To Judge By The Cover
A downloadable game for Windows, macOS, Linux, and Android
Eric is a talented game developer who struggles with work and personal life because of his ADHD.
One day, on mom's advice, he decided to visit the book club located in the old municipal library, and it changed his life.
Right at the first meeting, he caught the attention of four handsome members. What is it if not fate?
But be careful, Eric! Because each of them keeps skeletons in their closet!
The first build was created in the bounds of Nikko's "Love + Attraction Jam 2025" jam.
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Zoologician - Project lead, original Idea, writer (Ruth)
Gr.Onion - Lead programmer, development coordinator, game designer, GUI, writer (Richard/Prologue)
Cardigan- Android portation, additional help
Goober's Signal - Lead artist, sprites, CG artist
TheCheesenOne- BGs artist, additional help
kissxsleep- coordination help, additional help
Nesaura-writer (Jericho)
Prince Juditheee - writer (Koi), additional help, VA (Koi)
Seiroune- editor, writer (Prologue)
Cyanide- editor, writer (Prologue)
Hidden Vris - Original OST
Tyler Moody - VA (Richard)
Kitsuota-VA (Ruth)
GD Kalmbach - VA (Jericho)
James West - VA (Eric)
DEMO RELEASE IN BOUNDS OF JAM:
Some features aren't available for now, such as:
voice acting, extras menu, additional scenes, mini-games, and others
They all will be added one by one in the next two weeks or with future plot updates
minor bugs
Used materials:
fonts: florida vibes by Turbologo,Oilpainter, Veles-Bold,Daneehand Regular, Sunday-Regular
music: ILikePeanuts, BrookersBlues, CopAFeel, Pioneers, sidewalk, SundaySpirit
by Audionautix
sounds: Start sound freesoundorg\inspectorj
Stock images: Freepik|pexels
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Development log
- Voice Acting Update + News about the game future65 days ago
- Small Update97 days ago
- DEMO BUILD IS OUT!98 days ago
Comments
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Very interesting story, it's good to see some representation like ADHD and autism ^^, the characters are greats, (Richard 🫳🏾 I love him), can't wait for the futur update ! By the way, the link of the discord doesn't work, I wanted to join but :(.
Hey! I'm part of the team, here's the Discord link.
https://discord.gg/MW5VdUMJ
It's not super active right now as May is a production hiatus for us, but we'll be posting update notifications there once we're up and running again! I'll ask the person who runs the itch page to update the link, thanks for letting us know! And thanks for playing!
It's really not a problem, we can wait ^^
I loved the story.
It presents a premise that, while well-known like any other visual novel, is still excellent when executed.
The characters have an interesting backstory that was well developed despite being a short story, which I loved, and I'm eager to learn more about each of them.
The only negative point I could point out is that sometimes the side images to the left of the dialogue cover up areas of the text, which only rarely occurs and is resolved with the voices but it's still annoying, but not overwhelmingly so.
The voices were also excellent, although only one stood out better than all the others: Ruth. However, I won't discredit the merits of the others, as it's clear they tried to fully immerse themselves in each character's shoes.
In short: Great visual novel, excellent characters, voice actors, and plenty of potential for the future.
great game. can't wait for ms. luvine's voiced route where she talks about her 18 divorces /ij (i'm zoologician and seiroune's friend! thoroughly enjoyed the second playthrough with the added voices :D)
100% True
☆Thank you for playing!☆
😍😍😍😍😍 AWOOGA! Big guy Jericho is soooooooo dreeamyy oh my goddd I need him so bad
Just wanted to say I already love how this is starting out this first build already has me hooked, and I am already down horrendous for Richard.
☆Thank you very much for playing!☆
☆It's so nice to hear that someone loves my grumpy boy☆
I definitely do love him and all his grumpiness I feel like I'm gonna get along very well with him. Helps that he is handsome as hell as well
Was a great time and replayed it twice with voices and without. Looking forward to more of these great characters.
☆Thank you for playing☆
I replayed the current update and omg
Jericho's voice!!
Aaaaaaa!!
I love it
❤️❤️❤️❤️
I want him to be my dad lol
Thanks for playing☆
loved this especially ruth!!:3
☆She's the queen!☆
Thanks for playing!
Omg, i loved it, can't wait for the next club meeting :3
Thanks for playing💚
Just finished playing and on my God, Jericho is such a cutie pie.
Love him
And the story is so good so far.
Can't wait for more!!
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Thanks for playing!
I showed your message to Jericho's route writer, and they are happy to hear such sweet words!
We are doing our best to update the game as soon as possible, so please keep following us💚
I don't know if it's just my browser bugging out but just in case you have a really light background colour and really light text and I can't read any of it without highlighting it. If it's not just on my end then you need to fiddle with your page and make the text darker, if that's not what's happening on your end then ignore me as my browser like implodes.
Can you please send a screenshot in our Discord?
Done
It is probably Forced Dark Mode, I just had to turn it off for the page myself. If you use OperaGX, this is something that happens on a lot of pages. Right-click somewhere on the page that isn't a link and there should be a "Disable force dark page" in the menu.
That's so good to know