The Last Train Home
After a long day at work slaving away, finishing up the closing shift, you end up missing your train ride home.
While waiting for the next one to arrive, someone familiar appears on the platform.
(A short, simple visual novel about a new friendship's blossom.)
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This game was made for the O2A2 VN Jam 2025, a micro Visual Novel jam with strict asset limitations and a 1000 word limit.
The character art and background are solely made by me, while the music ('Sincerely', by Kevin MacLeod) and the sound effect (Taking from Soundfishing) were found online.
Best played on PC. I have not tested it on mobile and cannot guarantee that everything works there.
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This is the first time I've ever made a game. I'm not an artist, before this, I mostly just wrote, but I want to try branching out into other mediums of storytelling.
Lake's design is based on three of my favorite video game protagonists: Sunny from OMORI (for the face), Kris from Deltarune (for the clothes), and Madotsuki from Yume Nikki (for the emblem on the sweater).
I wanted to write them as a bit of an anxious, optimistic person, and I think I was able to do that while just scraping under the thousand-word limit imposed on this game.
Please enjoy what I have to offer!
(P.S. If you're reading this, Bookworm, thanks for supporting me along this game's development.)
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Development log
- The Last Train Home - Development Process2 days ago
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Great job on a first game! I also enjoyed your devlog. I think the thing that's always nerve wracking is putting your stuff out there into the world--once it isn't in your hands anymore, there's no real control over it or what people think. Just keep making things for you!
I enjoyed the little story and would love to see a continuation--do they get that lunch together? Will the MC break out of their shell a bit more? Some great possibilities. :)
I was really worried that people wouldn't like it very much, but thank you for the advice! I've been writing for myself for years now, so I think I just need to take that principle into making games too.
Maybe I'll make a continuation one day. Until then, though, thank you again so much for playing my game and leaving this comment for me!
This was really cute, and congrats on your first game! Reading your writeup on the development process was very fun. I'm looking forward to seeing what you make in the future!!
Thank you so much! I'm really glad that you liked this game :>