A Promise of Love

A Promise of Love follows a man's rather baffling decision to return to his hometown without his wife, where he finds rather baffling circumstances. The emphasis of this game is on its story, but there's not too much of it that's revealed while you play. The developer seems to want people to interpret it themselves, so I won't go into too much detail about it. This game is a short one -- I played for about 10 minutes, then played multiple times to try and figure out more of the story.

If you're a fan of yandere characters, there might be something here for you. But then again, maybe that's not what happened! The ending scene is a callback to the first one, but with slightly different circumstances, too. I just wasn’t sure what to make of it. Are you alive? Dead? Trapped in the past? Who knows! The only thing that’s certain is that a promise of love was made.

The game's description highlights how you can examine almost any object and these observations can change based on circumstances, which is true... But most of them aren't particularly noteworthy observations, and they seemed to change in ways that didn't matter much. As one example, at one point all observations changed to the man saying he didn't want to stay somewhere after an eerie thing happened. Some of the observations are amusing, and by examining things you really get a sense for how much this guy fawns over his wife, but I feel it could have delivered a bit more story than what we got.



When it starts raining, make sure you enter this large tree's shadow from the left or middle. Entering from the right will make you unable to progress, but no worries if you get stuck. A quick reset and less than five minutes, and chances are you'll be back.

This is one of those games that's so brief I'll recommend it just so you can see for yourself. If you're even a little bit interested, give it a go. You might be able to piece together more of the story than I could!