Entre Laços e Amassos

About

A visual novel following a 19-year-old woman’s chaotic spiral after moving to a city for fresh starts. She balances a dead-end retail job and cramped living conditions while chasing a music career that never takes off. A festival trip turns disastrous when she walks out of a lackluster performance and triggers a chain of blunders, losing her job, her apartment, and ending up stranded on a farm with a smug, country-singing cowboy type. Players navigate dialogue choices that shape her downfall, blending deadpan humor with fish-out-of-water absurdity. The game stands out for its self-aware take on millennial struggles and clumsy misadventures. With over 100 decision points, it leans into the protagonist’s misplaced confidence and the Agroboy’s grating charm. Community reviews note its snappy writing and how the escalating disasters feel both ridiculous and oddly relatable. Released in 2022, it’s a bite-sized, mobile-friendly mess that runs on PC and phones.

Storyline

The Protagonist is a 19-year-old girl who is looking to find a direction for her life. From a young age, she is passionate about music, however, her "talent" leaves something to be desired. For these and other reasons, she has moved to a big city, which has many possibilities for her to grow up and has been living in a small one-room apartment while working in a department store. After a tiring day at work, she decides to go to a festival that takes place annually in several cities in the state, mainly in the capital, popularly called "Pecuária" or "Expô-Goiânia". This festival brings together an amusement park, typical food stalls, cattle exhibitions and the main one, shows by famous country singers. After being completely disappointed that the show's singer uses playback, our protagonist decides to leave, which is her worst decision of the night. Many misunderstandings and small disasters happen one after the other and leave her without a job, housing and trapped inside the farm of a cocky country singer.