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Living is Expensive...

About this game

Vampires & Capitalism

Living is Expensive… is a roguelike deckbuilder visual novel.

(33% roguelike deckbuilder, 66% visual novel, 1% lost to inflation).

Game Features

  • Working 9-5 

  • Expensive Cost of Living

  • Crushing weight of modern work on human psyche. 

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  • A card game that feels like a roguelike deckbuilder.

  • Super Awesome Visual Novel with 2 Happy Endings!

Characters

Your boss. Works 24 hours a day. 

Will cure your poverty virus with money.

Your colleague. Introverted... No energy for work...

Can’t find the meaning of life.

Your manager. Funny vampire :3

Wink! (^_<)

Story

Work Work Work Work Work

Gameplay

Defeat Primrose-sama's sleep deprivation monsters before they become real. 💤

Select the monster card to attack. Get more cards and craft runes to become overpowered. 💥

Work–Life Balance

Overworking is unhealthy. Probably. I guess. Maybe. 😓

You should find something meaningful to do other than work. (Like playing this game? 🥺👉👈) 

After all, what’s the point of all work... if we never had fun, never enjoyed, never had a life? 

(Actually, the card game is not that fun, don't play it! ( •◡<) -☆)

(You can just skip the card game and enjoy the story.)

(… you're allowed to skip the story too... but I will be sad… ><) 

TL;DR

Living is Expensive… is a short and funny visual novel you wouldn’t want to miss.

Living is Expensive...

Defeat my sleep deprivation monsters. (And I will cure your poverty virus.) I feel tired just thinking about going to work. (Am I the only one who feels like this?)

Developer

Blink Hydrate ブリンク

Publisher

Blink Hydrate ブリンク

Release Date

01 February, 2026

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