Visual Novel - Caught By A Spider

Mira here again.

A few visual novels have come across our site on itch, and we've been having Feelings. We think it's too personal and explicit for Backloggd so we turn to our humble website. Nothing explicit here, but I wanna be honest about things.

Caught by a Spider is a short yandere game, horror related to a scary lady who has kidnapped you and will murder your ass if you don't please her. I have... a great deal of fascination with spiders even though this is just about a lady who is probably not a spider youkai (unclear). And also I'm equally fascinated by the concept of being kidnapped and tied up and fussed over ggggghhghghgh. I still don't always feel good admitting the things I'm into but here it is.

But the thing is, I saw 'yandere' in the description when I looked it up and it was like being smashed in the face with a bat. "Oh no," I said, "Am I into yanderes." Investigation concludes with a resounding "sort of."

Game lets you enter a name and gender (blanket Other option is appreciated) and then engage in some typical dialogue trees and options with the lady until you get an ending. Normal stuff. The thing that gets me is that it was very difficult to avoid getting murdered because it relies on affection points that are extremely arbitrary. I didn't dislike the "stabbed repeatedly" ending I just wanted the rest, and I don't think the unpredictable nature of it is bad. It makes sense. She's an unstable murder lady and you're trying to learn how NOT to set her off. It's just not the part that I like.

Violence, the threat and application of it, is intensely erotic, even romantic, to me in a number of ways. I'm not sure if I like the idea of pain, at least not in the extreme. And yet, I want to be treated gently by someone who could tear me apart. Sometimes I want to be hurt by someone I trust. I think the exercise of playing this put things in good relief for me in that respect. I like violence as an extension of the same feelings that make me a good pet. I crave love that's unconditional. Love I can't escape even if I want to. When I have to tiptoe around someone else's preference it ruins the fantasy somewhat. I'm just greedy for affection like that~

Anyway this is a small fun game made for a jam, so all of that is fine. It only takes a little while to see all of it.