Free anime-style visual novel
Everlasting Summer is a free visual novel and dating sim game developed by Soviet Games with an anime Russian theme style. The game offers you to investigate Sovionok, a mysterious summer pioneer camp where the protagonist wakes up one day after falling asleep on the bus. For more similar free Android games, you can try Vampire Slave, Dawn Chorus or Stillwater.
Everlasting Summer's primary qualities are its story and setting, which are both unusual and intriguing, making you want to learn more about the universe depicted. While it has a minimalistic design, the game will keep you intrigued.
Everlasting Summer is mainly about the story, and this seven hours-long story is halfway between a mystery your character will have to solve and a teenage romance. You start the game as a nobody. Someone who falls asleep on the bus during the winter, and mysteriously wakes up in a summer camp with other characters, each with their own personality.
Story
Visual presentation and sounds
The game adopts an anime style, with 2D characters and backgrounds. It's minimalistic, but it works well and offers an original contrast with the soviet theme offered by the settings and storyline. The sound design is also essential in immersing you. There are no recorded dialogues, but the sound effects and music help you feel the tone of the scenes described.
Gameplay
Everlasting Summer doesn't offer a lot of gameplay because the focus is put on following the story and reading dialogues. However, you'll have to perform actions occasionally and make choices to progress.
The game will ask you if you want to reply or follow a character from time to time. This can unlock additional mini-games like a card game, and making the right decisions is essential to completing the game 100%.
Mystery solving dating sim
Everlasting Summer mixes the fun and light-hearted characters of dating sims and anime with a more serious mystery surrounding a Soviet pioneer camp, which is unusual but works surprisingly well if you enjoy the storytelling.
You’ll enjoy the basic design elements that don’t distract from the story. The gameplay is easy, and you’ll quickly progress through the chapters.
