Talents

Talents is a story-driven game about Alice, an aspiring game writer and designer who enters a business partnership with a rowdy group of talented co-founders. Together, they aim to succeed in the indie game development industry through their shared stories, love and determination. Alice’s name can be changed.

Routes and endings

The story contains over 100,000 words and draws on real-life game development experiences, interviews and events. It has six routes: four romanceable routes for the Composer, Artist, Programmer and CEO, plus two additional routes for Alexis and Otome. There are 19 endings across the bad, normal and good categories, with multiple routes and endings offering replayable content.

The recommended route order is Composer, Artist, Programmer, CEO, Alexis and Otome, which preserves the intended narrative flow and reveals.

Writing and choices

Writing Skill Events are minigames. Passing them unlocks routes and advances the story, while failing leads to different bad endings. Their results also determine your love interest and affect key scenes. Your choices change events and scenes, and influence the type of ending you receive.

Additional features

The game includes English voice acting: the prologue is fully voiced, while the rest of the game has partial voice acting. It also features a CG Gallery with over 50 images, a dictionary for some technical and gaming terms, achievements, a Music Room and bonus content. You can track ending progress through the Endings feature; achievements also appear in-game, while Steam has a dedicated achievement list.