About This Game

"The Burial of Shortcake" is an unpredictable story.  It is a new visual novel with characters which are created/designed by voice actor Nozomi Sasaki, whose "expressiveness" shines throughout her career as a performer.

You can click on the screen to continue to read the story.

Game Features

Genre: Crime suspense, visual novel

Playing time: 5 to 7 hours

Options: none. One way

Story

"Sweat, dirt, blood. It all goes in my mouth and makes me want to throw up."

One night, the main character, Kisetsu, sneaks into a mountain forest in the middle of the night in order to bury the corpse for a certain reason.

A snow shovel.

A shopping cart from a supermarket.

And then he wrapped something in a blue sheet and hid it - [that].

Surrounded by “them”, he started digging a hole, was covered with all the sweat and swallowing blood and dirt.

And then...

“What is that…?”

He just realized that there is no end beyond the hole and beyond the tragedy.

This is about “the world” beyond the tragedy.

Crime Suspense Visual Novel--"The Burial of Shortcake"

Staff

Planning, Scenario Direction, Movie  Luke Saito

Character Design  Nozomi Sasaki

Music  Shiori Kamikubo

Still Illustrations  Nozomi Sasaki , Onoyama , Ayabe Eriko

English Translation  Moeka Tamura , Sayaka Matsushima

AI Generated Content Disclosure

The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this:

Used for some of the background images in the game.

Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

In some scenes in the game, the text uses expressions that imply sexual descriptions.In addition, there are some situations where the description of suicide is not directly mentioned, but is explained in terms that imply it.