Sophistry - Live2D Romance Visual Novel 

Since it's first announcement early this year, Sophistry has already gathered over 5000 followers on Social Media.

Today, their free playable demo is now available for download on itch.io



★★What is Sophistry?★★

Have ever watched a Korean drama - or any romantic drama for that matter -, and wished that the lead character was another protagonist of the show, or that the main lead went for another girl (or guy) than the one they featured?

In Sophistry, you live this drama the way you want! You want to see it from the eyes of the lead character, so be it, what about from the eyes of the second lead or even the antagonist? What do I say; you can even play it from the point of view of the love interest! What about romances? Here again, it’s your choice, your story.
With 6 playable characters and each with 3 potential love interests, that’s a base of 18 full romances stories and plot lines!

With approximately1.2M words, this is probably the most complex story ever written for a visual novel.

★★Description★★

Sophistry is a visual novel inspired by romance k-drama in anime style. The game is currently under development by 2 Cubs Studio, a new indie dev game studio from France.  

The expected release date is scheduled for end of 2021.

Sophistry is aiming to be true to the core meaning of “Visual Novel” by providing vibrant and animated visuals by being fully voice acted and Live2D powered, as well as a very deep and rich story line reminiscent of classic Korean romantic drama series.

The game will initially be available on Windows, Mac OS, and Linux, followed by a later release on Android and iOS.

★★Features★★

Assuming a successful Kickstarter funding in March 2021; the expected core features are:

• 6 Unique characters (3 males and 3 females), to choose from; each with their own story line and point of view. You can enjoy the game playing only one character, but you’ll only uncover all the mysteries of the stories by playing all six of them, as everything is happening from the perspective of the character you selected.
• The decisions you make matters and have consequences. The character you choose to play as well as the one you choose to romance will affect your story line and the behavior of the other characters.
• Each play through is approximately 10 hours long, playing once each of the characters brings the minimum game play time to at least 60 hours for a single run, trying all the core 18 routes+ will take you around 200 hours to fully explore all what Sophistry has to offer in core content (not taking in account randomized game play)!
• Dynamic endings. Our endings are dynamically generated based on the paths and decisions you made along your game play, making each ending unique on its own.
• Ultra HD character designs and animations. In order to meet the visual side of “Visual Novel”, the backgrounds are designed in full HD, while the characters are designed and animated in 4K resolution; some assets even have been developed in 8K! Animation is made using Live2D. Now you can truly enjoy our visual novel, regardless of your screen size, goodbye small pixilated window!
• Multiple original songs with vocals as OST in addition to all the atmospheric scores. Each character and core path has its own score and song composed, written and sung for them by professional artists.
• Fully voice acted, even the main protagonists all the way to the smallest npc.