The end of an obsession
A downloadable game for Windows, macOS, Linux, and Android
Trigger warning
This VN does not feature any explicit textual or graphical depictions of blood or gore. It does, however, mention these topics:- kidnapping
- stabbing
- murder
- toxic co-dependency, manipulation, and gaslighting
Which might upset people. Reader discretion is advised.
Note: This visual novel is related to It gets so lonely here. You should read Lonely first if you wish to fully understand the story.
You feel groggy when you finally wake up.
The back of your head is throbbing and your mouth feels dry, as though it has been stuffed full of wool.
With bleary eyes, you glance about.
What time is it?
Where are you…
And, perhaps more importantly, who are you?
Try though you might, you can’t remember.
This could very well be your end — but wait. Who is that woman standing by your bedside, who looks like a rose?
Perhaps she can help you.
Now, why don’t you open your heart up to her?
Learn how to love her, and perhaps this story might even have a happy ending.
- About 18k words of text (approx 30-60 minutes of reading)
- A story with several choices
- 800x600 resolution!!! We love VNs the size of postage stamps!!!
- Fully original artwork and an original soundtrack
- One adoring(?) witch
- A tired narrator who no longer wants to be involved in this narrative
- Violence ♥
Writing & programming: ebi-hime
Art: Kalechips
GUI: elduator
Music: yuzuki
Mastering: xtraspicy
Video: ell絵
Proofreaders: Bishmuth, Emelia K. Fletcher, ravnervn
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Development log
- The end of an obsession has been released!41 days ago
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i absolutely loved this. it's a wonderful connection to lonely.
Thank you so much!
Played the beginning of this on stream while checking out a bunch of Yuri Jam submissions, love the toxic yuri and the aesthetic is peak !!!!
Thank you for checking it out!
I loved this so much!! I played the first game a few days ago and was thrilled to discover there was a sequel!! And what a sequel!! What a twist!! I cannot recommend this enough!!
I had a feeling about who the witch was but the princess? Didn't see that coming.
Wow. Just... wow. I had no idea what to expect going into this. I absolutely love It Gets So Lonely Here so seeing that this was a sequel definitely had me intrigued, but I was not prepared for how intense this story got. The fact that you were able to contain everything that made the first game so brilliant in a smaller scale story was incredible, there were even parts that hit me harder than the first game because it felt even more like the story was out of my control. No joke I spent several minutes stuck in a loop because I did not want to give in, I was sure if I just kept persisting that something would change. Seeing the ending explained why it went like this and that was a MASTERFUL twist, but that build up hit hard. Absolutely amazing story, you've completely blown me away with The End Of An Obsession. It kind of makes me want to replay both games back to back so I can really see all the little connections.
Also the song at the end was AMAZING! Definitely going to be listening to that on repeat for a while.
bro i love lesbians this is so PEAK amazing art, music everything about this is so amazing and the lesbianism make it final that this game is frikin peak amazing, great job devs, ill be looking forward for more games like this
Everything of this game is so amazing the art the music and the world ebi crafted. I didn't expect a sequel after lonely but now I have to hope for a third game even if its not connected just in the world.
PEAK
PEAK
PEAK
PEAK GOT A SEQUEL
PEAK HAS A SEQUEL
PEAK GOT A SEQUEL
PEAK HAS A SEQUEL
PEAK GOT A SEQUEL
I DON'T HAVE TIME TO PLAY IT NOW BUT I NEED TO TOMORROW
I can't open this on Mac T-T
I have uploaded a new mac build, hopefully this one will work.
I am so sad I am unable to play this since my Mac cannot open it
I uploaded a new build only for the mac, hopefully this one should work.
Damn
What a plotwist!!! At first i did think it wasn't actually connected to lonely until the last part everything becomes clear
Did they still end up? Please😭
This was icredible plot twist!!! I love Lonely and, honestly, this is the best sequel I could ask for. Also, song in the end is amazing💞
Thats was awesome! Crazinly love both of your games and melodies - they are so relaxing and beautiful to follow and diving deeper in the story.
INSANE getback holy shit
This was so good! Your prose is always a delight, and I loved the twist on Rapunzel. It's lovely to see a follow-up to Lonely; I was spoiled on one particular aspect but I didn't fully connect the dots until the end. I adore your take on witches in these games!
This was a lovely sequel to Lonely! I liked Lonely a lot when I read it a few months ago, though I couldn’t help but wonder what might have happened afterward. Don’t want to get into too many spoilers, but I think this is a fantastic idea, and very well executed.
Thank you very much! I'm glad you enjoyed it!
A sequel🙏🙏🙏
Sequel🙏🙏🙏
This is so good, everything I could have wanted and more.
Thank you!
this was the perfect sequel to lonely that could ever hope for, really (dare i say i even liked it more)
i absolutely loved the themes of the vn and the general pacing of the story, it fels so much more cohesive and even more like an actual neverending cycle. lonely told of the many death and continuous suffering of its mc, but obsession showed it. (pardon my fancy words i know nothing of literature)
the ending struck me real hard (even though i've been anticipating some form of this twist from the near begining of the game). how medea instanly picks herself up, "i can't blame her, really", and proceeds to simp harder. toxic yuri at its FINEST.
the love of a witch is really something else huh
thank you very much, i'm glad you liked it! i was a bit worried people would think it's too short or too underwhelming compared to lonely, especially since there's only 2 characters and not as mnay art assets, so i'm glad it wasn't the case...!
(i also kept this story in my drafts for like 6 months wondering if i should actually release it or not haha so ig it's good i did...)
and yes it is true love... medea and rosette belong together haha ;;
This was lots of fun! I think I actually liked it better than the original it gets so lonely here, for pacing reasons: it feels more focusedly-told, with its shorter length and differently-laid-out branch-structure leaving less room for the story's progression to sag towards the middle.
One interface-question: when I was at the point of 100%-completion-as-best-I-could-tell—I made it to the point of (spoilers in rot13) univat gur abgrf haybpxrq va gur tnyyrel, naq hcba fgnegvat gur tnzr ntnva orvat noyr gb sbetrg rirelguvat va beqre gb erfrg tnzr-fgngr—the music gallery listed only seven tracks as playable, despite there being eight interface-slots for them. (The seven BGM tracks from throughout the main story, but not the credits-music.) Is this indicative of my having missed things more broadly, such that I should poke around more to find hidden corners of things that I missed on my initial passes?
(Also, somewhat-implicitly-spoilery fun theory I had during the middle parts of the story: for a decent chunk of the story I was thinking that gur znva punenpgref jrer obgu Ebfrggr, va fbzr fbeg bs gvzr-ybbc bs ure jvgpu-frys chfuvat ure abajvgpu-frys gb ybir ure hagvy riraghnyyl ure abajvgpu-frys jbhyq orpbzr n jvgpu naq yrg ure jvgpu-frys trg gb or gur nzarfvnp abajvgpu sbe n juvyr. This is not exactly what happened, but it was a fun possibility to imagine while it remained plausible!)
Thank you for checking it out, I'm glad you enjoyed it!
There was a bug with the 8th music track not unlocking properly, so I've ploaded a new build of the game which should hopefully fix that. Thank you for pointing it out!
GOD i just finished this after work and needless to say I adore it. As always your prose is phenomenal (and such an inspiration). I actually figured out the twist relatively early, but it didn't hurt my enjoyment of the story at all.
The toxicity of love between Medea and Rosette is SO intriguing. I think it's a wonderful continuation of the story, and I'm so glad you decided to focus on them, as I definitely agree the Lonely LIs' stories feel very... complete? And I like the little nod that in the end they're just aspects of Medea and her all-consuming love for Rosette. All in all, such a lovely addition to the story and will definitely be encouraging people to read it (after getting them to read Lonely)
(ALSO YUZUKI'S OST IS STELLAR AS ALWAYS)
Tysm! I'm glad you enjoyed it!
I did think it would be fun to do a little more in the Lonely universe but I didn't think I had anything else to really explore with the three main LIs in Lonely (at least, not in the same setting), so I wound up doing something a bit different...
I wasn't really sure if people would vibe with it since I mostly saw people saying they wanted to read more about the princess haha but I'm glad it was still interesting!
And I love the music in this VN too, it's so good!!! It's one of my fav parts about the whole VN haha, I enjoyed listening to it a lot while I was coding the story together <3
hey
Made my Halloween. A really nice spinoff to a great VN, plus I totally loved the final song. Yuzuki's soundtracks are the best.
The music is one of my favourite parts of this story, it's so good! Yuzuki did such a fantastic job, I had a lot of fun playtesting it myself just because I could listen to the music over and over haha
I'm glad you enjoyed it, thank you!
Hi! Just finished your game!
I really like the music at the end. The song is very nice! She have a really nice voice.
The art are very cute! Albeit only have a limited number of art compared to "Lonely"
The story get a bit repetitive (but I get that it's the whole point) of Medea just waiting for Rosette.
To be honest, I didn't recognize her face at all when the twisted is coming. Both Medea and Rosette.
And the winner of this toxic lesbian magical showdown is Rosette as a revenge to Medea.
Now I wonder, will you continue this serie about this couple? Or your plan for the new story?
This story contains less art than Lonely because it's shorter and has fewer characters so I didn't think it needed more CGs.
I'm not sure if I'll write more about these characters, I'm leaning towards probably not. And I've written a large number of stories featuring a lot of other characters already, you can find them if you check my Itchio or Steam developer accounts.
I'll continue to follow you and your work forward. Can I ask if you can recommend me any of your yuri work with lighthearted, romance, and drama-free to me?
I really love your game!
You can find all of my yuri VNs on Itchio here!
If you only want free VNs, then Winter Fragments and Shut-in Vampire are probably good picks. They're both free yuri VNs which are very cute and light-hearted without much drama.
If you're alright with commercial stories, The Fairy's Song or My Dear Prince would be good (The Fairy's Song is one of my fav yuri VNs I've written so I'm a bit biased towards it haha)
Really liked this! I really am easy game for evil lesbians.
But, I'm sort of a sucker for good, or at least hopeful endings, and I really liked the good ending for Lonely, it's kinda disheartening to see Rosette coming out the other side not being the strong independent gayboss I chose to interpret her being afterwords 😭
Thank you for the feedback, I apologise if the story didn't go the direction that you wanted.
Oh! Please don't misinterpret! I didn't mean to say I thought it was bad or that it should stick to my headcanon.
I would be impossible to adhere to everyone's preferences anyways.
Aha I'm glad it was still enjoyable despite that, I just hope it wasn't disappointing
Far from it!
Can i name the protagonist?😏
No, you can't.
lol it fine im still going to play since i love yuri😏😝
i hope you enjoy it!
I was looking forward to this ever since you started teasing it on Twitter and it did not disappoint! I am one of those who discovered your work through Lonely and this was a delightfully twisted follow-up. I don't want to spoil things here so I'll just say I loved how the story tied into Lonely in the end. What a beautiful, haunting ending sequence. I'm glad you made it! Happy Halloween~
Thank you very much! I'm glad you enjoyed it!
This VN was absolutely awesome. Short, but sweet. I love it as a sort of spin off to Lonely. I want more of these characters!! (But actually this is the perfect length, I just think selfishly want mooooreee haha) Once again, Ebi has provided gold to the toxic yuri fandom. I think I may have liked this more than Lonely, actually!
Thank you! You're very kind!