F2P Friday: INVERSED

Lauren Darnell

Victorian goth girl hunched over candles and paper, writing something. (Inversed)

Welcome to this week’s installment of F2P Friday, where we highlight our favorite Free-2-Play games. October is here, so we’re playing our Fear-2-Play series, exploring free spooky games all month long leading up to Halloween. This week we speed-run Inverse, a psychological horror visual novel.

CONTENT WARNING: This game contains scenes of psychological horror and possibly disturbing depictions of mental illness.

Inversed

Inversed is a short, interactive visual novel set in the mid-19th Century, in which a poet fights against time while writing the most important work of her life. Poetry is the answer, but what is the question?

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The Basics

Let’s get down to the basics of Inversed. This game was made for the O2A2 VN Jam 2024, a micro Visual Novel jam with strict asset limitations and a 1000-word limit. The restricted word list requires careful weaving and results in unexpected some twists. 

Inversed isn’t a visual novel in the typical sense. You’ll select choices to craft poetry rather than navigating dialogue choices in a conversation or event decision. Balance your limited words to reveal the truth in a chilling, creative goth poetry slam. 

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Why Should I Play?

So why should you play Inversed by creator Tymedust Games? This is the perfect game to squeeze into a busy week before Halloween. Inversed only takes 15-20 minutes to play so you can fit it into your schedule between setting up a scary movie marathon and getting ready for a haunted house. 

This is a psychological horror which means atmosphere is everything. The limited color/black-shaded artwork and poignant music soundtrack complement each other to set the heartbreaking, mind-bending tale. The game is also fully voice-acted which is a rare treat in the genre. 

Ready to bear your soul for the reader? You can download Inversed for free on Steam here. 

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