Sisters' Lighthouse

I did not expect to find a visual novel here, and I am certainly not disappointed at all!


First of all, the game looks awesomes, kudos to the artists for this!

Second of all, the music is very nice, always fitting the current tone! Congrats!

Thirdly, the story is really, really great, very mysterious and captivating!

Finally, well played to all of you for making this game! Making a visual novel in such a short time is hard and you managed to do great!


I love it!


I felt confused about the story. I didn't understand it all, even after the end. The bad ends frustrated me and I think some of them are very abrupt. But the art is AMAZING! And the music too! One of the best graphics that I have ever seen on a ludum dare game, really well done!

@sheinxy thank you! We glad you enjoyed our game! We hope we continue work on this game and make it more interesting.

@eduardo-yukio thank you for playing and review! Make story interesting was hardest part in process, but time limit tight us in small bounds.

if not played it cause i have no Windows... but the screenshot alone looking stunning as fck! Awesome job. Maybe next time also available as a HTML Game would be cool :)

Amazing how you guys managed to cobble together such a well fleshed out visual novel in so little time! Credits especially to the artists and sound designers, the mood the game delivers is great!

Great work you all! I loved the art a lot, especially the small animations in the beginning, it adds to the liveliness of the characters. The music and sound effects really immersed me into the game, but the scream made me jump LOL! I got a bad end :( will keep trying though!

Great drawings, surprised how many of them where there and the facial expressions that changed constantly! Quite the dark and eerie, I liked it. The story maybe was a bit hard to understand, but probably it was just me.

Great story. Thanks for the Russian version :)

I found it really cool the game! extremely entertaining and I enjoyed it alot, I got first the "Bad Ending".... I am still playing to get other endings..... It would have been cool a longer game and more choices to be taken, but I understand the time issue also... There are some small "mispelling" in the english version but it is fine, this is a great game!

Great game! I like really like the artwork as well as the save/load feature! The music also really enhanced the experience!

@lespaul59 thank you! We wanted to create HTML and MAC version, but we dont had enough time. As we make HTML5 version i will send you a link. We will be happy if you play it!

@middelkoopjordi thank you! It was very hard to finish it to the end, we published it a couple hours before deadline.

@meowdy thank you for playing! About scream sound, we will make it quieter in later version, we did not had time to polish the details. Hope you will find true ending ;)

@svenerik thank you! Story we wrote is deeper than than we were able to realize. Later we want to expand game for better understandable.

@kto-to thank you! We glad you enjoyed it!

@krebzor thank you for playing! We want to extend the game and fix mistakes later.

@randomlb thank you very much!

WoW. I looove the Graphics,awesome. The music and sounds are great. there are few decision to make, I wish there were more decisions. I like the story. I was totally in it, but the bad end was little bit confused. I just restarted the game and change the last decision i made to see what it'll happen xD.

РУССКИЕ ВПЕРЁД!!1! Отличная история, возможно даже вдохновлённая каким-то аниме про комплементацию кхм. Поражаюсь, как вы успели столько арта сделать за 72 часа, но это очень круто. Просто небольшое замечание на будующее: в некоторых моментах звук заканчивается и это немного ломает погружение, но сейчас у меня рука не поднимется осуждать вас за это. В целом атмосфера, арт - 5+++
Подписался бы на группу вк, если такая имеется, буду следить за вашими работами ^_^

I really like it! Very atmospheric :)

Visuals look really good by the screen shots. Any change a release for web?

That was a really surreal experience. Feels like I need to let it sink in.
Cute graphics.

Really good stories, I love the graphics, this a really great jobs, congrats !

@meme-310 thank you! We glad you like it! Plot has a lot of allegories, so several things may be not clear :)

@pixel-error Спасибо! Мы думаем что будем развивать дальше эту игру. Мы сделали группу, пока пустую, на днях пополним ее контентом, надеюсь будем обновлять ее :) Вот ссылка: https://vk.com/public194518184

@ka-missa thank you very much! We glad you played it!

@hangarter Thank you! We want to create web version, but it takes some time, we can do it only in next week or later. We hope we will do it soon and add to this publication. After this we will be happy if you try it.

@souperstrawer Thank you! We try to made it some surreal :)

@nounka Thank you! It is important for us that you like our game!

The art is incredible, and the title design is stunning too. The music is perfect, and I was completely immersed in the story. I finally got a good ending, and it was completely playing it ~20 times :-) Great entry! I had a lot of fun!

@jerripo thank you for playing! Our pleasure that you find good ending :)

absolutely adore the look and feel of this game, have you ever created anything else? good luck in the contest!!

The art is amazing, the story is great, the sounds are mostly good, but please try to read all the dialogues again and correct the mistakes (I spotted some typos like "al" instead of "all")

Visual Novels don't really apeal to me to be honest. But this one was able to keep me interested until "the end". I had goosebumps during the voice acting and liked the turn in events. The graphics and the audio are great. There were some typos and grammar issues in the english version (which should be avoided in a text based game I think) but it didn't bother me much :)

It's a very well crafted story :) I could make it until the "good ending" and the playthrough felt different each time, which was really interesting because you putted a lot of effort in the visual style and effects. And it felt really taking a different path :)
Visual novels are not my type but I enjoyed this one because of the theme and how you unfolded it during the course of th story.
it looks really professional with the menu and all, with extras etc... it is totally worthed my time and I really enjoyed it :)
For feedback I would have like more choices during the story because well it's more like a dynamic story unfolding before your eyes and just few choices are offered to you, but nevertheless, it is well crafted and well done :)

When i started this game i was expecting a lighthearted lightnovel. When i saw the first decision of the game my concept went to hell. I really like it! Ty for making this.

**SPOILERS!! Play first if you're reading this!!**

Firstly, the characters and other artwork is really beautiful. Love this style!

The story surprised me! Very mysterious, and I was definitely curious to see what would happen. The first moment with the green light, and the later scene with all of the bodies, were both unexpected and compelling.

Nice job!

@xenith thank you! We made a couple games fore Ludum Dare 40 and 41. Links https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/galaxtris https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/40/fatal-nightmare One of them not working for now (it was web version, we need to upload it again).

@noel-widmer thank you! English is not our native language, we hurry up to publish game in time and made a lot of mistakes in text. We will fix it later!

@corbak thank you for playing! We want open more details of this story in game later and add more choices varioations, i think we will make extended version of the game in future.

@owinmowe thank you! We glad our idea was worked :)

@jasond thank you for playing! We want to polish it after gamejam and extend story.

Ого, графика сделано качественно и на высоком уровне, отличная ВН

Great story and really enjoy it!

Is it the true end when I see "The End" rather than "Bad End"?
Or it's just a normal end?

@epsulon cпасибо! Это было жостко сложно улажится вовремя и более менее сохранив все что хотели :)

@wxzuir thank you! Yes “The End” is true end, for now :)

I couldn't play it bcs I don't have windows PC, but as I see on screenshots, the artwork is amazing! I'm also impressed that you made it on 2 languages and actually made a visual novel in just 3 days, that's wow. Maybe html version? :)

The art is amazing. and the sound design is well done too. Had a lot of fun playing through it!

This is absolutely amazing! Beautiful art, story, and music! Amazing job!!! :smiley:

So much art and it looks so polished! I had a fun playing it even tho I don't like visual novels much. Nice work!

Приятная игра, удачи в разработке!

Very moody and immersing game!

I love the artstyle and the story :smiley:

I've seen Bad End three times and then finally I got The End,
and I am still curious what was that strange ship ~

btw, it kinda felt like Re:Zero :)

@valisse21 Thank you! We plan to create web and mac version as soon as possible. I will add link to publication and notice in comments.

@jazzathefoss Thank you for playing! We tried very hard to make this game as good as possible.

@bitpokit Thank you! We glad to hear this!

@banzi Thank you! We tried make game interesting and nice looking.

@odeyalko Спасибо огромное!

@noobexception Thank you! We want to extend the game in future and add more details and information about all story. With a high probability in the future we will release an extended version of the game.

@lespaul59 @hangarter @valisse21
We finally add MAC version of the game (still not HTML), so if you MAC user, we will be happy if you play it.

Phenomenal art and rather intense mood. That aside, seeing as this is a story game, the story should have been a bit tidier and tied up better. Overall excellent entry.

Oh, very dark story, I like it! Every good story needs dark shadow side, and this was exactly it.

this totally took me by surprise. came in thinking I will play a cute story.
anyhow... I liked this game. the writing is a bit off but the art is great!

also I hate when a game doen't tell me what I did wrong to be better (yes even if its a visual novel)
I think I gave up after losing twice. because otherwise I am only randomly trying to win (sorry my opiniion)

all in all this is a very well made. and the mystery got me involved.

Graphics and audio are amazing! They are beautiful and create great atmosphere! I managed to have a bad ending and a normal (I think) ending and they were very cool (although the bad one was quite confusing). I do feel some clues on what you do incorrectly (which leed to bad ending) would be nice to have

Понравилась атмосфера, начало слегка затянутое, чуть не дропнул (понял что больше для создания эмпатии для сестры, но можно было лучше разрешить, например проиграть такую же историю в миниатюре, чтобы они что то делали с какой то загадкой, вместо просто болтовни) но потом все достаточно бодро. Люблю подобные игры. Молодцы ребята!

The art is amazing and sound works rather well for creating mood. The overall atmosphere and the premise of the story seem really interesting but some choices don't really make sense for me and I'm still not sure why you get the good ending by doing what you do.

Рисовка отличная и музыка достаточно атмосферная. Задумка сюжета весьма интересная, но для меня некоторые выборы и к чему они ведут кажутся нелогичными. И я до сих пор не понимаю, почему для получения хорошей концовки нужно сделать именно то, что приходится для неё сделать

@wilhelmstein Thank you! Story was hardest element of the game, we don't had a time for polishing it, we will make it better in future.

@eugenik Thank you for playing! We glad you like it!

@abdurrahman-khallouf Thank you for playing! We know story has some holes, and some choices may be illogical. We want to fix it in future.

@kaeveris Thank you! We will redo all story and will make choices more logical.

@xk-the-name Спасибо! Да, начало вышло смозливым, в любом случае большую часть сюжета будем переписывать.

@lamossus Спасибо! Там дофига дыр в сюжете, просто физически не успели написать чтото более цельное. Как развить идею мы знаем, так что надеюсь в будущем будет более логичная история.

I like a lot of quality art, the right music to create an atmosphere.
But a lot of choices aren't obvious, they're made at random without knowing how the character will behave. That doesn't make it feel like history control.
And it's not clear why these actions are the reason for a good ending.

@imod yes I am just giving you feed back as a player , what I was thinking as playing). I write short stories. and a short story (1 - 2 pages) take me over a week to finish and publish. sometimes more.

but this is really great as I said before.

Very impressive artwork, sound and mood! I am amazed at what you managed to fit in.

There were quite a few slightly odd English phrases in and some spelling mistakes in, but it is a lot of text and in two languages! Well done!

Whoah !!! Very impressive ! Well done !!

Really impressive work in a short time span. The art is absolutely amazing. And it's nice to see a narrative game ! However, I'd like to make a few remarks considering the story (WARNING ! SPOILERS AHEAD) :
- Considering that the good ending narratively happens when the main characters do nothing... So it's kinda of frustrating and hard to see the point of the story : we don't really understand what you are trying to say, why is this particular narrative path the "good one".
- The fact that you drop hints on how the universe is working (especially with the good endings and the photos) is nice, however I feel that they are too unintellegible... We have enough hints to start thinking about how it all works but not enough to fully understand... Even if I tried all narrative paths, I found myself quite lost in the lore and couldn't really make sense of it. (However you clearly wrote a lot of good lore which is really impressive ! So I totally understand if you didn't had the time to clearly explain it)
- I read in the comments that you wanted to make a more complete version of the game, if so maybe you can try to add more diverse choices. Maybe you could try to phrase them a little bit differently ? (I especially found the choice "make a decision" to be unprecise)
- Overall, this game is really impressive ! Congrats :smile:

Wow, so much content! The art is fabulous! The colors, music, camera work and story match together perfectly. I'm not such a fun of go left/go right decisions, but I saw that you got a skip function which worked perfectly to uncover the whole story.

Good job!

So bright and lovely. Feels like watching your favourite anime with a cup of tea.

@diw527 Thank you! Yes, choices is not very logical, it is all time, that we did not have enough.

@nsadie Thank you! English is not our native language and definitely we must more learn it.

@littlemiky Thank you for playing!

@red-ash Thank you for helpful feedback! Time was our enemy, we could not integrate all ideas and several things looks unclear for now. Now we try make it more solid and want to rewrite almost all story.

@zubspace Thank you! We glad you like it!

@pspkins Thank you!

The game is great. Everything fits very well. I just thought it to be a bit frustating to have gone so deep into the story and get a "bad end". The first one was ok, because it was fast. Don't know, maybe you could name the ends differently, so at least the player can get a different "result"?

But aside from that, the game is awesome! Congratulations!

This is simply amazing! I never saw anything like that. This is very nice example of what a team of talented people can do in just three days.

Отличная проработка игры за 3 дня. Хорошая история, потрясающий визуал. Однако меня смущает то, что я зачастую не мог просчитать последствия своих выборов (с деревней особенно, там вообще не видно намеков на поворот, даже постфактум я их не разглядел), хотя, возможно, это особенность жанра визуальной новеллы - осмотреть все варианты. Я не знаток просто, свою первую визуальную новеллу я испробовал среди игр джема. Ваша игра - вторая :). В целом - это все еще замечательная игра, особенно учитывая то, что сделана она за 3 дня.

Very good game! I'm not fond of VNs, but that was pretty fun. Writing and story are great. I didn't expect it turns so dark at the very beginning. I agree that choices aren't obvious and you got a bad ending very easily, but that's the genre's specifics I guess - to check all the possible roots.
Great job!

@sonicgrey Thank you for playing! About differently show bad endings, it is good idea. Later we want make bad endings less looks the same.

@8bitcharlie Thank you for playing! We glad you enjoy it.

@bredian Спасибо! Да, времени нам не хватило продумать все сюжетные ходы. Но мы сейчас перелопачиваем весь сюжет, делаем его более логичным и собраным.

@n-feofentov Thank you for playing! Yes, logic of choices is weak point of our game, we already started redo all story and it will more logical later.