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Love Begins With Goodbye

PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2025

Should you play it?

As a male exchange student at Norway's University of Bergen, you live with three girls: Chinese student Luo Xue'er, mysterious landlady Laya, and Inora, a Norwegian learning Chinese. Weave your love story with them over six months, starting from a "goodbye."

What works
  • Immersive and emotionally rich romance storylines
  • Beautiful norwegian setting and cultural integration
  • High-quality music and cinematic visuals
  • Multiple branching endings encouraging replay
  • Strong character development and acting
Things to keep in mind
  • Simple and limited gameplay mechanics
  • Some technical issues and abrupt scene transitions
  • Repetitive scenes and minor narrative inconsistencies
  • Limited interactivity and strategic depth
  • Short overall playtime per route

What to play next

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Hidden Gems

Less popular games with surprisingly high similarity

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  • A Story Beside

  • AIR
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Love Begins With Goodbye: Broadly representative of its motivational profile, with a few distinct shifts. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Strategy, Survival, Violence, Competence. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Intimacy, Fellowship, Continuation.

Why this game works

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