answer these 10 questions and i'll tell you what kind of lover you are: a choose-your-own-adventure heartbreak in the shape of a quiz

a short story that's sort of like if a prose poem and a buzzfeed quiz had a baby and they all fucking hated you. 

it looks better full screen.


(edited to add: wow i never expected this game to reach so many people - as of writing this, it's been viewed over 100k times! :o ! it was important to me from the start that the game be free and i'll never charge for it, but i have set up a tip jar at https://ko-fi.com/frannymestrich if you enjoyed it and want to support my writing. a huge thank you to everyone who's played, commented, shared with a friend, and/or rated. xoxo)

StatusReleased
PlatformsHTML5
Rating
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(2,204 total ratings)
Authorfrannym
GenreInteractive Fiction
Tagsinkle, Narrative, Romance, Short, Story Rich, Text based
Average sessionA few minutes
LanguagesEnglish

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i made an itch.io account just to comment on this. this brought me to tears the second i saw the result because it's atrociously and uncomfortably true. sweet, but aloof explains me in 3 words i never knew would hit home so much. i'm a big lover, i have a heart full of affection for those around me, especially my romantic partners, but i struggle opening up to them a lot of the time. how do i tell them i used to get bullied and abused? how do i tell them they mean the world to me without crying? how do i pour all of my love into them without cringing myself out and ruining it. i'm good with gifts and words on paper but aloud i'm like a broken voice box, trying to say the right things and only managing to screw up. i could be thinking too hard about it, but that's what i do. i write. thank you for this

im almost in tears guys :(

This is exactly how I had treated my ex girlfriend in our relationship, as the player. I was young, and before we started dating I even knew I wasn’t sure if what I had for her was love or a deep appreciation for her company. I liked the idea of being loved, but it was only two months in when I realized that we didn’t truly have much in common, and that we clashed too much. I wondered how she felt when I told her that I wasn’t going to be enough for her. I wondered how long it would take for her to forget me. Playing this game felt like closure, for being able to see her side. I gave her objects of my love, but I myself never felt it like I thought I did. I am forever sorry for her. I had never had anything close to a romantic relationship, and as a result of my doubts and confusion it hurt her. Thank you for making this game. Thank you so so so much.

keep coming back to this, its really nice

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god that spooked me cause i was just answering normally and this thing started to treat me like a lover (ive never been in a relationship my whole life and im not planning to so uh imagine my surprise), anyways it was fun.. as someone else said idk if theres other endings here but i got "sweet but aloof" too, nice game btw.

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I got sweet but aloof, I don't think any of the choices matter much though. The prompts are always sad, theres no good outcome (though I guess thats just how it is with most relationships). It's more of a story and a poem, don't take the result personally. Love can't be described with words or found out with questions.

I chose all the answers I knew were best, it made me choose what gifts to buy for a lover, it never gave me the choice to tell them I loved them. At the end it told me I was "afraid of saying I love you", I was never given the choice to.

I liked the story it was telling though, good game! I reccomend it :^)

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I love a good bait and switch.

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I've never felt so called out

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the date question especially. very good game.

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the ending of this -- the "lover type" -- was a mix of my ex fiancee and i's styles of things. I gave her proof that i loved her but it was never The Final Proof Of Love (tm) that she wanted. I know from people that I blame myself, still, more for the way things ended than she ever has. really strong. really good. 

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i don't usually comment but i gotta lyk that i ABSOLUTELY love hate every words written in this test. it feels like it just uncovered a part of myself that i never wanted to acknowledge, i could say more but this is a public comment LMAO. either way, thank you for making this game, you did well, author 💝. 

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I feel really called out. I may not have much experience or exes to relate to regards the story, but thr description sure fits. It's a bit rough facing that so bluntly but I feel like I'm going to keep it in mind and maybe actually try to open up more and to let myself be vulnerable if I ever find someone. Won't be easy hah but oh well

This made me cry I'm still not over my ex

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Did I feel called out? Maybe. Definitely needed it.

Thank you for the beautiful game. 

I got sweet but aloof

I don't know what aloof means, but I agree with the description it provided

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I don't know what I expected. The story didn't relate to me that much, but the ending... that was rough. I got called out hard. 10/10 would spiral again

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didn't have to call me out like that

it wasn't really sad to me, maybe just a little. the description was definitely accurate, I just can't trust anyone enough to say I love you or do something first, and that hurts us both

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It felt like a bullet to the heart, it was so beautiful but so painful to read.

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I feel sad after that like it was correct but now i feel like a bad person.

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fuuuuck, I actually match the description, man.. I'm done.

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was not expecting the angst and accuracy <///3

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I did not expect to cry today 😭👍

so wonderful I love this so much :]

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bawling my eyes out omg

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this really surprised me!!! loved it

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Wait I love this.

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wtf dawg. where's my happy ending? where's my 2nd chance?💔 im about to tear up💔

this was absolutely beautiful tho!!

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replaying it for the 3rd time and im actually bawling

amazinggg

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I THPUGHT THIS WAS A QUIZ WHY AM I TEARING UP

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awwwhhh... :(

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aww this was so good

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Well that shit just described my relationship with my partner they have an avoidant attachment  style and I’m honestly sometime not sure if I I know them as well as I think I do. And then I honest,y don’t know what’s wrong with me lol so whatever 

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phenomenal. wow, my heart is healed n in pieces. what just happened to me

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my heart )':

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I didmt realuzed till i jumped in and realized this wasnt for the faint if heart

This is amazing!!!

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This is so bittersweet, i love it

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such an unrequited love ദ്ദി(╥ᆺ╥ᵕ) amazing game

loveit

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IM FUCKING CRYING...

I needed this deep down in my heart. I am so grateful to the person who created this. From now on, I will try to love in a better way; I won’t let fear or intrusive thoughts sabotage me when I open up to someone again.

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