Intimate narrative game Limerence announced for Nintendo Switch

Salix Games today announced Limerence for Nintendo Switch, which is in co-development with Game In A Frame. A release date will be announced later.

Limerence is an intimate narrative game. It takes place entirely within a fictional smartphone interface and explores the soon-to-be familiar – and precarious – overlap between authentic connection and AI-driven companionship.

Learn more about the game with the following details:

In Limerence, players follow Claire, a woman navigating the emotional aftermath of a deeply personal loss. As a result, she turns to an AI companionship app called ‘LiAIson’ and creates Kai, a partner shaped entirely around her wants and needs. But as the relationship deepens and begins to affect her connections with those around her, difficult choices emerge, forcing Claire to confront who she is – and what she is willing to believe.

Through everyday conversations, private messages, and curated memories, Limerence examines intimacy in a time when connection can be entirely simulated. The game’s story reflects on emotional dependency, self-deception, and the comfort of being understood without ever being challenged – or contradicted.

In short, Salix Games is creating an experience that poses the question: how does love change when companionship is artificial, and when the fine balance between risk and reward is replaced by submission and inevitable consensus?

Key Features

• Navigate a fully simulated smartphone interface filled with messages, apps, and social feeds
• Shape conversations with an AI companion, “Kai”, whose personality adapts to Claire’s responses
• Reinterpret past interactions as new context changes their meaning
• Make small personal decisions that quietly alter Claire’s relationships and identity
• Discover hidden details buried within everyday digital life and decide what truths to confront
• Experience a relationship designed to understand Claire – and question what connection means when it cannot reject her

Jessica Saunders, founder of Salix Games, said today: “We weren’t trying to make a story soley about AI, but instead about intimacy and human connection. Real relationships are unpredictable, and that unpredictability is part of what makes them meaningful. When that friction disappears, connection becomes easier – but also far less honest. The question is whether that comfort helps us, or keeps us from facing reality.”

Have a look at a trailer for the project below. 

Teaser Trailer

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