Fantasy Illness

Fantasy Illness is a first-person visual novel with horror, gore and negative emotions. You play as a city worker who nearly died from overwork, then returned to their hometown and took a job at an e-commerce company. After another frustrating bout of overtime, their spirit reaches the brink of collapse, and beings from their dark fantasies appear. A girl born from those fantasies seems different from the others.

A life in transition

The protagonist describes themself as a “social livestock” and a failure after a difficult life following college. In their hometown, wages are low, living costs and pressure are high, and they see little hope for the future. One weekday morning, they learn that the company has gone bankrupt and they are unemployed. The job loss brings brief relief and freedom, but this period also leads to change.

As reality’s cruelty and an uncertain future push the protagonist onward, their choices may lead toward darkness, terror, the unknown and death, or toward warmth, hope, happiness and light.

The girls

• Fantasy Girl: Born from the protagonist’s dark imagination, she has a pathological degree of affection for them and is strongly possessive.
• First snow: After graduating from university, she has repeatedly failed the civil service and postgraduate entrance exams. She is gentle, understanding and a good cook, but is currently at a low point in her life.
• White night: A wealthy heiress from a large company who has run away from home for an unspecified reason. She seems arrogant and unreasonable, but getting to know her reveals another side.