About

• Work-Life is a Visual Novel focusing on relationships in a modern workplace
• There are successful routes and failure routes
• The story is kinetic (predetermined) with options affecting only small variations of a story (mainly character preferences)
• There is no conflict between potential interests as the "romance" is a only a subtext

Inspiration

It is inspired and loosely based off of Tokimeki Memorial with the following differences:

• deeper character story lines
• transparent, no-rng, task-based relationship value replacing hidden stat values
• older characters
• negative action (rumors) replaced with weekend emergency events. tunneling one character's story will not lead to bad end, only slows down relationship gain.
• no cost to check character relations

Curious? Watch a playthrough here!

There is also a lengthy review / playthrough from Action Button here

Other Notes

• This was built for the 2024 GBA Jam.
• It took between 250-400 hours (4-6 hours 6 days a week) over the course of about 80 days.
• It is my first game and built in honor of NHK.