VN - Unity - Out of Touch! [v3.28] [Story Anon]

If you had to boil Out of Touch down into a single word, it would be unabashed.

Out of Touch is unabashedly melodramatic.
Out of Touch is unabashedly garish in it’s aesthetic.
Out of Touch is unabashedly convoluted.

Those all might sound like negatives, but they’re not. I mean them in the best way possible.

I genuinely adore Out of Touch for all it’s outlandish flourishes and overflowing sentimentality. I love how it’s equal parts earnest and absurd. I love how it combines elements of comedy, slice-of-life, horror, action, romance, anxiety ridden psycho-babble, and schmaltzy power-of-friendship bullshit into an uncanny blend of what-the-hell-did-I-just-experience storytelling. I adore how it’s intricately folded plot makes you feel lost sometimes, forcing you to go back and re-interpret sections, and somehow has you buying into the fever-dream it’s peddling – and at the same time, none of those intricacies matter. At it’s core, it’s a story about a group of friends and their goodwill, support, and acceptance of each other that resonates strongly.

To be frank, Out of Touch is by no means the type of story I seek out or typically enjoy. It’s emotional cues aren’t really what I go for. I’m a porn guy. It’s an enigma to me why I’ve fallen in love with it as I have, other than it clearly and confidently comes from a place of love, made with the type of passion I only wish I could find kinship with.

There’s obvious technical aspects to be lauded. The character dialogue is rich, the music kicks ass, the visuals are cinematic. It’s a unique and ambitious story, with well-timed plot beats that form satisfying individual arcs that work toward a bigger picture. In the current WEG climate, it would be a cut above most just for having a plan, but then StoryAnon has the audacity (and mental illness) to execute an outrageous story thoroughly and assuredly.

Above all, the greatest thing I can personally say about it is this: Out of Touch takes me back to when I first started reading visual novels more than a decade ago, when I exuberantly believed in the format as a storytelling medium. I love that feeling.

To me, Out of Touch is unabashedly a joy to read.

Review of 2.50 Public

I really don't get the appeal.

The entire intro is so confusing and boring, and the actual story consists of bland drama with a boring supernatural layer.
I probably pushed through too far hoping it would get good later on, but it's just more of the same the entire time.

Then it also manages to somehow combine the worst aspects of a kinetic novel, a normal vn and sandbox game by not offering you real choices, just offering you pointless buttons to go look for someone in different locations and offering you a talk button when you are alone. All these actions also have to be performed, so the buttons only offer the illusion of choice.

I wish I looked through the negative reviews before trying it out, and my recommendation is to look elsewhere, this wasn't worth it at all.

Im out of words.

I will be honest. Im not a visual novel dude. I hate adult games without proper sex animations, sounds etc. I like solving puzzles, foreseeing difficult and usually nonesense choice options. I wanna play a game with good adult scenes dammit, not a fucking novel. Every single of visual novels i tried, couldnt play more than 2 fucking hours coz how much boring and cliche shit they did contain. Belive me ppl, i tried to play sooooo many VN's before but hated every fucking single one of them.

But with this game, i didnt care. Theres a single resentment i have about this game. THE TIME I WILL HAVE TO WAIT FOR MORE CONTENT.

There were sex scenes in this game. Never even thought about fapping. Those were not animated, very few scenes compared to the size of the game. But still, i didnt care. Gave over 40 hours of my life to this game with only a single flaw which i stated earlier. Cannot wait this amazing story to end. What was the word in Japan? Like the evil antoganists always say while they lick their lips in awe to the power level to our gallant protoganist? Yeah, SUBARASHIIIIII.

This man should be a novel author. Very successfull one. A world-wide writer. I truly wish i could support you. Im sorry, my friend. I truly am.

Rating: 4/5
Review as of v2.50 Public

Out of Touch is a top game on this site and merits greater following than it currently receives. Story Anon has triumphed in creating a game of quality to which most devs aspire and few attain. If you are reading this review to decide whether to play this game, let me say up front - put aside those doubts and give it a go. Now, onto the breakdown (spoilers ahead):

Very corny writing a lot of the time, but story seems intriguing enough to power through the cheesy moments (which are almost non-stop).
Good variety in models, though some of them have that hilariously-proportioned ass/tits thing that is a bit over the top.
Having to click through fades and wait is pretty annoying.
Music's good.
Characters are at least unique and distinct enough.

I really, really can't emphasize the cheesiness of the writing enough, though. I can only play this in small bursts before I need to take a break.

I'd probably up this to a 4 if the transitions didn't take so fucking long, too. They're annoying in that it takes so much clicking to just get through a small scene where the camera angle changes 20 times. If I could click through at my own pace, I'd actually care more for the story and dialogue

I admit. I went into this game a little skeptical at first. I've only been a part of this community for a few months now, and I have to say. This game got me hooked.

This author knew what he was doing when he wrote the story, If you can pay attention to even the smallest detail, you'll know that all of this has been thought out beforehand. Nothing seems to be forgotten or Deus Ex Machina'd in.

Each character feels like an individual person. Sure, you have your tropes, but each character is their own person around these tropes. Each one has its own strengths, weaknesses, and flaws. I wouldn't be surprised if the author took inspiration from these characters in their own personal life.

The mood of the story shifts slowly through its multiple genres, but never fully drops any of them. You have your comedy, action, romance, and (light) psychological horror. These shifts never seem too jarring, except for a comedical-butt-in, but that's the point of comedy.

The sexual part of the game is not overstated. This feels more like romance eroge than porn eroge if you know what I mean. Could there be more without compromising anything? Yes, but I think the author truly means to let this be a slow burn, and I love it.

Story: 5/5
Characters: 5/5
Genre: 4/5 (not really into the horror stuff)
Sex: 4/5

Once this project is revealed in its final form, I will come back and update it. 4/5 stars due to mostly my own personal preference and that it's not finished. Keep up the great work!

Out of Touch is an amazing game. I've only started just 3 days ago and I am completely sold. I know that Koikatsu is probably not something that people usually prefer but the story of this game is just simply amazing. Now if you are a Koikatsu enjoyer then I do also have to add that the visual is very pleasing as well. Overall, I highly recommend this for everyone.

Koikatsu might not be to everyone’s taste in terms of art style, but even if that’s the case for you, I’d still strongly encourage you to give this game a try.

I’ve played most of the biggest games on this site, andOut of Touch absolutely stands up to the best of them.

In terms of character, this is one of, if not THE, best game on this website. Every single character is different, nuanced, and has their own agency within the story

As for story, I’d put it on the same level, it’s interesting, different and perhaps most impressively, the harem feels natural. Most games, you have to suspend your disbelief in order to buy that one guy could be with all those girls, but with OoT, it feels like it couldn’t possibly have been any other way, every single member of the harem needs to be there or something feels missing.

For me, the biggest fault of the game is in its gameplay. I think it should really just have been a renpy VN, but maybe I’ll be proven wrong when the combat system is fully enabled.

Overall though, that fault doesn’t detract enough from the experience for me to give this game any less than five stars and recommend that everyone give it a try

The best visual novel I've ever played, hands down. I've played a lot of games like this, but this one is special. The story had me on the edge of my seat the entire time, the soundtrack has some of the best music I've heard in years, the characters are all deep and loveable, every single one.

The game makes a joke at one point, saying that it's emotionally manipulative and I laughed so hard because it is, but it manipulated me to be happy, which was something I was struggling with for some time. It might not change your life like it did for me, but you are doing yourself a disservice if you do not pick up and play this game. This game does have some very very nice sex scenes, but at that point, I cared more about the characters.

It's light hearted, heartfelt and heart racing, and still has heart to spare. I love this game, CJ and all the girls. Thank you Story Anon for this wonderful experience.

I accidentally ignored this game for quite a while but I am glad that I finally got into it. I have been quickly pulled in and I never want to leave. It's awesome. The story is awesome. The girls are awesome. The music is awesome. The lore is awesome. It's just all around fantastic.

I've gone through a lot of these games just detached and not caring at all, but this one... this one fucking pulled me in hard and I just care about and love almost every character in the game.

This is as of version 2.45 chapter 36.

Holy shit where do I begin. This is probably one of the best VN's I have ever played on this site...and it all with koikatsu models! Each character is fleshed out in a magnificent way, I dont know if all the backgrounds and objects are pre made models gotten from somewhere or hand made but I have NEVER seen these places used in other VN's using koikatsu models. Its always the same places that you get from that game but not with this one. As for the story, it gets better and better after each and every arc it goes through. Its not just some stupid half assed fap material story it's actually engaging, it's thought provoking, it makes want that new chapter to drop as soon as possible because each chapter ends in a way that leaves me wanting more immediately. As for the fap material it doesn't really get started until like chapter 16 but boy is it worth the wait. No pre-rendered koikatsu scene inserts here. Each sex scene might not have any animation but they are still done in a very high quality way that will definitely get your rocks off. Overall 5/5 stars, one of the best VN's on this site.

Enjoyed the visual novel for maybe the first 10 to 15 minutes.
Right up until the perspective shifts to some side character who had only had a few lines by that point, and during one of the dialogues you're lead to, someone alludes to the main character actually having done something instead of the main girl just fucking up his life because she freaked out and refused to tell anyone the truth.
There wasn't anything in the first bit of the game that makes you actually develop an attachment to any of the characters, just a few characters being pieces of shit and most characters only having 3-4 lines per scene up to that point and everything even remotely character defining about anyone is usually covered up with what seems to be some vague lie.
After that point I was just slogging through attempting to get to a point where the game was interesting again.
I gave up 1 hour in and just deleted the folder and moved on with my life
It was extremely tiring to read for 1-2 minutes at a time and then be forced to go through some untagged mini-sandbox crap clicking every presented option to get drip fed information that nobody will actually follow up on.
Hell, I hate kinetic novels with a passion and I feel like I would have actually rated this game higher had it been one.
Instead you just have to go to each area every time you're given the chance and click every option to get small amounts of marginally relevant information and maybe an origin story about a different side character.

Having finished the story to the current build ch.34, i absolutely should have started this game sooner and am disappointed in myself for not doing so. Its been incredible to see the author grow as a writer and the difference between the beginning chapters to the latest, particularly in how great the characters are. While the beginning of the story has a rocky start to me, the more the project went on the easier it became to love the story and its characters. My only forewarning about this game is that its clearly put story first and it just happens to have the occasional porn or lewd scene in. While there arent a lot of porn scenes they were all really well done i just wish there was an easier way to go back to view the scenes as unless you have a save prior to a scene its hard to go back through, the dialogue is also slow to skip through, and its easy to accidentally overwrite saves as i have done twice sadly. To my personal preference i love how it puts the story first but its one of those games you got to be in the mood and have the time to read rather than a quick get off session because there is a ton of content it took me the better part of 3 days to finish. Regardless i absolutely fell in love with this game the devs did phenomenal work and im excited for future installments!

Review of v2.39

Out of touch is a game that suffer from many flaws, that at first may not seem a big deal, but when you play it as a full game and try to rethink about it all, it kinda start to collapse.
Because even if this game has rightfully great moments, it is also constellated by some annoying parts that made me wish the game was made in another way.

To start off, the writing, it’s hit or miss, especially when it tries to combine generic anime harem tropes and internet jokes, not to talk about the serious moments.
The shift of tones is baffling most of the times, (The prologue literally made me quit the game, the first time).
When it tries to do humor, it actually succeds sometimes but then it’s striken down by recurring jokes or unfunny ones.
Dialogues tries to force you to care for its characters, that most are cardboard but sometimes they actually succeed at making some great dialogues or interesting personalities that make me invest for a few minutes, then Jamie comes in.
Also the prospective shift for characters that aren’t the MC are pointless or infuriating.

Then we arrive at the plot, and I must honestly say, that it was enjoyable if you turn your brain off, batshit crazy and unpredictable at times, if you ignore the awful moments and just go with the flow you can clearly have a good time.
But just don’t think or consider some characters as good writing, if not the thing crumbles.
And in fact it crumbled multiple times, for the non sensical explanations dumps or when it tries to be too serious.

Also it’s kinda of a kinetic novel, with some exploration parts very weak and a combat that isn’t really developed but it’s enough developed to annoy you or kill the mood left.

And as for the sex scenes, they are few, and honestly they could also been one and I would have not cared, because if you are playing this game, you aren’t going to play it for the sex scenes, you are playing for the plot and characters… but that’s what I would have said if everything was so engaging to make me enjoy the last part, sadly it isn’t.
Sex scenes are what you get, they haven’t emotional power enough to make it great and they aren’t good enough to enjoy yourself, they are just there, as a reminder that it’s also a harem game.

Music is actually great, I quite enjoy it, and models and graphics are above average, the lighting is used in great ways.
The visuals are one of the best parts.

And that’s it.
I don’t recommend it, but you can check for yourself and maybe some will find their next time killer or favorite game, but for me it was the exact opposite.

I'm a lurker, don't really post on here. This game is good enough to warrant a review. Story is good enough in my opinion that I'd rather fap to something else and be stone sober just so I can pay attention to the story more.

Keep it up Dev, its great.

I just finished the game up to chapter 33 and I gotta say GODDAMN it's good this is the type of game that makes you sit in one place and play for hours and think it's only been 30 min(I spent 5 hours in one sitting I was hungry asf and thirsty didn't feel it during my playthrough it's that good) the story is a 5* the, the character designs is a 5* and pacing is amazing the only few draw backs I have is the cuts can get a bit much in some scenes and I would love some smoother animations for the snusnu and more poses but I'm just greedy, thank you Anon for making such an amazing experience.

I was expecting a superficial anime porn and got a really nice story with deep characters, perspective changes, suspense and emotions. Out of Touch manages to be silly and very serious at the same time.

The combat system is annoying though.

This game is an absolute fucking trip.

I tend to skip through dialogue a lot in text-heavy VN games like this one, and tend to not like games that take their time to get to lewd stuff... but not this one. I don't know how many hours I've spent in this game, probably 20-30+ at this point, just because of the story.

It's weird as fuck, from the first scene with CJ's dad to all the supernatural stuff going on, and it's absolutely amazing. And the weird parts aren't even why i'm interested in this game, but the characters themselves. Shit's just too damn real; My life hasn't been the best, and all these characters are very relatable to me, their stories are being told very well, everyone's absolutely fucked up with an unhealthy dose of trauma sprinkled in here and there and yet this game is one of the most fucking wholesome things I've ever seen, which makes it all the better. It reminds me of all the people that care about me, that people care even if it doesn't seem so obvious, even if it feels like they shouldn't, even if we hide ourselves from those around us.

It takes a while to get to the sex scenes, but they rapidly ramp up in frequency once they start in a way that all makes sense in the story. They're awesome, i love the look of the girls and the relationships between all the characters. At this point I'm hooked for the story and the wholesomness that overshadows all the trauma, and the orgies are just a great bonus.

This is something really good.
I didn't excepting the this story be so good.
The combat system really need a change.
Maybe the system of cancelling the commands issued would improve this fight a little.
A good game. Not mindless compilation of sex scenes.
Awaiting more.

Great game with memorable characters. Always look forward to updates!

I always have a sense of dread when a developer decides to do a reboot or change game engines. This is one of the few examples where there was nothing lost.

Dedicated developer deserves support and praise.