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Eternal Hour: Golden Hour

PC (Microsoft Windows), Linux, Mac • 2017

Should you play it?

Play through a timeless adventure as Yasu or Rin Fujimoto and discover the origins of Eternal Hour! Eternal Hour: Golden Hour is a fun, emotional, and story-driven Visual Novel that takes place before the events of Eternal Hour.

What works
  • Free to play
  • Beautiful art and animation
  • Engaging romantic and supernatural story
  • Voice acting
  • Relaxing music
Things to keep in mind
  • Short length
  • Some voice acting inconsistent
  • Limited gameplay depth
  • Some story pacing issues
  • Lack of character customization

What to play next

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Each dot is a game. They are arranged from the same motivation profile as in the “Why this game works” section below. Closer dots usually mean more similar reasons to play (exploration, competition, relaxation, etc.)—not that one game is “better” than another.

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Why don’t the axes read like a score? This view uses t-SNE: it only keeps who is close to whom. The scales are not “good to bad” or hours played—they separate groups on the map. Read distance between dots, not the axis numbers (hidden on purpose).

Eternal Hour: Golden Hour: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Strategy, Experimenting, Competence, Survival. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Intimacy, Experimenting, Idle.

Why this game works

A motivational profile of the game, with the closest similar game for each player motivation.

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