SimulationFit check
Is What Makes Us Special worth it for you?
We tell you who should skip it, too.
Play it if you…
Good fit- Visual novel readers who want choice-based stories
- Players interested in school newspaper and relationship narratives
- Readers seeking a few hours of branching drama with optional romance
Skip it if you…
Saves you a refund- Players seeking action, combat, or hands-on newspaper management
- Readers looking for a long story with extensive replayable content
- Players who do not want relationship-focused drama or romance options
Our take on What Makes Us Special
The focus on a short, choice-led story limits the amount of sustained gameplay and management depth. Its structure favors reading decisions and relationship changes over broader systems, exploration, or repeated sessions with substantially different content.
What is What Makes Us Special?
This visual novel follows Ethan, Layla, Claire, and Scarlett as they begin a school newspaper.
Player decisions affect events, the newspaper’s outcome, and the relationships between the characters. The story includes optional romance and drama, with several possible endings shaped by those choices. Some scenes use phone-message exchanges, where characters can also send stickers for collection. The game contains a few hours of story content, with the total depending on reading speed and decisions.
How What Makes Us Special plays
- 01Branching story outcomes
- Decisions alter events, relationships, and the ending reached.
- 02Phone message scenes
- Parts of the narrative unfold through exchanges on the characters’ phones.
- 03Collectible stickers
- Characters occasionally send stickers that can be collected during messaging sections.
- 04Optional romance drama
- The story includes romantic and dramatic material that is not required.
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What Makes Us Special: platforms & release
Is What Makes Us Special worth it?
It is worth it if: visual novel readers who want choice-based stories. Skip it if: players seeking action, combat, or hands-on newspaper management.
Where can I download What Makes Us Special?
Use the Download Now button on this page: it opens What Makes Us Special's store page, where you can choose how to get it.
What platforms is What Makes Us Special on?
Windows and Linux.
