Chaos;Head is a very aptly named game because the entire game you are inside the mind of this creature known as Takumi Nishijou. "Incel" these days is more of a watered-down term but if you were to go back to it' original definition and the type of people the word described, Takumi might be the biggest example of this concept ever. At first glance it might seem like Takumi is just an otaku archetype but over the course of the game you begin to realize just how selfish and pathetic he actually is. One of the main features of the game is the "delusion" system where Takumi will be presented with a situation and the player is given the choice to have a positive or negative delusion or stay in reality. There's more to it than this but many positive delusions are usually sexual power fantasies inside his mind (one even with his own sister, whom he treats like absolute garbage) and the negative ones many times are acts of violence, gore, or just show his overall hatred and distrust of everything. Of course, he never actually acts upon any of these delusions or does anything whatsoever. ALL this guy does is whine like the world owes him anything and does nothing to change his sad and pathetic state of affairs. He just wants to go and play his MMO til 5 AM and not engage with the real world at all and then stare at his anime figures for some sort of fulfilment, and he acts like women are all terrible bitches and sluts. He regularly looks down on everyone despite being the waste of society. It is truly impressive how this game managed to capture the incel mindset perfectly because he really does his all the marks of thinking women owe him something and thinking he deserves better despite not actively trying to do anything to change himself for the better, and throughout the entire VN his mental state and mindset never really change for the better either. At the end of the VN he is honestly still an utter waste of space. At one point I wanted to strangle him after at the end of the one of the character routes he witnessed possibly the most disturbing and messed up backstory I have ever seen a character have, and his first thoughts upon seeing this were about how she could protect him and what she could do for him instead of any kind of real sympathy or desire to help her and be there for her. Takumi Nishijou is an absolute vile and distuging creature and I wish him absolutely no happiness, but that is also a big part of the game and what makes it such a fascinating and interesting VN because the writing execution is honestly perfect. Do not play this if you want the protagonist to grow as a person and have good development, you are inside the head of the exact type of person who would never do that. Even in the true ending he's still mostly a piece of shit with only one redeeming moment.

The rest of the game is basically a murder mystery with a lot of interesting theming and a well told story and much of the game is Takumi believing he's the next target of these murders and how he just wants to be left alone and have nothing to do with anything so he can live his pathetic NEET life. The other characters in the VN are fairly interesting with Rimi being a pretty good standout for me but I do think the cast overall was one thing the game could have maybe done a bit better since some characters still didn't feel super fleshed out or interesting even with their own character routes. Overall plot is definitely interesting but there is also a lot of disturbing content so do we warned if you decide to play. I'm a major fan of how this series has always used suspense/tension and the feeling of impending dread in how they present the scenes in the game to keep you engaged in the content and that is one thing this game absolutely excelled at. There's many gruesome details at times and many events that will make you feel horrible for the characters and begging Takumi to actually act and do something only to see him continue to act selfish and like nothing should involve him, even when it affects those closest to him. It can sometimes be frustrating to read at times, but again I think the game is intentionally written this way since you're inside the mind of quite possibly the worst person ever. There's a lot of things I don't really want to get more into because of spoilers but I do think science adventure is a really nice series with steins;gate being one of the favorite pieces of media ever, so it was interesting to go back to this and especially interesting to seeing the character study of Takumo Nishijou, I wish him no happiness and hope he dies truly.

I saw an ad saying this game didn't have ads in it so I decided to give it a shot. The start was a little slow but the pacing eventually got better. Unfortunately if you don't want to take forever to get upgrades you will in fact need to watch "optional" ads. It's not technically false advertising cause it is always optional but the game is designed to be painfully slow if you don't watch em. For that reason I do think it was poorly designed on purpose. I do like the concept tho and it's mild mindless fun for a little bit.

I saw an ad saying this game didn't have ads in it so I decided to give it a shot. The start was a little slow but the pacing eventually got better. Unfortunately if you don't want to take forever to get upgrades you will in fact need to watch "optional" ads. It's not technically false advertising cause it is always optional but the game is designed to be painfully slow if you don't watch em. For that reason I do think it was poorly designed on purpose. I do like the concept tho and it's mild mindless fun for a little bit.