About the Game

Game Features:
Choose-your-own-adventure style dark, dramatic, violent, and adult otome visual novel.
Customize the main character's first and last name.
Four love interests! Yanderes galore! One of them is sort of normal...? (DLC adds an Alexander route.)
Warnings are available per route listing potentially triggering content. Proceed at your own risk.
Every choice you make drastically alters your future.
Over 500,000 words. 41 hours of content in 'Obsession' (with average reading speed of 200wpm), full of endless horrific fun.
10+ endings per route!
CG Gallery, including some meta images
5 CGs in Julian & Brandon's routes
9 CGs in Quinn's route
>10 CGs in Seb & Alex's routes
Bonus Content: Side Stories that reveal scenes from another perspective or outside of the main character's perspective (unlocked as you play)
Bonus Content: Mini Scenarios that explore histories and events in their lives for each character. (unlocked as you play)
Bonus Content: What-If Scenarios that explore wild alternatives, each with up to two endings. (unlocked as you play)
Walkthroughs available in game! No struggling how to figure out how to unlock a CG or side content
Choices that do not alter the ending are clearly marked. No trial-and-error required.
Optional censor settings. These slightly reduce the violent descriptions and skips graphic sex scenes. HOWEVER! These do not disable all adult-content or nudity.
Murder, torture, kidnapping, physical and emotional and verbal abuse, stalking, suicide, incest, and more!
No voiced dialog
Future Plans
Development for the sequel called 'Remembrance' began summer 2024, estimated release Q4 2025 (but subject to change).
Obsession - Summary:
Reality as we know it may be collapsing in on itself, because of one single human woman. The mysterious Guardians of Reality must investigate this matter urgently, determine the root cause, and either find a solution or destroy this segment of reality before things spiral out of control and the entire universe is destroyed!
But that's neither here nor there. This is a game about alternate universes and the alternative realities therein.
You play the main character of multiple versions (aka Routes) of multiple clusters of reality (aka Worlds, like Obsession!). The characters around you will always be the same people, but the worlds will vary wildly.
But... what does any of this have to do with you destroying reality?!
Characters:





You grew up with your brother in a house full of crime, pain, and trauma. Brandon was the only one who saw you, loved you, and protected you. Your parents kept you isolated, abusing and neglecting you while praising and supporting him... and while grooming him to takeover the mafia family and training him to be a skilled murderer, businessman, and assassin.
The more they tried to separate you, the closer you grew. You needed each other. Is it any wonder that the trauma brought you closer together in unhealthy ways?

Disclaimer
This is the first game of a hobbyist writer/programmer. The artists who helped develop this game are freelancers of various skillsets, some being amateurs and some being professionals. This game was a personal passion project, not something from an official indie studio. Perfection was never the goal.
Artificial Intelligence
AI was not used in any way during development of this game. All writing, sprites, and CGs were created by people and they are listed on the credits screen. Stock assets (or vector art from stock asset websites) were used for some background images.
Screenshots
13 images
Version Information
Steam Patch Notes
Official update history
Note, to get the final achievement ALL of the following criteria must be met. If any of these are missing, the achievement will not unlock until they are done.
- All particles chapters (1-5) are read
- All ends for Seb, Julian, Quinn, Victor are marked complete with a green check
- All CGs for Seb, Julian, Quinn, Victor are unlocked and visible in the gallery
- All What Ifs for Seb, Julian, and Quinn are marked complete with a green check
If you're missing the "Obsession - Completed" achievement after completing the game, please follow these steps.
- Shut down Steam completely from your system. This is necessary because a Steam configuration setting for the game has changed on the back-end and this is the only way to force it to update.
- Restart Steam.
- Update the game to the latest build (if you haven't already)
- Start the game
- Go to "Settings"
- Click the "Achievement Update" button
Other bugs addressed since 1.1.5 announcement:
- Achievement checker updates
- Various typos across all routes and some GUI screens. (Thank you Dasha & Discord members!)
- Volume of The Jazz Man, Jewel Thieves, and Sodium Vapor tracks reduced
- Soul Groove Vapor volume increased slightly
- Fixed a config issue for Julian's CG achievement
- Fixed Sebastian's end 8 name on the walkthrough.
- Fixed some AO notifications missing
- Quinn's mother has been renamed to 'Naomi' so we don't have two 'Gabriella' characters.
- Unlock requirements updated to fix some false negatives.
- Fixed Brandon's walkthrough image End #1 and #2 were switched
- Quinn's interview is now properly marked as complete
- https://arewar.itch.io/particles-of-reality-remembrance
- https://arewar.itch.io/particles-of-reality (Check out the Dev log posts)
- https://www.patreon.com/arewar
Bugfixes!
Generally I don't do bug tiny fix announcements, but Brandon's patch needs to be updated to get his changes, which needs to be downloaded from the usual place. So FYI, go get that! See fourms.
- Fixed a bunch of typos & grammar in Sebastian, Julian, & Brandon routes
- Reduced the volume of The Jazz Man, The Box, & YS097 soundtracks
- Fixed a bug that caused a notification to be stolen by Sebastian's exiting sprite
- Clarified the choice in Seb's personality What If scenario
- Added a missing AO notification in Seb's personality What If
- Corrected some unlock notifications in Brandon's route
- Added Josh & Gabriella sprites to a couple places where the placeholders were still in use.
- Added a glitch effect to Sebastian in Quinn End #11.
- Changed David into his casual clothes (from Cop attire) for Quinn > House Party branch.
Past changes that were unannounced (why not):
- Fixed some NVL stuff carrying between sceens
- Fixed 'cQuinn' in Seb's route.
- More label not found handling (will this ever be fixed ;_;)
- Fixed a button not highlighting properly
- Added 1 new TW to Seb's route per player request
- 'Remembrance' preview updated
- 'Reset Nav' button added notifications
- Fixed places Monika's name was hardcoded
- Alexander mini story (requires DLC)
- Secret-Character mini/side (hybrid) story
- Sebastian 'What If': What if Monika was an only child?
Note this build also includes the new Josh and David sprites, so make sure you have the latest build of the base game @ 1.0.0.12 or the route will crash.
Eager to learn more about the upcoming Alexander DLC? Check out this public status update post.
As I'm preparing for the Alexander DLC and future content for the sequel, Remembrance, a few extra sprites are getting added to both!
Welcome Josh to the team, Brandon's beefy beefcake bodyguard! He is now in the game! (v1.0.0.10)
David will also be getting a sprite in the near future!
No other content updates just yet. Alexander's DLC is under development, Patreon members can play beta content! And Alexander's DLC store page will also be coming soon.
- Censoring sexually explicit content now hides the penis on the cafe chalkboard.
- Censoring sexually explicit content hides the nude CG at the start of Sebastian's route for streamers of the demo.
- Set music and sound default for new games with no save files to 70%.
- Supporter screen updated
- DEMO: Fixed crash on opening the settings screen and on chapter ends
- Updated Twitter icon on contact screen XD
- Backend stuff for future Alexander route setup prep.
A new achievement has been added to the game to complete everything! All CGs & Endings, including 'What If' endings.
It's been so cool to see the global stats growing as more players have been progressing and I'm so curious how many people have done it all!
If you're still working on finishing the content, no actions required. :D
If you're someone who has already done that - YAY - there's two quick ways to get it unlocked.
You can replay... pretty much any ending in the game OR you can use the handy "Achievement Update" button on the settings screen. That's all!
In addition, there have been some necessary backend security changes made to the game. This should not be noticeable by any players.
But if it unexpectedly causes some issue, my first recommendation would be to use the 'Verify integrity of game files' button in the properties of the game. (Right-click on the game name on your side menu in Steam.)
Thanks and happy playing!
Note that this does NOT lose any unlock progress in game. This only may lose your current place mid-route.
I apologize for this, but the way updates are handled on Steam is different than I expected, so I had to restructure some of the backend files to make updates easier and smaller in the future.
This is what the error will look like if you encounter it.
There are two very easy ways to get back to where you left off if your save file breaks.
- If you start a route and hit the Tab key, the game will fast-forward through content you already read.
- If you right-click ‘Skip’, you can skip all content until the next choice prompts.
These two methods will get you back to where you left off in seconds! And again, no unlock progress or endings completed or anything like that will be lost.
Again, deeply sorry for this, and I hope this is the last time this ever happens. This is my first game developed and I’m a team of one, so I learn some lessons the hard way!
Going forward, updates on Steam will be generally be very small in file-size.
This update also includes a lot of typo fixes in Sebastian’s route.
If you run into any typos, please don’t hesitate to send a quick email to [email protected]. I don’t need any kind of fancy report, a simple screenshot is very helpful into getting it fixed.
Sorry for the typos, I know they can be annoying! I’m a one-person dev/writer team and it’s a big game, so please forgive me. :D
You can also post bugs on the Discord server.
There's two major changes of note in this new demo build:
1. Julian's route has undergone some revisions.
While the path and ending are the same in the demo build, there have been some significant changes to Julian's character and new scenes! A brand new character is introduced during his route.
2. Mini-stories have been added to the game, and have been made available in the demo!
There are currently two mini-stories - one in Julian's route, and one in Sebastian's route.
Mini-stories are text-only canon content. They are similiar to side stories, but shorter in length and without the backgrounds and graphics. These will generally take 5-10 minutes to play.
They exist to provide some valuable insight into the character's background and development, that would otherwise be difficult to do without new art development.
Mini-stories have been included in the demo in hopes to get some feedback from the players!
So please, I'd love to hear your opinions. You can post your feedback on the PoR Fourm, where I've started a discussion. Or on our Discord.
Other Info:
The game has a Q2 2023 release date. :)
It is still under development! There's still lots of polish to do in the remaining routes, and more content coming before release.
Character Profiles
Some images have been floating around for awhile as part of the game advertising! They talk about the character's favorites and... personal interests. Check 'em out here!
Current Release
Not available
How to Install
ParticlesOfReality.exe to play
Troubleshooting tips
• Run Redist/_CommonRedist installers if game won't start
• Add folder to Windows Defender exclusions
• Run as administrator
Download
Direct link available
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