The Last Secret [Puzzle][Slice of Life][Sci-Fi][Romance]

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*** Full release on 31 August 2022! ***

The Award-winning adventure

THE LAST SECRET is a fun game with cute characters, but a complex and rewarding story. It is set across different locations and includes a bunch of mind bending puzzles.

Synopsis:

You and your friends suddenly discover strange mental abilities. A girl with pink hair seems to be behind it. Join your friends on an epic quest to reveal the "last secret", discover the truth about the world and save your life and the whole earth...
Epic and light-hearted story with lots of puzzles (that mostly can be skipped if you're not into it), the chance for romance (also optional) and 8 good endings.

Main characters:

Four of the heroes of the game: Karina, Anna, Honghong und Meilin:

Time to introduce the case of The Last Secret in a bit more details... Here we go!
Let's start with your childhood friend, Meilin...

The second of the main cast: kind and smart Honghong...

Here comes Karina: the sweet and nerdy math girl with a love for strange hoodies...

Not one of your high school friends, but instead an international music star: Ben Benjamin... Where will you manage to meet him?

And finally, the mysterious girl with pink hair... Is she behind all these strange events happening? And *what* is she?

Game play:

The Last Secret is a visual novel with a complex story and lots of mini games and puzzles. You can play as female or male protagonist. Activating the "rainbow mode" allows you to get close to same-gender characters. If you're only into story and romance, you can always skip the puzzles (just ask your smart friends like Karina to do it for you). If you're only into story and puzzles, you can skip the romantic part and enjoy the game nevertheless. If you're not into story - why are you on this forum???

Here's one of the puzzles the heroes have to solve on their way: connect lights of the same color along the lines, but no lights of different colors!

Fun in the sun (you wouldn't guess where this is):

A pic from one of the romantic endings of the game:

The opening (in Chinese):

Karina's math dream (in English):

Content:

Meilin under cherry blossoms:

• Interesting and rich story line with many hours of game play
• 8 good endings, numerous bad ones
• Playable as male and female, you can chose to date different gender or same gender characters.
• Tons of nice background graphics, simple but cute character design (300+ images)
• Full original soundtrack, including several songs with vocals (in English or Chinese with subtitles) plus a few songs from Lemmino
• Many puzzles to be solved on the way, none of those similar to the others
• German and English version available, more languages to come with the final release

Player comments:

“Fantastic and deeply moving story”
– Lan

"Good story and great characters - a fun game for everyone."
– Heijko

"Great puzzles"
– Thomas, software engineer

"Beautiful graphics"
– Lea

"What is more mysterious? The great story or the game of Go? Well ... try it out!"
– Rainer, programmer and Go player

"Excellently written SF Visual Novel with entertaining puzzles and minigames."
– XH, anime fan

Conclusions:

Okay, enough of a hook: you will now best whether you like it!
Try out the game - since if you don't, Meilin will be pretty angry with you:

(And she can be scary, you know!)

Download:

The beta version of the game can be downloaded for Windows, OSX and Linux on itch.io - for free, but if you are a bit more patient: the full release will be on 2 September 2022! Here you can wishlist already on Steam:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1965 ... st_Secret/
More infos, also in other languages, here:
https://the-last-secret.mozellosite.com/home/
If you like to provide feedback and ideas: I'm super happy to take your suggestions!
Thank you!

EDIT: Updated the information about download/wishlist.

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Update: The story writing is complete now, English translations have been finished and are already partially proofread. After some more testing there will be the big update on itch.io - the complete Beta version.

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Some updates:
- I have gotten some kind offers for translation help. For Spanish, the web page is now proofread and the game will be translated as soon as it is complete! (Thanks, Suki Novels!)
- I am currently working on a real trailer for the game. One weekend of work resulted in 45 seconds of video. The complete trailer will be around twice as long, so still some work to be done. I will post it here, as soon as it is ready!

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Sneak preview on the trailer (still unpublished):
https://youtu.be/_lA7zzxcV8w
Hope you like it!

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The complete story of "THE LAST SECRET" is now available! It's still Beta, as I will keep improving some aspects of the game and add more languages, but it's fully playable (and enjoyable) now.

Watch the short trailer on Youtube:


And then download the game here - for free!
https://thelastsecret.itch.io/the-last-secret

[thelastsecret]

Thanks for IndieMagic for giving The Last Secret a silver medal at the FF event today! I'm very happy!

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The Last Secret had a big update, in particular all English translations have been fixed, and there are also improvements to graphics and game play.
Take a look here:
https://thelastsecret.itch.io/the-last- ... ter-update

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Small updates:
- Michelle was so kind to offer help for a Portuguese translation of the game, so we are working on that for the final release too.
- Wishlisting on Steam for the final release will be possible soon! Scheduled release date: 2 September 2022.

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"The Last Secret" is now on Steam! You can wishlist the game here:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1965 ... st_Secret/
The more people add it to the wishlist, the more will see it, so I appreciate your help!

The release of the full version is scheduled for September 2nd. It will include a couple of language versions and some new scenes that are not in the beta version. Here's a sneak preview on one of them...

Whose in the middle of the chaos, can you guess?

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The vtuber May just did a nice let's play video of "The Last Secret" (chapter 0001):
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1471322982
It's the beta version, so the final release will have some improvements, but it is definitely fun to watch!

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Great news: "The Last Secret" won second place at the "Feedback Fest" on itch.io! The game also won the first place in the category "Sound & Music".
Thanks for all supporters!
https://itch.io/jam/feedback-fest/results

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Translations into Spanish and Chinese made good progress in the last week. If you want to help with the translations, particularly for Ukrainian, Russian and Japanese, please contact me. We're a nice team and happy if you join!

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The game will be released on August 31.
The first reviews are pouring in already: there was a very nice one in the DGoZ, and now Indie Spotlight has also reviewed it and gave it a pretty good 85% rating: https://www.xblpartypodcast.com/post/in ... ght-july-2
If you want to wishlist the game on Steam that would help a lot to make it known better:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1965 ... st_Secret/
Thank you in advance!

[thelastsecret]

The Last Secret is finally here!
You can get it for free on Steam:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1965 ... st_Secret/
or itch.io:
https://thelastsecret.itch.io/the-last-secret
I will write something under "published games", but wanted to properly close this thread...