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Plattform: PC Veröffentlicht: 12.10.2016

13,99€

Preis Update 13.09.23

Along the Edge is a visual novel set in the European countryside, where your choices impact the main character's personality and appearance.

Story
Daphné is at a dead-end. She's unsatisfied by her personal and professional life. So, when she inherits an old family house in a remote part of the country, she jumps at the opportunity to start anew.

Does she decide to embrace her legacy or does she hang on to her old way of life?

Features:

An adult and slightly occult universe painted with the vibrant colors of the European countryside.
Each of your choices impact the main character personality, mood and appearance.
A huge amount of content, enough to fill a two years compendium of a comic-book series:
60 different endings, 28 achievements to unlock. Throughout the story, your choices will impact:

Deutsch (3)
Englisch (15)

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265 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 21.06.21 21:05

Nette kleine Geschichte. Ganz schön viel Gelaber und leider sehr wenig Audio. Die Musik läuft gerne mal aus und ist sowieso sehr sehr ruhig... hilft nicht gerade beim Wachbleiben. Trotzdem ganz gut geschrieben, nur halt keine Unterhaltungsbombe. Wer die Geduld hat noch ein weiteres Mal zu spielen, wird damit belohnt, dass es in diesem Spiel wirklich unterschiedliche Entwicklungen gibt. Also sowohl die eigene Beziehung, aber auch das eigene Verhalten und die Lebenseinstellung können erheblich variieren. Trotzdem werden die meisten Eckpfeiler der Geschichte in allen Varianten auftauchen, eben mit unterschiedlichen Charakteren und Antwortmöglichkeiten.

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Verfasst: 16.07.17 14:26

You love reading and wish you could slip inside books and make your own decisions? Than I can definitely recommend this game to you. I have already played some visual novels but I found this one to be very special. In other games like this you can often guess what happens when you decide for A or B and you get the feeling that no matter which decision you make the stories are similiar. Not in this game! I was totally surprised of how different the story was for the second and even third time I played it. It´s really a book where you can be the protagonist.

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406 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 15.11.16 20:23

Einfach nur WOW...
Ein wunderschönes Visual Novel über Witchcraft mit sehr schönem Artwork und vielen Entscheidungen die auch das Aussehen der Protagonistin ändern. Kann ich definitiv empfehlen!! :D

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337 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 24.12.21 18:55

An enjoyable 'Choose your path' adventure. Choice actually matters here. This game will not be for everyone. A lot of reading, which I like. The graphics fit the mood of the story. It should take most people three to four hours to complete. There are no tricks or bad choices per say, just expected consequences of those choices. Play the game as you've been raised or play the game as your alter ego. Both are fun. Highly recommended for those who enjoy a story oriented game.

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420 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 25.04.21 04:21

At first i was intrigued. the element of choice, the art, and the story captured me.
but after the first play through, it really didn't made sense to me how the end got played out.
i didnt like [spoiler]the black hair ending[/spoiler] one bit. like wut, what is this, what about my other choices, all in vain?

So the more i play the more i realized (i did got other endings), how some of the choices doesnt make sense...according to how they can shape my personality and ultimately have impact on the outcome (some choices are really insignificant but still count which is ridiculous, and some choices really should weight more toward a personality than others in certain situation, but no) And how some choices start a sparkle, like our protagonist found some kinda meaning or purpose in her life, but the story ended with no tie (of course base on the story outcome which does not fully make sense again)

The choice system vs the outcome, It lacks dynamic, lacks fluency. That's why. And the choice lack of options and depth.

Also the romantic side of the story is blargh. I dont even know what to say. 0/10 poor and sad. First how [spoiler]Daphne and Frank's break up[/spoiler] made no sense because the fact they [spoiler]lost their first unborn child?[/spoiler] that's your break up reason? Yes, the real reason is still somewhere a mystery which the game purposely failed to construct. Simple enough :) Also how [spoiler]Dephne and that blonde guy,[/spoiler] the One and the Only option in there for me to go from point A to point B, but the game didn't even think to bother to build us a bridge. and out of the blue surprised me with a disgusting option to kiss him? Am i out of my mind? oh btw he was the One and the Only one that left a rude impression so...and the drawing of him is ugly. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Kissing Dephne's mom on the lip might be as less confusing and less shocking than this.

i might be too harsh on this $13 game, but im not satisfied :'( Maybe 7/10 for the effort. 5 in execution.
But if you enjoy a somewhere decent but a rather simple story with beautiful visual and mediocre choices, you could give it a try. But expect rushed emotional development.

Overall, original but ordinary.

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Verfasst: 05.01.21 17:22

I'm pleasantly suprised, my first visual novel and I ended up loving it. As someone who enjoyes games like Life is Strange, I'm glued to the monitor, carrying the laptop around and playing. Story is well written and really interesting, choices matter, excellent visual style and touching music.
Played on an openSUSE Tumbleweed laptop (native Linux version) with an HD 4400, runs perfectly. Tried it on my Arch/1660 Ti machine and works fine as well.

Just finished it. It was amazing. Bought all the other Nova-box games and can't recommend it enough to anyone looking for a good story.

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Verfasst: 23.11.20 19:13

“Along the Edge” was the second interactive visual novel by Nova-box I played. Initially I was afraid I might be disappointed because I loved their “Across the Grooves” so much. But about halfway through the first play-through of “Along the Edge” I realised I even liked it better.

I am a big fan of French and Belgian comic books and the handprinted artwork in “Along the Edge” is really very French and simply great. The soundtrack sounds exceptionally good, too, but that is a matter of taste, of course. Choices you make advance the story in different ways, they even change how the protagonist looks. Daphne, said protagonist, takes a break from her life in the city and moves to the old family home in a French village. She has to decide if she accepts her family’s mystic heritage or walks down a more scientific path. It is very enjoyable to see the consequences of your choices unfold. Sure, there are some cheesy possible romantic choices, but you can always choose to not get involved with romance. I think I played “Along the Edge” five or six times to make sure I didn’t miss any of the scenes and I am still not sure I witnessed everything. Scenes/dialogue you have already seen can be fast-forwarded simply by holding down a button.

There is really nothing bad I can say about this game. It is well worth it’s money even at full price.

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Verfasst: 27.09.20 03:42

Nova-Box had gotten me interested in their style of visual novels with Seer’s Isle although it didn’t fully give me what I wanted and fell short in some ways. I decided to work my way back and try Along the Edge which was their initial offering and had gotten quite a bit of praise. I will say I enjoyed it more than Seer’s Isle but some of the gripes I had remained. I’ll start by saying the art is simply fantastic and among the best I have ever seen. It almost has the style of a water color painting to it. The story was also really enjoyable and there are a good amount of choices you can make in it. Like in Seer’s Isle though the choices are tied to a set of symbols that are in no way explained to me. I have no idea which symbol a specific answer will give me nor what that means in the grand scheme of things. I simply stopped trying to guess and just picked which choices appealed to me without trying to think where they would lead. The ending I received was called “heart of darkness” due to the symbols most associated with my choices but as ominous as that sounds I wouldn’t call it a bleak ending at all. Symbols aside I enjoyed the characters; the story; the dialogue; so I advise those thinking the choice system is weird to just roll with it and enjoy the game as a whole. I did feel the game ended rather suddenly and felt a tad rushed in the last act. I also wish there were more options for romance as I didn’t care much for the ones provided but that being said staying single was an option so that’s good enough. The music is nice but gets repetitive after a while. There is no voice acting, which is fine by me, I’m just setting expectations.

I played Along the Edge on Linux. The game had some issues crashing at launch on it’s old Electron based engine so the developers took the time and effort to move the game to Unity. It never crashed on me after that. I didn’t notice any spelling errors. The game uses the OpenGL API. I played version 2.0 of the game. It uses an auto save system where the game saves each time you move to the next page. This means no going back to redo a choice. My main issue with this is if you want to see where a different path leads you have to replay the entire game. I get wanting to give your choices more impact and have you put thought into them but for those who like to experiment it’s a nuisance. Alt-Tab didn’t work.

Disk Space Used: 771MB
Game Engine: Unity
Input Used: Keyboard and Mouse

GPU Usage: 0-55 %
VRAM Usage: 510-1113 MB
CPU Usage: 2-6 %
RAM Usage: 2.6-2.7 GB

Overall I found this to be a very mature visual novel with a great story to explore and some fantastic art. As much as it seems like I knock their choice system I will say kudos to the developers for trying to do something different. I also think they should be praised for their response to their games crashing on Linux. Switching your games over to a new engine is no small feat and is a very classy move. I finished Along the Edge in 2 hours and paid $15.08 for it. I think it provided solid value for the price.

My Score: 8/10

My System:

AMD Ryzen 5 2600X | 16GB DDR4-3000 CL15 | MSI RX 5700 XT Gaming X 8GB | Mesa 20.1.7 | Samsung 970 Evo Plus 500GB | Manjaro 20.1 | Mate 1.24.1 | Kernel 5.8.6-1-MANJARO

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Verfasst: 12.09.20 02:12

Along the edge is a very good VN. There's just something atmospherically pleasing about it. Your choices have a little impact here and there, so there's good replay value. The setting is good, the story is easy to understand but has a little bit of depth to it, so I think people from a wide variety of ages would enjoy it.

The themes and soundtrack are quite good.

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Verfasst: 17.08.20 14:56

I'm a fan of Visual novels and this one, with several different endings, allows one to make choices that influence the outcome. It also gives the story replayability. Set in an ancient village in rural France, it has mystical mysteries, an estranged mother, a dilapidated chateau, a satisfactory Bad guy, love interests and more, and is a pleasant way way to pass the time. The choices you make appear to alter the endings quite dramatically, so they count.
The art work is stylized and suits the atmosphere of the story, not creepy, but unsettling and menacing at times.
One thing I did notice was that sometimes an event would occur for which there is no explanation, probably depending on choices made afterwards. This could be annoying, but since I have not found all the endings yet, I'm content to let them go. If you like visual novels, i hope you enjoy this one.

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Verfasst: 21.06.20 15:51

I have played this game a long time ago and I still remember it quite well and use it as a reference for how you can REALLY impact who the main character becomes in the end.
Awesome game that deals with lots of interesting themes.

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Verfasst: 09.04.20 21:50

I am terrible at writing reviews.
I absolutely love this game. It is the best visual novel I have ever played and the one I hold all other visual novels when comparing.
I love the art style, the different personalities the main character can have, the other people in this game.
I highly recommend this game to anyone who is interested.

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389 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 18.06.19 11:52

Very good game - but I cannot recommend it because it has no save feature, or skip feature. So you have to sit through the entire run again and again to pick different answers. And I don't have the patience for it, or the emotional investment to care about the other options that much to repeat it. I like that your character physically changes based on choices too. But I don't think it's worth the price, and I would rather recommend Demon Heart - a much better, polished similar version of this game with a better plot, characters, and mechanics.

This review might change if they decide to add a save or skip feature.

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Verfasst: 03.10.17 04:40

This is a great game.

A visual novel telling the story of Daphne Delatour, who finds herself embroiled in the middle of a supernaturally fuelled age old family feud, after inheriting her estranged grandmother's castle.

It's a good length to tell a decent and compelling story, without ever feeling like it's dragging on too much. No filler material.

The story has several twists and branches, with the choices that you make being rather important for the outcomes that occur. I've played it through enough to get almost all that could be seen (just missing two achievements).

I think they do it well in making the choices less about you the playing picking what happens, and more so you making choices that reveal the type of personality that Daphne has, and letting the plot progress from there. You're not choosing what she does, you're choosing who she is. I really like that from a VN.

The art direction does a wonderful job of setting the tone of the game, truly making you feel immersed in a surreal experience. The soundtrack is simple, but likewise helps set the mood.

This is a game that makes no effort whatsoever to adhere to the typical anime tropes that always seem to drag down most visual novels out there, and for that I absolutely applaud it. We need to see more of this.

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Verfasst: 15.04.17 20:17

This game sat on my wishlist for a while before being gifted to me by a freind. I wish I'd played it sooner as I really enjoyed it. My first playthrough took me around 3.5 hours and I have since completed the game a further 8 times in just over 8 hours and got all the achievements.

There is a huge amount of content and I saw numerous character changes, story archs and endings and am still sure there are things I haven't seen. The story was interesting and kept me going back for more, wanting to see how else events could play out. The artwork is really stunning and the music is lovely too, though not very varied (it does get a little repetitive after multiple playthroughs).

The only real problem with the game is that there are parts where the translation from French to English is . . . dubious, strange use of tenses and things that may have been translated too directly. I wouldn't normally mind so much but as it is such a heavily text based game I feel more care should have been taken; but for the most part it was clear what was being said and what was going on. Voice acting would also have been nice but I found I didnt mind so much after playing the game for a while.

It is a relatively short and slow game/story and is entirely made up of still images and text but it is definitely not boring and has heaps of replayability. Happy to recommend.

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Verfasst: 17.10.16 08:15

Style

Art
Watercolour art, very well done.
Eroge Content
No.

Music and sound

Suitable for the setting. Decent.

Story

Basics
Well written, no glaring mistakes.
Characters
Flat and completely forgettable.
Plot
Meandering, obtuse and boring.

Gameplay

No game elements. Autosave system forces you to start new game to see other choices.
Replayability
More than one route, but again, see the above issues.

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Verfasst: 14.10.16 15:56

Foreword:

A few hours ago a friend of mine logged to tell me about this visual novel. I checked the game title, I never heard of it. I checked the development company, I never heard of them. I looked at the trailer, and the art style intrigued me enough to try it out.

Along the Edge is a visual novel that tells the story of a Ph.D. student that due to certain circumstances is forced to give up on her research and move from the city to a town. It is a fairly interesting story of self-discovery, of family grudges - possible ways to solve them (Stabby! Stabby! Or other more boring venues of conflict resolution...) and between scientific reasoning and the occult.

Aesthetics:

Along the Edge has an interesting aesthetic to it. The graphics are very good for its genre. They fit the story and do not disturb the reader. The choice to use pastel paintings as the imagery and the piano notes that play as we are reading help cement the rustic feel of the setting and enforce the idea that we are in a small town.

The characters portrayed fit their environment and act in a logical manner fitting their constructed personality, depending on your choices their reaction to the reader will change in a believable manner (events do not feel forced upon the reader) and depending on your choices the character's appearance will change to fit the reader's decisions (a nice touch for immersion).

The characters are not voiced (some might find this a plus for immersion – imagining character voices or a minus, I have no stance on this).

Functionality:

The game has a well thought out alignment system that helps define the character using four symbols: the sun, the moon, the globe and the star. You gain points in a certain alignment depending on your decisions.
Points are granted per choice. The alignment is bidimensional, it affects your attitude (sun or moon) and beliefs (globe or star). The consequences of those choices are visible and change the way your character looks and how she acts in certain scenes (the changes are noticed are just in small segments of text but affect the overall feel of the story). If you are positive to people and conciliatory you gain sun alignment points (no numerical value is given - they are lit after making a decision, I use the term points because it is easier for me to explain the system); if you are direct and focus on your views, even if they hurt the interlocutor or damage your social position, you gain moon points; if you are rational, a sceptic and follow the scientific method you gain globe points and if you believe in the immaterial and occult or have an inclination towards intuition and instinct rather than the concise you gain star points.

I did not encounter any game breaking technical issues (I encountered issues with steam overlay getting stuck while in fullscreen mode and using the F12 key to take screenshots only worked after alt+tabbing from the game and alt+tabbing back - 16.10.2016) or glaring spelling mistakes while playing.

The game does not have a skip functionality, it might be a bit tedious for some after multiple playthroughs.

The game's options are very limited. You can choose between sound or no sound and the display settings are either fullscreen or windowed mode.

Achievements are granted after finishing a route.

Enjoyment:

I found myself taking it very lightly while reading and before I knew it... it was over. Before I knew it a good hour has passed and I was very satisfied. The developers tell a concise and well-written story.

Conclusion:

The pricing on this game is adequate for its genre and for what it has to offer (finishing a route is 1 hour – 1.5 hours, judging from the achievements there are at least four routes). It is not a monumental work like G-Senjou no Maou, Steins;Gate, Muv-Luv etc... but it has its place. It is a very good western visual novel and I think most of the fans of this genre would find it very enjoyable.

Other notes:

None at the moment.

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Verfasst: 12.10.16 16:05

This game is exactly what i expected when i bought it:

It is a relatively short (first playthrough took around two hours), visually appealing interactive novel with interesting side and main characters.

Towards the end of the game the choices you made will have influence both the main character and the storyline in a mayor way which should lead to a fair amount of replayability.

If you like visual novels with mild occult themes (degree varies with your choices) you will most likely enjoy this one.

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