Locked Up
Introduction
You arrive to a silent and immaculate experimental facility run with absolute discipline. Doors open only when someone wants them to. Cameras blink like sleepless eyes. A calm director welcomes you with rules that sound more like a contract than a second chance.
This project is a narrative visual novel about control, trust, and hidden motives inside a cold institutional environment. Choices shape how others treat you and which paths open later.
Included in version 0.3.0
- The story up to chapter 3.
- New background art, revised UI, and improved pacing.
Available on Patreon
Patreon supporters already have access to version 0.7.0, which continues the story with new character routes and early system prototypes. Supporting helps us expand the story faster and gives access to early builds, polls, and extra scenes.
Support development
If you enjoy narrative tension and atmosphere-driven stories, consider supporting on Patreon. It helps us continue development and grants access to builds ahead of public release.
Download
Development log
Comments
Log in with itch.io to leave a comment.
I hope this game gets an Android release soon. It's the only device I can play in comfortably.
Edit: I think I went through every dialogue option in the demo (though maybe there's a combination I'm not aware of) but it looks like there's items in the gallery I haven't gotten yet.
Are those supposed to be like a teaser for the full version (because like I said android is the only device I can play this in comfortably so I'm not buying the full game just yet) or do I just need to keep trying different combinations.
Does this have AI images in it?
Yes
First off, the premise is really interesting.
Sure, the inner monologues are certainly numerous, but I feel like it's important to understand the protagonist's nature, so it's fine.
When the word "piensa" showed up, I really thought that that's some kind of verbal quirk that this specific character had (forgot who said it first though).
I'm keeping an eye on this project and hope for a full release here on Itch, once it's ready. Steam is unfortunately a no go for me, since I live in Germany and this game is not going to make it into the German Steam store.
Btw, how long that it roughly take to get to the explicitly sexual content?
I just wanted to roughly know how long I still need to wait for it.
"Piensa" means "think" in Spanish, it's probably a translation error of some kind.
holy shit if i had the cash i would get the ful game
Unplayable. The overbearing mountain of unnecessary dialogue in the way of inner monologue makes this impossible to enjoy. I find it insulting that you don't trust the reader to assess the dialogue themselves. For example when a character emphasises a word or term in a sentence like Helena's "Not through crude punishment, but through... fine-tuning." we don't need you to follow with the inner monologue "'Fine-tuning.' Sounds like..." just let the dialogue speak for itself and trust your audience to think that. Or when you go from meeting Helena to Laura we don't need a full 19 lines of inner monologue assessing the character. We know she's distinctly different, and we can make our own assessment of what type of person she is based on the attire, the body, the facial expressions etc. all 19 lines I had to click through are spontaneous thoughts that take a fraction of a second for the reader to conclude on their own.
Thanks a lot for the detailed feedback, we really appreciate it.
You’re right about the inner monologue being heavy, it’s something we’ve already talked about internally, and we’ll be making an effort to trim it down.
It’s a challenge to express everything we want without relying too much on internal narration, but we’ll definitely work on finding a better balance. Thanks again for pointing it out.
I hope so. It looks like a fun game otherwise.
is not everything from the screenshots in the game yet?
Yeah, a couple of the screenshots are from later parts of the story, those scenes aren’t in the current build yet
will there be futa content ?
Hi, nope, no futa planned for this one
just completed the first day and I must say it's a very intriguing story and I'm looking forward to progressing through it.
I do have to point out a small error in the English text, the word piensa is used instead of the word think.
Hi, thanks a lot for playing and for your kind words. About the “piensa” issue, you’re not the first to mention it, but the weird thing is... we’ve never been able to reproduce it ourselves. We have tested the English build on multiple systems, and the bug simply doesn’t show up for us.
Could you tell us which platform you’re playing on, Windows, macOS, Linux, or the web version?
That would really help us narrow down what’s going on.
I'm playing on Windows
I just started playing it today on windows and I have the same bug showing up.