DisplaceMen
A downloadable game for Windows and macOS
DisplaceMen is a magic realist ADV that depicts a seven-day mystery story with multiple scenarios and endings.
In the coastal town of Huanmen, everyone knows how to 'displace'—to turn any item or even living being they own into another, as long as the two have equivalent psychological value. Displaced things will vanish and be forgotten. You are a broke painter who wanders around the town, collecting the strangest things to make art. While chatting with your commissioners, with a painter’s eye to observe and imagine, you will unveil the true faces of these people - the motivational speaker, the trace scholar with a day job as a tattoo artist, the hardcore cosplayer teenager, the wanted pseudoscientist, etc. Working to redeem the vanished “mermaid,” you will accumulate properties until you realize you can displace people. Deciding what to let go of is a painter’s practice. Stay sensitive. Stay gold.
Magic-Realist Narrative
Experience the mainstage “mermaid” mystery by making seamless decisions for multiple endings. Enjoy the satellite stories while exploring various locations in a town operating with the rules of displacement.
Painterly Choice Branching
Imagine the most impossible found objects as art material. Observe your subjects and chat with your clients to uncover their secrets. Make artistic decisions to enable story branching. Balance special personal values for characters to activate unique painting results.
Displaceable Collection
Collect items and tokens of human ownership within the main story and sidequest. *Bonus: Displace your item or token at the right moment for the best value by watching your psychological values change triggered by events.
Visceral Dream Sequence
Solve small drag-and-drop puzzles while immersed in visceral dream sequences of the vanished “mermaid.” Witness the forgotten story emerging from beautifully intangible streams of consciousness.
*Love is an investment. This is a story for those who have the deepest love for things that are not present. We miss the things that are not here, and this drives us insane. We have different mechanisms to process this, and this game proposes two of them: 1. Keep talking to people, and 2. Keep making paintings.
*By the way, the game can make you laugh a lot, especially at inappropriate moments.
See the links below to download our playable demo!
-------------Current Update 2023.2.17------------------
DEMO (short)
1. Supported Language: English + 简体中文
2. Estimated Play Time: 30 min.
3. Story updated to the end of DAY1.
4. The SAVE/LOAD feature still has some issues. If you're interested in re-entering the story and/or loading scene, please try to load the auto-save files!
Produced by leafaleaves, Ash Wei
Art by leafaleaves, minot, ivyreed, Coco,
LdRc, Ash Wei, A Huang
Developed by leafaleaves, Yolanda
Development Support by HarveyLijh
Written by leafaleaves
Translation by acropolis
Music by Morning Close
Instagram: @displacemengame
Discord Channel: click to join
QQ交流群: 141862086
Feedback Form / 意见反馈: here
Status | In development |
Platforms | Windows, macOS |
Rating | Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars (1 total ratings) |
Author | leaf-a |
Genre | Visual Novel, Adventure |
Tags | 2D, Comedy, Mystery, Narrative, Pixel Art, Point & Click, Story Rich, Unity |
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Development log
- First Demo Released!Mar 18, 2024
Comments
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Very fascinating game, and I love how captivating both the narrative and character designs are. Without spoiling too much, the game mechanic and story line made me want to replay it to see different results. Looking forward to future development!
One minor bug I encountered is that after reloading a save, the characters in the dialog box are all question marks, but the text after that is all good.
Thank you for leaving a comment here! We are glad you enjoyed it^o^ Thanks for pointing out the SAVE/LOAD bug—we'll fix that once the new chapter is updated.
nice
thanks for sharing this!
I really liked this, it ran loops around my brain, and rarely does a game effectively make me empathize with it.
I can't describe the effort and love put into it in words better than...it, the game.
So please, if you haven't, play it.
I'm looking forward to the culminated message that will be at the end of this project, and excited for the experience that this game will give me.
Thank you so much for writing this!! I'd treasure this message - this is indeed very motivating to hear while we are continuing to develop more contents. I hope the future chapters will bring more excitements/good surprises to you!