In the Rearview
What happens when you're forced to share a car ride home with someone you never thought you'd see again?
Join Iris and Leo, old university classmates, on an unexpected road trip back to their city after a mutual friend’s wedding. What begins as an awkward ride evolves into a heartfelt journey of reconnection, vulnerability, and rediscovery. Through witty banter, shared memories, and deep conversations, Iris and Leo confront the past while deciding if they can move forward, together or apart.
Features
- A Story-Driven Journey: Explore a heartfelt narrative about self-discovery, past mistakes, and the complexities of relationships.
- Meaningful Choices: Play as Iris and shape her journey with Leo with decisions that influence their connection and unlock three possible endings.
- Immersive Atmosphere: Experience a cozy night drive with an emotive soundtrack, dynamic dialogue, and relatable characters.
- Co-Pilot Duties: Pick the perfect road trip tunes to set the tone of each act.
Will this be just another car ride or the start of something more? Hop in and find out.
Credits
Developed with Ren’py
Background and character art drawn with Procreate
Stock and marketing images: Canva
Sounds/music: freesound_community, Aleksandar Nikolic (dbsound), ArtManzh, INPLUSMUSIC, aansari8282, John Tramp (tramp963), LofCosmos, SoulProdMusic
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Development log
- Now available to play in-browser!44 days ago
- In the Rearview now released!64 days ago
Comments
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What a cute and cozy game. You did such a good job with the choice of music and the illustrations.
The game resonated so much with me, as someone who is probably of a similar age as Leo and Iris 😅
Will definitely replay to try to get all the endings. I got the romantic one on my first play through, but what if I let Leo pick the music 😂
Looking forward to any updates or future games!
Dude your Pixabay search went waaaaaay nicer than mine did months ago, what did you type in? 😆 I had to immediately open up the credits and see where the menu music came from.
It was a really sweet story. I like the simple but crucial attention to the background, made it loads more immersive. 🥰 It's just characters sharing their feelings and I eat that stuff up.
I imagine I got a neutral ending and I want the others. Or at least the best one. 🥺 I wonder how many tries it'll take...
Thanks!! I definitely got into the Pixabay search 😆. I think I searched different variations of night, night drive, emotional, romantic, etc. But the menu music is my absolute favourite, it was a lucky find.
Glad you liked the story! I might try to get a walkthrough up later. But the simplest way to get the romantic ending is to choose the first (playful) options always until you get to the part Iris shares about her ex, then choose to open up fully (3rd option). Then for Iris’ confession, choose the 2nd option. But there are many ways to get it as long you get the right amount of points so it shouldn’t take too many tries really 😅.
The game is really great!! :) The dialogues and the way the story is told are really good!
The characters are really cool too! I think it was easy to "feel" for them (I'm sorry its weirdly worded but I'm not great at english, I'm french lmao), Leo seem very sweet and he reminded me one of my old friend ((light spoilers?)the way he always joke and isn't being taken seriously because of it) and it was easy to relate to Iris because of some experiences/relationships I had before soo...
Yeah I don't know where I'm going with this but the thing to remember from my comment is that the game is great!!
Yay thank you for playing!! I'm so glad you liked the game and found the characters relatable :)