A nostalgic visual novel where you design your own character and grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable, choice-heavy story.

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Our Life: Beginnings & Always is a feel-good simulation, as well as a “feel-better” one, where painful emotions such as sadness, anger, stress, and worry can all be expressed, then met with reassurance, understanding, and support.

It’s a wholesome experience that faces large steppingstones of life, while having a focus on familiar everyday moments. With notable amounts of customization for even tiny details, you can enjoy pleasures as simple as having a preferred type of drink and a neighbor who cares enough to remember what it is.

• 3 different periods of life to experience: childhood, adolescence, and young adulthood

• Name, appearance, personality, and pronoun (he, she, or they) customization for your character

• Change your character’s details however you like as you grow, including transitioning to new pronouns

• Shape your personality, feelings, and preferences, then see them reflected in the story as characters remember who you are

• 1 love interest, Cove Holden, whose personality, interests, and appearance will develop in a custom way over the years based on his experiences with you

• Decide for yourself how quickly or slowly the relationship with Cove develops by setting a unique dynamic; from love at first sight to last minute confessions to always being friends and more

• A welcoming, sentimental story that can easily be enjoyed over and over using new main character qualities or different connection types with Cove

• 320,000 words, 15-20 hours of content in total

If you want  more Our Life content, you can consider joining our Patreon! There’s sneak peeks for future game expansions, extra update posts, bonus art, a private backer-only Discord, and so on.

Jamie Last (changeable name) has spent the last couple weeks on a summertime high. At eight-years-old, nothing is better than what feels like endless days of school-less adventures, especially when you live walking distance from the beach. While coming home under a scorching sunset one fine evening, Jamie is approached by a stranger. The man is looking for a kid who can do him a favor, and he’s even offering to pay for it. He wants Jamie to please be friends with his only child. The person is Mr. Holden, Jamie’s new neighbor, as well as the father of the odd, and oddly named boy, Cove. Whether Jamie wants to play along or not, Cove isn’t going anywhere. He’s present in Jamie’s life for far longer than they ever would’ve guessed.

And then the long days of vacation finally come to an end. Summer may not be able to last forever, but Jamie can take comfort in knowing it will come back again someday…

Our Life: Beginnings & Always released on November 16th, 2020. Two optional DLCs also came out on that day: the Step 1 DLC and the Step 2 DLC.

Our Life will continue to have content releases. First up is a Step 3 DLC that will add five new Moments to the game. The estimate time frame for that is late 2020 or early 2021. Afterwards, Step 4, a brand new time period, will be going into production. From there, we’ll be adding DLCs for Derek and Baxter romances.

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OLDER TITLES:

A Foretold Affair is a commercial steampunk-fantasy adventure VN developed by GB Patch Games. It released January 2017. 

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• Approximately 10-15+ hours of playtime overall
• 3 pursueable characters (one male, one female, one agender)
• Pronouns for the MC are chosen by player (he, she, or them)
• No game overs or incorrect choices, every option is worth selecting
• Light animations effects

The world of AFA includes steampunk technology and magic. The planet’s surface consists almost entirely of barren deserts and jagged mountains. Because of this the majority of the population lives on giant floating land fractions covered in plant life and with abundant water. The land fractions and the land beneath are divided into fifteen regions. A Foretold Affair takes place in one of the smaller regions called Vespen.

Other than by region, there is one more major way people are divided; whether someone is Normal or Abnormal. Each region has a ‘Normal’ and an ‘Abnormal’ society. The two groups keep themselves as separate as possible. Most Normals are not even allowed to know where Abnormal towns are located. The reason for this is because Abnormals have abilities that Normals do not.

Healing wounds, reading minds, and seeing 

the future are just a few possible abilities an Abnormal could have, though each Abnormal person only has one ability. In order to guarantee that no one has an unfair advantage and so Abnormal people aren’t used as tools, keeping the groups divided is mutually agreed upon by the leaders of both societies.

Buffalo Seer is an eccentric Abnormal with the ability to see the future. They’ve been living their life within an Abnormal Society, called the Walled Sanctuary, since they were a baby. While they generally can’t complain about their comfortable existence, Seer has one major issue in life: not being able to use their ability. Even within Abnormal societies future seeing is forbidden.

Despite endless warnings of the misfortune future seeing can cause, Seer could not be swayed and after many years of petitioning they finally gained permission to take a relatively brief look into their own future, with a few stipulations. The story begins as Seer sees some years ahead and gets a rather unexpected vision. Not only are they no longer within the Sanctuary, they’re married to someone they’ve never met.

After choosing to leave their home behind, Seer lies their way into a mission with a small bunch of Normals in order to be with the Normal they are destined to wed. Seer assumed everything would be alright after they found who they were searching for, but is quickly proven wrong. The journey is one disaster after another and trying to develop a long-lasting relationship turns out to be no simple task.

After only a few days the happy future Seer saw begins to feel farther and farther away.

The story begins when our nameable protagonist finally transfers into the boarding school of her dreams at the start of her junior year in high school. It would be perfect if it wasn’t for that little catch attached to her enrollment: her parents will only let her keep attending the school if she doesn’t make everyone there hate her, like she always does.

Do your best to show just enough interest in the other losers around to appease the folks while still having time to chase after all the attractive guys in the MC’s afterschool group, which just so happens to be a group for chronically unfriendable people.

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• 6 distinct jerky main boyfriend options, 2 sweet but not-terribly-bright side boyfriend options
• 6 side characters who’ll be your buddies and 6 minor clique boyfriend options, each with a bonus effect that makes the game easier
• Partial Voice acting for every significant character by a talented cast
• The option to break up with your bf and start dating someone else, if you feel like it
• A variety of methods to manage your Reputation with the unimportant students
• Part-time jobs, stores to visit, useful items, optional mini-games, an in-game phone to call a guy up and arrange a date at one of several different locations
• Over 295,000. Hundreds of different events, including a collage-style ending system where you get events for every goal you achieved during the game
• An accessory system that lets you decorate the main character with a variety of pieces, plus small events where characters comment on the accessories you wear
• The option to change the background of your cellphone to one of 12 different options
• Cheat codes for those who don’t give a f*ck about gameplay and just wanna see the events

Cast List:
Everett Gray: DJ Horn
Nate Lawson: Belsheber Rusape
Shiloh Fields: Brendan Blaber
Bae Pyoun: Griffin Puatu
Jeremy King: Calvin Joyal
Pran Taylor: P.M. Seymour
JB (Nameable Protagonist): Dee Margret Turner
Alicia Rosales: Anairis Quinones
Missy Smith: Elsie Lovelock
Kam Sung: TonyOnorific
Adrian Wulu: Kyotosomo
Cala Gerges: Dani Chambers
Nurse Lynn: Michael Kovach
Romeo Franco: Rowan Cross
Trent Duncan: Joseph Ryan

Lake of Voices: GxB/G, Horror, Tragedy, Dark Fantasy, VN

Anyone can be saved, but not everyone can be.

Lake of Voices is a free-to-play Visual Novel developed by GB Patch Games. It’s a story that forces you to accept that there’s no perfect way to handle dire times and asks you to decide what, and who, is going to be sacrificed.

• Genre: Dark fantasy, horror, tragedy, GxB, GxG

• 13+ for slight swearing and violence

• Full voice acting

• Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux, Steam, Android

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Story:

Kikka the Steadfast is a sensitive and empathetic woman who uses a mask of stoicism to protect herself from the harsh world she lives in. Much of everything she’s done has been an attempt to find some semblance of security, including the career path she chose to pursue. Kikka works as an official guard for one of the many tiny villages in the region. Her most recent assignment is to travel with fellow guard Bemelle to an allied town that’s been under siege by raiders.

With an ever-present sense of urgency, the two find themselves on the shore of Sinnlos, a cursed lake of black water that is home to the Nixi; twisted creatures who take joy in drowning humans. The two need the assistance of a nameless guide to even attempt to cross the maze of bridges spanning the dark waters. But they are not the only ones seeking passage that night. The guide agrees to lead them all, whilst also giving a warning that a group this large has no chance of making it across whole. Someone will be lost along the way. None of them volunteer to stay behind, regardless. And so the ill-fated journey over the lake of voices begins.

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In this magical, wonderful, and ridiculous world, all marriages are considered valid, including ones where one party was forced into it. For some reason.

Because of this quirk in the law, kidnapping important people and making them marry you is a common occurrence. So much so that a special bureau was created specifically to help couples formed under such circumstances get through the paperwork needed to officially divorce. You work there!

And you just can’t seem to get your nose out of everyone’s business. You’ve seen enough villains and victims come through this office to know that there is often more to the story than what’s on the surface. You believe in your heart of hearts that some of these odd couples could definitely end on better terms if they simply communicated better. That is your daily quest, and today is no different. You’ve got three pairs scheduled to come in, and you intend to help them work through more than just an obnoxiously large amount of paperwork.

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MMDB includes three different villains and three different victims. The three villain/victim pairings that come into your office are randomly determined at the start of the game. Each of the nine possible pairings has it’s own unique story and dynamic. All together the script contains a bit more than 18,000 words.

MMDB was made for a game jam with a group who got together for that game jam and not officially released by GB Patch Games.

Jeska the witch, Nerium the dryad, and Lexis the golem.

Po the blob, Lillum the demon, and Baird the werewolf.

Script & Programming by Katelyn Clark
Character Design & Sprites by SilverHyena
Chibis by Koete Hoshi
Backgrounds by DarkSin
Logo & GUI Design, Additional Programming by Jujube
Music by Sebastian (the songs are reused from the “A Foretold Affair” original soundtrack)
Blinking Effect by Sabrina Schewe