Rainbow Sea

Rainbow Sea is a pixel-art visual novel with multiple endings, based on the Japanese myth of the Seven Lucky Gods. You play a Human chosen as a candidate to become a god, spending a year living aboard a treasure ship with the Seven Lucky Gods, most of whom are wary of your arrival. You can explore the ship, talk with the gods and examine objects to uncover what happened and decide whether to become a god, return to the human world or meet another fate.

A year aboard the ship

You wake in an unfamiliar storeroom, with only the sound of waves around you. Your reflection in a mirror tells you to lie, then disappears. After leaving the storeroom, you meet the Seven Lucky Gods. Daikoku explains that you are a Human chosen to become a god. When the ship returns to the human world on New Year's Day, the events you have seen and the choices you have made determine your ending.

Explore and make choices

You move around the treasure ship, triggering interactions by speaking with the gods and examining objects. Events become available under certain conditions, including the gods' affection for you, the weather and the time of day. During these events, your choices can change the story. Every real-life second counts as a minute in the game, and you can stay active from 6:00 AM to midnight; eating too little or not getting enough sleep can make you fall asleep earlier. A playthrough takes roughly two hours.

All 22 endings are true endings. Together, they reveal the real story hidden behind them.

The Seven Lucky Gods

The gods have different roles and temperaments. One is a trusted, caring cook who wants everyone to get along and fishes on sunny days; another is cold toward you and seems unwilling to interact with humans or other gods. A multi-talented goddess loves aquatic life, music and learning, lives freely in the cockpit, and is especially observant.

The quiet, calm god of war is the strongest of the eight million gods in battle. He struggles to lie or recognize lies, loves cats that tend to run from his large, armored form, and speaks in a distinctive dialect. Another god can predict the future and has an enlightened outlook, but looks down on those like himself and feels uneasy around people he considers pure; he is particular about tea and incense and wears a fox mask without explaining why.

A cheerful, childlike god is responsible for recording human lives and fates, takes an interest in modern technology and walks throughout the ship. Another spends most of his time in the archives, knows almost all the books there, and has a young-looking face but a mature manner and speech. The last is warm and always ready to help.