Forgetting

Editorial Meh

Forgetting is a romance/slice-of-life visual novel currently covering its first two weeks of story, and the community conversation around it is dominated almost entirely by a single early writing decision: the original version of Amy, the main love interest, had a sexual history with all of the MC's best friends and was in an active FWB arrangement with one of them. That backstory proved deeply divisive — players on vanilla/harem paths found it a dealbreaker, while others wanted more content in that direction — and the developer has since rewritten Amy's intro to remove those elements entirely, which the players who stuck around describe as a night-and-day improvement. Beyond the Amy situation, reviewers note genuinely affecting emotional moments, decent facial expressions for a Ren'Py project, and promising LI variety, but also flag that the MC talks too openly about his sex life, the friend group (particularly Matt) can feel grating, and the phone-based UI is clunky and click-heavy. As a current build, this is firmly mid-development: only two weeks of content exist, animations are described as average with occasional jank, music is sparse, and the rewritten intro is acknowledged by the developer to be somewhat rough around the edges. The game is still finding its footing both in terms of polish and in clearly communicating which content paths exist for which audience. If the rewritten version sounds appealing, it may be worth a look, but expectations should be set for a work-in-progress rather than a finished product.