WARM LIKE FLESH
Love is just another peripheral... until the machine learns how to love you.
WARM LIKE FLESH is a short 2D rpg game with visual novel and point-and-click elements.
You are a technician tasked with maintaining a sentient, humanoid computer named "CATHODE" who has the tendency to murmur cryptic and flirtatious lines. Your job? Keep Cathode "alive" by reconnecting their frayed neural pathways (wires) while navigating their unsettlingly intimate commentary.
HOW YOU RESPOND SHAPES THE STORY
Flirt back? Stay professional? Ignore? Purposely mess up?
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DEVELOPMENT, STORY & GRAPHICS
END CREDITS COMPOSER
FEATURES
✦ 10+ CGs & 2 environments
✦ Narrative-driven story with 4k+ of dialogue
✦ Simple wire connection minigame
ESTIMATED PLAY TIME
✦ ~15 minutes for an ending
✦ 40 minutes to an hour for completion
5 ENDINGS
✦ Different dialogue choices/interactions can be found within the run
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KNOWN BUGS
✦ Cathode's first dialogue does not show sometime - I'm not sure how to fix it but please restart the game... (apologies!)
✦ Proper ending for next play through may not show if you press 'play again' - I recommend restarting the game after first playthrough
I will try to fix these in 1.03 and maybe add additional dialogue
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THANK YOU TO MY FRIENDS WHO BETA TESTED (and helped fixed my grammar)!
✦ Inobii_
✦ Antony
✦ Nathan
✦ Cat
Made in 2.5 weeks' time span (with a month-long break to finish debugging haha).
This is my first ever game & fully written narrative, so I apologize for any additional bugs & inconsistencies.
Although you can play on browser, it is slow. It is better to download & play instead.
Tips and feedback are greatly appreciated.
If you create fanart/fanocs please use the tag #WARMLIKEFLESH and @ me on social media!! I love to see. <3
I will feature them in future blogs/devlogs.
Thank you, Technician #37!
I hope you enjoyed the game.
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Simple, succinct, and very effective. I would marry Cathode in a warm fleshy heartbeat.
Add more cat doodles.
how do i download the windows version without a virus being detected
You can try disabling antivirus and then downloading. Please don't forget to turn it back on ^^
Download failed, Virus Detected Message in Chrome in Windows PC
Parece interessante,vai ter versão pt-br?
Ainda não está prevista uma versão em pt br.
ohhhh man i love dem robots... ALL THESE ENDINGS MAKE ME SAD THO :-(
OHHH IMA TOUCH THEM WIRESS
My prior comment aside, can I translate/localize this game to Turkish? Like, as a mod? I'd love it if I could contribute to this game's growth and make it accessible to other communities :D
Of course!!! I'd be thrilled to have you localize/translate the game!!! :DDD
My only request is that you write any translations in the next column and have 'tr' on the top row next to 'en'.
Here are the csv files with the en text so it's easier for you to translate ^^,, (the odd characters ’ are single quotation marks ' and ° are for special characters like the degrees symbol,[i] [/i] and [b] [/b] are for italicized and bolded texts)
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1J6VMb2j7MleW29ZwU3J7s2V_pqgHQWU7?usp=sha...
i can put the translations into the game and make it downloadable on the page afterwards ^^
Thank you so much! This makes my job so much easier <3 If it's alright, could you share your discord username so communication can be easier and faster? If you wish to not share, that's totally fine too :D
I would prefer communications through my socials or through email :0
tatsumelon1298@gmail.com
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hello!! I really liked this game!! I found some bugs for the Mac version. the game's title is WARM LIKE FRESH (DEBUG) idk if that breaks anything but just wanted to let you know. second of all, NO CONNECTIONS ROUTE and EXISTENTIAL ENDING ROUTE all lead to same ending? Like I didn't connect any of the wires but in the end it said I did my job perfectly and stuff? what's that about? It says it has 5 endings, but perhaps did you wanted to mean that it has 5 routes but 3 endings or something like that? I'm kinda confused :(
okay but seriously, this game was a really enjoyable short experience. I loved this silly sad robot and the tired mc. Considering this İS one of your first fleshed out stories, its awesome!!
If I could change anything about it, it would have been the length. Even though I tried to pursue the robot in my first playthrough I didn't really feel a...click? It was hard to get attached to him when the conversations we had was so short. It didn't feel like the main character and them had any kind of meaningful connection with them. There were no real chemistry between the two for me so it left me scratching my head why the technician even cared. He just sounded pretty insincere with his flirts, and perhaps that was on purpose. I started caring about him more in the other routes. and perhaps that was on purpose too idk!! I just there were more dialogue, it was underwhelming for me :( I'm only saying this stuff because I love this project and wish it was even better!! I'm sorry if this was a lot, I wish you good luck in your future projects :D
Hello!
First off, thank you so much for playing and for your feedback!
The (DEBUG) in the title shouldn't affect/break anything. NO CONNECTIONS ROUTE and EXISTENTIAL ROUTE have 2 different ending dialogues, by any chance did you do no connections on your second playthrough after pressing the 'play again' button or opened the game and then did no connections? I've tried the no connection route on after opening the game (Version 1.02) and it does give me the proper ending, but I will triple check through the code ^^.
And I definitely agree about the length. to be blunt i was kind of burnt out by the time I got to writing and that affected the depth of the dialogues. especially the flirtatious route since those were one of the last dialogues I've written. while i try to leave room for interpretation, I dont think it landed as strongly as i hoped xd. I might look into hiring a writer for future updates to WLF and projects to give narratives more depth!
I hope to do additional comics/writing about the two though! Perhaps that will fill the Cathode shaped hole in my heart and others who've played lol.
Anyways, if you’d like a quick reference to all 5 endings and dialogues, I’ve put together a YouTube video:
Thank you once again for your kind words and sharing your thoughts! It means a lot to me and I'll take your feedback into consideration as I continue to improve and make more projects. I really hope you’ll enjoy whatever I come up with next! <3
hello again!! yes, I kinda did that! I did the existential ending then pressed play again. then tried to do the no connections route, but the ending text was for existential ending rather than no connections. I watched the ending from the video link you sent me now so I can sleep easy knowing that machine will suffer no matter what. Ur so welcome btw I'm looking forward to any kind of media you will release!!!
I CAN FIX HIMMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
every time i go in for the third (or fourth i cant remember) day it just. breaks? and enters a freezeframe of the robot just there with no dialogue, no minigame, no choices, nothing. (windows version) help?
Debugging rn! By any chance did you choose all "technical/professional" choices?
in one run i did literally nothing (just went home immediately all days) and in another i choice (i think) the flirty ones
Bug has been fixed! (Hopefully) Thank you for your patience!
no :[ its still broken in the same way. 4th day it just fades into the robots face and does nothing
Hmmmm... Try now? :0 You can skip dialogue quickly by spamming space and enter at the same time. ^^