#inkle games

Sometimes I really want to read a short summary of what to expect from a game with a very particular description that CATER to my OWN SPECIFIC interests, so here we go.

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what to expect from EXPELLED!

This is part of the "Overboard!" games (now just two!: Overboard! and Expelled!) in the sense that they are narrative games about a mystery to solve, and where clues can be accumulated through multiple playthroughs

You play as Verity, a 16 years old girl at an all girls school in the 1920s. The game starts with the headmistress expelling you for throwing another student out of a window

As Overboard! the tone is more humorous than serious but there are plenty of serious themes

Verity will then narrate to her father what really happened

Like Overboard! the game as a limited time for Verity to play/replay the events: the accident happens at around 7am, and you have till 4pm to show the headmistress and the whole school that you are innocent

You can click on different locations in the school, and do differnt things (talk with characters, steal things, pickpocket, put clues into other's pockets etc.) and you can decide to frame someone, trick, lie, tell the truth, be the best girl ever or the worst girl ever, find secret etc.

The game also has an "evil" counter, the more mean, trickster-like and bossy you are the more your counter rises (and there will be certain consequences)

I won't go into details into the story, as there are a lot of surprises, just know that the game is not over once you fail once, as you restart with all your previous knowledge stored into your diary

I played more or less 6 hours and managed to solve the main mystery, but not yet some secondary ones

Some queer subtext, up to you if some love confession is romantic love or not, I decided to interpret it as such

I still love him!

The basic premise of the game is that you play as this lady

Aliya Elasra, a grimy and sometimes reckless archeologist who travels the skies in her small, slightly frowned upon and semi illegal ship, visiting the moons of the nebula and collecting artifacts. She’s been instructed by her university to find a missing roboticist, and in the process has to decode an ancient language (guys!! They made a whole entire language for this game!! It’s both beautiful and super interesting from a linguistic perspective), figure out an ancient mystery surrounding the last emperor and The Loop, their society’s religion basically, and face the fact that if you buy a gecko it will try to run away, all while accompanied by her new glorified babysitter, Six

The environments are beautiful, the plot is intriguing, the language is fascinating, and the characters are engrossing. There are actual rivers in the sky, guys. I’m not joking. You think I’m joking?

The language is gorgeous and eventually becomes something you really understand. It’s so well developed you start knowing what groupings say by instinct. Because it makes sense.

And the character designs are amazing. As if Aliya wasn’t good enough, look at Sya!

Look at Oroi!

She’s a queen and I love her!

Can you please tell me how I can romance Flanker from Sorcery? I spared him, but I don't know what to do next. I am afraid to miss an important point.

Where do romantic moments begin? In the second game? Third?

I would be grateful for the walkthrough tips!

Hello!! Basically in the first game you just need to spare him and nothing else! If you are there you are near the end of the game as well.

In the second game you meet Flanker again at the festival/fair and you can spend some time with him, then he´ll arrange a meeting at the tavern and help you with a quest. Make sure to choose what seems like the flirtiest options (there is nothing really overtly flirtish tho!)

In the third game you can meet Flanker at the broken bridge (you arrive from the forest and you can climb it). And from there on all the next Flanker meet ups will happen in the game so you just need to play! The romance will fully happen in game 4!