Find Love or Die Trying started off really well. It has a good sense of humour and did a good job building the mystery of the story. I also liked the different women to choose from. I figured that I would probably only want to know more about one or two but to be honest I found myself growing attached to four of the five contestants as well as Kat. Where the game started to lose me was near the end as the mystery unfolded. I didn’t really care for some of the reveals and I will also say that some of it didn’t make much sense. I won’t go into spoilers but suffice to say I thought the twists had more to give than I got. I will also say that while there are a decent amount of choices on the surface many of them don’t really branch the story much if at all. The one interesting end I found turned out to have a very abrupt finish without much in the way of epilogue or explanation. Really many choices boil down to whether you are interested in a girl and want to give a response that will endear them to you more as well as picking a girl at the end. There is apparently eight endings but if each girl is counted as an ending then it would mean that seven of the eight endings change the story very little overall if I’m right and have little to do with the choices you made. The art; music and sound effects were all fantastic and deserve praise.
I played Find Love or Die Trying on Linux. It never crashed and I didn’t notice any spelling errors. You can manually save any time you want and there are fifty four save slots. Alt-Tab didn’t work.
Graphics Engine: Ren’Py 8.0.3.22090809
Game Version Played: 2.0
Input Used: Keyboard and mouse
GPU Usage: 0-98 %
VRAM Usage: 1258-2363 MB
CPU Usage: 1-6 %
RAM Usage: 3.4-4.7 GB
Overall I didn’t dislike the game but at the same time I find it hard to recommend due to the way the story panned out. The game may be free but there are many good visual novels that are free of charge. I finished my first play through in three hours and one minute.
My System:
Intel i5-12600K | 16GB DDR4-3000 CL15 | XFX RX 590 8GB Fat Boy | Mesa 23.1.3 | Garuda | Mate 1.26.0 | Kernel 6.3.9-zen1-1-zen