The Compliant/听话的人

Free to download until September 30. Feedback is welcome—especially on story reception, visuals, adaptation suggestions, English translation errors, text typos, and flow / progression issues. Leave a comment here or email yu_dong_han@hotmail.com.

Story Synopsis

A dark, realist visual novel that takes on a range of contemporary issues. While job-hunting, Lin Zhi finds a strange posting: all he has to do is click—or not click—a giant red button. The person who greets him goes by a number and feels more like a machine than a human being. The deeper he goes into the work at Sabo Group, the stranger it becomes; the building itself seems to hide many secrets. Days later he meets his colleagues—each with their own agenda, each with a reason for being here. As the test deepens, rivalry among them grows sharper. How do you survive in this workplace? How do you earn an audience with the CEO? How do you find the girlfriend you’ve lost? Those choices are yours.

Features

• Themes that push on resistance to authority, alienation, workplace collaboration, and what it means to be human
• 15 distinct endings, 13 varied characters, and dozens of clues woven into the story
• A unique dark realist look, with music and sound that lean into the uncanny
• Multiple interactive systems: click challenges, voting, maze exploration, and more
• Roughly 50,000 Chinese characters; a main path takes about two hours, and unlocking every ending takes longer