: Players must navigate the town’s unsettling social structures, uncover dark secrets step-by-step, and submit to or manage relationships with powerful, dominant figures. Key Features of Build v0.4
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Visually, abandons the clean 2D anime aesthetics of v03 for a "rotoscoped nightmare." Every character model has been redrawn using live-action footage of actors covered in bioluminescent mold, then traced over at 12 frames per second. The result is jerky, unnatural, and deeply unsettling.