76% | Mostly Positive
76% of the 1320 user reviews on Steam are positive.
Arata Mizunashi, a video game programmer, receives a notification from an email sent to him by Shina Ninomiya, a colleague of his who went missing nearly one year ago. Together, they worked to create World’s Odyssey (W.O.D.), an immersive virtual landscape powered by breathtaking, state-of-the-art technology. That is, until Shina's sudden disappearance put a swift halt to production. Arata discovers the startling revelation that Shina Ninomiya was stuck inside of “W.O.D.” the whole time. When Arata delves hurriedly back into the lines of code haunting his forsaken project, he realizes that his game is now ravaged by an infestation of bugs, and that Shina is its only active player.
Arata soon learns that a nefarious force prevents him from extracting Shina out of the game. Her only way out? She must complete the game to unlock the perfect ending—an outcome with a success rate of 1%. On their journey, they encounter a slew of NPC characters that blur perceptions of humanity and A.I.-technology, setting into a motion a thrilling narrative that calls into question the differences between the virtual world and ours.
Little do they know what horrors await them on both sides of the screen...
The developers describe the content like this:
One of the features of this game is the attainment of several "bad endings", which can range from graphically gory scenes to vivid textual depictions of character deaths (e.g. watching a decapitation scene or reading an excerpt about a character's spinal cord being torn out).
This game contains content that may not be appropriate for all ages, including the following: Blood, Violence, Suggestive Themes, Strong Language
Characters depicted in this game are 18 years of age or older.