answer these 10 questions and i'll tell you what kind of lover you are
answer these 10 questions and i'll tell you what kind of lover you are: a choose-your-own-adventure heartbreak in the shape of a quiz
a short story that's sort of like if a prose poem and a buzzfeed quiz had a baby and they all fucking hated you.
it looks better full screen.
(edited to add: wow i never expected this game to reach so many people - as of writing this, it's been viewed over 100k times! :o ! it was important to me from the start that the game be free and i'll never charge for it, but i have set up a tip jar at https://ko-fi.com/frannymestrich if you enjoyed it and want to support my writing. a huge thank you to everyone who's played, commented, shared with a friend, and/or rated. xoxo)
Status | Released |
Platforms | HTML5 |
Rating | Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars (1,837 total ratings) |
Author | frannym |
Genre | Interactive Fiction |
Tags | inkle, Narrative, Romance, Short, Story Rich, Text based |
Average session | A few minutes |
Languages | English |
Comments
Log in with itch.io to leave a comment.
IS THERE A HAPPY ENDING OR WHAT.
i dunno, it resembles me in a way I don't like, I got sweet but aloof. I don't like showing affection, but I do. I just don't want to be stupid, I have this guy named Y that i'll call him since that's his initial. I don't want to be an avoidant lover I want to be able to express everything I feel, nothing is ever his fault, not his problems, not his life, not even his friends who haven't done anything to me but I don't like for some reason, those things aren't his fault. I never feel like he's done anything to deserve those problems and I try to carry them all , each time we find our way back to each other again. I was never proud of myself as a kid and I never experienced the love and praise I probably should've gotten from my mother but my Y gives me all of that and more and it's unfamiliar and uncharted territory, I would think I would have gotten used to it after dating him for a year, but I haven't. There are days where I feel like I can do anything and those are usually with him, but sometimes I don't feel those days because of something that happened that didn't have to do with him, which meant I can't hold a simple conversation. I'm a man, a man who yearns but half the time I feel like the yearning isn't enough to hold myself and him up. I'd watch him if we ever watched the fireworks together. I've replayed this game to try to see if there's a better ending almost as many times as i've gone back to him. Each time I still get the aloof one. I try to mix things up in both the game and me and him and it still follows the same way.
He's the knife I turn inside myself.
i just get scolded again ueueueue noooo how to fix me
(great writing tysm for sharing this <3)
I played this game because I've recently discovered my place in the aromantic community, and I think it's kind of just closure for myself, I can't explain it.
I hope you know you're an amazing author. Look at the way you've shown affection and complication. Look at how the player sounds so impatient agreeing to the fireworks. That's something most people work towards for their entire lives. Please know how incredibly talented you are.
This is not what i signed up for. I'm done playing for tonight, i'll go and cry my eyes out <3
first time crying over a game and it took me five minutes to play what the hell
daaaaaaaaaaamn. I thought it was going to be something silly. something with dumb questions like pretty much any quiz of this kind. I didn't expect it to not only to be so touching but to also figure me out correctly... 10/10, imma throw this to some friends.
"Do you want to watch the fireworks?
Fine."
Wow. Simple, yet harrowing. I felt 18 again going through a break up like no other. 10/10.
god damn i came here to take a funny quiz and not get my heart broken all over again.
stupid thing is this was exactly my ex and i, down to the fireworks and how we've been getting distant, breaking up right after watching the new year's fireworks. he was anxious, i was avoidant. it made me feel like i was talking to his mind again.
T.T
im crying. im not even in a break up, i was playing this with my bf singing to me on call. will i play again and cry once more? yes.
i loved this
wow.... i was so caught off guard by that why did it like actually get me 😭
MY HEART IS IN SHAMBLES (the main character is just like me fr...)
I DONT WANT TO WATCH THE FIREWORKS!!!
beautiful game, I didn't expect it to be so touching haha
oh my I wasn't expecting this but I loved it
So, is that it then? There was no better outcome?
NOOOOOO WHY DID YOU REMIND ME im crying bro thank you i was just curious and now well i get my answer very well thank you so much and i hope it hurts when u pee.
the "questionnaire" seems to have the anxious attachment style, while the speaker is avoidant... hmm.. kinda wished for the opposite, but then it wouldn't really make sense for the avoidant to reach out?
What was that nonsense?
suckkkkkkkkk so much the universe imploded
I feel so attacked rn tho LOL
I love this
did this as a joke but now questioning myself...whomever reads this I hope your life is full of great things and you have your love by your side always, if we don't meet again good morning, good afternoon, and goodnight
Played this as a joke and sent the ss to my partner. Never knew I rlly was like this...
I don’t know, I think this definitely took a turn, but I just found myself conflicted on how to answer since most of it was either a decision on truth or curiosity. For example, should I answer based on what I would do in this specific situation and based on my past relationships or look for more of the story? filling in the pieces. But that’s from my standpoint; it might have just been because I was expecting more of a quiz than a personal bickering with a game. Still very entertaining, though, wanting to know how this bantering started and how it was going to end was the only thing keeping me playing though.
I cried. Maybe because my partner and I fought last night about how I should be more kind, how I should be more clear that I love them. How I'm too critical, and too untender. We talked about breaking up, and we said we should fight harder, because we're not ready to break up yet. Wow. Thank you for the game.
it was a fun experience, thanks!
never thought that this would make me tear up
i was not expecting this, very clever <3
(Spoilers)
I tried a bunch of paths and while I get slightly different scenes, I always get "seet but aloof".
Is there a different end result available at all?
It seems like quite a few people got ''sweet but aloof'' (very true on my part i guess).. I wonder what the other results are. I expected a creepy factor based on other games I played, but this made me sad i think. That's what I get for not reading the description. That was quite an adventure. Atleast, the fireworks were enjoyable.
I didn’t expect a five minute game to feel so utterly shattering.
I got "sweet, but aloof" and dang this hurts so much, I love it
oh my. what the hell happening in my mind and heart. I LOVE THISSSSS
"sweet, but aloof" is accurate for me <:)
i loved this little quiz!! i may have teared up at the storyline </3
I got "sweet but aloof". the description was scary OMG how is it so much like me
it's like taking the 16 personalities quiz all over again (I recommend it, it was rllt accurate for me
Wow. That hurt.
esto se me hizo muy real ya que yo soy una persona que le cuesta mostrar sus sentimientos o dar regalos y todo lo que sea afecto en general. muy buen juego
ah yes, being reminded that i don't feel emotions bc i just gone "oh that's sad ig" while playing i think i misplaced my heart again
that felt like a lot more than 10 questions
hey so this killed me that was kind of uncool of you