Trick and Treat – Visual Novel

main character is a bit of a weirdo but its a free simple short game. I like the cat. Recommend for nostalgia for mediocre visual novels.

---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
☐ Beautiful
☐ Good
☐ Decent
☑ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS
---{ Gameplay }---
☐ Very good
☐ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☑ Just don't
---{ Audio }---
☐ Eargasm
☐ Very good
☐ Good
☐ Not too bad
☑ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf
---{ Audience }---
☑ Kids
☑ Teens
☑ Adults
☑ Grandma
---{ PC Requirements }---
☐ Check if you can run paint
☑ Potato
☐ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer
---{ Game Size }---
☑ Floppy Disk
☐ Old Fashioned
☐ Workable
☐ Big
☐ Will eat 15% of your 1TB hard drive
☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it
☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data
---{ Difficulty }---
☑ Just press 'W'
☐ Easy
☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls
---{ Grind }---
☑ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☐ Isn't necessary to progress
☐ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second life for grinding
---{ Story }---
☐ No Story
☐ Some lore
☑ Average
☐ Good
☐ Lovely
☐ It'll replace your life
---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☑ Short
☐ Average
☐ Long
☐ To infinity and beyond
---{ Price }---
☑ It's free!
☐ Worth the price
☐ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money
---{ Bugs }---
☑ Never heard of
☐ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs
---{ 5 / 10 }---
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Short simple game with a full guide. Fun to knock out in an afternoon.

Why are there so many achievement hunters in the reviews? It's a free game what's the point of playing it for achievements and not reading the story???

Trick and Treat: Visual Novel is a short mystery and romance game that puts me in a cursed forest on Halloween night. I am separated from my friends after something strange happens, and from there I have to work out what is going on while trying to find a way out. The story introduces me to Ashley and Lilian, and neither one is quite as straightforward as they first seem. I like that the game keeps the setting fairly simple because it lets the mystery and the choices stay at the centre of the experience.
The choices are probably the best part for me. There are seven different endings, so I cannot just treat every conversation as something I can click through without thinking. Some decisions can lead me towards a better outcome while others can get me killed, and that gives the short story some replay value. I also like having two different love interests because the relationships give the story another reason to explore the different paths instead of only trying to find one ending.
The atmosphere works well too. The forest setting gives the game a creepy Halloween feeling without needing complicated gameplay systems. The mystery surrounding the curse and the strange events makes me want to keep reading because I want to understand what happened and why the characters are acting the way they do. The anime style artwork is simple, but it suits the visual novel format and helps the characters stand out. I also appreciate that the game supports several languages, including English, Spanish, Russian, Italian, French, Swedish and Ukrainian.
The biggest weakness for me is the length. The game is listed at around three hours, so even with the different endings there is not a huge amount of story here. Once I understand the main mystery, replaying the same sections to reach another ending can start to feel repetitive. I think the branching structure does help, but I would have liked the different paths to have a little more depth instead of mainly being variations on a relatively short story.
I also think the writing can be a little uneven. There are some interesting ideas around the curse, the forest and the characters, but the story sometimes moves quickly through things that I would have liked to see explored more. Because it is a visual novel, the writing has to do most of the work, and I think the game would have benefited from spending more time developing the relationships and explaining some of the mystery. Still, I like that it does not drag the story out unnecessarily and gets to the important choices fairly quickly.
There are a few small extras that give me a reason to finish everything. The game has five Steam achievements, and the different endings give me something to work towards after my first playthrough. It is also completely free to play, which makes the short length much easier for me to accept. I can go through the main story without having to spend anything, and if I enjoy the first ending enough, I can return and see what happens when I make different decisions.
Overall, Trick and Treat: Visual Novel is a decent short horror mystery with some romance and a useful branching structure. I like the cursed forest setting, the two main girls, the different endings and the way my choices can completely change how a run ends. The short length and occasionally underdeveloped story stop it from reaching the higher ratings I give to stronger visual novels, but I still think it is worth trying when I want something quick and free. It has a simple idea, a clear atmosphere and enough different endings to make the experience more interesting than a completely linear visual novel.
Rating: 6.9/10

overall, this game is decent enough for a visual novel, it builds blocks of what a visual novel should be, a compelling story, creative elements and a hint of mystery as well as providing meaningful choices that makes the game good. however, the game lacks in artistic imagery, specifically how half the game is just either a white or black screen. furthermore, despite getting all the endings the game seems rather short and could be explored between the signifigant characters (will not say who due to potential spoilers). Overall, the game is good for those who wish to play this due to not having anything to do but is not reccomended for those who has other games to play.

Welcome to Trick and Treat
Not to be confused with a similar titled game, this one is a visual novel. The game is from the same developers as Connected Hearts, but what baffled me is that this one came out a year earlier and still has a better art style than the other one.
Anyway, it’s an easy and free 100% completion, so thank you, devs!