Visual Novel Archives - Unwinnable

A screenshot from The Hundred Line where a lady with a green tomato for a head consoles her samurai friend while both drink martinis with a pink-haired bartender

One of The Hundred Line -Last Defense Academy-‘s Queerest Storylines Comes From An Attempt At A Heterosexual One

By Hiero de Lima • July 16th, 2025

Kurara Oosuzuki feels gayer than ever when she’s trying to woo a man.

A screenshot from Slay the Princess with a bare black and white room except for a doorway, a dagger in the center, and a young woman in a dress and tiara chained and kneeling on the floor

Slay the Princess Again and Again and Again

By Phil Hoare • April 26th, 2024

Do I want to watch the gruesome deaths in a film such as Saw? Not particularly, but I won’t be beaten by the film either

This Mortal Coyle

KJ from Life After Magic

By Deirdre Coyle • July 28th, 2023

“There’s a bunch of different subcultures under the punk and goth umbrellas. Doesn’t always have to be about wearing black and being angry.”

Gingy's Corner

Losing your team has weight and pain because you had time to develop attachments to this confused and scared band of kids. The game makes you care before it brings down the ax; you haven’t lost a random Joe, you lost people that mattered. It’s a tactic designed to hurt, and it works.

Friction Burns

Life Is Strange: Artificial Colors

By Ruth Cassidy • July 13th, 2022

Characters’ quirks and quips are endearing, but they never feel like more than the LARP versions of themselves: there to give information or resources, or be acted upon.

Gingy’s Corner