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Refinery

ABOUT

Refinery is a freeware visual novel made in Ren’Py.

Genre: Magical Realism (?) Kinetic NVL
Estimated Play Time: 2-3 hours (main story), 20-40 minutes (side story 1), 15-25 minutes (side story 2)
Rating: For ages 13 and up
Created By: Feral Phoenix
Content Warnings: These warnings may contain spoilers, so please check them at your own discretion. See here.

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Download “Refinery” (v2.00) | 日本語版『Refinery』(v2.00)をダウンロード
Released July 7, 2018 | Updated July 7, 2022
体験版・12月8日2021年公開 | 完全版・7月7日2022年公開

STORY

Nineteen-year-old artist Kouro Tomomi is bored and restless. She’s tired of life in her small, slow-moving Hokkaido hometown. But her plans to study at a prestigious art college and break into the architectural and landscape design field were sidelined by a rude shock that impacted her on both a mental and physical level. Treading the worn path of routine at her parents’ house and her part-time job at a local home and gardening store, she feels frozen in place, trapped—that it’s still too early for anyone to buy her services landscaping is not helping.

But then one day early in May, a strange young man calling himself Kuro Daiya comes to Tomomi’s workplace. Everything from his hair to his beloved motorcycle stands out a mile in this town. And early in the season though it may be, he has his heart set on setting up a garden for his new house—

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