Review: Serre (2017)

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Serre (2017) is a romantic visual novel between a lonely gardener (serre means greenhouse!) and a space alien who looks like a huge bee! Harold, they're lesbians. I played the Mac OS version.

Nice colors, nice hand drawn art, adorable background music. Funny and sweet dialogue/characters, with some hurt/comfort thrown in. It's a very basic story; the dialogue choices all lead to the same plot points, so it doesn't matter what you pick. A bit of a bummer, since part of the fun of visual novels is seeing where your choices take you.

Some dialogue choices lead to cuter scenes than others. You can go back and replay the other dialogue choices, skipping past scenes you've already seen. Super quick to play, maybe 10-20 minutes if you're a fast reader. (For THAT short of a game, wait until it goes on sale or buy it in a bundle.)

Price: $5 CAD

Available for Windows, Mac, Linux. I played the Mac OS version.

If you pay extra (or got the Bundle) it comes with a cute artbook with behind-the-scenes sketches and bonus post-game comics, all of which are adorable and funny.

Content notes: Hints of past bullying, one character says a mean thing which is tonally very different from the rest of the game.