Until Then

Item: Until Then
Rating: 95
Author: VaporLens

Last updated: 2025-05-09

Summary

Compelling, emotionally resonant story.
Emotionally impactful soundtrack.
Visually stunning pixel art.
Highly immersive game world.
Well-developed, relatable characters.
Technical issues, lack polish.

Reviews (sample size): 2000
Helpful reviews: 59%
Unhelpful reviews: 41%
Protest reviews: 0%

95%
Helpful reviews with positive sentiment
5%
Helpful reviews with negative sentiment

Positive points: 3477
Negative points: 819
Gameplay points: 231
Perf. points: 41
Rec. points: 1138
Misc points: 149

Point	Description	Importance
Compelling, emotionally resonant story Description The game features a compelling and emotionally resonant story with unexpected twists, exploring themes of love, loss, grief, and acceptance. Reviewers found the narrative to be deeply moving, often leading to tears and prompting reflection on their own lives and relationships. Importance 95%	The game features a compelling and emotionally resonant story with unexpected twists, exploring themes of love, loss, grief, and acceptance. Reviewers found the narrative to be deeply moving, often leading to tears and prompting reflection on their own lives and relationships.	95%
Emotionally impactful soundtrack Description The game's soundtrack, often featuring piano compositions, is consistently praised for its emotional depth and ability to enhance the narrative. Reviewers noted that the music elevates the impact of key scenes and creates a strong connection with the characters and their experiences. Importance 85%	The game's soundtrack, often featuring piano compositions, is consistently praised for its emotional depth and ability to enhance the narrative. Reviewers noted that the music elevates the impact of key scenes and creates a strong connection with the characters and their experiences.	85%
Visually stunning pixel art Description The game features beautiful and detailed pixel art, often blended with 3D environments, creating a unique and immersive visual experience. Reviewers praised the art style for its expressiveness and ability to convey emotions effectively, with detailed animations and cinematic camera work enhancing the storytelling. Importance 83%	The game features beautiful and detailed pixel art, often blended with 3D environments, creating a unique and immersive visual experience. Reviewers praised the art style for its expressiveness and ability to convey emotions effectively, with detailed animations and cinematic camera work enhancing the storytelling.	83%
Highly immersive game world Description The game creates a strong sense of immersion through detailed environments, realistic ambient sounds, and subtle visual cues. Reviewers felt fully engrossed in the game world, with every detail contributing to a believable and engaging experience. Importance 77%	The game creates a strong sense of immersion through detailed environments, realistic ambient sounds, and subtle visual cues. Reviewers felt fully engrossed in the game world, with every detail contributing to a believable and engaging experience.	77%
Explores profound, relatable themes Description The game explores profound themes such as grief, loss, acceptance, and the importance of human connection, prompting introspection and offering valuable life lessons. Reviewers found the game to be a transformative experience that changed their perspective on life and relationships. Importance 23%	The game explores profound themes such as grief, loss, acceptance, and the importance of human connection, prompting introspection and offering valuable life lessons. Reviewers found the game to be a transformative experience that changed their perspective on life and relationships.	23%
Well-developed, relatable characters Description The game features well-developed and relatable characters with distinct personalities, backstories, and motivations, making them feel like real people. Reviewers expressed a strong emotional connection to the characters, praising their realistic flaws and growth throughout the story. Importance 22%	The game features well-developed and relatable characters with distinct personalities, backstories, and motivations, making them feel like real people. Reviewers expressed a strong emotional connection to the characters, praising their realistic flaws and growth throughout the story.	22%
Engaging gameplay, high replayability Description The game offers a variety of engaging gameplay elements, including fun mini-games, a realistic messaging system, and multiple endings that encourage replayability. Reviewers were surprised by the amount of content and the unexpected twists that kept them hooked throughout the experience. Importance 17%	The game offers a variety of engaging gameplay elements, including fun mini-games, a realistic messaging system, and multiple endings that encourage replayability. Reviewers were surprised by the amount of content and the unexpected twists that kept them hooked throughout the experience.	17%
Authentic Filipino cultural representation Description The game incorporates Filipino culture through familiar locations, cultural references, and the use of Tagalog, enhancing relatability and immersion for Filipino players. Reviewers appreciated the authentic portrayal of Filipino life and the sense of nostalgia it evoked. Importance 6%	The game incorporates Filipino culture through familiar locations, cultural references, and the use of Tagalog, enhancing relatability and immersion for Filipino players. Reviewers appreciated the authentic portrayal of Filipino life and the sense of nostalgia it evoked.	6%