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Synopsis:

With only one weekend to get your aunt's bookstore ready for its grand re-opening, help arrives in an unexpected way when boys start magically hopping out of the books! Will you be able to keep peace between their eccentric personalities, fix up the shop and find love before Monday...?

A cozy, humorous fantasy romance that'll have you fall in love with reading all over again.  If you can't pick a boy, pick them all! or give this quiz a spin. 

Weird Little Beasties is a five woman development team of friends who make the sort of games we want to play. 

Features:

  • All original art and music!
  • 5 possible love interests, 7 possible endings  
  • ~50k words 
  • Nameable, gender neutral protagonist 
  • Unlockable image gallery

Characters:

Amos 

A playful detective from a children's mystery series.  Beneath his friendly exterior lies a highly perceptive mind (we hope).


Klaus 

A mysterious knight from a pulp fantasy book. He's got some mind-boggling tales of heroism if you can manage to wring conversation out of him. 


Morgan "Mac" Macallister 

A grouchy pirate from a piece of classical literature. But maybe he isn't as scary as he acts. Maybe he's scarier.


Dr. Nightshade 

A mad scientist from a midcentury science fiction novel. He has a low opinion of most things and isn't afraid to say so, but maybe you can find a place on his tolerable list.


Rosamel 

A flirtatious poet from a German fairytale. Proud owner of the world record for number of love-at-first-sights.


StatusReleased
PlatformsWindows, macOS, Linux
Rating
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(180 total ratings)
AuthorWeird Little Beasties
GenreVisual Novel
Made withRen'Py
TagsComedy, Dating Sim, Fantasy, Multiple Endings, Otome, Romance
Average sessionA few hours
LanguagesEnglish

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Rewritten-1.0-pc.zip 182 MB
Rewritten-1.0-mac.zip 148 MB

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omg i loved this game sooo much! for the past few days ive been playing and doing all the characters routes i cant even pick a favorite because i love them all so much so i was so shocked and happy with that surprise ending with the auntie! i totally fell in love with all of them! thank you for making such a wonderful game!

Thank you, we’re so happy to hear you enjoyed our game!!

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THIS WAS SO SWEET OH MY GOD
i love them all so much, especially nightshade <3
i really appreciated mc being gender neutral, as a man it's nice to be able to enjoy cute romances like this without being referred to as a girl <3

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We’re happy to hear it!

I LOVE THIS GAME

Thank you, we’re happy to hear it!!

I AM SO IN LOVE WITH NIGHTSHADE AHHHHH 😭😭😭

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Hi! I am a complete newbie to this, so forgive me if this question is redundant. I have downloaded Rewritten on my Windows PC, but the application won't open. What am I doing wrong????? Should I run the application as a administrator? I'm so sad because I really want to play, but I can't figure it out. Any feedback/advice helps. Thank you!!

Hi! Once you’ve downloaded it, in your downloads folder there should be a Rewritten application that you can click and extract files on. It should then bring you to the unzipped application, where you can click on the Rewritten application again and you should be golden. Please let me know if this helped or if you still can’t get in! 

I fear that I have fallen deeply in love with Klaus.

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I only recently (aka about 5 days ago) found out about itch.io, so you can imagine my delight upon finishing the first game I ever downloaded on itch. this was a wonderful experience, each of these characters were wonderfully charming in their own way, and I loved this game from start to finish. a little detail I appreciated a LOT was the fact that the main character isn't referred to by any gendered terms, its such a tiny thing but I noticed it straight away and im very grateful for that, even if its just a coincidence. id love to see if you guys make more games in the future! ive already told some of my friends about it and one of them's already putting it on his list of games to play, haha! there's a lot of love put into this game and it shines through every detail!

tldr this is a wonderful, well-made and designed game, and YOU! PERSON CONSIDERING THE GAME AND READING COMMENTS! YES YOU! PLAY THE GAME! TIP THE DEVS! DO IT!!!

Thank you so much!! We’re so glad you enjoyed the game! We did work very hard to keep the mc genderless, so we’re happy to see that so many people have enjoyed that! 

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Please play this game. It's so dreamy and good and amazing. Do yourself a favor and play it. Thank the developers later. To the developer(s), congrats.

Aw, thank you for your kind words! 

I'm so in love with Nightshade you don't even understand-

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What an absolutely beautiful game. A charming and captivating story, amazing characters with unique stories, designs and personality ( I absolutely love Nightshade💜😍)! I really love this game, wish it was never-ending! (What are the chances that you'll do a sequel?) Truly one of the best games I've ever played! I can't wait to see what future projects you guys have in store, keep up the great work!💜❤️️💚💙♥️

Wow thank you!! That makes us so happy! While we don’t currently have any sequel plans, we do have some other game ideas we’re playing with..

Hello! Can I find any of your work on other socials? Do you have a different nickname?

Hi! We have an instagram account called @beasties.studio 

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Absolutly stunning game <3 I finished every route and the ending cg's may have made me cry a little... I LOVE THEM SO MUCHHHH! Thank you for making such an awesome game!

Aaa thank you!! We’re so happy you enjoyed our game!!!

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who drew the character sprites?

@fried_peach_collection on instagram did most of the sprite art! @3oclockcereal (also instagram) did a few expressions as well as the colors. While the credits are visible in the about section of the menu of the game, it was sort of hard trying to succinctly say who did what because we all helped each other a lot! 

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giggled so much playing this. twirling my hair and kicking my feet rn

<3

so real

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I played through Klaus' route and loved it so much! All the characters are so fun and I enjoyed the story. Looking forward to playing the other routes as well! I got Amos on the quiz, so maybe I'll try his next. ^_^

Oh my gosh thank you so much!! We’re so excited to watch your video!! The thumbnail art is so cute!! Thank you for enjoying our game!!! 

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Rosamel's design is so deliciously edible in a splendid way I just wanna σ(≧ε≦σ) ♡ Nightshade's ending got me giggling and twirling my hair I wanna send love beams at them

Yay happy to hear it! 

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Klaus <3

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<3

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DUDE IVE BEEN SMILING THE ENTIRE TIME PLAYING THIS GAME HFEOUHAPEIRGUHER

That makes us so happy to hear!

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Such a lovely game!!! You can really tell how much effort everyone put into each route. The quiz was also very accurate XD 

Wonderful job!!!

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Thank you!!

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OMG i love it so much!!!!!!! Every sigel Route is so fleshed out and i love each one of them just so much!!! they all got there special Charm

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thank you!!

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this is game is FANTASTIC!! absolutely adorable! i haven't finished it yet but i definitely will. my only complaint is that i did not get to kiss my favorite boy Amos on the lips :((( 

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We’re happy to hear it! And I’m sure Amos will be happy to be kissed wherever you want (; 

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someone help im in love with the fictional characters again eurgh

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IM GOING TO CRY THIS GAME IS SERIOUSLY AMAZING. I played each route and I literally could NEVER pick a favorite they all warm my heart so much omg. The different art styles for each book amazing. AND CAN WE TALK ABOUT HOW THEY EACH HAVE DIFFERENT VERSIONS OF THE SONG DEPENDING ON WHO YOU PICK.

I only noticed it later but it adds so much to the game. I love small details that so much and it truly shows how good it is. Seriously PLEASE PLAY IT YALL.

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Thank you so much for enjoying our game and leaving such a nice comment!

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i played twice and immediately loved amos and klaus and this game is so cute !!! every little interaction and the dates were so sweet. i literally cannot recommend this game more, just play it cuz u wont regret it

Thank you!! We’re glad you enjoyed the game! 

🤍MAC ROUTE🖤

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🤍BEST GAME EVER🖤

Wow!! Thank you so much!!! We’re all beyond thrilled to see someone make a video for our game!!!! 

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Played this game in a couple of hours and fell in love with everyone (especially Amos and Rosamel) nearly instantly. A 10/10, would play again.

I'm not sure if you plan on doing any updates or patches or anything but if you do I noticed that one of Klaus's sprites is different from the rest while playing. (It is the one called Klaus sweet in the files)

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Thank you so much! And thanks for letting us know about the sprite, I’ll check that out!

Best  game ever! The story is lovely and so unique, the character design is sooo beautiful(I love nightshade😍)! the backgrounds and CG are so cuteee!

I wish I could see more about these characters, couldn't get enough of them!!

 Keep up the amazing work, can't wait to see what other games you will create!

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Aaa thank you very much!!

found abt the secret ending when i got it and it's so awesomeeee

Happy to hear it!!

THIS GAME IS INCREDIBLE!! I love Dr. Nightshade so much, and Amos is so wonderful... All the characters really have such incredible charm and I NEED to see more content of these guys!! I would love a continuation of the game!!

Thank you!! We’re happy to hear it! While we don’t have any current plans for continuing, we are still very attached to our boys so we’ll never say never (; 

I absolutely, absolutely, positively LOVED this game. If I could sum it up, this was an English lit major's dream come true. 

I truly can't put into adequate words how charming all of the characters are (I kid, I can, but that would take an entire 20 page paper), but I definitely felt all the love put into creating each and every one of them. The art direction for the game perfectly highlighted all of the soft lightheartedness of the story (big kudos to the artists, I love the style of the sprites so much). Plus, just the uniqueness of the guys' designs was what really caught my attention. Please keep creating the type of characters you guys want to see, because I'm loving it! I had a bunch of laughs at the little jokes like 18th century pirate lit being intimidating yet loved by the profs and needing to skip all those long tedious descriptions about fickle things lol. Oh also, how all the guys' book sizes correlate with their actual physical sizes?! Loved it, super cute detail. Amos and Klaus came out to be my favorites, but I truly enjoyed the entire line-up, which is rare! Like I said, that exceptional writing/character design really came through, so I ended up loving all these sweet dorks. You can imagine how many tissues I used for the final ending with auntie.

P.S. If he doesn't exclaim "hot dog!" when I kiss him on the nose then I don't want him!

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Wow that makes us so happy to hear!! Thank you for the big review, we’re so glad you liked the game so much! 

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It's been days and I swear I'm writing up a more cohesive review that has much more detail but I needed to get it out now that the line "Of course I care! Of course I love! Of course I love you!" has been burned into my BRAIN I can't get over how emotionally raw that scene was jdfvbsdkjf I'm still thinking about it

Thank you!!!

i stayed up all night playing i'm litterallyin love <3

<3

absolutely loved this game<3<3 played through every route in one night! I'll admit I'm biased towards mad scientist but I absolutely adored Dr Nightshade and his story, honestly a little sad I can't read his book lmao. Fantastic artwork too

Aaa thank you!!

Wonderful game, congratulations!! I just have to say that it does weird things with some antivirus, but otherwise it's really fun to play.

The art is beautiful and the characters are so charismatic, congratulations again!

Sorry about the antivirus trouble! And thank you so much!!

<3

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Need to make Amos a father

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not enough amos appreciation in this comment section imo. absolutely my favorite guy of all time. he's such a dork. i love him.

We’re always happy to see some Amos love! 

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I adored this game ! I played through all the routes because the characters were so interesting and diverse (and I was curious about the secret ending, spoiler : I loved it, really fun :D). The design and art of the whole game is so beautiful and made it even more magical. The music and its variation depending on the route is such a sweet detail too ! 

In the end, not sure if I can pick a favorite because Klaus owned my heart (he is so sweet) but I would give Rosie the world if he asked.

Thank you for this great game :)  

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Thank you so much!! That makes us so happy to hear! 

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I just played though the whole game in a few hours (well, expect the neutral ending, heh) and oh my gosh it was so sweet! I don't know why but it kind makes me feel a bit nostalgic haha. this Deserves to be really popular!

All of the characters were so loveable! I really like Amos, I love a goofy detective. But everyone was so good, even characters I didn't think I'd like as much (Like Rosie) I ended up loving once I played though his little story :) 

I don't know if the implication for the secret ending is that the mc is dating all of them, but that is how I am choosing to see it, me and my 5 partners hehe. 

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Aaa that’s great thank you! And we wanted to leave the secret ending up to the player, whether you want to see it as platonic or romantic (; 

I love this game! I love those characters! My fauvorite is Amos (I saw in your quiz "Ace Attorney" is he a little inspired by Gumshoe? ;) )

Even Nightshade who has character that I normally don't like, make my heart beat a little faster (little cutie).

Do you have any social media or anything where I can saw more of this characters? Because I definetly need more!

Thank you! And haha yep Gumshoe was definitely an influence. We do have an instagram actually! @beasties.studio 

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