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"Alice followed the white rabbit into a fantastical land where everything was topsy-turvy, and everyone was mad."

The story begins when Abriel falls into a Wonderland distinctly different from the story books: a world filled with magical girls devoted to fighting for the sake of the Queen. As Abriel tries to find her place in Wonderland and face her past, she must also face the reality of her situation: in Wonderland, nothing (everything) makes sense.

duplicity loop features branching paths, bad endings, and one true end - if Abriel can reach it.

This game is not suitable for younger readers due to its depiction of darker topics, which include: suicide, murder, and child murder. Blood will be shown on screen, but there are no in-detail descriptions or depictions of gore.

The game also includes references to CSA (child sexual abuse), though it is not depicted. It is not referenced in the demo (Chapter 1).

StatusIn development
PlatformsWindows, macOS
Rating
Rated 3.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Authorbat
GenreVisual Novel
Made withRen'Py
TagsAnime, Dark, Gay, Indie, magical-girl, Psychological Horror
Average sessionA few hours
LanguagesEnglish
InputsKeyboard, Mouse
LinksSteam, Twitter/X

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duplicity loop PC Demo (1.1) 164 MB
duplicity loop Mac Demo (1.1) 159 MB

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Absolutely adored this demo. Hoping the game is still in the works, it's hard to tell with the nature of Itch games. 

There's always been something so fascinating to me about Dark Magical Girl stories. Maybe it's just because I grew up watching a lot of stuff like Sailor Moon, and more if you count stuff adjacent to the genre like Super Sentai and Power Rangers. And then Madoka happened, and the entire genre's formula flipped. 
Most new stuff in the genre focuses on how futile Hope is as a concept, and the responsibility that comes with being a protector, and just how generally traumatic the experience should be.


With all that said, I'm interested in this game because it sorta seems like it's taking a different approach than most post-madoka magical girl media. They already died! Every single Magical Girl we meet (presumably) has killed themselves to be here. I mean, that's an incredibly dark but incredibly interesting premise. How will each character cope with that? How will they grow from it?
Because that's what Magical Girl is about. Coming of age. And fundamentally, writing a coming of age story about characters who killed themselves is comedically tragic. 

I'm not exactly good at reviewing games, if my ramblings are anything to go by. Asides from my long-winded praise for the direction of the game, every character I've met has an interesting design. I've read all of 9 lines from Tragedia and I already love her. Big ":3" energy from the art alone. She's either the most wholesome or most fucked up person imaginable. No in-between, I'm calling it now.
And the music! The main menu track alone is adorable and goofy, and the other various music tracks throughout fit super well!

That review by ebihime from 2 years ago summed up much of what I wanted to say but couldn't say concisely. I personally adore the font, but sans-serif for accessibility should be in basically every VN, or any game that has a weird font as a whole. God knows OFF needed it. 
Otherwise, my only hope is that the full game will have a proper flowchart. There seems like there will be a fair amount of genuinely important choices, WHICH I LOVE. But that can quickly make a game way less fun if there's not a clean way to navigate through them (cough cough, Class of 09)

All in all, I desperately hope for more of this. Not really active on Itch, but I'll be watching my steam wishlist for this with a firm gaze.

cool game I will definitely play the full version when it comes out (I played the demo on steam not itch)

Just checked this out and I enjoyed it a lot! First of all, I really love the character designs. They're all so fun and creative; I especially love Folly's spade-shaped skirt and Abriel's wing hair. Abriel's outfit is kind of Aikatsu-core too, which is very cute! Love the bunny socks too!

The character sprites are so lively, they have a lot of poses and emotes. They're all used very well too! The backgrounds are less detailed but it fits the Wonderland theme, and I think it all looks very cohesive.

I will say I think the UI isn't the best. The sprites + bgs are both very nice, but I think the very thick outline of the textbox and the font chosen make the presentation look 'cheaper' than it is. If the UI looked a bit sleeker and simpler it would make it look better. Maybe this kind of layout would work, if the colours were adjusted accordingly?
https://foleso.itch.io/bridal-style-visual-novel-ui

I also think the text is a bit hard to read because of the font, so going for a more simple sans serif font might work.

As for the story and the characters, I think this is pretty interesting! The writing style itself is nice and engaging, and things unfold at a pretty fast pace. The choices have obvious consequences (unlike a lot of VNs which will give you seemingly important choices but railroad you onto one path), so it'll be fun seeing how much branching and variation there is in the finished product.

Also Abriel is very cute! I like her a lot!

Good luck with the rest of the project; I hope it goes well!

Thank you for sharing your thoughts on duplicity loop! Since the VN is still in development, feedback helps us make it better. We'll definitely take it into consideration (we should absolutely have a simpler sans-serif font available for general accessibility, so we've already started working on that!).