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Lotus Reverie: First Nexus is a visual novel with time management and turn-based strategy battles. You play as Cinque, a girl with no memories who appears one night outside a castle where an alliance of survivors has barricaded itself against external dangers. You choose how she spends her limited time, build relationships with other survivors and investigate the Incident, the people around her and her own past.

The Incident

The Incident causes almost all the citizens to vanish for unknown reasons. It also brings tulpas into existence: beings who look and act like people, but are born from the subconscious mind of a human called their host. A tulpa and its host are linked: if either dies, the other dies too. Tulpas cannot die by normal means, but their lifespans are limited.

The only way to extend their lives is for a tulpa and its host to fight and kill another tulpa and host in a duel. During a duel, a tulpa loses its immortality and becomes vulnerable. Meanwhile, a huge monolith appears in the city center, bearing six rules that declare only one human and their tulpa will survive.

Cinque's days

At the castle, Cinque can choose between main scenes that advance the story, secondary scenes that reveal more about other characters, exploration to learn about the world, and training or studying to gain skills and spells for battle. Her memories return as the story progresses, unlocking battle styles and spells while revealing more about the Incident and its mysteries. Some memories appear as powerful hallucinations that blur the line between fantasy and reality.

The castle may seem calm, but its tension rises as time passes. If it gets too high, the game ends, so you have a limited time to recover memories and get to know the other characters. The choices you make shape Cinque's daily life as she tries to understand who she is and what happened.

Battle modes

Some encounters force you to fight. You can choose one of three ways to handle battles:

• Novel mode: read the battles as part of the story without needing to train or study to improve your abilities.
• Battle mode: play the Parallel Strategy System minigame and train and study to improve your abilities.
• Mixed mode: play the battles and read their scenes after winning.

Parallel Strategy System

The Parallel Strategy System is a turn-based strategy minigame in which turns happen simultaneously. Before each turn, you and the enemy AI choose your plans; once both are set, your units move on their own according to those choices. You must plan ahead and anticipate the enemy's behavior, using hints from the story to help you win and survive.