REPEAT IT BACK TO ME
He is sitting there, waiting for me again.
Did he invite me here? Were we here together, or did I follow him out here? I know I need to figure that out.
You've started to forget some of the bigger details. You want him to be the Elias you remember. He wants to be Elias, too. But something stands in the way of getting everything just right.
A familiar route through the forest. A face that's not quite right. A sun that won't go down and a day that won't ever end.
REPEAT IT BACK TO ME is a psychological horror/romance visual novel about doing whatever it takes to remember even the smallest details exactly how they were.
Content Warnings
Content warnings include (light) body horror, de-realization, and drowning. Please also note that some visuals may cause eye strain and there may be flashing in some sections.
Credits
Art, Writing, and Score by SkyShard
REPEAT IT BACK TO ME uses Angela He's Yarn Pile.
Estimated Reading Time
~30 minutes to an hour per play-through, depending on reading speed
Wallpaper Pack + Soundtrack
A wallpaper pack containing 31 background illustrations, 21 WIP images, and all of the sprites from REPEAT IT BACK TO ME is available to download below. The soundtrack is available to stream on Youtube and can be downloaded through Bandcamp.
Status | Released |
Platforms | HTML5, Windows, Linux |
Rating | Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars (10 total ratings) |
Author | SkyShard |
Genre | Visual Novel, Interactive Fiction |
Made with | Unity |
Tags | Atmospheric, Creepy, Dating Sim, Horror, Narrative, Psychological Horror, Romance, Short, Story Rich |
Average session | About a half-hour |
Languages | English |
Inputs | Mouse |
Accessibility | One button |
Download
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Development log
- REPEAT IT BACK TO ME: PostmortemJul 12, 2024
- Small Polish UpdateJul 06, 2024
- Wallpaper Pack Out Now!Jun 30, 2024
- RIBTM OST Out Now!Jun 25, 2024
- REPEAT IT BACK TO ME is out now!Jun 24, 2024
- 1 Week Until Release!Jun 17, 2024
- Release Date Announcement!Jun 05, 2024
- May Update + New ScreenshotsMay 24, 2024
Comments
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this was really beautiful.
Thank you!
Romance-Horror visual novels are 9 times out of 10 just "Look at this Hot Monster, don't you wanna f*ck him?", but you managed to save the entire genre with great art/designs and a likeable love interest.
Elias feels like some kind of "Growing my Grandpa" type creature.
woah!! this looks amazing, the visuals are stunning, i'm excited to play, how did you manage the parallax effect?
You can check out the source code for the template this project uses here if you're curious to see how the effect works! The tl;dr is that all of the elements of the scene (sprites, backgrounds, etc.) are in a 3D scene where moving the mouse around changes the orientation of the camera.
oh that's super cool!!
Ahhh this was so haunting and gorgeous!! Ty for providing the art as downloads, because I am definitely going to spend some time looking through and admiring it all!
Thank you!! So happy you enjoyed the visuals, have fun looking through all of the art downloads :)
Wow, that was stellar. I love the atmosphere, but the story was what I loved most, it kinda got me in my feels. That was really beautiful; the music, the art, the who am I anyway, does it matter? Thanks for this, I loved it
Thank you so much for playing!! I'm glad you enjoyed it :)
I didnt see time pass while reading the whole thing haha
Hyped to see your next project!
Thank you!! I'm excited to share new things soon :)
The art in this made an impression on me. I loved the music too. I like reading your postmortems and dev logs as a game dev myself also. I liked the game!
Thank you! Working on putting together a postmortem for this project soon :)
Your atmosphere and art in your projects are so, so freaking good, man.
Thank you so much, I'm so excited to share more soon :)