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About this game

Vampires & Capitalism

Living is Expensive… is a card game visual novel about minimum wage vampires.

(33% card game, 66% visual novel, 1% lost to inflation).

Game Features

  • Working 9-5

  • Burnout

  • Expensive Cost of Living

  • Crushing weight of modern work on human psyche.

  • Super Awesome Visual Novel with 2 Happy Endings!

Characters

Game media

Your boss. Works 24 hours a day.

Will cure your poverty virus with money.

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Your colleague. Introverted... No energy for work...

Can’t find the meaning of life.

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Your manager. Funny vampire :3

Wink! (^_<)

Story

Work Work Work Work Work

Gameplay

Defeat Primrose-sama's sleep deprivation monsters before they become real. 💤

Select the monster cards to attack. Get more cards and craft runes to become overpowered. 💥

Work–Life Balance

Overworking is unhealthy. Probably. I guess. Maybe. 😓

You should find something meaningful to do other than work. (Like playing this game? 🥺👉👈) 

After all, what’s the point of all work... if we never have fun, never enjoy life, never truly live? ( •◡<) -☆

TL;DR

Living is Expensive… is a short and funny visual novel you wouldn’t want to miss.

Game data provided by IGDB and Steam

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