妄想症：Deliver Me Thirty endings inside one mind

This is a visual novel first: you read, you choose, and the story carries you. Lingluo is a college student chasing a music dream when everything collapses. She loses her best friend, loses her confidence, and ends up locked inside her own head. The game then peels that mind apart layer by layer: dream after dream, each one stranger than the last, each one asking whether she escapes her self-made prison or stays trapped in it. Concepts like the one who protects her and the one who hurts her appear as people on the stage, which turns an inner struggle into something you can watch, talk to and, through your choices, change. Her fate genuinely lies in your hands.

The branching here is serious business. There are 30 endings in total, and most of them are bad ones, reached through choices that range from a snap judgment on the street to answers in odd, stream-of-consciousness questionnaires that quietly shape hidden affection values. You will not see what a choice did until much later, sometimes not until a second playthrough, and some endings only open after others. That makes it a game for people who like to poke at a story, save often, and compare notes. If you want every ending, expect to start from fresh saves more than once. It is demanding, and it rewards patience.

Music is the heart of the story, and the game makes you take part in it. There are piano puzzles where you pick the right notes by ear and memory, a stat-raising stretch where you schedule Lingluo's weeks of study, band practice and rest while watching her fatigue, and exams that end badly if her grades slip. The original soundtrack and theme songs are a real strength, and the hand-drawn art, from character portraits to full CG scenes, holds up throughout. The whole thing runs on a carefully directed pace that feels closer to an animated film than a slideshow.