Lisa's Truth: The Garden Scene
Guide Lisa through a difficult conversation in a quiet garden by selecting dialogue choices that shape her truth.
How to play
- Read the dialogue and the italicized aside text to fully understand the current emotional situation.
- Review the available dialogue choices and read the hint text below each one carefully.
- Click or tap the choice that best reflects how you want to guide the conversation forward.
- Continue making choices through all six chapters to reach one of the three unique endings.
Controls
- Touch
- Tap the dialogue choices to progress the story.
- Keyboard
- Not supported.
- Mouse
- Click the dialogue choices to progress the story.
More about this game
In this branching visual novel, your goal is to help Lisa articulate her past experiences with compliance and safety. The core loop involves reading the dialogue, observing the characters' reactions, and selecting from two choices that shape the direction of the conversation. There is no traditional difficulty or time limit, allowing you to carefully consider each response. Your choices accumulate emotional weight, determining which of the three endings you reach. The run ends after six chapters of dialogue, concluding with a final reflection on her journey.
Tips
- Pay attention to the hint text below each choice, as it provides valuable insight into the emotional weight and intent of the option before you select it.
- Notice how the characters' portraits change based on your choices; for example, Lisa can shift from guarded to vulnerable or resolved as the conversation progresses.
- Replay the scene multiple times to explore different dialogue paths, as your specific combination of choices determines which of the three unique endings you will uncover.
Questions
How many endings are there?
There are three distinct endings: "Kindness, freely chosen", "No is a whole sentence", and "Nothing to prove", which are determined by the specific dialogue choices you make throughout the six chapters.
How long is the conversation?
The story spans exactly six short chapters of dialogue, making it a brief but impactful narrative experience that you can easily restart to explore other conversational paths.
Can I fail the conversation?
There is no failure state or wrong answer in this game. Every choice simply guides the conversation in a different emotional direction toward one of the valid narrative endings.