Death Love Repeat
A downloadable game
Made in 30 days for the Spooktober 6th Annual Visual Novel Jam
"Game Over Bloody Summer", the not-so hit video game, stars Theo, your average 80s punk, in a pulse-pounding summer camp-gone-wrong horror thriller. Can you save everyone from the Summer Camp Slasher? Can you even save yourself? Wait, do you even want to be saved?
After having a severe case of déjà vu , Theo discovers that he's living in a repeated loop of the same horrific day and even worse, its a game. Forced to repeat the same day leading to the same deadly fate, Theo becomes extremely driven to find any way to stop this horribly cliché summer camp slasher and save both himself and his fellow campers, even if that anything is romance. This, is Death Love Repeat.
TW: Blood, death, bullying, manipulation, gaslighting, toxic relationships, abuse, religion.
Over 15,000 Words of Looping Content Goodness
3 Fully Animated CGs
Fully Voice Acted Start of Game
10 Hand Drawn and Pixel Character Sprites
9 Groovy Retro-Styled Tracks
2 Endings
1 LGBT Male MC
1 Romance for MC, Several Opportunities for Flirting
2 Danger Lesbians
Make sure to check out our wonderful team!
Dev team:
Dax (Futotori): Team Lead, Programmer, Editor
Lauren B. (Explauren): Writer
LaChofis: Animator
Mishantics: Artist
Playingwithapencil: Artist
Syd: Composer
Andrea S. (Drakee): Composer
SnoozeD: Marketer, Editor
MalibuDarby : Tileset
Voice Actors:
Theo: Hexed Glaive VA (Twitter)
Adam: Ben Weeks (Twitter)
Amber: Kiera Rhodes VA (Twitter)
Logan: Jax Winterbourne (Twitter)
Sasha: Archer Devon (Twitter)
Melody: Zane (Twitter)
Steve: James Smalls (Twitter)
Bill: RoadThrash VA (Twitter)
Greg: RoadThrash VA (Twitter)
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The middle portions/loops of the game will be expanded upon in a future update! The game is currently in a prototype build.
For the Spooktober Build:
- Do not load a save that takes place in a loop before or after the one you are currently in. Use autosave if you don't have a file available in your current loop.
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LOVED this game. So fun and a nice concept. THE WRITING ON THE KISS MADE ME SCREAM HELLO? is there any way we couldve possibly convinced you know who to stop killing them?
Yes! One of the two endings is where everyone lives! You'll need to make the right choices in loop 4 to see it though.
hello, I need some help. I’m stuck at the “unfreeze the meat somehow part” of the game, and I don’t know what to do. I tried walking around the map but it won’t let me do anything. Also SPAMMED the h3ll out of my mouse right click button in the kitchen but nothing is working. I tried to find a walk through vid but I guess no one made any, yet. Please help 🥲
Heya!
So the steps for this one are pretty direct;
1. Interact with the microwave by walking up and pressing spacebar until it talks about needing to unthaw the meat.
2. Turn on the power outside by interacting with the power box (this is located right next to the front door of the cabin).
3. Go back inside and walk up to the microwave again and press spacebar or click where Theo is standing, not on the microwave to turn it on.
Let me know if you need any more guidance!
I feel so dumb… thank you very much! I can’t wait to finish the game😭
I’m still relatively lost, I did that but what now, the games gives no to little hints on what to do. Melody like talks about putting some things on the meat to make it good and that’s it and then the game throws you back into free play. I’m sorry for bothering so much, but I really wanna finish this game :(
You're not being a bother at all!
All you need to do now is leave the cabin and walk down the stairs where the next cutscene and scene should play!
Feel free to reply again if you get lost, I'm more than happy to guide you.
oh, I did that but i didn’t get a cut scene
Hmmm the cutscene should play and the scene should continue. When you walk down the stairs can you fully explore the area?
I'd really appreciate it if someone could help me figure out a solution for this problem that I'm facing.
So basically, I've just started my playthrough and now I am at a point where I get to talk to the characters each for the first time. Unfortunately, it seems like my game kinda bugs out when I go upstairs and enter the room to try to talk to the chars there because they disappear all of a sudden and then it's possible for me to literally visit the entire map. Since there's no way for me to make any progress in the game at this point and there's not a single soul I can talk to (not even interact with objects) I'm assuming that I did some sort of mistake.
Both reinstalling the game and not loading save states at all (I think I wasn't in a loop at that point tbh but I simply never loaded at all to be sure) didn't solve this issue unfortunately.
With that being said, I'd really appreciate it if someone could tell me where I went wrong.
Aaa I'm so sorry you encountered such a broken bug! There's still a few bugs in the spooktober build as we didn't have time to iron them out.
If you have an issues with saves instead of reinstalling the game you can go into your "saves" file and delete all saves in there to reset the game.
To my knowledge the only game breaking bug is in loop 1, but in testing we never encountered it so what I'll do is dot point a route that should be 100% bug free.
Loop 1
- Once inside speak to Steve then Melody and go right upstairs. Avoid entering bathrooms or exploring in new instances (areas that require a transition to enter)
- Once upstairs go down the hallway and a small cutscene event should play and then interact with all the characters in any order.
- Once everyone is spoken to go back down the stairs and the game should progress as normal with no more game breaking bugs (again, avoid going into rooms you don't have to go in before you finish speaking to everyone and go downstairs)
If this doesn't work let me know exactly when the bug occurs and I'll work on a hot fix. We plan to properly go through and finish the game and iron out bugs soon, but in the meantime if you face any issues let us know and we'll try to guide you through them.
Sorry for making you wait that long, even though I was the one asking for help.
Luckily it worked now thanks to your help!
For some reason the cutscene in the hallway upstairs didn't trigger for me before but now that I followed the route it did!
This probably also the reason why everything got bugged for me, because it didn't trigger but I still entered the room where the characters where in.
Thank you so much for the assistance!
I'm glad to hear it's working!! Feel free to let me know if you encounter any more issues in the future!
The short animations are cherry on top
I loved the game. I would eat up a similar game
Is there some specific system requirements? I purchased the game, but the download always fails.
Hello! The build is only for PCs, but other than that, it should run on any system.
If the download fails when you try to download directly from the website, it might be an issue with your internet or itch. If this is the case you should be able to simply re-try the download in your "download history" in your browser and it should continue where the download left off.
If this isn't the issue it might be a problem with your disk space. Check to see if you have enough space to download the game.
If none of this helps please elaborate on the download issue and I'll try my best to help you get the game good to go!
Thankfully the download succeeded this time! Must have been a temporary issue. Thank you for the help! Very excited to play.
Just finished the game got both endings LOVEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEED it!!!!11
I LOVE THIS GAME SOO MUCH IT WAS SO AMAZING AND FUN TO PLAY
Hi I loved this game. keeping my comment short and simple = how much I loved it
I love the game and really appreciate how much work going on in this game. All the voice actors and actress did a wonderful job and... For a game supposed to be set in the 80s, you've hit all the nostalgua points! Amazing work!
Also I loaded the save without reading the notice and regretted itThis was sooo good!! I love our slasher boyfriend and the nuances to both of the endings! Also Theo's voice was perfect!
the counselor is grossss, the one that should have stayed down tbhIt's the same quality you'd expect from Futotori's other projects.
Great art, Voice acting is real good and the story is on point.
Definitely give it a go
Full disclosure, I'm a voice actor on this project
I have to say, I absolutely love the loop concept that was introduced. This game plays so smooth, and I was impressed with the quality that was put together in such a short time. If you're looking for a classic retro-slasher with twists and turns, you should absolutely try this game out.
Remember: Your choices matter ;)