Roll + Heart

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Name: Roll + Heart
Status: Complete
Site: https://owl-sanctuary-studios.itch.io/rollplusheart
Pairing: Any/M Any/F
Description: Meet some LIs around the DnD table



Roll + Heart is another game about playing tabletop while also dating your fellow players (or GM). It's longer and more involved than Dungeons and Lesbians, the other tabletop VN that I've played in the BLM bundle, with longer and more numerous scenes, a combat system, and a few mini games.

 

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If you strip down all the extra mini games and simple combat system, what you reveal is a basic VN with poor pathing, that fails to make references to choices from scene to scene. Even though I liked the characters in this game, I can't say the story is well done because there are just too many errors in the scripting. If the fundamental question of what did or didn't happen in a certain run is something a game can't keep track of, I don't think I can call it a good game.

That said, I did play Roll+Heart through three times because I actually did want to romance some of the LIs, which is more than I can say for many VNs. Even though it's fucked up by the coding, the pacing of the game doesn't drag, and the LIs have fun personalities and are nice to get to know. It's a shame that the execution of everything is so sloppy. I'm not a Renpy evangelist, but games like this make me wish people would just use something that works and leave the gimmicks alone if they can't execute well.