Raging Loop

About Raging Loop

Raging Loop is a visual novel developed and published by KEMCO with Dwango. It first came out in Japan on phones in December 2015; Steam lists its PC release as August 23, 2017, and PQube brought the English version to PS4 and Switch in October 2019. PS5 and Xbox versions followed on August 30, 2024. It has Japanese voices and Japanese or English text. Its makers call it a psychological horror story and a tribute to Japanese folklore.

Haruaki Fusaishi, a young man, takes his motorbike down an unknown road and ends up in Yasumizu, a settlement in the mountains of Japan. A heavy mist rolls in and nobody can leave. The village holds a tradition known as the feast: among the villagers lurks the werewolf, sworn to take revenge on everyone. By night someone is killed; by day the villagers share what they know and vote on whom to hang.

It plays like the werewolf party game told as a long branching novel. You read, pick what Haruaki says and does at the key moments of each gathering, and watch the village turn on itself. A flowchart keeps every choice, so you can jump back to any scene and try another answer. Haruaki is stuck in a loop: each death sends him back to the day he arrived, and some deaths hand him a Key, a piece of knowledge that opens choices that were locked before. There are four main endings, played in order because of those locks, and many bad endings on the way. Clearing the game opens Revelation Mode, which replays the story with the other characters' inner thoughts and scenes Haruaki never sees.

The fear is in suspicion more than in shocks: a closed village, a vote that can send an innocent to the noose, and a death you remember every time. The store page warns of cruel violence, abuse, murders and sexual episodes, mostly told in text or shown indirectly; ESRB rates it Mature for blood, violence, sexual themes and strong language. HowLongToBeat puts the main story at about 25 hours. It suits readers who like long mystery visual novels, death games and Japanese folk horror.

How to play Raging Loop

1. Get it on Steam (Windows), PlayStation, Xbox or Switch.
2. Read the story and choose what Haruaki says and does as the feast unfolds.
3. At each day's gathering, weigh what the villagers say before the vote.
4. When Haruaki dies, note the Key he gains; it opens a locked choice somewhere on the flowchart.
5. Use the flowchart to jump back to an earlier scene and take the new path.
6. After the final ending, play Revelation Mode to see the characters' thoughts and the scenes you missed.

Tips

• Do not fear dying: many deaths give you a Key you need to move on.
• When you are stuck, look on the flowchart for a choice a new Key has opened.
• Pay attention to who says what at each gathering; it matters on later loops.

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