I made a visual novel where the two protagonists tell contradictory versions of the same story, and the game never tells you which one is lying
DUALITY: The Adventures of Glorp and Zorp. Free, runs in your browser, no download.
The setup: a brother and a sister get taken by a government program. She escapes and ends up with an alien armada. He goes looking for her and takes the galaxy apart doing it.
There are two routes, and they aren't "the same plot from different camera angles." They disagree on what actually happened. In her account he's one thing; in his he's another. Both are told completely straight, neither gets walked back, and there's no third route where the game sits you down and explains it. You're the only person who ever sees both sides, and you're left holding the contradiction.
Everything in it is hand-drawn pixel art at 240×160 and the whole soundtrack is a chiptune synth written into the page — no audio files, no art assets, the entire game is about 300KB.
24 scenes across the two routes, maybe 5-10 minutes each.
Content warnings, and I mean them: forced medical experimentation, child abduction, graphic surgery, confinement and abuse, planetary-scale violence. It's a dark sci-fi story wearing friendly pixel graphics, and that gap is deliberate.
stream game free no download required:
https://omegaredduck.itch.io/duality
or check out the trailer i made here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bC2uH_Vm8L4
Edit:I've always been really fascinated with conspiracy theorys,scifi novels, and retro gaming...what makes this fun to me is the hand written story. Put simply its a story from my mind I wanted to tell but not in a traditional way I like the idea behind there being two sides to every story and the idea that you can derive different narratives of the same story simply by changing the point of view I think that's what this game does different than a lot of other visual novels.also retro gaming visuals feels like a bit of a different take than the normal visual novel