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“Shut-in Yoshio finds purpose through an AI game where virtual villagers seem startlingly real.”
The NPCs in this Village Sim Game Must Be Real!
村づくりゲームのNPCが生身の人間としか思えない
7.72
1,830 rank · 11,295 readers · 119 favorites
Fantasy
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Synopsis
Shut-in Yoshio finds purpose through an AI game where virtual villagers seem startlingly real.
Yoshio is a thirty-year-old shut-in with no job and no prospects, still living at home after all these years. His mundane life is suddenly interrupted when he receives a copy of "The Village of Fate," an experimental game with graphics and A.I. like nothing he's ever seen before. In the game, he takes on the role of a guardian deity who watches over the people of a new village...but he finds that the game characters are so intelligent, so reactive, so human that he starts to wonder if they might somehow be real people. Through his connection to their strangely vivid lives, Yoshio begins to discover the brightness that had been missing from his own existence. (Source: Seven Seas Entertainment)
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 7 sampled reviews
8.0
/10
What 7 readers settled on.
100%
recommend
Score distribution
median 8
mode 8
σ 1.20
Agreement
Mostly aligned
σ 1.20 · some divergence
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Not enough recommend signal yet
Score over time
↑ 1.00
Running avg · Jan 2021 → Oct 2024
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 9 “I won't go into too many details, but I personally really recommend this manga! Despite the long a*s title, and the typical shut-in mc, the character development in this story is top-notch. If you...”
- 7 “This manga is pretty good. It follow the same setting as a sandbox/worldbuilding game but with a focus on character development. Although you are building a world, the well being of individuals is...”
- 8 “8.5/10 I love this manga. Not for the typical reasons like revenge p8rn or action, but because of the character development the mc undergoes. It’s hard to put in words, but he’s a lowlife prior to...”
Verbosity
Short · 43%
Medium · 43%
Long · 14%
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A Manga Publication
- Format 30 × 6 ch × vol
- Total read 4h 00m approx
- Published Nov 2019 – Mar 2023
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M51824 catalog