
Pine Point: Insomniac

You’re Nil.
Fishing at Lost Lake, trashing the popular kids’ cars, and playing in your shitty garage band are all things you’d rather be doing than working a dead-end job that will probably keep you trapped in Pine Point for the rest of your life.
Fortunately, you get to work alongside your best friend, Dimitri. Unfortunately, Dimitri is leaving town at the end of the summer… and you’re not.
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Pine Point: Insomniac is a short, surreal slice-of-life visual novel following Nil, a severely sleep-deprived slacker, as he tries to survive the day at work with his best friend, Dimitri.
ABOUT THE CREATOR
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Zi is a director and animator who doesn’t play games, but loves telling weird stories. She is the most comfortable writing silly cartoon comedy, like in her Youtube series Ramshackle. However, Zi doesn’t enjoy being too comfortable, so she decided to torture herself by creating a series that is centered around coming-of-age drama and surrealism–hence Pine Point.
Pine Point: Insomniac came into existence after realizing that another animated episode would probably shave years off of Zi’s lifespan, so a visual novel was the next best thing. This game serves as a short proof-of-concept for the Pine Point project.
FEATURES
👁 Around 3k words
👁 ~80+ CGs
👁 About 20-30 minutes of gameplay
👁 3 choice-based endings
👁 Debuts of new characters 😎
WARNING
Some eye strain, swearing
TW: Mentions of drug use, death, emetophobia
THE TEAM
Additional Assets
- _shyua ~ 3D Kitchen Background Model
- Freepik
- Shadow | Neverforever | Nurture Nurture | Irie Sunset | Nobodysthereforme | Grayskies ~ BGM
- Pixabay ~ SFX
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You can play the game for free or leave a tip to support the creation of more content!
Alternatively, get access to extra Pine Point art and behind-the-scenes content on PATREON or grab some merch at the official STORE.
Note: If you're interested in making a translated version, have experience with translating games and using Ren'Py, please contact 4xthesweets@gmail.com with a resume of past translations. Otherwise we will be ignoring any inquiries about translating the game. Please know this is a volunteer position that only lists credit to the translator for their work.
| Status | Prototype |
| Platforms | HTML5, Windows, macOS, Linux, Android |
| Release date | Nov 29, 2024 |
| Rating | Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars (392 total ratings) |
| Authors | Zeddyzi, 4xtheSweets |
| Genre | Visual Novel |
| Made with | Ren'Py |
| Tags | Coming Of Age, Narrative, Short, Singleplayer, Slice Of Life, Story Rich, Surreal, weird |
| Average session | About a half-hour |
| Languages | German, English, Spanish; Latin America, Vietnamese |
| Inputs | Keyboard, Mouse |
Download
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Development log
- Pine Point Zine + MerchMar 05, 2025
- Spanish Translation Now Available!Jan 07, 2025
- Vietnamese Translation Available!Dec 27, 2024
- German Translation Added!Dec 17, 2024
- Now Available on Android!Dec 05, 2024








Comments
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tienen mucha quimica....shipeable
this game was so amazing, I played through for all the endings, I love the characters so much
No lo puedo instalar por q dice q no está diseñado para q ande en mi teléfono
求出个中文翻译
I knew I recognized that art style from somewhere...
Great story
THIS IS SO AMAIZING I NEED MORE PLEASEE COULD YOU LIKE MAKE A SEQUEL WHEN THEYRE LIKE GROWN UPPPPP???
yes oh ym god pls
I was devistated when it was over; but so happy that I played. A lot of these images almost feel like they were pulled from my own childhood. Everyting from the art to the music is amazing. Hopefully we see more; but either way, this was great
the sound track feels like a dirty summer. i love it!
can they kiss please
esta en español? 🥺🖤
one of the best pieces of media i have consumed. nil and dimitri do be goobers.
got the 3 endings in like 20 minutes and i loved every seconds of it
Very charming, sweet and funny. Great use of art & photography. The pizza had me laughing my ass off. Music was great. You nailed the miserable, nostalgic atmosphere of a small town. I wish I could tell Nil it'd be okay and get him on some psych meds. Use the money you're saving on rent to skip town! Late teens/early twenties is suchhh a brutal time. Well done.
genius
Nil, when i get you nil. nil when i get you. when i get you nil. i went feral when i got a good look at his design. dimitri too. i love the art style so much and i hope there is more coming
I really liked your game, thank you. I finished it in one hour and reached all three endings. It reminded me of myself when I was in high school and old friends. I can translate it into Arabic, but I am not good at using Renpy. I am only good at translation.
even though this game isn't all that long, it still managed to squeeze a couple of tears outta me :'-) I've always been kinda terrified of the future, but this game made me feel like maybe it'll be fine for now :-) good vibes, good vibes
yo the artstyle kinds looks like the one in Ramshackle
they are made by the same person :)
same person
the artstyle is SOLID! honestly so good
Absurdly good. Came back after months to play it again on new phone
love u
I love falls vids!!!!!!!!!!! Pls keep up the good work :)
they're gay your honor /silly
aaaaaaaaaah my favourite goobers!!!
straight ass
Like ass in a bad way or like badass
i think they meant badass
Ok cool thx :3 I’m stupid lmao
This game kinda looks like that one show on youtube the plot
I thought that too until I realized that the creature of ramshakle was the one who had helped create the game! Or maybe created it, I'm not sure but there's videos about it on their channel
this is so good!!! absolutely adorable dynamic for nil and dimitri. big shoutout to my friend from the mental hospital for telling me about this :33!! miss you more every day rory <3
momo is my spirit animal
I love It ! please do a longer version please
i love this game, so charming. like very short but you can tell there's so much heart put into this, def reminds me of end of high school friends leaving vibes, all characters seemed super interesting and all i can say is i want more. great job keep making art
not sure if i already commented on this but TS IS SO PEAAAAK
I LOVEDDDDDDD this game so much!!!
literally bawling my eyes out this is such an amazing game i love this i love you wow
este juego es increible
For some reason this is just such a sad game for me, and I think it's because I kind of relate to Nill in a way. I love the design of the characters, the artstyle of the game: the whole thing is just so greatly made.
komahina?
ame este juego, me hizo pensar q me quiero pegar un corchazo. Hermoso
i love this vn so much, it has the right amount of weird and angst(?) and the good ending made up for the other two (though both of them were still interesting) i neeed to see more of dimitri and nil. checking out ur page after i post this comment!
I got this game back in December or January, but I'm here to say this was one of the best vn games I've played. The characters, the art, all of it was and still is something I love. Don't know if there will ever be another pine point vn game, but I loved the hell out of this one
OMGGGGGG I REMEMBER THAT I SAW A VIDEO ABOUT THIS GAME A FEW YEARS AGO!!!
Hang on, why does that art style kinda remind me of Ramshackle?
If this isn't sarcasm I can answer that question for you lol
It isn't sarcasm
Oh my god I'm an idiot they made Ramshackle lmao