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Raise five sentient digital creatures in a computer program as a cute pixel-art visual novel unfolds into horror.
Released 26 Dec 2024
Raise Five Winions
Read Daily Stories
Explore 3D Computer Spaces
Winion Virus is a pixel-art visual novel horror game. It features adorable and charming graphics paired with a dark fairy-tale story full of unexpected twists. As a point-and-click adventure, your task is to fix the errors occurring within the computer.
Developed by Dawntown Studio · Published by Dawntown Studio
You play as a computer user who installs an illegal program to raise Winions: five small digital beings with their own personalities and emotions. Their everyday life begins in a bright, pixel-art world, while irregularities in the computer hint that things are not as they seem.
The story moves forward as you log in to see each day's events, click through dialogue, and explore the program interface. Optional conversations let you hear more from the Winions, while saving advances the story to the next day.
Most of the game is a visual novel, with occasional first-person 3D exploration and chase sections. These segments add hands-on problem solving to the story, which follows a largely linear path with limited meaningful choices.
Players who enjoyed the game often point to its emotional story and the distinct personalities of the five Winions, saying those characters make the shift from cute daily scenes to horror especially affecting. Reviews also praise the pixel-art presentation and the way the computer-program setting is worked into the storytelling. Some players, however, found the limited choices frustrating or the graphic scenes and 3D sections difficult to handle.
Winion is a data-type creature that lives in a digital environment.
They can think themselves and can feel emotions such as happiness and depression like humans.
In modern society, Winion is recognized as an important creature and classified as a living thing.
The country strictly manages and protects Winion, and Little Winion grows safely in the [Winion Repository].
Adult Winion is assigned various roles and works.
Therefore, it is illegal for an individual to raise Winion.
Ah. Then you've come to the right place.
You can also raise Little Winion here.
5 Winions with unique personalities
Unique Winions depicted in cute pixel graphics await you!
Cruel Fairy Tale Story
If you purchase the illegal program [Raising Winions], you will be caught up in a shocking and cruel story.
Experience the twist story hidden behind the lovely graphics yourself.
A perfect harmony of 2D and 3D
Immerse yourself in 3D games and work together with Minions to solve problems in the story!
Something familiar in the meadow.
A bug that occurs in the computer...
Actually, it's not a simple system error.
| Platforms | Windows, macOS |
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| Controller required | No |
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