Repurpose
A downloadable game for Windows, macOS, and Linux
Warning:
The following game contains
Strong language, sexual themes, references to death, mentions of police violence, discussions of gender and sexual identity, mild horror elements, mild violence, and is intended for mature audiences only.
Viewer discretion is advised!
About
You and several others have passed away.
Rather than being sent to Heaven or Hell, the powers that may be are unable to decide where you should go. You wake up in the Garden of Eden whose new home has been made in Limbo. You have three options: either take the trials to earn your place in Heaven, live it up in Hell, or remain lost in Limbo for eternity.
It's a lot to take in fresh off your deathbed... but maybe you can find peace along with your new friends in the afterlife.
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Repurpose is an LGBT+ positive dating sim about death, love, and finding your purpose. We offer the ability to play as the gender that suits you best be it cis, trans, or anything else on this beautiful mess of a spectrum! The cast of REP are all in some capacity queer from their sexuality and/or gender!
Features
- Ability to play as cis, trans, or various other genders with unique interactions based on it.
- Eccentric queer/LGBTQA+ characters
- Partial voice acting from a talented cast.
- 400K words of funny, dramatic, and touching story to go through.
- 60+ CGs, 100s of unique sprite work, and dozens of backgrounds. This game puts the VISUAL in visual novel!
- Catchy soundtrack
- Secrets that lie underneath the surface....
Credits
Game Director: ResidentRabbit
Head Writers: Sam Rose, ResidentRabbit
Programming: ResidentRabbit
Art: ResidentRabbit
Art Assistants: SweetTracky, techytech, HappyPaca
Backgrounds: TJ Lee, Sara Krebs, ResidentRabbit
Music: Tenshihanaka
Voice Direction: Chase Beck and Adrian Garcia
Voices:
- Kalei: Chase Beck
- Ramon: Adrian Garcia
- DJ Roadkill: Kim Gasiciel
- Mitts: Niko Vargas
- Rosita: Josey Porras
- Noel: John Patneaude
- Fayebael: Nina Sumter
- Cherubim(s): Nola Klop (Female/Rosita Ch3), Meli Grant (Ethos/Mitts Ch3), Jesse Nowack ( Male/Kalei Ch1
- Hordes: Adrian Garcia
- Dominion: Chase Beck
Socials/Support
Questions and Answers:
Q: Can I play this game for my youtube or twitch channel?
A: Of course! Just please provide a link to the itchio page for others to check out the game.
Q: What's this game's rating?
A: It's rated M for strong language, mature themes, and adult situations. There is no explicit nudity or graphic depictions of violence however so it is streamer friendly.
Q: How do I transfer saves to the newest version of the game if I don’t play through the itch app?
Step 1) Download the latest version of the game.
Step 2) Open the old version of the game you have where ever you saved it at (most likely in downloads,documents, or desktop) open the folder, go into the game folder and copy the "saves" folder.
Step 3) Open the latest version's folder, go into the game folder and paste the saves into that one. When you launch the game you'll be able to pick up where you left off!
Q: (Demo only) How do I unlock the last CG(s) in the gallery?
A: Do NOT give Hordes the keys, when at the bar encourage the fight, and join fight. The image is intentionally "black" but perhaps if the brightness was turned up a bit...
Purchase
In order to download this game you must purchase it at or above the minimum price of $8.24 USD. Your purchase comes with a Steam key. You will get access to the following files:
Download demo
Development log
- Repurpose Walk Throughs12 days ago
- Repurpose Part 2 Update Is Live!12 days ago
- Repurpose 1.024 Update notes (Happy Pride)Jun 21, 2023
- Merch Store Re-opened!Mar 08, 2023
- Patch notes for v1.017Feb 06, 2023
- Repurpose v1.016 patch notesJan 05, 2023
- Repurpose Part 1 Relase date!Nov 27, 2022
Comments
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Hello I brought this and can't find the steam key it says that there are none 😭.
hello! i added some more so try again now it should work!
Thank you so much it worked , Thank you again for a fast reply , take care and good karma
i REALLY want to buy this game on steam but the transaction has failed TWICE i hope i get my money back because i still dont have the game and my money still gone... but SOON i can romance them! hopefully!
Just finished Part 2, I think I'm obsessed now. That was better than I ever could have expected and I'm so hyped for Part 3 holy shit
Hello! i have a teensy problem, i bought the game yesterday after playing the demo which i enjoyed to the fullest but im struggling to try and romance faye, i dont know how to get onto her route and the guide did not help me at all, can someone help me here?
you have to get three good endings and go to the part in the prologue where it asks you where you want to go and a fourth option should be available
Gahh! thank you so much! i got through lucis path and cheris, cannot WAIT for pt 3!
happy to hear!!
kys faggot
Hey! I have a little issue with this game.
I played the demo on my mac and it worked perfectly fine, so I then purchased the full game on steam however now it doesn't run at all. I applied for a refund on steam, but I would still like to purchase and play. If I purchase it again on itch.io will it work? Since it worked for the demo, I really want to play this game but I'm not sure whether to give it up since it won't run on steam - Steam says it might not run due to it being a 32-bit game, but my other 32-bit games run so it may just be a glitch since the demo did work.
If I purchase it on itch.io and it still doesn't work am I eligible for a refund? Sorry, I don't use itch.io much.
Loved the game and story so far though! The art is gorgeous too.
hi there! Sorry you were having trouble on steam. Its worth a shot through itch and if its still not working you will be refunded!
Thank you so much for your support!
After i got refunded on steam, i tried to purchase it on itch but it kept taking the money out of my card but also not verifying my purchase then refunding me a couple of minutes later so I gave up, I went back to steam where it says it won’t run on any newer macbook software after the 10.15.7 Catalina (I have the 14.1.2 Sonoma), however it says that for all 32 bit games and they still work for me anyways except this one for some reason, so I tried to downgrade my software so it would be compatible with the game and even tried to install windows or bootcamp then repurchased the game again on steam but no luck. So I don’t there’s much we can do despite my attempts, but thank you anyways!
The demo was really well made and I look forward to one day playing this game if I ever have an opportunity to get a windows laptop or pc (シ_ _)シ
WOOOOHOOOO!!! part 2 was even more incredible than I expected!!! Part two was worth the wait and I can't wait to see what happens next!!
spoilers below lol
I am so excited for part 3 and I loved that Faye turned out to be Luci, it made me very happy that my prediction was right!! Also Hordes being Adam?!!?!? OMG?!?! I still have to play through all the endings but so far I am blown away by how the story is flushing out!!!!!
Are there even plans for a part 3? I haven't completed all the routes yet, so if it's mentioned that there's plans for a part 3 I just don't know it yet. But I don't really see a reason as to what a part 3 would contain at this point. Maybe to see Faye's route extended, but even that ending seems fairly shut and done even if it was fairly ambiguously open ended as to what would happen going forth on the good ending.
Although I'll admit, being thrown directly from Faye's route into the angel one (I only just started it) was kinda jarring, and left me disoriented due to just getting the the static effect, and going right into an altered prologue. With all three previous endings giving us the credit scrolls and then straight to menu, I was super confused as to what was going on. I get it makes sense, since it would otherwise be hard to integrate the angel into any other normal replays, with the whole 'them not being present beforehand' but a warning would be nice as to alleviate confusion. Even if it becomes obvious what happened fairly quickly, a warning right after the static animation would've been cool, since I almost went to restart since I thought something had gone wrong, which I suspect would've forced me to go through the entire Faye route again just to play the other storyline. Not my proudest moment I'll admit, but a risk that could've been totally avoided had there been just a brief and short message for the player to read, right before the altered prologue kicked off.
Edit: Still haven't finished Cheri's route yet, but I'll be honest. After finishing Faye's route, it feels... Kinda wrong. So far it seems like what happened with Faye did in fact happen, which to me, as someone who's frankly liked Faye's route the most out of all the ones I've played, feels kinda wrong if I'm being honest. It feels like it sorta cheapens what happened with Faye. All the other routes are isolated stories, as such I don't feel like they cheapen every other story, but if Faye knows about the relationship shared with the player, it just feels wrong with them then just ending up with Cheri. I'll come back with my further feelings once I finish the route, but so far it isn't looking good. Mind you, that doesn't mean Cheri's route is bad, it just doesn't cater to my taste if this is the path it ends up taking. And if that is the way it's going, then I'll still just consider Faye's story over and done with at her ending as my own canon, since I fell too much in love with her for the player to just end up with Cheri.
Edit: 2 Alright. Just finished it, and I'm feeling a little more on board with this path now, especially with a planned part 3. And being able to say no to go to Heaven Home, and stay in Limbo like Faye asks of you, gives me hope that at the end of this journey, we'll still be able to choose to stay with Faye, even if the path is technically still called Cheri. Or I guess it's not called Cheri anymore since I did get the good end for Cheri, which does suggest that it's the end of her path and we'll be able to pick which path to go down on once part 3 is out. I sure do hope so, because while I do adore all of the female, agender, and bigender cast, Faye is absolutely my favorite out of the bunch. Especially the little extra person who's along for the ride on her path.
I do apologize for my excessive post here, I'll freely admit that I've enjoyed being able to get my thoughts down 'on paper' so to speak as I went along. For what it's worth, I did love every bit of this game that I played, and it was totally worth the asking price for the game, if not more if I'm being honest. I'd certainly have been happy to pay more for the game than I did, because this was absolutely a ride worth enjoying. And hell, I'll even go so far as to say that I was almost brought to tears multiple times along the way, which I frankly didn't expect based on when I originally played the demo back in the day while the Kickstarter was still happening. Back then the demo, while still looking damn fine, didn't look like it would take itself as serious as the finished product would eventually turn out to be. As I've now been proven thoroughly wrong about over my last what? 12 hour binge? So kudos on making a fantastic game, that not only managed to be incredibly entertaining, but to also break any and all expectations I had about the game going into the full release.
I just finished Feyes route and I loved it so much, a lot more than I thought I would,,, like... a LOT LOT more than I thought I would.
lmao i just figured out bar could be used as a word meaning to prevent someone or smt i gotta brush up on my vocab or something :0
if you dont mind me asking, how do i do her route? ive been trying for hours and it just isnt working
we have a walk through on our page!
I'm not sure what I am doing wrong, I can't get the choice to seek out Faye. I completed all of the good endings before this, do I have to do the bad ends as well? Nevermind: I just had to reset everything and it works because my saves did not carry over.
I think it would be better if you could choose to go the Utopia or Hell at the start instead of having to go to Limbo
Its story important for the story to start in Limbo
But besides that, IT'S GREAt :)
I wish it was free cause I can't buy it T-T
I am not sure if I should report this here., but every single good ending I got has a rollback error in the line before the credits.
thanks for letting me know l'll look into it!!
This game is awesome! Is there a guide to getting all the different endings anywhere? I want to get all the endings so I can see the full story!
Additional question, what exactly is part 2? Apologies if you've answered this elsewhere, I couldn't find anything about it... Will it add more to the currently available routes, or just add the two new routes?
Not sure but it seem like it will release on Christmas eve so won't have to wait too long to find out.
They have a flowchart though I found it on a comment they reply to, here you go! https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1wqqu2ov9UBNzy1nZ2Poehvly8YPULHjJTVje3EcsAa8/...
Someone PLEASE tell me how to get Repurpose's soundtracks :'(. They sound SOOO GOOOD!
What a cool game. Do u guys have any walkthrough for this game?
Hi! Hopefully this is the place to report bugs... In the Prologue, the player characters will tell Mitts, Rosita and DJ "I'm nonbinary." I know this is supposed to match with what you chose in the begining because I played the demo and it worked there (I chose agender) but regardless of my choice in the full game, they'll still say "I'm nonbinary" instead of "I'm agender." :(
thanks for letting me know I'll correct that in a future update!
it’s made for web but I can’t play on anything other than pc because of the way the name is coded is this only meant for pc?
yes! The full game is meant to be played on PC or Mac. Only the web version is only the demo
Please fix the issues/bugs or my rating will stay a 1 star only and it's only got 1 star because I can't go lower than that!
Is this game done? Like fully or will there be more parts? If so do we have to pay for each part? Ive played the demo and loved it but I just wanna make sure its in my price range!
The base game (the 6 main characters routes)is 'done' but a second part/expansion is being worked on include two more routes to answer any and all lingering questions! The update will be free to anyone who owns the game but we plan on increasing the game's price a little bit once we release the additional stories.
Awsome! Im buying it rn!
i am so excited for when part 2 comes out i love this game so much
Is the game fully voiced?
only partially!
hi there! uh i was wondering why it tells me windows protected my pc when i try to open the game? thanks in advance <3
its windows being overprotective. just run it anyway!
alrighty, thanks so much! i was excited to play this game so my paranoid ass was kinda bummed when it said that it protected my computer. hope there isnt any trouble. thanks again <3
it won't let me start can you tell me how to fix it?
heres two common solutions!
1) Hold shift while double clicking the exe icon. a grey window should open up up and under "Renderer" switch from "Automatically Choose" to one of the other options listed under there. additionally disabling the gamepad might also be solve the problem.
2) try placing the game's folder into the C: directory !
if neither of these work let me know!
When getting the good end to Mitts' route RenPy kicks out an error about a missing voiceline. I'm running the latest build at time of posting on Windows and I've got the stacktrace here on pastebin.
Lovely game though!
This game is basicaly for fatherless children
What is this even supposed to mean?
just warped bigot speak, categorizing missing parents as possibilities as to why someone would be gay or trans has no reason or statistics to back it up just brain rotted bigotry egged on by their own parents that brainwashed them. recycled useless nonsense by an ailed mind.
pls english
Did you make an account just to say this?
Happened to see this in the pride bundle and was drawn to the really cute style of it. I especially adore the smol ball of anger that is Noel XD But so far all characters I've seen so far (haven't played other routes just yet) seem really sweet and of course it's always nice seeing so much diversity <3
Def. makes me excited for the other routes and that there's apparently even going to be a second part if I read that right? Hell yeah!
Good job on this, def. a nice VN! <3
i didnt know i was gay till i saw mitts (is it gay if they now identify as a woman?)
If you're a man, no it's not gay to be attracted to a woman.
thank god
For some reason whenever I try to play the website version of this it keep giving me the same error whenever I try to play it, just informing you on this bug I found when I was trying to play it
Try playing it in a none google chrome browser. For what ever reason the web demo doesnt like being played with chrome. But is fine with other browsers like firefox or even microsoft edge.
Oh, thank you for telling me this!
i am on microsoft edge and it does not work
Thats because Microsoft Edge is basically Chrome, both uses Chromium try Firefox (its better anyways)
So, I recently bought this game after enjoying the demo, and I've been having a really good time! But something just happened to me that I feel strongly enough to kind of leave a warning here, in case it happens to anyone else. Without giving any details, I finished my fourth route a few hours ago. I guess I'd never fully gone through the credits or something, because a little developer message popped up afterwards asking who my favorite character was.
I have this sort of tradition where when I play a multi-route game I'll purposely play the route I'm most excited for last to end on the highest note possible. In this case, that route is Noel, who I was attached to literally the instant I saw their art on the page. And I have interacted with him in other routes so I can confidently say he is my favorite, so I picked him from the options thinking it was harmless.
It wasn't exactly harmless. The developer message started talking a bit about his route development, and then talked about what I'm assuming will be the biggest moment in his route, and I'm kind of crushed that I had experiencing that blind taken from me (though not maliciously of course!) I'm not mad at the devs or anything like that, it's just kind of upsetting.
TLDR; Be careful with that developer message after the credits and don't pick your favorite character there if you haven't done their route yet!
Thank for letting me! Originally the message only showed up after 6 routes were played but most people seem to play just a few so I figured having the message show up sooner would be better to obtain the bonus gallery images. I'll take this into account for a future update!
oh, you're welcome, thank you for responding! I can definitely see the logic there. If I may make a suggestion, (though I'm not currently a developer and so I don't know how hard this could be to implement, so take it with a grain of salt) but maybe instead of one developer message where you choose one character to learn about, at the end of every route there could be a message specifically about the development of their route? It would definitely be a good idea to still have the gallery images unlockable before all of the routes have been completed though.
dominion may not have a route but he's still my true wife
hi! the full game is only playable when downloaded.
I wish it was free because I love your game but can't buy it
what's roadkill's deal with the fourth wall?
they're a little silly
oh my god i love this game. I cant wait to play through the different routes. So far ive got the good ending with Noel and GAHH i love him lmao. Do you have anything against drawing self insert oc x character fanart? Keep up the good work btw! <33
We encourage it!
also spoilers but
ohh rosita and djs routes resonated way too deeply with me!! i used to do roller derby but then the place shut down... and i probably can't do derby now because i've gotten so much less able and its just saddening! i really wish i could've told dj i struggled with similar stuff or that i couldve told rosita i used to do derby!! a guy can dream i guess! it hit me hard!!! hearing dj say they also felt like they were losing the ability to be a normal kid hit me hard!!! and not doing well in school no matter how hard you try because somethings fundamentally "wrong" with you and giving up before you even begin? being told you're not doing well enough after practically working yourself to death?? i relate so hard i'd do anything for your characters
hey, no matter how hard i try i can't seem to delete the saves through the files? i don't want to use the reset button as i wanted to test things with a different name then copy my save file back into the folder. i am really desperate to see how DJ reacts to the name rudy please help /lh
Unfortunately, the game isn't built around that so the only way to see what Roadkill says would be to reset the game. it's not worth it as all they after say:
"That’s my life motto. Right next to “Never trust a bitch named Rudy”. is "So you’re on thin fucking ice, Rudy 2, and you ESPECIALLY better not leave my ass locked at the community pool." The player named Rudy is confused but shrugs it off and the route continues as usual from there.
ah, ok, i see. also LMAOO now i wanna draw fanart of DJ locked in the community pool... contained.... DJ lore no way.
(mild dj route spoilers??)
and here's what i think: how DID DJ survive that? well, they must actually BE funny skeleton man as they joke in that one line of dialogue. game theory true. no way.. /j
What is a CG and why do I want to collect over 40 of them?
CG stands for Computer Graphics and refers to images like this that show up occasionally!
Thank you for clarifying. I didn't know what that meant, so it seems to me there's jargon being used in this community that creates a barrier for entry. I hope that's considered in future marketing materials.
I'll have to politely disagree. The term is easily googable lingo (i even gave what it meant when asked) and not knowing the term doesn't... Take away from the experience of the game itself? Its a common term used within VN communities at that.
bsf bought me this, ABSOLUTELY LOVED THIS!!! NOELS ROMANTIC ROUTE IS THE BEST!! I LOVE NOEL SM AND IM JS GONNA NONSTOP THINK ABT HIM
Ramón’s route was probably the most emotional I’ve been playing a VN.
I love him! He’s perfect!
awww! Cute!!
Played the html version and it’s so damn fantastic. Already got all the endings. Very impressive visual novel. Very highly recommended. Also Happy Pride Month