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Every night before bed, you hear strange banging noises coming from your closet.
It’s probably just old pipes… right? Or maybe it’s stress. 

Maybe it’s time to finally open the door.

To face your fears, you invite a few acquaintances over for your first-ever sleepover. You’ll laugh. Eat snacks. Tell scary stories...
And later that night… choose who to face the closet with.

But what’s really inside?
And what happens once the door opens?

CLOSETED is a short dark otome visual novel that blends romance, mystery, and psychological horror.
A branching narrative where your choices shape the fate of your guest... and your own.

Disclaimer: This is the DEMO/PROTOTYPE version of the game containing just a fraction of the narration. Depending on user feedback, we may or may not continue development.


💌 3 love interests — each with their own twist on their endings

💌 Dialogue choices that impact affinity and endings

💌 Cute, shoujo-inspired art style… with a dark undercurrent

💌 3 routes, 4  endings

💌~30 mins to 1 hour of gameplay

💌 Customizeable MC name

💌 Skin color options for MC sprite

💌 Original GUI & soundtracks

Trigger Warnings:

  • Psychological horror

  • Blood and mild violence

  • Kidnapping

  • Dissociation

  • Implied mental illness

  • Gaslighting

  • Claustrophobia

  • Depictions of obsession 

  • Brief mentions of starvation

  • Disturbing themes


UI Designer/Programmer: Diwidly

Writer: allyens

Character Artist: Krevett

Sound Designers, Original soundtracks: Kija, Orpheo

SFX: Pixabay

Background artist: みにくる

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CV - MC: El Foxu

CV - Jay: Qoo

CV - William: Max Herzfeld

CV - Auguste: Gale Rivera



StatusPrototype
PlatformsWindows
Rating
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(48 total ratings)
AuthorAichoo🎲
GenreVisual Novel
TagsAnime, Dating Sim, Female Protagonist, Indie, josei, Mystery, Otome, Psychological Horror, Romance
Average sessionA few hours
LanguagesEnglish
InputsMouse

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CLOSETED DEMO 0.2.zip 322 MB

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Love love loveee this game and its plot twist! When I read ''kidnapping'' in the triggger warnings I expected MC to get kidnapped but this was a nice change of pace. However there is a bug, when you are at the end of the dialogue of the ending where you tell everyone to leave the screen just freezes. I look forward to see further updates and I absolutely love Williams character!

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will there be a Spanish translation? TT

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Please keep developing. This twist is just too amazing! I'll keep following it. I'm really curious about why the female lead would act like this!

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I usually do not play visual novels where the M/C is fem/uses fem terms, but this was an exception and it impressed me, now I want more.

I will first of all, point out a bug I've been getting.

While trying to get the only ending I was missing my game would crash, It shows part of a text that should be shown with a CG I believe, since it says "I supervise them as they file out of my door, (wait i0.2)", this is the ending where they all leave. After this, when the final screen finishes, the game just freezes. I tried repeating this, but the same thing happens and it doesn't save the progress, I mean, when trying to skip that part's text it doesn't allow me since I "haven't unlocked it". Hopefully I have explained this properly and it helps with the future development.



Now, moving onto what I thought while playing the game. I firstly thought that someone was hiding in our closet, but once seeing Auguste's story I noticed that his friend could be here, and since I had picked William and his option said "that we might forget things when we're under stress" I already knew that it was his friend. But I didn't expect Theo to have purple hair, it's like all the time William knew, and him helping the M/C to bury him makes me believe that William might be part of everything. Lastly, when getting Jay's ending the M/C ends up kidnapping him, this made me wonder if all this time the "obbsesive behaviour" was from the M/C, as if the one who's obsessed with them is Erica and everything she's doing is due mental issues.

The art is amazing, the moving screen and voices kept impressing me, and the best part is the M/C's personality, I am so glad that she's like this, it made the experience better. I also loved the final CG's, they all look beautiful. 

The point is, the game ended up making me close my mouth, I shouldn't have doubted it, but I am glad y'all managed to make me change my thoughts. Hopefully the game does get fully devloped and I hope it gets more recognition. I'll be expecting to see more of it, keep up with the amazing work.

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I loved that plot twist. can't wait to see the full game!

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The unexpected twist was so brilliant! It really intrigued me about how Theo got there! Simply a masterpiece, I hope keep working on it, thank you for this work! ( ^ω^ )

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This is such a cool and interesting story! I was so shocked with the ending and was SLIGHTLY disappointed with my man Auguste 🤞🏻😿. Overall well written<3

Does it work with Joiplay?

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yknow the top favoritism of william made sense since he was a real one here and got mc’s back like yeah damn girlie have priorities, the key is to get yourself a man who looks at you the way he looked at her, the chemistry with him the most fitting so. felt either sus or too alert with Auguste, and for Jay, i just felt guilty and sad. i have a feeling it might be connected with the purple boy mentioned in William’s story, leading to the reasoning behind Erica’s act there.. and what with Theo being Auguste’s desk mate.

that aside, the swinging screen following mouse way was nice in an added unsettleness that felt like something could jump at me, a fourth-wall break shenanigan happening.. (or just how the screen shook at the same time i got surprised), and how the zoom-in with the move of characters too, gripped me like i was there in her shoes tbh. cool and funny that the way cg appearing was designed like a some-dang-ref body discovery. i think aside from the one trouble of skipped voiced dialogue bits and how William’s voice pan the same in my headphone at times (thinking it might be one of his quirks atp..), that resulting same dialogue in the sleepover break was kinda inconsistent since when Erica picked either Jay or Auguste supposed to be the place according their places, not from bahtroom again or something like that.

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i reallyyy wanna play this but its not for mac! when will it become available for mac!!

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this was fun! just one thing, is it just me or does the audio of William's voice pan back and forth between the right and left headphone...? it feels a bit weird, but it might just be me tweaking out though!

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just wanna say, William matched MC freak LOL (amazing game!! will def look forward to it if you guys ever continue the game!! :^] )

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I went into this game not knowing what to expect and it BLEW me away! I was not expecting that ending, I love a good psychological mystery and CLOSETED DELIVERED! William is hands down my favorite, the man's VA was doing things to me... and of course I love a man that supports all my questionable choices! I really hope you keep working on this game, because I have so many questions that I need answers for!


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cute game, love auguste!!

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The art style looks amazing, can’t wait to play the game if a Mac version is available!

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This game is really intresting, but i wonder how do you get the 4th and 5th cg anyone has an idea?

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its the same augeste one but with like the diff skintones

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I like this game very much

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This was a really good game. The full VA was a nice surprise though some of Jay's dialogue for me never came up. I played somewhat out of order cause I only got the ghost stories if I had William help me, so the little question with each was a bit confusing until then.

THEORY? Before listening to William and Auguste's stories though I was sure MC was a little crazy (still do). But after finishing it all, my mind went to Theo attempting to hurt MC (the treasure) and MC defended herself but decided not to call the police since the crime would have been brushed under the rug due to Theo's or even Auguste's status. Then William being bae by helping MC get rid of the body and promising to keep it secret. Ahhh! 

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Will this ever come to Mac? (◞‸◟,) 

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I like this game very much, but unfortunately, my native language is not English. If there is Chinese language, it will be perfect for me.

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This is really interesting! I would love to play more of it; and I love having a dark skin color option for the MC as a POC!

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THIS IS SO GOOD RAHH :D William is my favorite omg

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THIS GAME!! THIS GAME IS A MASTERPIECE!! WHO WROTE THIS!?!? I LOVE YOU!! Not ONLY is the voice actors absolutely AMAZING (like how on EARTH do they fit the characters so well?!?!?) the writing and art is SO beautiful!! Back to the voice acting, jays fits him SO well!! And so does Williams and so does Auguste’s and so does MC’s!! Mcs VA did amazing work and the writing is spectacular (she is also a complete PSYCO!!)!! Now one of my favorite things in game is probably when you move the mouse the screen also moves around I LOVE when games do that!! Also the font that was chosen 10/10 very readable some VN’s fonts arent that readable but this one was!!

Now with the actual story itself at first i thought that it was definitely just like a cat or something in the closet and oh my GODS HUH?!??! I love this game!! The scary story telling made so much sense after looking in the closet 10/10 game!! ALSO William my beloved(´꒳`)♡ i love him amazing work i NEED more immediate gimme 17 spin off games, a 50 season show, and 4 movies please and thank you(˶ˆᗜˆ˵)


ALSO edit to add, is the fourth ending where MC doesn’t check the closet?  Im still missing 2 CGs (bottom left and middle left) ive done Willams, Augustes, and Jays endings but im not fully sure if im missing one.. everytime i do the ending where MC doesnt check the closet it wont save as an ending just kinda freezes after she says ‘I guess I’ll never find out what was in my closet’ probably a bug on my end but not fully sure then theres also a ‘[wait i0.2]’ in the first line after ‘I supervise them as they file out my front door.’ Then it says ‘[wait i0.2]’ no clue what thats about im just gonna assume a bug(˶ᵔᵕᵔ˶) if i am missing an ending if anyone knows how to get to them it would be much appreciated!!

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This comment made me smile so hard!! Thank you so much!! I'm so happy you enjoyed the little camera work details as well <3
There were a few bugs with the endings on the previous build, but they should be fixed now!
No worries for the missing CGs, this is perfectly normal! This is the same CG for the different skintones!

Again, thank you so much for this beautiful comment, it makes me want to keep making games for everyone to enjoy! <3

- Aichoo

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Ahhh okay tysm!! Words cannot describe how much i loved this game!! I’ll be looking forward to potentially playing more games from you in the future!! ♡<(˶ᵔᵕᵔ˶)

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This sounds so interesting! Will there be a version for Mac users to play? I would love to give the demo a try!

Thank you so much for your interest!

We are now working on a Mac build <3

Glad to hear it! I'll patiently wait for the release! c:

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This is so interesting!! I really hope you continue development, I really wanna know more!! I enjoyed the art and voice acting, and the UI is really pleasing as well. The difference in the endings is cool too! 10/10!!!

Thank you!