Consume Me
A downloadable game for Windows and macOS
Hey remember when your parents, your friends, and society at large all conspired to make you feel ugly, lazy, stupid, and unloved despite the brilliant human spirit contained within you? No? Well, allow us to refresh your memory via the timeless medium of a slice-of-life role-playing game!
In Consume Me, you take on the role of Jenny, young, in love, and entering her final year of high school. Make meticulous scheduling decisions to maximize your glow-up! Solve the puzzle game of dieting! Evade distractions as you pursue scholarly success! Do chores to get money from mom at a rate much lower than minimum wage!
Can you win the heart of the boy of your dreams? Can you hold on to it? Can you chart a course towards a sustainable future? Can you fit just one more TODO goal on your plate, or is it already full to bursting? Most importantly, does any of this matter--either in the game, or in a broader sense? I don't have time to spoil the story here, so I'll just give you a free tip: if you have the spare money, buy some coffee at the corner store and drink it for an extra free-time unit.
Features:
- A darkly funny coming-of-age story: You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll get a little hungry, sometimes all at the same time! Sorry about that!
- Every meal a puzzle: Eat your lunch, but be careful not too eat too much. Also, try not to eat too little either. Throw any food you don't want to the dog. It's fine, she's not on a diet!
- Gripping strategic decision making: A limited amount of time and an unlimited number of things to do!? This classic combination introduces the ultimate strategic question: How should you be spending your time? It's up to you to answer this question...every day of your life!
- Obtain powerful equipment: Choose from a selection of garments that help you dress for success. But be warned, the armor of this world degrades after a mere single day of use...until you renew it via that ancient ritual known only as "laundry."
- Over 13 possible endings: Most of them bad!
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I really wanted to enjoy this but the religious themes really ruined my experience... I understand it's autobiographical, but I grew up as an atheist jew in a small, conservative christian town, so my experience with religion is very negative - I've known people who I thought were friends turn out to be hateful, both directly and indirectly, because of their church. So it was really uncomfortable for me when this game suddenly pivoted in that direction, with an unskippable song that's basically christian propaganda. It's especially concerning since the game has a content warning, and is otherwise very good about treating heavy topics with sensitivity, but nothing was mentioned about this. It really hit me hard and left me with feelings I don't think the game intended for. Please add a content warning for it, I know there are people with much worse experiences than me that might react more strongly.
It sucks because I liked everything else about the game, and had been looking forward to it since seeing it at IGF. And despite my issues, I wish the best for the devs, since it's clear a lot of work was put into this and I did enjoy the other parts of the game.
i would recommend you to keep pushing through it. Religion is treated the same way as every other topic in this game. That is not telling you explicitly: "this is bad" in the moment of doing it, but it lets you see its consecuences. If the topic is very triggering to you is understandable, but i think it is worth giving it a try
I loved the Christian theme. Itch.io needs more of it, there is too much atheist and satanist games. Also, Jesus loves you dude.
People may treat each other badly, but His biggest commandment from the Bible is from the gospel of Matthew, the first gospel, when a pharisee (פְּרוּשִׁים) asked "Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?" He said to him, "'You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. ' This is the greatest and first commandment. And a second is like it: 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”
So, the problem isn't Christianity, its people distorting Christianity. Because Jesus only talked about love and how to serve God and be a good neighbor. So, I would argue that, if you agree with me in this point, you should be supporting more games that show the correct teachings of the Bible.
If someone puts an emphasis on religion in a game, they should expect that someone will be offended. Jesus himself is not to blame, of course. But I also have a very unpleasant experience with Christians. Christianity is not just about treating your neighbors well; it's about having a monopoly on morality and truth. All the Christians I've shared my worldview with have called me bad just because I'm an atheist.
If you read this, please, don't imagine me with a frown, I really took time to think and awnser with tenderness :p
I think it's important to separate imperfect christian humans from Christ Himself, kinda like you did, but not really. Christianity doesn’t seek a “monopoly on morality,” but rather points to an objetive moral truth that exists beyond any individual or culture, God is Truth. That's not a monopoly, like a company of cakes trying to kill/buy all the other companies of cake, but rather just natural hierarchy. If there is a "god", and you can think of a more perfect "god", the last one is God. If you can think of a bigger "god", that is God. The same goes for truth, love, etc. God is at the end of infinity, and somehow, also at the start, all Glory and all Humility. When a Christian talks about truth or morality, it’s not to control others, but to witness to what we believe comes from God - who is Truth itself, Love itself, Law itself. And sometimes some of us can be harsh.
But sometimes yes, you should expect to be called evil, if the person you are talking to have a worldview that has very clear notions of good and evil, and your view, for one reason or the other, aligns with the evil category, or relativizes truth/moral for that person, that person will call you evil (with politeness or not unfortunately). But disagreement isn't the same as condemnation. We also believe that wrongs can be forgiven, and genuine faith should always be lived with charity and humility. God hates sin, not the sinner.
And thinking of God's infinite mercy, pope Francis said one time "What I am going to say is not a dogma of faith but my own personal view: I like to think of hell as empty; I hope it is". And I, hope that you maybe understand christians a little better, I don't expect to make you love us, but I hope I helped you understand us.
Thank you for your response. I can see that you have good intentions and are looking at Christianity from a better perspective. When a Christian speaks about truth and love, it is Jesus, the Father, and that is it. For a Christian, anyone who sees truth, love, and God as anything other than Jesus and the Father is clearly mistaken. John 14:6 “... I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” The Bible does not say that everyone has the right to search for the truth and believe in God in their own way and not be judged. Mark 16:16 "Everyone who believes and is baptized will be saved, but everyone who does not believe will be condemned."
I'm having a good time discussing this, I don't have much to on the computer usually!
The Father, and Jesus, and The Holy Spirit actually, but yeah. You are right, Jesus is the Truth, but you have free will to disagree. If someones says otherwise, they are just not compassionate enough. But see, recognizing your God given right to search for Him or not, does not make your findings right. My argument about truth, love and God presupposes that an ultimate Truth, Love and God exists, if there is an hierarchy, there is a "top" of the hierarchy. Imagine that the universe is a zoo (lol, bare with me) and the faster animal is the "god" of that zoo, and I say "the monkey is the fastest animal here, he is the god of the zoo", and we see a puma running way way faster, which one is the "god of the zoo"? The puma, right? The same goes in reality, there is an ultimate Truth, Love, Goodness, etc, that's God. Now, how can we say that's Jesus? Well, that's a very long topic, but in short, if I had just 30 seconds to decide, I would personally go with the guy that has more than 25.000 ancient historical documents proving his existence (is easier to say that Jesus existed than Gengis Khan!), and the guy that had his disciples willing to die for Him, even way after He wasn't around anymore, and the only guy that said that He is truly God and a loving God nonetheless.
And yes, Baptism is important to salvation, but the Catholic faith (the Church founded by Christ) says in the Catechism (good source to questions, if you want to study about) that people that never heard of Jesus and ignore Him have no "guilt", but those who know Him and choose to ignore Him, have it. In the passage you quoted we can see that, the full context is "[But] later, as the eleven were at table, he appeared to them and rebuked them for their unbelief and hardness of heart because they had not believed those who saw Him after he had been raised (meaning that the disciples didn't believe the women that first saw Jesus after He resurrected) . He said to them, “Go into the whole world and proclaim the gospel to every creature. Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved; whoever does not believe will be condemned."
So, you can only be judged by those metrics if you heard the good news of salvation, but by hardness of heart does not believe. Like the 11 disciples didn't believe the women. And baptism is a way of showing that you believe and understand. And all this "ritual" of baptism, is still a human way to understand and be close to God, a way He gave us, with our human minds. Because at the end, only He will decide if someone goes to hell or not, but in His wiseness, He gave us blueprints to make His decision easier and help us get to Heaven, we call those blueprints sacraments. His mercy is infinite, but we have to want it. Also, our free will it's not the only variable, Eva and Adam choose freely eat the apple at the garden, but Satan influenced them. You may search for God, but Satan can try to influence you. Heck, even Jesus was tempted by Satan in the desert (including to attempt suicid*).
Lastly, this discussion reminded me of the Creation of Adam paiting. God's finger is fully stretched out. But is Adam's finger is retracted, hesitant, is Adam's choice to reach, and that's ok, God understands that. God is so good that if you don't want to be close to Him, who is goodness itself, you don't need to be at all, but you should understand what that entails. Here on Earth, we can still go make friends with Him, but the decisions in the afterlife are eternal.
I think I played a demo like 2 years ago in the Berlin video game museum. I loved it then and the full game is just as great. Great style, great humor. Lots of love and care went into this. Highly recommended. My stomach is legit rumbling now. gottta get a SNACK.
I am curious -- what does the description mean by "be careful not too eat too much"? Will the character simply become sick, or is this commentary on fatphobia narratives in young adulthood? Or, is the game actively promoting teen diet culture?
You could play it and form your own opinion.
Oh cool! I remember this game being featured in the Videogames exhibition in the V&A! Are you thinking of releasing this for Linux too?
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What a lovely style!
yess YESS!!!! so excited to CONSUME this game
omg did I play a demo of this game like 5-6 years ago or am I dreaming? Can’t believe this finally came out 😍
IKR? I played this a few years ago in the video game museum in Berlin! What about you?
We exhibited the game in 2019 in Geneva too! In the main munipal library, it was an exhibition about gender representation in video games : https://www.numeriquebm.ch/sheroes/
I volunteer to translate this game from english to russian, please reply if interested
i really love this art style
Hello, do you have a demo?
they had one in stema but they quit it!! im super sad because i liked it and i cant waste money right now.. :
Hello, if you are planning to add translation to your game, i would like to help with Turkish!