A lot of fun
Addictive, beautifully made, and actually worth the subscription 👀
My only complaint is that it’s too good at pulling you in 😂. When you’re completely immersed in a story and then reach the end of the available chapters, having to wait for the next one is a bit of a bummer!
Overall, I’m really enjoying it and can’t wait to see what comes next.
Too few options
Great Game
I do have one issue: I’m stuck on chapter 9 of My College Fantasy. Ive helped Felix with the bags and that’s about the only time I get an interaction with him. There is no option to exchange numbers with him. So later when I’m prompted to let Felix know that I’m ready for dinner I can’t. I don’t have his number and can’t text him or interact with him. So I’m just stuck on that chapter because I cannot complete the prompt. I’ve reached out to support and haven’t received a response as of yet. It hasn’t been a week yet but I hope it doesn’t take that long for a response especially something that I’m paying for. 😪
Response from developer
Hi Asalove88! Your story should be all fixed now but please let us know if you run into anything else at info@sunbird.studio and thank you for playiing! We've got more stories on the way and character customization is definitely on the roadmap. Stay tuned!
Great game but…
Love love love
Glitchy
Beats Choices!!
Some bugs but good
Seriously the best interactive story game!
THE BEST IF
Love it
Mostly great
Excellent
I hate I like this so much
The cons: it’s AI responses in the texting. I am grappling with the environmental impact regularly, but also my one app is nothing compared to the waste of use many others have. With the AI often you have to word things so specifically for it to move on to the next chapter making your conversations sound absolutely insane.
For the developers: please let me reread chapters with the same choices I made. Chapters are getting released sometimes weeks later and there is no recap or ability to reread things to know where I was in the story.
Worth the subscription
Also, just as an idea, make a story line like the show below deck! Or a mafia story. That would be fun!
visual novel girlie
i have the yearly sub. i got it because i knew that even waiting for chapters to release, i could continue to chat with my favorite characters. i buy the extra slots, i buy the extra messages. i did it all because the conversations flowed so smoothly and made the experience feel larger than life.
that being said, since the latest update, the conversations have dropped completely. it doesn't even feel like i'm talking to the same characters anymore aside from some of their repetitive personality style benchmarks like recurring nicknames and little language inserts. i don't know if a filter was added, if there's coding that's intentionally walling us off from getting closer to the characters beyond the storyline, but it's a huuuuuge bummer. i get hit with harsh rejections, they are less likely to interact with me in a roleplaying fashion to allow for relationship building outside of the chapter updates. it's really frustrating. i used to get six or seven messages at a time from some characters and now i get two at most. i like the chatting feature because i'm a yapper, but they are hardly yapping back now and definitely not like they used to. the playful flirty, nsfw type chats are present but not enough for me to be as excited about this app as i was before.
i tried several different apps the day i downloaded this one and this one is the only one i kept out of about six or seven. now this one feels very much like those in terms of limitations and restrictions. i would gladly pay for a higher tier allowing more conversation freedom or opt in on a feature that allows the characters to send multiple messages / regenerate replies etc. and pay the difference for it.
the lack of a customization feature is also pretty disappointing in general. even if we can't go all out, choosing between skin tone and hair color like the other apps would be a game changer. again, i would pay for the option to customize because i know AI isn't cheap.
overall, i enjoy the game, i think that it's definitely a unique take on visual novels and i appreciate that every li route has a pretty unique ebb and flow thanks to the conversation style messaging.
since the messaging change, my original review has gone from ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ to ⭐️⭐️⭐️, but i am hoping to rekindle that first impression enjoyment soon. thanks💕
Looks Great. Unfortunately…
Seriously…
BEST interactive story app
Not only are the stories MUCH more complex and are written in English (this is a relief since the translations on other apps make them much clunkier than I’m sure they are in their native language), but they feature two modes of play that the others don’t. Yes, Lore has the Choose-Your-Own-Adventure style multiple-choice options just like the other apps. But what Lore adds are Goal Chats and Chat Mode.
In Goal Chats, your MC needs to obtain information, convince another character of something, improve a relationship, or generally move the plot forward, but you are using your own words to chat with an AI who is playing one of the characters. You get suggestions for the types of things you could write to advance to the next Goal, but how you choose to word them and how long you want to take to achieve each Goal is up to you.
At the end of every chapter you go into Chat Mode, which you can skip if you just want to move on with the story, or which you can use to chat to ANY of the characters you’ve been interacting with. The AIs playing these characters are quite good at staying in character, but you are able to advance your relationships with some or all of them just by talking to them. You can be snarky with them, find out more about their backgrounds, flirt outrageously, even get into some spicy sexting with your LIs.
Honestly, once I started to play Lore, my interest in the other five story apps I’d been playing just sort of fell away (I’ve even let Diamond Rushes pass by without participating!).
And because it works on a subscription, there are never keys or teacups or something to open the next chapter, and all choices are always free, no gems or donuts or what have you. There are no ads at all. Ever. And the app is updated with a new chapter for one of the ongoing stories every few days; no more waiting WEEKS or months for the next release (or longer because the translation is held up).
Try it. I signed up for a 3-day trial and bought an annual membership after only playing for a few hours!
