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.
My sleepiness/fatigue is certainly less than seen here (and I'm a guy...), but I can still relate to about 90% of this, though when I had an MSLT done, the diagnosis was ideopathic hypersomnia without narcolepsy... which is maybe even more of a non-answer than Rae got. They found some sleep apnea, too, but they don't think that the small amount of that would cause the level of sleepiness/fatigue that I'm dealing with.
In real life, I'm at the holistic doctor phase, where I'm taking a ton of expensive supplements that they recommended (plus Valtrex, since my Epstien-Barr antibody markers are really high) but I'm questioning its efficacy. He gave me a timeline of like 6 months before I can really hope to see an improvement.
I'm not sure to keep on going through the barrage of expensive doctors or not...
//Like Rae, I started bouncing between doctors about my illness in my early teens.
...And unlike Rae, I'm nearing 40 and still don't have good answers.
Im emotional maybe because I went through things like this less than a year ago, a different cause but universal experiences, the exhaustion- things just being too hard to do, the dismissive doctors, people telling you that it's all in your head and you look fine, not being able to go to school, losing your friends.
I went back to school but didn't have that happy ending, I wished a lot for a supportive parent and friends that didn't drift apart, but sometimes life just doesn't have those happy endings, y'know?
learning that you'll have a condition for the rest of your life, like a man with a knife standing in the middle of the room, you know he's there, you just need to accomidate for him and walk around, theres nothing you can do about him but you know he's dangerous.
rarely in life will you get that end, but I think a good equivilent is just to step back when things are going well, and take that moment to appriciate that hay, that man is still there, but the decor on this room is great!
This game was amazing and incredibly well-written.
While the main character was ultimately diagnosed with narcolepsy, this game definitely speaks to a variety of experiences when it comes to invisible illnesses. I started crying when she was finally diagnosed and talking about her experience with medications because it brought up my own feelings from when I was diagnosed with ADHD. The art is charming, the expressions heartfelt, and the pacing and mechanics speak really well to the content.
Thank you so much to everyone who worked on this game. It is lovely and so important. I hope you all continue to make content that speaks to the heart as earnestly as this does.
Such an important game. It's so frustrating when people expect you to be healthy when you're not just because they can't see it. </3 I'm glad you guys made this.
What a delightfully charming game! Excellent heartfelt storytelling to raise awareness for a problem and its auxiliary issues which typical serious games fail to do.
I can honestly say I've never played such a relatable game before (besides the fact that I still dont have a diagnoses yet, working on that), thank you to the creator for helping me feel seen. Love the story and the art style!
As someone who spent months figuring out I had Lyme's disease coupled with depression and anxiety (and I'm still working on it today), this was really relatable. I'm not sure what the other endings are, but I managed to get a good one.
This was really beautiful, so much I can't describe it in words.
This was a nice, heart-warming story. I really like how all the characters feel so real, Sadie looks like she could be found in any neighborhood!
I also like the very cute art! I also like love how the backgrounds are monotone while the characters have bolder colors, it really makes the characters stand out!
!Spoiler Warning!
I just love the mom's personality and how she handle things, she's a very understanding mother!
I also love the selfy at the end! SO CUTE! Could I make a fan-art for this game? I will post it on my instagram for you to see! (do you have instagram?)
Hi there! So glad you enjoyed the game! We love to hear from you and would LOVE to see any fan art you create! KJAM doesn't have an insta but a few of us do so if you tag ButYouSeemFine we would love to check it out!
Thank you very much! It seems like this is the only game you've made so far, but please continue to make games (somewhat) like this! I'd LOVE to see more games from you!
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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
My sleepiness/fatigue is certainly less than seen here (and I'm a guy...), but I can still relate to about 90% of this, though when I had an MSLT done, the diagnosis was ideopathic hypersomnia without narcolepsy... which is maybe even more of a non-answer than Rae got. They found some sleep apnea, too, but they don't think that the small amount of that would cause the level of sleepiness/fatigue that I'm dealing with.
In real life, I'm at the holistic doctor phase, where I'm taking a ton of expensive supplements that they recommended (plus Valtrex, since my Epstien-Barr antibody markers are really high) but I'm questioning its efficacy. He gave me a timeline of like 6 months before I can really hope to see an improvement.
I'm not sure to keep on going through the barrage of expensive doctors or not...
//Like Rae, I started bouncing between doctors about my illness in my early teens.
...And unlike Rae, I'm nearing 40 and still don't have good answers.
This Game.
Im emotional maybe because I went through things like this less than a year ago, a different cause but universal experiences, the exhaustion- things just being too hard to do, the dismissive doctors, people telling you that it's all in your head and you look fine, not being able to go to school, losing your friends.
I went back to school but didn't have that happy ending, I wished a lot for a supportive parent and friends that didn't drift apart, but sometimes life just doesn't have those happy endings, y'know?
learning that you'll have a condition for the rest of your life, like a man with a knife standing in the middle of the room, you know he's there, you just need to accomidate for him and walk around, theres nothing you can do about him but you know he's dangerous.
rarely in life will you get that end, but I think a good equivilent is just to step back when things are going well, and take that moment to appriciate that hay, that man is still there, but the decor on this room is great!
(that wasn't the best allegory)
Wow.
This game was amazing and incredibly well-written.
While the main character was ultimately diagnosed with narcolepsy, this game definitely speaks to a variety of experiences when it comes to invisible illnesses. I started crying when she was finally diagnosed and talking about her experience with medications because it brought up my own feelings from when I was diagnosed with ADHD. The art is charming, the expressions heartfelt, and the pacing and mechanics speak really well to the content.
Thank you so much to everyone who worked on this game. It is lovely and so important. I hope you all continue to make content that speaks to the heart as earnestly as this does.
Such an important game. It's so frustrating when people expect you to be healthy when you're not just because they can't see it. </3
I'm glad you guys made this.
What a delightfully charming game! Excellent heartfelt storytelling to raise awareness for a problem and its auxiliary issues which typical serious games fail to do.
This game hit very close to home with me, and i can say that i thoroughly enjoyed every second of it. (i will also admit that i did cry...a lot.)
I can honestly say I've never played such a relatable game before (besides the fact that I still dont have a diagnoses yet, working on that), thank you to the creator for helping me feel seen. Love the story and the art style!
As someone who spent months figuring out I had Lyme's disease coupled with depression and anxiety (and I'm still working on it today), this was really relatable. I'm not sure what the other endings are, but I managed to get a good one.
same here
Its cool, but never got to finish it... every time I clicked save it wouldn't let me continue...
This was really beautiful, so much I can't describe it in words.
This was a nice, heart-warming story. I really like how all the characters feel so real, Sadie looks like she could be found in any neighborhood!
I also like the very cute art! I also
likelove how the backgrounds are monotone while the characters have bolder colors, it really makes the characters stand out!!Spoiler Warning!
I just love the mom's personality and how she handle things, she's a very understanding mother!
I also love the selfy at the end! SO CUTE! Could I make a fan-art for this game? I will post it on my instagram for you to see! (do you have instagram?)
Hi there! So glad you enjoyed the game! We love to hear from you and would LOVE to see any fan art you create! KJAM doesn't have an insta but a few of us do so if you tag ButYouSeemFine we would love to check it out!
Thank you very much! It seems like this is the only game you've made so far, but please continue to make games (somewhat) like this! I'd LOVE to see more games from you!
could you give me your instagram too? I would like to see your fanart! :D
that was really nice :)