Flat Eye is a little shopkeeping/visual novel hybrid, covering themes of technology, capitalism, and identity. The shopkeeping is chill and satisfying, executes nicely upon most of the building/management conventions you'd expect, with an interesting added layer of supply-lines that must me hooked up to one another to keep things working.

The visual novel side, however... fuck. The writing is insufferable. I'm a queer person who is in love with a queer person and surrounds myself with queer people. But when I look at a little tumblr ass red nose lookin character strolling into my shop and I think to myself "Yeah they're gonna be nonbinary arent they" and then they are, and they start soapboxing about fatphobia and patriarchy, it's like. Yeah buddy. I know. Find a more interesting/nuanced way to say it. It's just full of tactless cringe like that. It's the most twitter adorkable millenial version of identity politics, satirical writing, and pseudo-black-mirrory situational drama. And it's all pretty much unskippable, like you have to interact with all these dorks to keep the game moving. I had to drop it because of this. It's a bummer that in your game about how human interaction has more value than capital - your capital-building simulation is good and your human interactions are fuckin annoying.