Serial Experiments Kid

Creator: dagger

Average Rating
9.0 / 10
Average Difficulty
49.9 / 100
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Adventure (14) Trap (8) Gimmick (10) Boss (6) Long (1) Story (6) Puzzle (5) Orbit (1) :tf: (1)

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49 Reviews:

Drug_Solo
Wow! I have no words... Perfect adventure. Never gets boring!

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Rating: 9.0 90       Difficulty: 53 53
Oct 26, 2024
CanusAntonius
Serial Experiments Kid is a bonafide Adventure game by Dagger, who as always brings out quite an entertaining product.

The game takes place in a mysterious building in which the Kid has been imprisoned. Within this building are bedrooms in which sleeping will transport you to each of the different stages in the game. As you'd expect from a Dagger game, he focuses heavily on variety and making each save feel like an individual idea. There are occasional gimmicks used to deliver on this idea, though one water gimmick was rather unsavory. Each stage also ends with a boss fight, I found them to be mostly alright but not very exciting to play. Wrapping the whole game together is a storyline, and even with it all being translated finally I can't say it was really worth anyone's intrigue, it also just ends randomly without explaining basically anything going on. That's my final observation of the game, it sort of just ends on a low note as if the last stage got cut before the game was released somehow; you simply end the game without any real narrative satisfaction at all. Besides that fact though, if you don't care about the story then the game should be most enjoyable.

Overall, I think the game was pretty fun and represents what the Adventure genre is at its roots, would definitely recommend it.

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Tagged as: Adventure Trap Gimmick Boss Story
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Rating: 8.5 85       Difficulty: 50 50
Nov 10, 2022
Cutiefruity
This game is really great. It's got an interesting vibe, and is kind of mysterious to me since I don't really know the story. I still enjoyed it despite my lack of japanese speaking. Definitely recommend.

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Rating: 9.0 90       Difficulty: 45 45
Nov 30, 2020
sonicdv
Pretty neat game. Has an interesting story, despite having a LOST ending, and some pretty neat gimmicks and gameplay. There's some pretty annoying parts, but I think people more patient than me would like it a lot more. I'd recommend it a lot

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Rating: 9.0 90       Difficulty: 55 55
Feb 13, 2020
Gaborro
So far from what I have played, easily one of his best works and probably going to stay my favorite from his. Absolutely recommend playing in the Welowas english mod linked in Shinobu's review. Great short story, the main place for this story is very well made and aligned with the vibes of that story, but through the dreams part, dagger allows himself to do the things he knows he can do well, and he pretty much hits every note. The item progression and the way they are used is amazing, the traps are funny, the way you can interact with things in the main section of the story in the same way lots of classic RPGMaker games let you do so adds so much.

Easily a must play.

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Rating: 10.0 100       Difficulty: 50 50
Jul 14, 2025