Kastel

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Member since March 21, 2023
Last visited May 15, 2025
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i like cute anime girls and dank stuff

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Interactive Fiction by Kastel

Spring Gothic, by Prof. Lily and Kastel and Lacunova and Nitori and Noelle Amelie Aman (2025)
(5 ratings)
An online long-distance relationship between a trans streamer and a med school student is finally going offline and physical in London. Except everything gets wrong.

Your World According to a Single Word, by Kastel (2023)
(12 ratings)

A word wants to say more than words about your world

Chinese Family Dinner Moment, by Kastel (2023)
(11 ratings)
Content Warnings: Sexual harassment, racism, transphobia. You haven't even had the chance to tell your parents you've gone vegan... Made for the Single Choice Jam. (Photo credit: Cera)

June 1998, Sydney, by Kastel (2023)
(9 ratings)
(Cover Photo: Christopher Burns) Your family is moving in, whether you like it or not. Year 1998. 499 words. A double entry for Anti-Romance Jam 2023 and Neo-Twiny Jam.

Hanna, We're Going to School, by Kastel (2023)
(9 ratings)
"Hanna, we're going to school." There's nothing to be afraid about going to school, Jing. You know that very well. School is school, as your mom likes to say, it's a rite of passage most adults go...

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Recommended Lists by Kastel

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A bunch of my friends into Japanese visual novels asked me repeatedly over the months about my IF recommendations. I should actually...

Polls by Kastel

Games exploring trauma and other messy subject matter - 29 votes for 22 games; created August 24, 2023

Looking for, as Nathalie Lawhead puts it, art caught between “everything is horrible”, “everything is survivable”, and “this is...

Reviews by Kastel

Remembrance, by Emery Joyce September 1, 2024

"Just before I played this game, my mom told me that I should get married next year, so that she and my dad would be happy to see all..." - See the full review

He Knows That You Know and Now There's No Stopping Him, by Charm Cochran September 1, 2024

"The tale of Bluebeard is a violent story about a woman who learns that her husband was a rather gleeful murderer of his previous wives...." - See the full review

Andromeda Chained, by Aster Fialla September 1, 2024

"The myth of Andromeda prefigures all tales of knights, dragons, and damsels in distress. Here, we see a retelling that looks at the..." - See the full review

Thread unlocked., by Max Fog September 1, 2024

"Thread Unlocked is a very clever game about the dynamics of group chats on services like Discord. It simulates the experience by turning..." - See the full review

Not Just Once, by TaciturnFriend September 1, 2024

"The game seems simple at first glance: the player watches their character walking home on a winter's night. A phone box rings. Will the..." - See the full review

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Kastel's Played Games List

Wayfarers, by Gina Isabel Rodriguez
The Goldilocks Principle, by iris
80 DAYS, by inkle, Meg Jayanth
Suspended, by Michael Berlyn
Weird City Interloper, by C.E.J. Pacian

See all 177 entries in the Played List