I loved this game! ❤ I have an invisible illness as well, hyperthyroidism. Luckily with my journey I didn't have to go through lots of doctors but I definitely understand being misunderstood and not taken seriously because I look fine.
what a lovely sweet little game. Itsucks how hard it is to find the right doctors, there really should be networks as well as practices. I'm glad it's worked out for whoever wrote this, and anyone with invisible illnesses.
i got that anime event thing, i loved my ending and i cried sm, because of the story, the way i kinda relate to Rae, the way her mother tries to do everything for her daughter... this game is perfect
Hi KJAM People! I discovered this small game through TikTok, and All I can say is, I've never felt more heard by a piece of media. I have several medical conditions you cannot see on the surface, and this game was so relatable, heck, I had an experience almost exactly like the one in this game, begging for answers, begging to go back to my normal life, and feeling hopeless. I made an Itch.io account so I could tell you how I, a person with a medical condition you cannot see, found that "But You Seem Fine." is a accurate representation. This game touched me so much I cried. I will recommend this game to my friends and family. I love this game. Thanks for making it, and representing a community that doesn't get talked about that much!
I found this game through tiktok, and i'm so glad i decided to check it out. Throughout the story i felt like sobbing myself, as it's very similar to my situation. Recently I've been diagnosed with epilepsy which is kinda different from narcolepsy but i went through the same experience. As i grew up, i became more sleepy but in Freshman Year i would knock out during classes and as soon as i came home. I would sleep all day but still feel exhausted. Me and my family thought it was just because of my depression, but one day i was found passed out and ghostly looking. It worried my parents so we went to the general doctor, but they couldn't find anything and at the time it was a one time occurrence so we moved on. A few months later, I knocked out directly after school before i even had a chance to go home. After the second trip to the ER from this, my parents definitely believed something had to be wrong. We went to different doctors, had all sorts of tests done, but we couldn't find anything physically wrong with me. I remember all the nurses and doctors glancing at me, only to whisper to my mom that it was just 'a teenage thing' and i probably wasn't taking myself well and it pissed me off so much. I always tried to be happy-go-lucky with my family to cheer them up, but i was losing hope for myself already. I actually heard about narcolepsy from this character i knew, and i felt like it could be a possibility, but all the doctors made me feel like i was delusional so i dropped it. Finally, maybe over a year later i visited a neurologist and did a sleeping test as well, but we couldn't find anything. That is, until i finally had a seizure in front of my family. Previously, people always found my body post seizure so the doctors refused to diagnose me with epilepsy. But after my mom saw with her own eyes what happened i finally got the proper diagnosis. I was happy that i didn't have to deal with any doctors downplaying my incidents, but i was also terrified. This is something i might have to live with for the rest of my life. I cried a lot over this in secret. I got started on my medicine a while back, but we're still upping the dosage since I had a double seizure despite being on my regular dosage. So far i've been a few months without a seizure. My parents are more skittish with any noises, and I'm not as independent as i would like. I hope everything will steady down soon. This story hit so close to home, it's written beautifully. thank you so much for this. i hope everyone can play this
I got the ending where it says something like "You don't know how you are going to get through this without someone by your side, Mom doesn't get it, Maybe there was another way or another path"
However I don't feel like replaying for other endings cause my last save was after the cowboy boots doctor and the skip is too slow
When I was on the choice with the mom where it says "Harsh" vs "Say nothing", I picked Harsh cause I thought that's what I would do in real life (I don't like my own mom)
So after it went to the ending I was kind of sad (not like super upset just a tiny bit) cause it was like oh i pushed her away, got the bad ending... Just like i tend to push my family away in real life, would that give me a "bad ending" too
Well I think the reason why that's a bad ending is because the protagonist got stuck in a belief or thoughts that no one will ever understand her illness, and resentment that everyone else seems to be living happily while she has to deal with and be limited by her illness. IT was not like OH and after that her life became so bad!! But just because you chose choices that led to her developing some toxic beliefs, feeling resentment, feeling upset no one will ever truly understand
I imagine after that she probably just continued to live her life and still managed the narcolespy, but having a very negative mental outlook or something.
Hello my friend, I know life can be quite challenging, but please don't push your family away if you don't mind. Family is there for you, they are your closest links and bonds, and your mother is the most loving person to you. Things can be tough, but I guarantee if you have a good relationship with your mother and the rest of your family, this will be better than being in a negative or "distant" relationship with them. I hope you have a nice day!
Okay, let me be a nitpicky a*** first: Rae's symptoms are crystal clear almost since the beginning, it kinda doesn't make sense it took the doctors (even if it's not the particular specialist) to figure it out.
But then again, it's clearly the message is about the invisibility of the illness. The distrust you got from medical professionals and friends, the depression after feeling like a burden and losing control of your life, accidentally pushing people away, and so on. I can relate to that 100% (I have the illness that isn't exactly the same, but comes from the same place). I got teared up after Rae finally received her diagnosis but then realized the aftermath of "managing the disease". Illness like that does seem to shut down the doors to your dreams, but you just have to find a new path around it, probably even opening to another new doors.
I read that this is based from one of the developer's story, I hope a total wellness and happiness to whoever that may be. This is an amazing story and amazing game, thank you so much for creating this.
i rlly don't think you understand that most parents don't understand psychologists and a lot of medical doctors (especially older ones, who we see multiple times in the story) discredit the work and legitimacy of psychologists. this is completely realistic
this is almost exactly what i went through for the diagnosis and treatment of my sleep disorder omg. its really sweet and? so real. i love this game sm
this was honestly such a great experience- as someone who's dealing with an undiagnosed invisible illness, everything about rae's story just.... related to me so perfectly. not being able to chat with friends as much as i'd like, desperately wanting to find whatever the name of the illness i'm facing is, even getting dead end answers from doctors. i love this game so much <3 thank you for making it :D
omg i loved this experience! <3 im depressed and i can relate a lot with rae because i feel like i only have my mom by my side so i cried so much with this game- i hope one day i'll feel happy and medicated like rae :-)!!
Found this game while looking through different tags. Got the ending where you lose Sadie and aren't satisfied with your care. Nice game. I may have absolutely no idea what Rae is going through, unlike most of the people in the comments, but all I want to see is her feeling better.
Edit: Got the good ending! Really happy to see Rae happy.
This game is amazing and very relatable. I've suffered from depression, and even though it's not exactly the same, I've faced some of the problems depicted in this game, such as doctors who didn't take it seriously, treatments and their side effects, the difficulty for family/friends to understand what you're going through, etc.
My sister has also some kind of invisible illness and is going through the same process as Rae right now, and it's very hard for her,
So thank you for making this game, I hope it helps people understanding those problems, and gives hope to the ones who are going through all of that.
The lesson I got here was one of empathy, but also that you address problems directly. If the illness involves sleep then talking to sleep professionals is a good place to begin looking for answers.
Problem is getting the referral. Disabled and have multiple diseases/diangosed stuff but still don't have answers to some of my problems--ask to see certain drs see what lines up, they refuse, go to another primary, they refuse. Everything needs to go from dr to dr and I fucking *hate it*
Thank you so much, I have so many diagonsis and conditions and for almost all my life I had so many drastic warning signs like the extreme fatigue, sicknesses, and even lupus and fibro alone make me feel this way...as well as balancing several other diseases, and I still have a bunch of things that have dead ends and no answers, but for some reason once I got diagnosed with fibro, the doctors stopped trying to look for anything else.
this hit way too close to home.. in a good way i guess.
kind of gave up trying to figure out what's wrong a few years ago. kind of gave up in general. having gotten the good ending makes me wish i hadn't.. but after all there's no guarantee u find out what's wrong, and there's only so many doctors u can go to til it feels pointless.
playing this made me feel less alone. i wish there were more games with this topic.
I really really appreciate you making this game because it completely covers what I went through at 16. With the endless visits to specialists, terrible doctors, getting prescribed things for hormones and depression, and every test that could possibly apply you hit all the sucky notes of having to deal with the medical system as a teenage girl for a disease that no one understands. I had a gastroenterologist tell me, when I was at the point where I couldn't eat more than a few bites of food without doubling over in pain, that I just needed to learn to meditate. All in all it took 8 months, surgery, extensive bloodwork, and a metric ton of B-12 to get me back on my feet, and I know a lot of people had worse times than that. Everyone who wants to understand invisible illness should play this game!
i haven't played a game that made me cry in such a long time. i don't suffer from narcolepsy, but i do have really bad depression and anxiety, so i really connected with this story in a way. the feeling of giving up is one i feel almost every day. i got what i presumed to be the good ending, and it hit me really hard. thank you for making this game, i think it's really amazing. :]
Wow, seems like a tough thing to live with, but I'm glad that they figured out what's wrong in the end. I myself, don't have it, but it still got to me. Beautiful graphics, and the music really fit. I got the ending where the mc and Sadie went to the anime convention together, it was nice that she tried helping her friend
I don't have narcolepsy, I just played this since it showed up in my tags. I got the ending where she grew apart from Sadie and that hit me, because even without an illness like that, I deal with growing apart from friends. This game is pretty emotional and I'm glad I played it, though.
this is a very great game i dont have the same illness as the character or any thankfully but playing this game gave me awareness about it i feel like i understand a bit about these invisible illnesses and how hard they affect the one having them and also that even if we cant see it when talking to them that doesn't mean they aren't suffering from it
I've been dealing with undiagnosed conditions since I was a kid. This game, even though the protagonist doesn't have the same issues as I do, is extremely accurate on what it's like to navigate any sort of invisible illness. This made me so emotional, especially because I've been told that I cannot be diagnosed with anything other than chronic pain, and I can't get help other than just dealing with it. This game makes me hope that I'll get to chapter three, even if it's a long way away.
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I loved this game! ❤ I have an invisible illness as well, hyperthyroidism. Luckily with my journey I didn't have to go through lots of doctors but I definitely understand being misunderstood and not taken seriously because I look fine.
what a lovely sweet little game. Itsucks how hard it is to find the right doctors, there really should be networks as well as practices. I'm glad it's worked out for whoever wrote this, and anyone with invisible illnesses.
I had something similar happen to me before we found out I had anemia
i got that anime event thing, i loved my ending and i cried sm, because of the story, the way i kinda relate to Rae, the way her mother tries to do everything for her daughter... this game is perfect
It isn´t saving my progress and allowing me to hit continue
I got the ending where I lose everything
Good job
I don't know why I can't play it. I click on "run game" but it never starts
Me neither...
same here :/
Same
Hi KJAM People! I discovered this small game through TikTok, and All I can say is, I've never felt more heard by a piece of media. I have several medical conditions you cannot see on the surface, and this game was so relatable, heck, I had an experience almost exactly like the one in this game, begging for answers, begging to go back to my normal life, and feeling hopeless. I made an Itch.io account so I could tell you how I, a person with a medical condition you cannot see, found that "But You Seem Fine." is a accurate representation. This game touched me so much I cried. I will recommend this game to my friends and family. I love this game. Thanks for making it, and representing a community that doesn't get talked about that much!
I found this game through tiktok, and i'm so glad i decided to check it out. Throughout the story i felt like sobbing myself, as it's very similar to my situation. Recently I've been diagnosed with epilepsy which is kinda different from narcolepsy but i went through the same experience. As i grew up, i became more sleepy but in Freshman Year i would knock out during classes and as soon as i came home. I would sleep all day but still feel exhausted. Me and my family thought it was just because of my depression, but one day i was found passed out and ghostly looking. It worried my parents so we went to the general doctor, but they couldn't find anything and at the time it was a one time occurrence so we moved on. A few months later, I knocked out directly after school before i even had a chance to go home. After the second trip to the ER from this, my parents definitely believed something had to be wrong. We went to different doctors, had all sorts of tests done, but we couldn't find anything physically wrong with me. I remember all the nurses and doctors glancing at me, only to whisper to my mom that it was just 'a teenage thing' and i probably wasn't taking myself well and it pissed me off so much. I always tried to be happy-go-lucky with my family to cheer them up, but i was losing hope for myself already. I actually heard about narcolepsy from this character i knew, and i felt like it could be a possibility, but all the doctors made me feel like i was delusional so i dropped it. Finally, maybe over a year later i visited a neurologist and did a sleeping test as well, but we couldn't find anything. That is, until i finally had a seizure in front of my family. Previously, people always found my body post seizure so the doctors refused to diagnose me with epilepsy. But after my mom saw with her own eyes what happened i finally got the proper diagnosis. I was happy that i didn't have to deal with any doctors downplaying my incidents, but i was also terrified. This is something i might have to live with for the rest of my life. I cried a lot over this in secret. I got started on my medicine a while back, but we're still upping the dosage since I had a double seizure despite being on my regular dosage. So far i've been a few months without a seizure. My parents are more skittish with any noises, and I'm not as independent as i would like. I hope everything will steady down soon. This story hit so close to home, it's written beautifully. thank you so much for this. i hope everyone can play this
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I got the ending where it says something like "You don't know how you are going to get through this without someone by your side, Mom doesn't get it, Maybe there was another way or another path"
However I don't feel like replaying for other endings cause my last save was after the cowboy boots doctor and the skip is too slow
When I was on the choice with the mom where it says "Harsh" vs "Say nothing", I picked Harsh cause I thought that's what I would do in real life (I don't like my own mom)
So after it went to the ending I was kind of sad (not like super upset just a tiny bit) cause it was like oh i pushed her away, got the bad ending... Just like i tend to push my family away in real life, would that give me a "bad ending" too
Well I think the reason why that's a bad ending is because the protagonist got stuck in a belief or thoughts that no one will ever understand her illness, and resentment that everyone else seems to be living happily while she has to deal with and be limited by her illness. IT was not like OH and after that her life became so bad!! But just because you chose choices that led to her developing some toxic beliefs, feeling resentment, feeling upset no one will ever truly understand
I imagine after that she probably just continued to live her life and still managed the narcolespy, but having a very negative mental outlook or something.
It really reminds me of myself..
Hello my friend, I know life can be quite challenging, but please don't push your family away if you don't mind. Family is there for you, they are your closest links and bonds, and your mother is the most loving person to you. Things can be tough, but I guarantee if you have a good relationship with your mother and the rest of your family, this will be better than being in a negative or "distant" relationship with them. I hope you have a nice day!
i think youre neglecting a simple fact: some people suck
edit: clarifying this is about the mom and not the commentor
Okay, let me be a nitpicky a*** first: Rae's symptoms are crystal clear almost since the beginning, it kinda doesn't make sense it took the doctors (even if it's not the particular specialist) to figure it out.
But then again, it's clearly the message is about the invisibility of the illness. The distrust you got from medical professionals and friends, the depression after feeling like a burden and losing control of your life, accidentally pushing people away, and so on. I can relate to that 100% (I have the illness that isn't exactly the same, but comes from the same place). I got teared up after Rae finally received her diagnosis but then realized the aftermath of "managing the disease". Illness like that does seem to shut down the doors to your dreams, but you just have to find a new path around it, probably even opening to another new doors.
I read that this is based from one of the developer's story, I hope a total wellness and happiness to whoever that may be. This is an amazing story and amazing game, thank you so much for creating this.
**this commentary is not meant to belittle or demean the characters of this story in any way**
so i'm sitting here like, 'ok, it's nothing medical; she needs to see a psychologist/psychoanalyst/therapist to see if somethings there'
the game: 'you go to md after md but nothings showing up as wrong'
me: 'ya bc she needs mental care'
the game: 'keep looking for doctors?'
me: 'alright, find some psychologists'
the game: 'the medical doctors find nothing wrong'
me: "i said psychologists ashdfjkanjskdfnlfkja'
the game: 'look for more doctors?'
me: 'since u obviously mean MDs, no'
*game begins to end*
me: 'welp time to try again from the beginning'
lol
i rlly don't think you understand that most parents don't understand psychologists and a lot of medical doctors (especially older ones, who we see multiple times in the story) discredit the work and legitimacy of psychologists. this is completely realistic
alright, makes sense, sorry
i understand m8
<3
this is almost exactly what i went through for the diagnosis and treatment of my sleep disorder omg. its really sweet and? so real. i love this game sm
i thought she had depression for a while. But none the less I could feel her I just like, like, felt it bro.
Same
This was extremely relatable. I cried a lot. Thank YOU
Wow... It was really long, but it was the price of the end!
this was honestly such a great experience- as someone who's dealing with an undiagnosed invisible illness, everything about rae's story just.... related to me so perfectly. not being able to chat with friends as much as i'd like, desperately wanting to find whatever the name of the illness i'm facing is, even getting dead end answers from doctors. i love this game so much <3 thank you for making it :D
omg i loved this experience! <3 im depressed and i can relate a lot with rae because i feel like i only have my mom by my side so i cried so much with this game- i hope one day i'll feel happy and medicated like rae :-)!!
i got the ending where she goes to the convention with sades, this game was really fun to play :))
Alexander Hamilton showed up in the bathroom. Ten/ten
Yo what i never got this part dang
Found this game while looking through different tags. Got the ending where you lose Sadie and aren't satisfied with your care. Nice game. I may have absolutely no idea what Rae is going through, unlike most of the people in the comments, but all I want to see is her feeling better.
Edit: Got the good ending! Really happy to see Rae happy.
This game is amazing and very relatable. I've suffered from depression, and even though it's not exactly the same, I've faced some of the problems depicted in this game, such as doctors who didn't take it seriously, treatments and their side effects, the difficulty for family/friends to understand what you're going through, etc.
My sister has also some kind of invisible illness and is going through the same process as Rae right now, and it's very hard for her,
So thank you for making this game, I hope it helps people understanding those problems, and gives hope to the ones who are going through all of that.
wow i just- wow okay
Love It
Great game.
The lesson I got here was one of empathy, but also that you address problems directly. If the illness involves sleep then talking to sleep professionals is a good place to begin looking for answers.
Problem is getting the referral. Disabled and have multiple diseases/diangosed stuff but still don't have answers to some of my problems--ask to see certain drs see what lines up, they refuse, go to another primary, they refuse. Everything needs to go from dr to dr and I fucking *hate it*
Thank you so much, I have so many diagonsis and conditions and for almost all my life I had so many drastic warning signs like the extreme fatigue, sicknesses, and even lupus and fibro alone make me feel this way...as well as balancing several other diseases, and I still have a bunch of things that have dead ends and no answers, but for some reason once I got diagnosed with fibro, the doctors stopped trying to look for anything else.
This game resonates so much, thank you...<3
this hit way too close to home.. in a good way i guess.
kind of gave up trying to figure out what's wrong a few years ago. kind of gave up in general. having gotten the good ending makes me wish i hadn't.. but after all there's no guarantee u find out what's wrong, and there's only so many doctors u can go to til it feels pointless.
playing this made me feel less alone. i wish there were more games with this topic.
I really really appreciate you making this game because it completely covers what I went through at 16. With the endless visits to specialists, terrible doctors, getting prescribed things for hormones and depression, and every test that could possibly apply you hit all the sucky notes of having to deal with the medical system as a teenage girl for a disease that no one understands. I had a gastroenterologist tell me, when I was at the point where I couldn't eat more than a few bites of food without doubling over in pain, that I just needed to learn to meditate. All in all it took 8 months, surgery, extensive bloodwork, and a metric ton of B-12 to get me back on my feet, and I know a lot of people had worse times than that. Everyone who wants to understand invisible illness should play this game!
i want a movie of this story
i haven't played a game that made me cry in such a long time. i don't suffer from narcolepsy, but i do have really bad depression and anxiety, so i really connected with this story in a way. the feeling of giving up is one i feel almost every day. i got what i presumed to be the good ending, and it hit me really hard. thank you for making this game, i think it's really amazing. :]
I love this game so much, I played this whole thing really fast because it was an emotional story and it was deep. I'm glad I played it
Wow, seems like a tough thing to live with, but I'm glad that they figured out what's wrong in the end. I myself, don't have it, but it still got to me. Beautiful graphics, and the music really fit. I got the ending where the mc and Sadie went to the anime convention together, it was nice that she tried helping her friend
I don't have narcolepsy, I just played this since it showed up in my tags. I got the ending where she grew apart from Sadie and that hit me, because even without an illness like that, I deal with growing apart from friends. This game is pretty emotional and I'm glad I played it, though.
For some reason I thought that there weren't consequences to the choices. I'm pleased to learn that different things can happen.
I cant help but think this convention is AWA (anime weekend Atlanta).
this is a very great game i dont have the same illness as the character or any thankfully but playing this game gave me awareness about it i feel like i understand a bit about these invisible illnesses and how hard they affect the one having them and also that even if we cant see it when talking to them that doesn't mean they aren't suffering from it
This game was absolutely amazing, so well written, and an emotional journey. I really loved it.
I've been dealing with undiagnosed conditions since I was a kid. This game, even though the protagonist doesn't have the same issues as I do, is extremely accurate on what it's like to navigate any sort of invisible illness. This made me so emotional, especially because I've been told that I cannot be diagnosed with anything other than chronic pain, and I can't get help other than just dealing with it. This game makes me hope that I'll get to chapter three, even if it's a long way away.
This makes me feel grateful my narcolepsy was diagnosed really fast