A therapy sim about a very good, very bad therapist.
Dr. Lilith Fleischer - Lily, please - is a gifted therapist, a licensed psychiatrist, an exceptional hypnotherapist, and a mildly dangerous solipsist. She has concluded, after careful consideration, that she is the only person who is actually in there. Everyone else runs on chemistry. Fortunately for everyone else, chemistry is her whole job.
Her new patient is a 24-year-old game store clerk with six weeks of flat nothing, a single-car accident she is very done talking about. The chart says depression. The chart is a liar, but then again, so is she, and so are you.
SOLIPCYST is a puzzle visual novel: one patient, eight weeks, one hour at a time. Peel apart everything she tells you in good confidence to dig for clues. Pack her mind like a suitcase. Medicate, manipulate, stabilize, groom - anything necessary to heal the patient. Among other things.
A brain is a board. Therapy is polymino packing with a license.
Testimony that rotates weekly and lies toward the wrong diagnosis.
A cross-examination engine: claims, evidence, challenges, and a woman who fights the label with everything except the truth.
The classic blunder - A visual number that responds to your actions.
Content warning: therapeutic abuse from the abuser's POV, grooming, gaslighting, bipolar disorder and mania, medical coercion, grief, sexual themes. All characters are adults. The game does not endorse what it lets you do. Obviously.
Made for the Toxic Yuri VN Jam II.
game jam version releases tomorrow in, likely, ~10-11 hours from this post (4 AM EST).
