Past Tense
A downloadable Past-tense for Windows, macOS, and Linux
The story
Past Tense follows the story of our main character, who receives a call from someone he left long ago, leaving him no choice except to return to the life he once abandoned.
Only now, everything--and everyone--has changed in ways he couldn't expect. As he confronts his past, he must navigate the complexity of relationships, emotions, and decisions that will shape his future.
Will he be able to redeem himself? Can you start over again and build new relationships in a place where everybody remembers?
What to Expect
Past Tense is a Romance Visual Novel with adult themes. The game emphasizes storytelling, focusing on building meaningful relationships, exploring romance, and delving into dramatic moments that shape the characters' lives.
Gameplay: Game renders are natively 1080 resolution, with music, and sound effects. (currently no animations in the game, due to hardware limitations.)
In-Game Choices: Your decisions shape the story! Choices will lead to different dialogues and outcomes, ranging from minor to major impacts. Some decisions may even influence the ending you’ll unlock.
Relationship/Sexual Content: I aim to focus more on the relationship/romance side. There will be nudity and sexual/lewd content. I don't want to throw mindless sex scenes left and right. If there's a sex scene/lewd scene, I want to make sure that it makes sense to the story and has a reason to be there.
This game contains mature content, including violence, harsh language, self-harm, drug use, nudity, and sexual situations involving adults of consenting age (18+).
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Development log
- Dev Update 17/05/2516 days ago
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This was a nice start with some interesting beginnings. But if I can suggest, you should add some kind of opening that actually explains who we are, who certain other characters are in relation to us and what's going on. I spent most of the game confused as to how I should read things because I'm lacking context cues.
Also, Agnes is a terrible name, maybe consider renaming her.
Thanks for the suggestion! I'm glad that you like the first chapter :)
The mysterious things in the game are by design, and as the story goes, all the answers will appear by themselves... Slowly ofcourse. So don't worry, hopefully your questions will be answered as the story goes on.
Agnes is a Greek name meaning "pure" or "holy". It is pretty rare name compared to other characters in the AVNs, so I understand you feel that way :D
Yeah, I get you have a story to tell, but a basic opening would be nice. Who are the characters? What's their relationship to the MC? Why am I supposed to care about them?
And I know about the name, but it's an old womans name.
I understand... Hope I can clear up the confusion in the next chapter. Thank you so much for the feedback :)
If you like the name Agnes, keep it. Not every Agnes is a granny. Those who think so are unaware of people like Agnes Hedengard, who looks like she could be the picture beside the dictionary definition of "fashion model", or Agyness Deyn, who was born as a Laura, but intentionally chose a variation of the name Agnes when she was literally an international supermodel in the 2000s. You're the one doing the work on this story; remember that you have to make something that you enjoy, first and foremost, or else what's the point? Good luck. Be well!
Thanks, man!
This is the nicest thing I read today :)
Looking forward to this after it got featured on avn lovers magazine
It was such a great honor to be featured in the AVNL Magazine. I hope you enjoyed the game! :))
Looks really good
Thank you! :)))