High School Revenge (WIP) (Chapter 4 OUT, +182k words, Nov 30, 2025)

[Sucof]

@angi

The creep reveal at the end felt kind of abrupt, though, in my case. I didn’t do the grand reveal, and all but one of my subtle plans came way before the dance. Haley said she dipped when “things went crazy”, which felt unwarranted because they really didn’t.

Yeah, it seems I messed this up for most of the dates. With Isaac, Cecily, Angela, and Marcus you get a whole sequence of them talking to the police for no apparent reason. Will fix and update this today.

@LilPaixao

Well, a suggestion here. Maybe we can have a reference or suggestion to the date going wrong with Connor? I remember standing up and going away and the next day, in the band rehearsal, everything was good, not even a comment about it. Just thought it was cool if maybe he apologized again and looked guilty or something else.

Great suggestion, will likely add it one of these days haha

@KageX

On a sidenote are all the male characters romanceable with a MaleMC?

Yep. Though some of them are harder to achieve than others.

@Ph.Ray

I have a question though, can we only discover one secret of one person in this chapter ?

2, one for Connor and one for Michael. But don’t worry if you didn’t get them, you will have a lot more chances in the next chapter as you get more time to get even more events.

@fsix

There’s no actions MC could be taking towards this goal

I think I alluded to the fact that the revenge plans will also help in getting answers. But yeah, the answers front is more about slowly getting to know them and getting hints. Next chapter we should be able to reveal at least one secret for each of the targets and also confront Olivia/Dylan, so it should help more on that front as well. It should also help with the people that, for some reason, want to completely reveal who they are? Still confused about that from a roleplaying point of view, but we’ll also probably have out first bad end next chapter.

@fsix

they have nothing to do with finding out more about the Tragedy

Connor’s is actually relevant regarding answers

[LilPaixao]

@KageX

Also does anyone know why there are two different ways Connor kisses you during the Kissing booth?

I’m guessing that maybe it’s based on your romance variable? If you make things only platonic you get the “friendly kiss”.

[LilPaixao]

@fsix

let’s just say there are certain character tropes which tap into that combinations of traits

Ohhhh, maybe a Yandere Haley? If so, Adrien is very inspired by those ‘dere’ tropes, with Tsundere Cecily too, lol

[fsix]

@Sucof

Connor’s is actually relevant regarding answers

Hmm but “Connor is in love with Vivian” doesn’t really shed any light on how the Tragedy came to be, no…? I mean, doubt that applied back when all those kids were 11-year-olds or at least there isn’t any indication of it.

I imagine it might be relevant if the MC tries to use it as a blackmail material or something, but… idk, it kinda feels both like something not all answer-seeking MCs might want to do, plus, blackmailing a guy just so he tells you something about the Creep event, that’s basically admission that MC is the Creep (otherwise, why would they care so much) i.e. not a very smart move

[fsix]

@KageX

Also does anyone know why there are two different ways Connor kisses you during the Kissing booth?

It depends on how MC interacted with Connor up to that point

          *if (((connor_fling >= 8) or (connor_fling <= 2)) or (connor_romance >= 1))

although there might be a potential issue here. @Sucof i don’t know if this is intentional or oversight, but there is currently no way in the game to increase connor_romance at all, so that part of the check is basically pointless…? Unless the game is going to receive some more of the first month content down the road, one that’d allow it.

[KageX]

Will there be ways to lower the discovery meters of the targets? Like fighting or being confrontational when in the past you were not confrontational. Or even an increase of popularity, or your actions and words?

[LilPaixao]

Heyyyy. Sooo I found a bug, well, I suppose it’s a bug. When we are talking with Marcus In the restaurant that Haley and Isaac are also eating, he doesn’t get to explain what he found. When we switch pages to the place where Marcus would tell us what he researched, the game just jumps to the MC on their office, planning what to do the next week.

[fsix]

Marcus’s report is just a plot red herring/excuse for MC to show up at the place where they run into Isaac & Haley so you can interact with them and eavesdrop on some bits of their secret(s) and potentially gain some relationship points. So it’s not a bug per se, the game simply fast forwards and skips through something that has no impact on the story.

[LilPaixao]

Ohhhh, got it. So he has something to say, but isn’t relevant and this part of the story just wants to show the interaction with the twins. Understood, but maybe it could be rewritten to make at least he say something? The way it is I think other people would get confused, like I did.

[Lys]

Came across this WIP and I have to say I’m really enjoying it. I’m still exploring it, but won’t deny that my main MC is in retribution mode.

Also I have to say that I enjoy Burt and Angela. If you date them, and progresses further, maybe they might sense a hesitation on the player’s part, sort of like “even my best friends betrayed me, and you might to.”

For that matter, I hope there are further opportunities to like give them a gift, or what have you.

And I won’t deny the few times I interacted with Helen, I liked her. It would have been interesting to take her to the dance. Heh, if you go full grand plan you could convince her it is the start of a horror movie.

[LilPaixao]

Yeahhh, Helen seems like a really cool character, it would be interesting, like you said, if she, in the future, has more apparitions and maybe evolve to a full blown character

[Lys]

Also this looks like it might be a misplacement. If you picked ‘detect lies’ and get to Vivian:

Original:

“I hate my parents.”

“I love Michael more than any guy I’ve ever dated.”

That part is a lie.

“And Mr. Gibbs flirted with me.”

That’s also a lie. Either she doesn’t know the rules or she’s ignoring them on purpose.

So, she does hate her parents. Interesting.[/quote]

I think you want the ‘So she does hate her parents” right after the parents line. It seems a bit out of place coming after the Gibbs bit.

Also, near the character creation:

I also think you meant for the martial art skill to show up here in this sentence. That ‘2’ I think was meant for Krav Maga.

Original:

By spending a week on intensive training, you can gain a basic level in a skill you currently have no knowledge of. You’d become a… novice, as your 2 master used to say…

I think there is a spacing issue with this line. It goes down a line after the comma and sip.

Isaac opens the bottle and takes a healthy swallow before handing it to Vivian. She drinks a normal sip,

then sets the bottle on the grass.

Also for a consistency, you may want to change . If you choose the ‘detect lies ability’ you can call Isaac out, saying it is ‘all true.’ Then you have (this happens if you also choose Vivan’s lie about Gibb or Loving Michael.)

Isaac takes a swallow, then hands the bottle around. Everyone drinks. Except Cecily, of course.

Vivian leans in to whisper, “Sorry about Isaac. He’s picking on you because you’re the outsider. None of the stuff he said was actually true.”

Since you already figured out the truth, and Isaac confirms it, then Vivian adding to it makes her seem a tad odd.

I do want to add it was a great touch if you told about her parents later, and then Vivian calling the player a mind reader. I think not including the ‘mind reader’ for the other two responses is good because if Vivian says the ‘mind reader thing’ then logically your other answers makes her look bad.

Another spacing issue: It should be one sentence after ‘booth,’ and the “do you really” should be “Do you really”

“Hey, Rory,” you say, stepping closer to the booth,

“do you really want Olivia to think you’re the biggest loser she’s ever met?”

Original:

“In the sequel, Love Love Fantasy 2: The Rerun, there was this random maze puzzle section.” “It was a dating sim. Why did it have a complicated maze puzzle at all?”

Suggestion: You have two sentences when I think one would work especially with the quotes: for example:

…there was this random maze puzzle section. It was a dating sim

Another spacing thing if you go with Isaac:

The girl blinks against a wall of phone lights, the nearest kids lifting cameras like spotlights. The whole school, and anyone they forward this to, will see what happens next. Just when it looks like she might turn and leave, she moves in and

throws her arms around Isaac, kissing him on the mouth.

[fsix]

@Lys

I think you want the ‘So she does hate her parents” right after the parents line. It seems a bit out of place coming after the Gibbs bit.

I believe it makes sense, in a round-about way – the MC fails to detect with certainty if the first statement is true or a lie, so they deduce it is truth after they detect that Vivian lied about the other two things, since the game requires some statements out of three to be true. Although the fact Vivian bends these rules makes it bit more messy.

[Lys]

@fsix

I believe it makes sense, in a round-about way – the MC fails to detect with certainty if the first statement is true or a lie, so they deduce it is truth after they detect that Vivian lied about the other two things, since the game requires some statements out of three to be true. Although the fact Vivian bends these rules makes it bit more messy.

If the writer does it this way, it’s cool. One thing I won’t mess with is if something is intentional. Just with the way things were spaced, I didn’t think it was. It’s been a while since I playtested much of anything, but I did try to go for completeness when I do.

@LilPaixao

Yeahhh, Helen seems like a really cool character, it would be interesting, like you said, if she, in the future, has more apparitions and maybe evolve to a full blown character

Definitely. If nothing else, I hope we get a chance to also do something nice to some of the others like Marcus or Angela…even if done remotely.

Anyways, there is one final thing. It is possible for the baseball game to end in a tie. The text says the Rourke High won. If you don’t want to deal with the headache of a tie, then you might include a little bit of text that says another run was scored in an extra inning or something.

In my last playthrough this happened. The last inning gets to see both teams score a run, with cheers from both sides of the crowd. Now, with the final whistle, everyone stares at the scoreboard.

6-6.

Yep, the Rourke High Sharks have won the homecoming game! Was there ever any doubt?

[Dragonlord943]

@Lys

Anyways, there is one final thing. It is possible for the baseball game to end in a tie. The text says the Rourke High won. If you don’t want to deal with the headache of a tie, then you might include a little bit of text that says another run was scored in an extra inning or something.

Now I don’t know sports, but I think the rule is that if the teams tie, then the home team gets priority and wins the game.

[Lys]

@Dragonlord943

Now I don’t know sports, but I think the rule is that if the teams tie, then the home team gets it priority and wins the game.

It could be, so it might be good to include that as a small tidbit in case someone doesn’t know the reason.

[Sucof]

Monthly Progress Update - Dec 2025

Hello! Merry Christmas / happy holidays! Back again with another monthly update. I’ve spent most of the month fixing bugs and optimizing stats, while also taking in all the feedback you’ve been sending.

That said, since this is probably the last update I’ll do to the public demo for a good while, I decided to finally finish it off properly. Yes, for the people who saw the teasers, you can now sleep with two of the ROs at the end of Chapter 4! The WIP warning is completely gone from the demo. Writing intimate scenes can be a bit weird, so if anything feels off, reads awkward, or just straight-up doesn’t make sense, please mention it so I can improve them.

Anyway, 2026 is going to be all about Chapter 5. I’ve already set up the files and the chapter title, so it looks like Halloween is coming for the people in High School Revenge. I’ve taken the feedback to heart, and one of the first things I’ll tackle is finally moving things forward on the answers front too. I’ve stalled long enough on that plotline. Next year, you’ll all finally find out why Dylan and Olivia did what they did. And hopefully it’ll be as interesting as I’ve been imagining it.

Cheers, happy holidays, and see you next year!

[Just_browsing]

@Lys

Also I have to say that I enjoy Burt and Angela. If you date them, and progresses further, maybe they might sense a hesitation on the player’s part, sort of like “even my best friends betrayed me, and you might to.”

Honestly the idea of MC becoming increasingly unhinged but then going “Oh my God! It’s my besties Marcus and Angela hiii!!!” whenever they see them is hilarious.

Like Mother like Offspring eh?

@Lys

And I won’t deny the few times I interacted with Helen, I liked her. It would have been interesting to take her to the dance. Heh, if you go full grand plan you could convince her it is the start of a horror movie.

MC watching in horror as Helen starts coming up with “feedback” for the “movie” (her plans are 10x more devious)

[fsix]

A minor bug in the new part:

    *if olivia_sex < 4
      Well… that just happened.
      *if (sex_experience >= 3)
        *set sex_experience 2
        You’re not a virgin anymore. And it happened with your childhood best friend.

The change to MC’s sex experience and associated remark should have additional check and only happen if olivia_sex = 3 since this is the only variant where she and MC actually have sex.

I guess if one wanted to be technical, then less experienced MCs could also get the experience variable changed to 3 if they’ve opted for the “tease” option. On this note, the clueless MC’s should probably have it also updated during/after the party, if they kissed their date which might be potentially also the first for them.

Also also, the scene with Isaac could probably use the same variable change(s) and acknowledgement, given that can also be MC’s first time experience in one way or another.

Regarding the scenes themselves, i don’t have any useful criticism to offer – the writing happens to hit very closely to my personal preference for painting a picture that isn’t completely explicit, but close enough to get a good idea of things, and i also appreciate getting more than one option how far to take things. Thank you very much, it was a delightful xmas gift :v

[Snowflower]

Will you still ask for stat sheets at endgame/events triggered?