Criminally Overdue
A downloadable game for Windows, macOS, and Linux
Librarian by day, vigilante by night.
After her late mother's overdose, Robin spends her nights hunting down the city's drug dealers. She gets a wake up call from her dangerous double life when library regular Dylan recognizes her at a stake-out. Much to Robin's chagrin, Dylan's relentless pursuit ends up bringing them closer. His ideals might even rub off on her.
Criminally Overdue is a visual novel made for NaNoRenO 2020+, a month-long game jam themed around the Ren'py game engine.
CHARACTERS
Robin, a young librarian, helps the police arrest drug dealers after her late mother's overdose.
Dylan, a PhD student who often visits the library, works to make breakthroughs in medical artificial intelligence.
Anderson, a police recruit, fights to gain recognition and climb up the ranks of the force.
STATISTICS
The game contains 2,395 dialogue blocks, containing 26,569 words and 143,804 characters, for an average of 11.1 words and 60 characters per block. The game contains 3 unique character images and a total of 42 character sprites.
Expected playtime: 1 - 2 hours.
THE TEAM BEHIND THE GAME
Elowan: Writer, programmer
Kaan "Atkinson" Berkant: Editor
steamedturnips: Artist, GUI designer
Larry Jones: Sound designer
(Special thanks to Olivia!)
CHANGELOG
Version 1.10 — Added a second ending. Added minor script updates.
Version 1.00 — Added ending and background music. Fixed minor text bugs.
Version 0.90 — Initial release of functional game, missing ending scenes.
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Great read, choices were easy which is a plus. great short story!
This made my day — thank you so much, I'm so glad to hear you enjoyed our game! :)
This is such an incredible read. The plot, characters, art - all of it was just sublime. I couldn't stop reading at all.
Thank you so much, Kelarie — I am so happy to hear that you enjoyed playing through our game and especially that you loved all of its facets! <3
Just now getting to play this game from NanoReno, and gotta say that I love it a lot! I agree with the other comment, it was very obvious that you guys did your research! I'm very impressed in the amount of research that you put into a nanoreno game with all the time constraints, and not only did you do so, but you also made it super believable and interesting.
I also really liked the writing in general, the story was very interesting and written with finesse; the character development was so well done. The art style was beautiful too! The same can be said about the music (it was so soothing that it actually made me fall asleep a few times lol!) It really fit the slice-of-life theme and didn't sound repetitive like some visual novel music does. I really enjoyed this story and the theme it was trying to convey. The choices were extremely well done and made me truly question my own morality. I always love a game that makes me think and makes me feel, and your game did both!
I'm following your team because I'm super excited to see any future works you make! Please never stop sharing your beautiful storytelling!
Wow, thank you so much — I'm incredibly happy that you enjoyed our game and took the time to leave such a thorough review! It truly made my day to hear that the story and choices made you think and made you feel. There is no greater compliment than that.
Thank you again for your thoughts and feedback. We'll strive to make any future games even better! <3
As a librarian IRL, loved it! Do you have a librarian on your team because it got a lot of our profession right. I do have to evacuate people in a fire and man do people not want to leave sometimes -_-*
Oh no!! D:
That's super lovely to hear, thank you so much! We don't have a librarian on our team and did a lot of research to represent the profession — I'm glad we were able to get many aspects of it right.
I am just wondering but can we romance anderson instead of dylan?
Unfortunately, Anderson is not a romanceable character. We would've loved to have two routes, but had to narrow our scope for NaNoRenO's time constraints!