What is Our Wonderland? a.k.a. the dumpster fire that is my ace-themed queer horror game or something
Our Wonderland is a visual novel / horror game / horrific dating sim??? / mangled mess of Fucked Up chars reaching their 30s but not? understanding who they are?? and twisted grisly things happen???
It stars five childhood friends with a sEcReT—they opened a Magical Wish-Granting Wonderland in their youth (as one does). Twenty years later, however, they’ve all turned into barely functioning adults just trying to Get By™, each with their own Traumas exacerbated by their struggles to fit in to a cis- hetero- allonormative world (as well as Pining,,, lots and lots of unrequited Pining). Cue a Return to Wonderland. What could happen now that they’re all Verifiable Messes with the power to wish for anything they want??? omg,,, maybe they’ll eat each other or something wouldn’t that be wild omg,,,
The Woobies
- Iggy: Resident Ace Bean that has no idea what he wants and spends most of his time Confused and Overwhelmed and avoiding social situations like the plague; just wants to fit in and for everyone to be Happy™
- Genzou: The loud-mouthed snarky Best Friend who loves his favorite pal so much dear god do not touch a hair on his god damn head or he will fucking murder you (definitely Not Gay why would you even think that shm,,,)
- Orlam: Nobody likes him he’s just kinda there accumulating more and more Debilitating Trauma dear fucking lord is this guy sad and lonely somebody please l-l-love him; forlorn bisexual who longs to be the Life of the Party (may or may not be a cannibal, who can say really,,,)
- Gidget: Just your average girl who wants to be Perfect™; did not ever wear boys’ clothes or have issues with her body and definitely was never made fun of when trying to use the restroom; likes Iggy perhaps a little bit Too Much
- Bucks: Homecoming queen and softball star; has everything she ever wanted in life—a loving husband, a beautiful baby, and a lovely house with a white picket fence; skilled with an Axe
What You Can Expect From This Atrocity:
- Around 288k words of Pure Unadulterated Pain (20 to 25 hours or something idk)
- A ridiculous 520 CGs because I apparently Can’t Stop Drawing
- Some pretty sweet cinematic ending sequences I guess
- A cool soundtrack??? I did not create it but I’ve been told it’s Good so we’ll just go with that
- Gore mixed with feels mixed with moments that will make you want to RIP YOUR HEART OUT
- A Strange and Deplorable art style that apparently grows on you or so I’ve been told
- Gay people kissing or something
- COMPLICATED LOVE SQUARES???
- Horrible ace nightmares—BUT ALSO CATHARTIC ACE JOY???
Cannibalism
P.S. in case it wasn’t obvious this game is rather Dark and contains many a horrible thing such as Murder, Torture, and the Eating of People (some of the arcs also tread somewhat heavily into Sexual Themes Territory, too, given all the overarching ace stuff), so please please please check the content warnings on the itch page before playing! It’s def for mature audiences only.
Where You Can Download This Horrific Abomination From Hell:
- Our Wonderland on itch.io (it’s free omg!!111!!!!!1)
There’s also some free side games ig:
- Our Cinderella on itch.io
- Our <<Fantastic>> Wonderland on itch.io
- Texting the Awkward Ace Guy You’ve Had a Crush on Since High School on itch.io
- Save the Last Dance on itch.io
if you have any questions i guess i can answer them that’s how it works maybe.
ok I think that’s it bye.
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Might I please ask for more details involving the Spy AU, esteemed Carrot?
tbh it’s not fleshed out at all lol it’s mostly just a combination of the couple ppl who’ve talked about such an AU here as well as random shows I’ve watched recently about silly spy stuff hahaha but it’s basically nothing, hence why I’ve never actually done anything with it (that and I’m not smart enough to come up with/write good ideas for that type of scenario…💦)
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Orlam and Mugworth.. the drank bleach buddies..
their situations are completely different tho lol
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genzou, calling iggy: hey iggs you busy rn
iggy, 15 chapters deep into a Sans x Male!Reader ao3 fic:
iggy: no.
HELP PLEASSSSSEEEE 🤣🤣🤣
A blind Olie and a hungry Orlam.🧡💛🧡💛
Did I draw this after playing Easter? Of course I did.
Day7!!
I. Have made a mistake. I accidentally posted this. But it's gone so yes. W whoops. Anyways.
Day 7) Our Underland, the crossover between Our Wonderland and Undertale
The basic idea is simple, swap out Undertale characters with OW, it's not just a simple swap in but that's the basic idea. Iggy seems to be the only one that knows that this is kinda weird.
(If you're curious, the posts are on my account under the "#our underland" tag)
(currently playing DDON)
I just had Iggy lie down on the bed in his room, which makes him go to sleep (he gets z’s over his head lol) and picked up my phone to check something, and at that moment Genzou walked back in from the garden, looked at Iggy, and went “oop, heh, I’ll be quiet, I’ll be quiet” and slapped at his cheeks
I literally choked on my soda and it squirted out my nose
I think this game is trying to kill me 🤧
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So since Iggy does have a sans plushie in his room in oc, what did Iggy think of Undertale when he played it? How did it affect him? Same goes for any other members of the cast who may have played it. HELL. WHAT DID YOU THINK OF UNDERTALE AND HOW DID THE CULTURAL PHENOMENON OF UNDERTALE AFFECT THEE
I think Iggy had a crush on Sans lol
But also he loved Papyrus
He probably got really into it for a while and listened to the music constantly and looked up lots of art and animations
–as for me, it’s so funny, because I’ve actually never played the game myself, but I watched jacksepticeye play the whole thing and it felt the same for me (there are a number of games I’ve only ever watched let’s plays of but I still consider myself as having played them as a result)
I remember I got really into it for a while back around when I was trying to make one of the previous OW iterations, and have had spurts here and there again where I’ll go on a dive and look up stuff again and listen to the music again (my favorite is bone trousle 💕)
oh also I dressed up as sans once at a work Halloween party LOLOL
Day 7
Do you have any personal OW AUs?
LOL DO I
I have a lot clearly...
Some of which turned into actual projects/side games, some of which are still (and will likely forever be) tumbling around in my head as interesting little ideas.
Obviously OFW and Broomtail are both AUs. OFW was supposed to stay as an AU when I first started working on it, though it somehow connected back to the main game as semi-canon(?) by the end LOL Broomtail is purely AU as I don't think there's any way to connect it canonically to the main universe (and I don't think I'd want to anyway).
Besides those two there is of course my Dragon's Dogma AU, which is heavily based on Dragon's Dogma 2 (obviously) but which I wrote a novel-length fic for of all my own ideas to flesh it out further but with my own ideas added in. I have lots of my own head canons and ideas, though not all of them are set in stone/consistent. Some of it's purely just vibes of my heart and emotionally stirring scenes in my head hahaha.
Those are kind of the 3 "official" AUs that I have, i.e., things that I've actually done something with, such as make a game, write something, or draw copious art. But I have other more nebulous ideas in my head for AUs that I've thought about at any one point in time. Some of these include:
- The mermaid AU
- A spy AU
- An AU where Genzou is some lonely curmudgeon living in a remote manor and Iggy becomes a maid there under Gidget as the head butler
- The Alice in Wonderland AU
Along with just random even smaller less developed ideas that are just like a single image in my head. So many! Maybe I should stop thinking of these characters all the time????? No.
I have the Meow Wonderland AU, which I am not the creator of *gasp* but I am the CEO of. I also co-created the Our Wonderfurland AU where they're all furries. And I have the separate DD2 AU where Axel, Winters, Mint, and Rei interact with the DD2 versions of the OW cast... that one is very silly and self-indulgent.
Basically I never ever stop thinking about the games, and the comic, and the characters, and everything LOL. Our Wonderland (and the many ideas I have floating around in my head about it) has been the sole thing helping me make it through this year.
I suffer from perpetual brain fog (owing to Long COVID) that eases maybe once or twice a year and through it, OW is there for a (figurative) hug or word of comfort. It's something that while it hurts to think, OW is there to commiserate with me. To be there for me even on the worst days. To always be a safe place for my thoughts to wander.