This is a game all about talking. You are in a bar and chat with people but instead of traditional dialogue options, you construct a sentence by choosing among different options for each part. So for example, when the bartender asks about "that girl you used to come here with", you can chose to start the sentence with "She", "Sam" or "My girlfriend", then you can chose the verb between "is" and "is usually" and then finish it off with either "working" or "tired". So you can say "My girlfriend is tired", "She is usually working" or any other combination. In some (like the example), the results just add flavour, but most of the time you can create sentences with diametrical different meanings.
During the short, 30 minute playthrough, you can exchange a few words with the bartenders, text with your girlfriend, chat with an ex-boyfriend, and exchange words with a guy who's chatting you up. The idea is for one to explore all the various possibilities and get all of the 9 different endings.
My main gripe with the game is that I didn't feel any motivation to explore any other choices that the ones I made. Its establish that you have a girlfriend who you live with and the only alternative to the ending that gets you staying with her involves being a total ass-hole to her (who would say "I don't care about your problems at work" to their partner?) or cheating with her. And even if you thought that it was ok for her to cheat, the game doesn't give any reason for you to go for any of the other options. Do you want to hook up with your ex who's on town for some lame-ass play and explicitly asks about your girlfriend or with the creep that uses disgusting pick up lines and gets MRA-mad if you don't accept his advances? You also have the bartender who, much like the rest of the cast, is presented with little to no personality.
Also, for the amount of flavour that micromanaging each sentence gives, I didn't get a sense that it mattered that much. Is it really different to select "my girlfriend" instead of "Sam" or "her"? I don't know, but I did feel it was. But that example alone shows that there is some nuance that the game could've seized. Perhaps Sam's status shouldn't be hard coded as "girlfriend", but change to a more informal relationship if the player doesn't chose that word. Perhaps your ex should not talk about your girlfriend if you don't use that word yourself and, more to the point, take the fact that you didn't use the word as a hint that there's some chance of hooking up. Instead, for a game that gives you that amount of freedom, it ultimately restricts your choices and their consequences pretty strongly.
But on the other side, the writing is pretty good and the problems are relatable, and the atmosphere created by the music and colours is enjoyable, so overall it's fine.
