★★★★★

Signalis and e.y.e. divine cybermancy plots are both about being stuck in a loop, and the main character kills their wife, but there's a very important distinction. Rimanah is stuck in his own cycles of guilt BECAUSE he killed his wife. He repeats his journey over and over, running away from the truth until he pieces things together and faces himself and his own actions. The only way out of the cycle is to enter a purgatory where he's stuck in a state of nothingness, and the only way out from there is to destroy the ouroboros seal, and jump back into the cycle thru a hole in the ground. Meanwhile Elster is stuck in a cycle because they were doomed from the start by the nation and circumstances, and her wife is a slowly dying yet unable to die bioresonant being that can warp reality (or something!), stuck in a nasty broken cryopod. Barely alive, she waits for Elster to fullfill their promise. So Elster keeps going, over and over again, for Ariane. Until in the promise ending with great emotional pain she kills her wife, ending her prolonged suffering