About this game
You ever die and wake up in limbo being told you gotta basically date your way to an afterlife decision? That's Repurpose. I downloaded it on a whim from itch.io because someone on a destiny manifestation discord swore it helped them process their breakup. Not sure about that but here I am.
The Garden of Eden's been relocated to this weird purgatory where angels and demons can't agree on your file. You pick your gender setup at the start, which I appreciate since I'm tired of games pretending I don't exist. Trans man, cis woman, whatever mess of identity you're working with, the game lets you just be. Then you meet this crew of queer disasters all dead like you, trying to figure out if they want Heaven's bureaucracy, Hell's party scene, or just vibing in limbo forever. I went for the angel path first because I'm a people pleaser even in death apparently. There's this lesbian demon girl with sharp teeth who keeps flirting with my male protag and I got genuinely confused about whether the game was bugging or she's just bi. Turns out she's pan. Makes sense later.
The dating sim parts are solid. Choices matter in ways that feel messy like real conversations. I accidentally made someone cry during a trial and had to sit with that. Multiple endings obviously but what got me was the no sexual content tag. In a game about intimacy and connection, they somehow made hand holding feel more charged than most porn games manage with full penetration scenes. The horror elements creep in subtle, not jumpscares but existential dread about being forgotten. I keep forgetting to mention the futa protagonist option which is rare and handled without fetishizing. The 2D art looks rough in places, like someone's sketchbook came to life, and the font choices are criminal sometimes. But the writing has these moments where a character says something so painfully real about regret that I had to close my laptop and stare at my ceiling. Dare to play it alone with your own mortality or whatever.