Ever since Steam started allowing budget Anime ‘visual novels’ onto their storefront, it’s become about a thousand times more difficult to actually find a video game on there that’s worth playing. Thanks to Carpe Diem, you can now get a crash course in the genre and come away with complete metaphysical certitude that the genre is indeed best avoided at all costs, in about 15 minutes, and all for the low, low price of zero dollars. Impossibly, Carpe Diem manages to simultaneously mock and embody all of the reasons that visuals novels are not legitimate video games. If you only play one ‘visual novel’ in your lifetime, make it this one, and then never look back.
