Hemotropic Friendship Virus: Occultation

(Note: This game has been made to be more accessible to players relying on Ren'Py's Self-Voicing accessibility feature. If Self-Voicing is enabled, images will have alt text provided, characters' appearances will be described when they first debut on-screen, and extra notes only available through Self-Voicing will be added in to further accommodate visually impaired readers. Pressing the "V" key anytime while in-game will toggle Self-Voicing.)

"Nobody REALLY wants to be Ximun's friend. So...what could Adair possibly see in him that keeps her coming back?"

After quitting his school’s track team, Ximun Ibarra searches for another extracurricular activity to keep him entertained for the remaining few months of the school year. He ends up feeling drawn to the Creative Writing club; and, as a result, he happens to catch the attention of current club member (and local micro-celebrity) Adair Olivares Hernandez. For whatever reason, Adair is incredibly interested in him… She seems nice enough on the surface, but are her true intentions so innocent?

Hemotropic Friendship Virus: Occultation serves as the prologue for the larger Hemotropic Friendship Virus series of visual novels (currently a work-in-progress.) The story periodically switches perspectives between Ximun and Adair, indicated by the changing color and design of the textbox.

Depending on your reading speed, this game will likely take you somewhere between two to three hours to complete (estimates based on times it took beta-readers to complete.) A much shorter bonus story has also been included, accessible separately on the title screen; this story will likely take around thirty minutes to one hour to complete, should you choose to read it as well. Both stories are entirely linear, having no dialogue choices or additional endings.

If you're interested in learning more about Hemotropic Friendship Virus, you can also check out the "HFV" pages on my blog, babycatplanet.com! It's a Tumblr blog, so you can also follow me there if you want to keep up with the development of future visual novels.

(Content Warning: The story of Hemotropic Friendship Virus regularly covers some highly sensitive topics related to trauma and mental health. You can click here for a more detailed list of warnings (babycatplanet.com/cw.html). There is also a list present in-game that will display upon launch. The list itself is an image, but Self-Voicing will still read it properly if it is enabled.)