ending?
Hope. Acceptance. Escape. Obsession. Revenge? Complete emotional damage.
Unlock 10 different endings, each determined by how you guide Hicha through her life. Whether she finds salvation or completely falls apart...
...that's on you.
A Mixed-Media Mental Breakdown
Experience Hicha's emotions through constantly shifting visual styles, seamlessly blending pixel art, anime illustrations, 3D exploration, visual novel storytelling, and surreal dream sequences.
The world changes as Hicha does.
Smile for the camera.
Nobody can tell you're falling apart in 1080p. Or can they?
Others
Enjoy an original soundtrack composed exclusively for project; VIRAI, accompanying every emotional high and devastating low.
Featuring 10 licensed Russian doomer and post-punk tracks, because silence wasn't depressing enough.
Don't worry. The songs are happier than the story. Probably.
Experience a distinctive visual identity featuring expressive artwork by RIKANI ("An Alt Girl for Skoof"), blending anime aesthetics with atmospheric pixel art and surreal dream imagery.
Depression has never looked this stylish.
