Muv-Luv Alternative

Muv-Luv Alternative is a visual novel and the direct sequel to Muv-Luv Unlimited, concluding the Muv-Luv trilogy. Three years have passed since Takeru first awoke in a war-torn alternate reality, where humanity has spent decades fighting the extraterrestrial BETA. After enlisting, meeting alternate-universe versions of his old friends and falling in love, he learns that he and his squadmates were being trained for Alternative IV, a secret UN plan to reclaim Earth using experimental technology.

Takeru’s second chance

Alternative IV stalls when its chief executive, Professor Kouzuki, reaches a limit in her research. The UN abandons it in favor of Alternative V, a plan to send a small fraction of humanity to seek a new home in another star system. Takeru is left behind and dies in the war against the BETA, but wakes in his childhood bedroom three years earlier, still in the alternate reality.

Remembering what lies ahead, Takeru sees a chance to warn Professor Kouzuki and prevent Alternative V from going ahead. He also seeks answers to why he has traveled back in time, why Sumika is absent and what Alternative IV is.

A wider conflict

The story deals with political conspiracies, international espionage, the alien threat, quantum causality and genetic modification. Events in some scenes depend on choices made in the first Muv-Luv game.

Reading and interface

The story takes over 50–70 hours to read and is available in Japanese, English and Simplified Chinese. The interface supports tablet PCs and touchscreens, and save data is stored in the Steam Cloud so you can continue your progress elsewhere.