Video Game / NEEDY STREAMER OVERLOAD

Ame-chan and her streaming persona, OMGkawaiiAngel aka KAngel

[sic] "we'll be together no matter what happens online, whether I die or I get arrested or I break or I get stabbed or I get flamed or I become god or I go crazy"

NEEDY STREAMER OVERLOAD, a.k.a. NEEDY GIRL OVERDOSE in Japan, is a subversive Raising Sim and Visual Novel created by WSS playground (also known as WhySoSerious,inc., who co-developed Touhou Luna Nights and Dimension Tripper Neptune: TOP NEP), and released on January 21, 2022. A port to the Nintendo Switch was released in October 27, 2022, which was accompanied by a massive content update containing new lines of dialogue, new emotes, and three new endings.

The player takes on the role of "P-chan", the significant other and producer of a reclusive and gloomy girl named Ame, who wants to be internet famous- and to pay the rent through streaming donations before she gets evicted. Throughout the course of 30 days, you will help her reach her goal to get a million followers by managing her Secret Identity streamer account, OMGkawaiiAngel- the "Internet Angel born from the prayers of depressed nerds" who has descended from Heaven to speak to the nerds of the world. But Ame turns out to have some severe mental issues bubbling under her cheerful face. Will you will help fulfill Ame's desperate need for approval... even if it leads to her mental breakdown?

Gameplay consists of navigating your PC and interacting with Ame through your interface. Every day, you will be able to pick from several commands that will allow you to do things with Ame, like playing a game with her, surfing the web, or going outside with her. Every night, you can then have her do one of many streams with all sorts of different topics depending on what you have unlocked, and each brings in different numbers of followers and bonuses. You will also have to manage her three meters- Stress, Affection, and Mental Darkness- which will be affected by both the streams and your activities with Ame. Which of the several endings you get will depend on how the meters are.

The Steam link is here.

An Anthology manga named KAngel! Needy Girl Overdose Official Anthology is released each week from November 8, 2022, with new chapters releasing every week. There is only a Japanese version as of yet. A proper adaptation of the game, NEEDY GIRL OVERDOSE: RUN WITH MY SICK, began serialization in Manga Cross in 2023.

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• Multiple Endings have their own page.

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• Affectionate Gesture to the Head: You can headpat Ame. Doing so when while hanging out will reduces her Stress. One random event starts with her riffing on how unrealistic this is in getting a real girl's affection... followed by P-Chan giving her a headpat which she thoroughly enjoys. Ame acknowledges her hypocritical behavior.
• All That Glitters: Actually achieving fame and wealth through the internet isn't necessarily a desired outcome, if the description for the achievement "(Un)happy End World" is any indication.
  I am a superstar with a big, big house and a big, big car! I am a superstar and... I don't really care, actually.
• Anti-Grinding:
  • While the game gives out plenty of tools that reduce Ame's stress, most of them will increase her affection rate. Raise the affection rate too high, and you'll get a Non-Standard Game Over.
  • Unlike other drugs, Magic Paper never suffers from diminishing returns proportional to your mental darkness. However, abuse it too much, and you'll get another Non-Standard Game Over.
• Ambiguous Ending:
  • The "Labor is Evil" ending: On Day 30 if Ame doesn't reach her goal, she decides that she isn't cut out for streaming and decides that she and P-chan should begin to look for normal jobs. Cut to Day 100 and P-chan receives a DM from Ame after work saying she's going to be late. She stops responding, leaving the following messages on read before not seeing the final one. The ending notification reads "Did she seem happy living a normal life?" while leaving her fate up in the air.
  • While the "Happy End World" is framed as an optimistic ending, it is at best ambiguously so. KAngel declares that she's leaving the internet after achieving success, and what follows is the Tweeter feed of her audience reacting to her departure. The triumphant music frames this process as a good thing, but Ame's wellbeing from this point on is left to the viewer's imagination.
  • The "Rainbow Girl" ending is more of a Nonstandard Game Over where Ame writes God a series of happy, yet melancholic messages thanking him for guiding her through her ascension as a real Internet Angel. As this ending is achieved by taking Magic Paper on five different days, a common theory is that she's fatally overdosed. But since it's technically not possible to fatally OD on LSD, this is open to interpretation: she might have had her brain fried by the constant drug usage, she might have been Driven to Suicide, or she could have truly Ascended to a Higher Plane of Existence.
  • The new "Galactic Express" ending is another drug-induced ending like "Rainbow Girl", but KAngel boards a Galactic Express and tells her viewers that she will quit streaming in a stream before displaying a blank screen with an equally blank ending prompt. The reactions are also halfway realistic. It's unclear if she was Driven to Suicide, fatally overdosed (it's possible to activate this with any drug), hallucinated to death or really boarded the Galaxy Express.
• Animal Motifs: Cats come up in this game a lot. One idle animation has Ame wearing pink headphones with cat ears, P-chan uses pink cat emojis, one of Ame's selfies has cat ears and whiskers drawn on, and in the "Internet Overdose" ending Ame tweets about finding a stray cat but angrily shooing it away because it would likely get more famous than her. Some concept art suggests that KAngel was at one point intended as a Cat Girl during early development.
• Artstyle Dissonance:
  • The game might resemble a homage to early 21st century internet culture with Bishoujo inspired, pastel-colored graphics, but it's actually an extremely heavy and realistic portrayal of a young girl dealing with mental instability.
  • Chapters 3 and 4 of the Official Anthology Manga brings out the darker topics of the game itself, sometimes even showing its most cynical sides that were only implied or left to the player's imagination in the game proper on its panels, despite having the usual cutesy art style like the other chapters.
• ASMR Video: One of the stream categories to choose from.
• Awesome, but Impractical: The Sexy streams and ASMR stream categories nets Ame more followers than other stream options, but they skyrocket her stress too.
• Bittersweet Ending:
  • If Ame's mental darkness reaches 0, she prematurely quits streaming and pursues a normal life. It's framed as a Game Over, but compared to the various other darker outcomes, some argue that this is one of the more positive endings.
  • If you achieve Ame's goal of 1 million followers by the end of the month while keeping her sane, she ends the month with a stream showing off the new house she's managed to afford due to the support of her viewers and vowing to continue streaming gleefully. Her own social media, however, reflects that she doesn't find this lifestyle fulfilling.
  • Going the distance to get KAngel 9,999,999 subscribers makes her the number 1 streamer in the world, and she definitely appreciates the popularity! Then the internet literally breaks under the sheer stress of this many viewers tuning into her stream, and she has no choice but to give her final words to the audience moments before it crashes.
• Black Blood: KAngel cuts herself during the "Dark Angel" ending and the screen gets covered with pink blood splatter.
• Bland-Name Product: Some of the services and products in-game are based on real-world brands, such as "Windose" (Windows), "Tweeter" (Twitter), and "Esteem" (Steam). VOCALOID is also referred to as "Vocalbot" by the characters.
• Breaking the Fourth Wall: The anthology manga has one panel where Ame asks P-Chan about the reason for buying this book. Given that she looks at the reader and the knowledge about who P-Chan is..
• Bowdlerise: The Switch version of the game often has explicit mentions of drugs and sex removed and/or replaced with euphemisms. It also replaces all the drugs with "magicals", which are (in all but name) drug-laced sweets/confectioneries. This is likely to make the game suitable for CERO's content guidelines, which are stricter than those from Steam.
• But Thou Must!: Some of the very few dialogue choice options for the player character are just different variations of the same thing, such as the telling Ame they love her segments. She'll have different reactions to them regardless.
• Cap:
  • Ame's Stress, Affection, and Mental Darkness meters all cap at 100%. Hitting the Stress Cap once raises it to 120%, but makes it more likely that Ame will suffer a mental breakdown. You can increase the Affection cap to 120% on a day 24 event.
  • The maximum number of subscribers you can get is 9,999,999. Reaching it results in an early ending and is required for 100% Completion.
• Celebrity Is Overrated: One of the main Aesops is that internet fame is not worth one's sanity. Ame, who moonlights as internet streamer OMGKawaiiAngel, spends the game trying to become the biggest and most popular streamer in the world. But it is gradually made clear that this desire is simply a way to get external validation to stave off her self-hatred and replace the love her parents never gave her, yet the more she pursues this goal, the more Stress and Mental Darkness she undergoes. Becoming famous also means she gains a lot of haters, trolls, and outright cyberbullies who do things like doxx her in one route, while many of her actual fans scrutinize every facet of her. It is all too easy to end up driving her into a live, on-stream Creator Breakdown invoked that, at minimum, permanently ruins her reputation, rendering her a subject of ridicule, and potentially even drives her to suicide or violent madness. By contrast, many of the happier endings are those where she quits streaming entirely to focus on bettering herself and her own life instead of seeking the approval of complete strangers.
• Central Theme:
  • The game focuses a lot on the parasocial relationship between an online content creator and their fanbase, and how it can get mutually toxic. KAngel presents herself as a Manic Pixie Dream Girl who is unfailingly nice, pure-minded, and gentle. In actuality, Ame is... exactly the opposite: a crude, meanspirited, and irresponsible girl with a lot of inner demons who only started streaming to gain money and the validation she's never received. Despite this, she genuinely wants her fanbase to love her, even if she flip-flops between personally loving and hating them. Her fanbase, in turn, loves her, and often ask for shoutouts, post fanart, and see her as an inspiration. But, as much as she has a fanbase, she also has a hatedom, which can jump in the second things go wrong. Her fanbase also doesn't take it well in endings where they find out the Awful Truth of KAngel's true personality, with reactions ranging from concern for Ame's health to full-on lashing out against her.
  • Addiction is another major focus. Ame, an Undiscriminating Addict, can easily become hooked on things harmful to her. It doesn't matter if it's drugs, sex, the Internet, an adoring fanbase, or a fantasy about not being single, Ame will get high off of it. Indeed, the game draws a direct link between Ame getting high off drugs and Ame seeking love and affection through the Internet, with the two being almost interchangeable at times. It's telling that the happier endings are the ones where Ame decides to quit streaming and get offline for good.
• Chekhov's Gun: "Secret.txt". It's a file on your computer that you can find if you move Ame's webcam box as early as the very start of the game, but it will always move back to block the file if you try clicking. You're finally allowed to open it once you reach the Omega Ending and Ame leaves, and it delivers The Reveal that you are playing as Ame herself acting out the role of her Imaginary Friend.
• Content Warnings:
  • Whenever you boot up the game, you're shown the following statement. This is a psychological horror game, after all...
    ! WARNING !
    This game is set in a place sort of like modern-day Japan but also not. Any resemblance to real places, entities, and persons living or dead is purely coincidental, so don't take it too seriously. Make sure you do NOT try any of the more extreme or depressing actions at home or anywhere, for that matter!
    
    Some scenes may have intense flashing, and some can be violent and emotionally painful. Please take a break if it messes with you mentally!
    
    Before you begin playing, please bear in mind that at the end of the day, this game is a piece of fiction and may not necessarily reflect real life.
    
    You read this warning properly, right? Promise?
    
    [Cancel] / [OK]
  • The Steam page also features a sarcastically-phrased content warning.
    *NOTE: This is a perfectly wholesome game, containing absolutely no explicit sexual references or expressions nor illegal substances. For real!
• Controllable Helplessness:
  • Occasionally, Ame will force you to perform an action. This can range from making you play games with her to forcing you to cut her wrists. These events become more common as her Stress and Affection ratings increase, and can sometimes take over entire days.
  • Exaggerated in the ”INTERNET OVERDOSE” bad end, which gives you no input beyond progressing dialogue over the course of a week-long breakdown.
  • In a similar vein to "INTERNET OVERDOSE", "Dark Angel" gives you no input beyond progressing dialogue in a 2-day long breakdown, culminating with KAngel committing suicide on stream.
  • In the Omega Ending, Ame tells P-chan to just watch as she takes control and speedruns the game, deciding she's finally reached the point where she no longer needs P-chan and can pursue her own future with her own hands.
• Darker and Edgier: While there's no ambiguity that this game is depressing on its own, at least it leaves its darkest or most cynical aspects to implications or leaves them to the player's imagination. Chapters 3 and 4 of the Manga Anthology, in the other hand, has no such leeway, and directly depicts them on the panels itself. In one of the chapters, we even see Ame getting incarcerated as a consequence for her breakdown streams in the "Internet Overdose" ending.
• Death Is a Slap on the Wrist: You can restart any previous day in your save slot up to the current one, so for some of the unexpected bad endings you can simply redo the choices before it.
• Deconstruction Game: Of the idol Raising Sim. Whereas the typical idol sim will glamorize the industry, this game extensively shows how harmful stardom can be to one's mental health and safety.
  • Ame/KAngel, the titular streamer, is a very unstable girl who only seeks fame as a substitute for a genuine human connection that her parents never gave her, and to keep away her thoughts of self-hatred. But she also gains a lot of haters, trolls, and cyberbullies who criticize her every facet in addition to fans, some of whom are equally toxic. In one ending where she reveals she has hooked up with a fellow streamer, most comments spew hatred and express betrayal for her violating her Contractual Purity, as has happened to many real life idols and streamers. In another end, she gets doxxed. And many endings have her undergo a Creator Breakdowninvoked of varying severities because of the stress of trying to please her fanbase.
  • Another thing tackled here is the relationship between the idol and their producer Player Character, which is usually shown in a purely positive light- here, P-chan and Ame's relationship is dysfunctional and outright mutually abusive in some routes, with P-chan pushing Ame's Stress and Mental Darkness to dangerous levels while Ame can use P-chan as a tool to get fame only to blame them for anything that goes wrong and abandon them if she no longer needs them. Also, P-chan is actually an Imaginary Friend created by Ame because she is that lonely.
  • The idea of the player holding a person's life in their hands is literal here — if you are not careful, you can accidentally lead Ame to any number of bad ends. In fact, most of the endings do not end well for Ame, and the good endings are the ones where she either takes a break or quits streaming altogether.
• Desperately Craves Affection: Ame's craving for approval from her internet peers is what kicks everything off.
• Diminishing Returns for Balance: The drugs Ame can take become less and less effective the higher your mental darkness, which they positively increase per use. The Magic Paper drug lacks this drawback, but using it too much will lead to a Non-Standard Game Over.
• "Dinner, Bath, or Sex" Offer: Ame can potentially make this jokingly, and even notes how cliche it is before she does it.
  you know, some things may be cliched but they’re cliched for a reason, like this!
  
  welcome home, darling! would you like to have your dinner first? or a bath? or... me?
• Disguised Horror Story: Do not let its upbeat theme song "Internet Overdose" and its colorful and cheery graphics fool you — this game is actually a realistic portrayal of a mentally ill girl struggling in self-management and the bitter side of internet culture. Some of the possible endings are also rather depressing.
• Does This Remind You of Anything?: Most of the Sexy streams are suggestive but not overt, presumably to avoid censors in-universe through plausible deniability. The first one is just KAngel blowing a kiss at the camera, the second an 'accident' on stream (implied not to be). The third is KAngel taste-testing popsicles while making suggestive comments about the ice cream, and the fourth is her demonstrating how to use an exercise ball to 'correct posture' with her lower half conveniently off-frame as she rides it. The last one, however, is a unique ending which heavily implies Ame is dropping all pretense and committing sexually explicit acts on stream.
• Do Well, But Not Perfect:
  • One of Ame's stats is Affection towards P-chan. While P-chan's support helps her (and it hitting 0 leads straight to a bad end), having it hit 100% has her become obsessed with them and leads to a Game Over just like having no Mental Darkness, so it's important to balance between the two extremes.
  • Too much Mental Darkness will rightfully lead Ame down some paths to the darker endings, but if Ame's Mental Darkness is 0 for two days in a row, she quits streaming and leads a normal person's life.
• Downer Ending: Being a game designed with 22 (later 25) endings in mind, it’s no surprise that some of those endings would end on a sour note. As a matter of fact, the majority of endings for the game are unambiguously unhappy endings — to the point where it’d be shorter to list the endings that are happy or that one could consider happy.^spoilers”Happy End World”, "Internet Runaway Angel: Be Invoked" and the Omega Ending ”Comment te dire adieu” are clearly defined happy endings, and "(Un)happy End World" being a Bittersweet Ending at best. The rest are either outright downer endings, Non-Standard Game Overs used for Anti-Grinding, joke endings or even "fake happy endings" that suddenly take a bitter turn once The Reveal is taken into regard.
• Driven to Suicide:
  • In the “There Are No Angels” ending. Failing to get over 500,000 subscribers while Ame’s affection and mental darkness are low and high respectively results in a final stream where it’s implied she jumped off a ledge.
  • Another variant occurs in the "Dark Angel" ending. Get 1 million or more subscribers with 120 stress cap unlocked, and the usual "Internet Angel 5" will be replaced by two special streams where KAngel makes deranged ramblings against the internet and her viewers in an outfit resembling her own outfit, but colored in red and black like Ame's. She will slit her neck with a cutting knife at the end of her second stream as pink blood covers the interface.
• Drugs Are Bad: It's outright stated on the store page that one of Ame's "likes" is psychotropics, and there are multiple bad outcomes related to her overdosing on them. But if you get her to a healthy enough mental state, she decides she no longer needs them and will refuse to take them even if you click on them.
• The Ending Changes Everything: In the Omega Ending, there's a Wham Line when the "Secret.txt" file refers to you as "The current P-chan", and how Ame plans to "make a better one" next time. Suddenly your status as The Faceless and how Ame Desperately Craves Affection take on a whole new meaning.
• Erotic Eating: Sexy Stream 3, "Me Eating Ice Cream", features KAngel seductively licking a popsicle and speaking in Double Entendres.
• The Faceless: As the stand-in for the player, it's never shown what P-chan actually looks like. It's for a good reason.
• Failure Is the Only Option:
  • The Sponsorship category of streams never end well for KAngel; the soda tastes horrible, the makeup is crappy, the mobile game shuts down before she can stream it, and the figurine of her has scandalous underwear.
  • In general, none of the 25 endings you can get are particularly happy. Even the Omega Ending, which has Ame decide that she no longer needs P-chan in her life and can walk her own path, veers into this with the reveal that P-chan wasn't even real to begin with.
• Foreshadowing:
  • The page quote is something Ame says early into the game, but it foreshadows some of the possible endings. Ame can go through Sanity Slippage, stab P-chan/her computer in a breakdown, become a cult leader, receive mass harassment, straight up die, or, according to the anthology, get arrested.
  • You can view the contents in Ame's Tweeter account despite it being a private account. One might chalk up to her mutually following you too, but a glance on Ame's real-life Twitter account reveals that it has only 1 follower, KAngel's account, and it's heavily implied to be so in-game, since you do start with 1 follower at day 1. This happens because you are Ame.
  • The final/fifth "Chat & Chill" stream, "Imaginary Dreamers", involves KAngel talking about how she had an Imaginary Friend as a child to make up for her lack of actual friends. The Omega Ending implies that P-chan themself is that imaginary friend.
    • Similarly, the third "Nerd Talk" stream has her talking about a movie heavily implied to be Fight Club. The big twist of that movie is that Tyler Durden is the narrator's split personality, similar to how this game's big twist is that P-chan is an imaginary friend.
  • In one of KAngel's streams titled "Up and Down" and when she was "feeling nauseous", she tells the audience that she would become a meme if she threw up right now, and that she would rather die than to be the "girl who puked on camera". Come the "Internet Overdose" ending, and that is exactly what happens.
  • If you get Ame to take drugs or she goes insane in a certain ending, it's YOUR screen that distorts. Furthermore, if you fulfill the requirements to get "NEEDY GIRL OVERDOSE" and respond her questions incorrectly, she will kill P-Chan, although the reflection on-screen shows Ame breaking her own PC with a knife. You're playing through Ame's viewpoint.
  • In the English version, the option to have sex with Ame is shown as "***" on the options screen, even though the game uses far ruder words than "sex" regularly. The Japanese version uses "えっちなこと" (Lewd things) to refer to this instead of the usual "セックス" (sex). So why the censorship/ambiguity? Because the option is actually "masturbate".
  • If you have not gotten 10K followers by Night 8, Ame says that she and P-chan are in danger of getting evicted, and brings up the option of her moving back in with her parents, then says "but" as if she has some problem with that while refusing to elaborate. Turns out she does not have a good relationship with her parents- in fact, they are much of the reason why Ame is so mentally unstable.
• Funny Schizophrenia: Zigzagged. Some cases of Ame losing it, such as attempting to stream Conspiracy 5 or reaching 100 affection are Played for Laughs. Most cases however, her breakdowns are played very seriously.
• Gameplay Protagonist, Story Protagonist: You play as P-chan, a Featureless Protagonist who sets up Ame's streams, makes most of the decisions for her, and has the power of her fate in their hands. But the story is really about Ame herself and her journey to become the biggest streamer in the world, as well as her struggles with her mental issues. Notably, Ame is the mascot and the one on the covers and promotional material (along with her alter-ego KAngel) while P-chan is nowhere to be seen. However, this becomes subverted with The Reveal that P-chan is Ame's other alter-ego, meaning Ame is the protagonist after all.
• Gender-Inclusive Writing: The writer, Nyalra, has stated that P-chan was explicitly written to have no reference to their gender so it is "completely up to player interpretation". Of course, P-chan being an Imaginary Friend of Ame renders the question moot.
• Getting Crap Past the Radar: The Sexy and ASMR category of streams. KAngel technically isn't doing anything inappropriate, except the Sexy 5 stream, which gives you a Game Over before showing it, but the content is clearly suggestive.
• Golden Ending: If you reach day 30 with over a million followers, at least 80 Affection, less than 80 Mental Darkness, and your real-world computer disconnected from the Internet. K-Angel tweets that she will descend from the Internet and become an actual, physically manifested angel. Most other Tweeter users also quit the platform, to live more in the physical world like she does. K-Angel then declares her return, "cuter than ever!", but she receives no response and deletes the tweet, ending Ame's streaming career on a high note.
• Guide Dang It!:
  • All but one of the endings can be achieved in-game. The last, "Happy End World", has one condition that needs external interference that's only hinted at in an in-game text file: disconnect your physical computer from the Internet before playing the final day that would otherwise lead to Unhappy End World.
  • There are two endings that have variations to them. The variant of "Utopian Parody" requires an event that occurs in Day 15, and answering a question correctly on Day 30. The variant of "Needy Girl Overdose" is even worse; after answering the multiple choice questions, you have a very short amount of time to type an answer to a question. The game is looking for anything that's at least a hundred characters but it must have Ame's name somewhere in it. Due to the length and time requirements, you need to copy and paste the answer, but if you do that without editing the pasted message first, the game will know you copied and declare your answer wrong.
  • The affection stat seems purely benign, but in reality raising it too high will lead to an early game over. The tooltip that hints a negative outcome from extreme affection is easily missed. The implication was that you're raising her affection of an Imaginary Friend, but you don't even find this out until the Omega Ending as it is the big twist.
  • Obtaining all of the images on the gallery is incredibly daunting, because some pictures will usually go unseen in a typical walkthrough, and obtaining them boils down to reading a guide and/or trial-and-error gameplay (for example, file 012 can be triggered by spending time with Ame, but it also requires you to do this with her affection below 40 and at night). They're also random based on post-action Tweets, so some RNG is required.
• Humans Are Flawed:
  • Overall, the internet community, and "humans" by extent, are portrayed this way in the game: There are plenty of commenters who will act like jerks to Ame and insult or mock her for reasons varying from jealousy, her not catering to their tastes and just being outright assholes. At the same time, there are viewers and followers of Ame who genuinely care for her, become concerned when she engages in further destructive behavior and still support her even after her problematic personality starts surfacing. This is further showcased in the "Internet Overdose" ending where in spite of her spiral being initially mocked by her haters, later on one of the comments outright say that even they are concerned for what is happening to her and in the "There Are No Angels" ending where the entire in-game chat is horrified when Ame livestreams her suicide and begs her not to do it..
  • As the game delves deeper into Ame's personality and mental issues, we find out that she is mentally unstable and behaviorally problematic to the detriment of herself and others, but she still has a shred of sanity left, since she can sometimes live up to it and do something decent (e.g. visiting a young girl's home with some genuine kindness even if it's mostly a P.R. stunt). She is also capable of standing up on her own and end up with some genuinely happy or bittersweet endings, but all such scenarios involve her giving up streaming altogether, being forced to do so or, at the very least, taking part in real-life interpersonal interaction. At the very end, the most flawed person here is actually Ame herself, and no amount of praise or adoration will magically fix all her problems.
• Image Board: You can browse /st/, a knockoff of Japanese anonymous textboards like 2channel, for ideas, but the results won't be entirely beneficial for Ame. The western localization makes it very reminiscent of boards such as 4chan's /vt/ channel.
• Instant Humiliation: Just Add YouTube!: The "Internet Overdose" end features an accidentally self-filmed example. KAngel was already undergoing some severe stress and had a Creator Breakdowninvoked on stream where she confessed her suicidal feelings beforehand. But in this stream, when she gets some hateful comments, she blows up at her audience for almost the whole stream... and then it ends with her vomiting on camera. She quickly becomes "puke girl" to the rest of the Internet and is harassed by people who will not let her forget it, which only further drives her Sanity Slippage and leads to her having a complete mental breakdown.
• Interface Screw: If Ame ends up having a mental breakdown or a drug overdose, the computer interface will distort; inverted colors, multiple pop-ups of people ridiculing her, etc. Additionally, the ability to decide what (or whether or not) to stream is sometimes taken away from the player, as Ame takes control.
• Last Lousy Point:
  • A content update introduces the "Internet Runaway Angel: Be Invoked" ending, which requires you to reach the maximum subscriber count of 9,999,999. It's impossible to reach for most normal walkthroughs and requires a dedicated strategy for it to work. Even worse, obtaining this ending is now required to get the Omega Ending.
  • The "Do You Love Me?" ending can easily become a blockade to a 100% Completion run. You have to reach 1 million followers, have both the affection and mental darkness being over 80 and trigger the "Internet Angel 5" stream. On top of that, you'll have to survive all the way to Day 30. This will often result in complications with other endings and Non-Standard Game Overs and requires dedicated streaming strategies to achieve.
• Late-Arrival Spoiler:
  • The Needy Girl Overdose official anthology consistently shows Ame alone within her apartment with seemingly nobody else living there. Her bed, shown in Chapter 2, also has sex toys on it, all of which indicate that P-Chan is an Imaginary Friend and not a real person.
  • P-Chan's appearance in each manga adaptation varies heavily. Sometimes they simply don't exist, while in other times they are a deformed-style cat, a man with a cat's head or even a prestigious producer with an established background story, all but implying they're all imaginations in Ame's head.
• Lyrical Dissonance:
  • "Internet Overdose" sounds like your average cheery and peppy anime-like theme song... which personifies the Internet as a destructive addiction that encourages you to abandon your friends, family, and society and openly explains how it will make you go crazy. Naturally, this serves as a distillation of the game itself and its themes, which explore Internet addiction and its dangers in the form of a mentally ill Internet streamer.
  • "Internet Yamero" is just as upbeat as "Internet Overdose" but has lyrics that are arguably even darker, as Ame sings about how even though she's well aware how her excessive internet usage is stunting her mental and emotional growth, she doesn't care because the brief dopamine rush she gets every time she's noticed is worth it in her eyes.
• Mission from God:
  • In the "Welcome to my Religion" ending KAngel starts thinking of herself as a real angel and changes her outfit and behavior to alike a cult leader.
  • In the "Rainbow Girl" ending KAngel speaks directly with God (who is actually the player), thanking them for guiding her the entire time.
• Mood Whiplash: The Anthology Manga starts out with light-hearted interactions between KAngel and her fans in Chapter 1 and 2. However, the third and 4th chapters tackle way more serious topics and explicitly show the darker or more depressing aspects of the game on its panels.
• Mushroom Samba: If Ame takes a drug, the screen will distort very rapidly before reverting back to normal, then she will tweet her experiences on the drug. If the drug taken is "Magic Paper" (LSD), then there's a Diary describing the hallucinations she experienced on her desktop per use, and the fifth usage will result in a Non-Standard Game Over consisting of a rather intense hallucination. This also happens on a far more horrifying scale in her descent into insanity during the "Internet Overdose" ending after she starts overdosing on Dyslem.
• Netorare:
  • During the game, you can also get KAngel to host a stream where she roleplays her cucking the audience. There is also a Tweeter post where Ame talks about going to Nakano and buying NTR doujins.
  • In the "Cucked" ending, KAngel ditches P-chan for a famous streamer wearing a horse mask (However, if the Omega Ending were to be believed then this is Averted and she actually found a love interest).
  • In the "NERDY GIRL OVERLOAD" ending, after achieving fame and being invited to live in a penthouse with other famous streamers, Ame leaves P-chan for a famous streamer, similarly to how she does in the "Cucked" ending. However, it ends differently than that ending in that it's revealed that the streamer was cheating on Ame and only using her to get ahead, leading to her having a breakdown as KAngel and vowing to cleanse the world of men.
• Nice Character, Mean Actor: KAngel plays up her cuteness on streams as much as she can, but Ame in the private account regularly complains about what she has to do for appeal.
• No Antagonist: There is no outside character trying to keep Ame from achieving happiness and success as a streamer- in the end, Ame is Her Own Worst Enemy and the antagonist is her own psychosis. P-chan can abuse her, make her exacerbate her mental issues, and even give her a Suicide Dare — and Ame herself emotionally manipulates and abuses P-chan in some routes — but as the Omega Ending reveals, P-chan is her Imaginary Friend, so Ame is still abusing herself. The closest thing to an outside antagonist are mean commenters, trolls, and cyberbullies who play a role in dragging her mental state down in some routes but are more of a nebulous outside threat. Despite Ame's abusive mom and primary school bullies are the ones that helped develop her psychosis, they never appear and are only occasionally referred to, and the game makes it very clear that she has to get out of her psychosis herself with no other easy target to blame for it.
• Nothing Is Scarier: In the "Labor is Evil" ending. 70 days after Ame decides she and P-chan should quit streaming to live normal lives, Ame disappears after work with no hints as to what happened to her outside of an ending notification that says "Did she seem happy living a normal life?"
• Not Quite the Right Thing:
  • At first, one might think aiming for Ame's goal of a million subscribers while keeping a balance to her stress and mental darkness level is the right answer to reach a "good ending", and while one of the endings obtainable by doing that, "Happy End World", is (ambiguously) happy, the other one,"(Un)happy End World", is bittersweet at best and an outright downer at worst, showing that her reaching her goal didn't truly fulfill her desires and she isn't satisfied with the life she is living.
  • There's also raising her affection to an excessive level. What the game doesn't tell you is the stat weighs as much as Mental Darkness, and if you raise it too high it instantly nets you a Non-Standard Game Over, meaning that you have to lower it by using Dinder once in a while. There's an in-game explanation why this happens, but you won't even actually find out until you reach the end of the game: the "Affection" stat is for P-Chan, an imaginary friend. By raising her affection too high, you are making her subsuming in her delusions.
• Number of the Beast: Ame in one tweet jokes that "my social security is 666".
• Ojou Ringlets: During a random JINE event, you have the option to get Ame to change her hair to "anime drills".
• Omega Ending: The "Comment te dire adieu" ending/achievement can only be obtained after viewing every other ending in the game.
• Opt Out: The description for the "Happy End World" achievement is "Quit the internet." To unlock it, you need the same requirements as "(Un)happy End World", which is hit 1 million followers with high Affection and low Mental Darkness, but then you have to turn off your internet connection before starting Day 30. Here, Ame will quit streaming after finding success.
• Overly Long Name: OMGkawaiiAngel, which in-universe is frequently shortened to KAngel.
• Parody Product Placement: The Sponsorship streams are basically used to criticize content creators who take sponsorships without actually having tried the product in question purely for the money. In them, KAngel shows off products on stream without trying them out first, which always results in embarrassment for her. The natto cola tastes terrible and causes her to do a Spit Take; the makeup is ineffective yet horribly overpriced; the mobile game is shutting down on the very day she plays it; the "get-rich-quick" website is a scam; and the figurine of her has overly-lewd underwear that she doesn't actually have.
• The Password Is Always "Swordfish": The password to Ame's streaming account is the same as her username plus "2".
• Pink Is Erotic: Whenever P-Chan engages in "xxx" with Ame, she will get off her chair, walk out of view of the webcam, and hearts can be seen while sound effects play. During this time, the screensaver is shown to be pink and the bed icon is shown to be pink as well.
• Press X to Die:
  • Streaming the fifth level of the Sexy or Breakdown topics will immediately result in a bad end, as KAngel presumably gets banned from Metube for streaming illegal content.
  • Another way to get an immediate bad end is saying "Okay" when a mentally-darkened Ame asks for charcoal. Unlike the other endings, the game continues right after the "Game Over" screen.
  • The October 27 content update adds two more.
    • Overdose on any drug after finishing Netlore 5, and you will get a new hang-out location named "Galactic Express." Going there results in a stream where KAngel boards the Galactic Express, although what actually happened in that ending is ambiguous, especially unlike "Rainbow Girl" it can trigger with a drug overdose of any kind.
    • Reach 1 Million subscribers with the stress cap broken, and the Internet Angel 5 stream is replaced with a modified stream that puts Ame into a 2-day long breakdown that ends with her committing suicide on stream by slitting her neck.
• Psychological Horror: Appearances are deceptive — there's a reason why this game has often been put into the same barrel as things like Doki Doki Literature Club! or OMORI. Ame's incredibly disturbing potential mental breakdown(s) aside, the game portrays mental illness and Japanese internet culture to chillingly life-like degrees, and doesn't hold back portraying their darkest aspects.
• Raising Sim: The player's job is to keep track of Ame's Stress, Affection, and Mental Darkness meters, in addition to her avatar's Follower count, by both moderating her livestreams and supporting Ame offline.
• Random Number God: During one particular stream, Ame will comment on the wonkiness of the RNG that governs the Demon Negotiation mechanic for the Shin Megami Tensei series. Fittingly enough, its associated in-game achievement, "SMT", is also governed by RNG, starting off with a 1% chance of triggering whenever Ame ends a night with over 80 Mental Darkness, but jumps to a maximum of 5.95% after unlocking at least 16 of the endings.
• Red and Black and Evil All Over: Not quite evil, but during the "Dark Angel" ending, KAngel dresses in a red and black version of her costume to vent on stream and cuts her neck live.
• Replay Mode: Reaching an ending and reselecting the save file allows you to rewind to the beginning of a previous day, allowing you to unlock different endings without having to start from Day 1 (although the option to Start Over is still available).
• Sanity Slippage: Let Ame become too stressed, too dependent on you, or too depressed, and... well, it probably won't be a pleasant sight.
• Secret Identity: "KAngel" is this for Ame, as she is a persona Ame created to become popular on social media. She even changes her personality to be deemed more palatable to her "nerd" audience.
• Self-Deprecation: Ame is aware that she's Book Dumb, not being a school graduate, and makes fun of herself for not being as smart as P-chan. Her low self-esteem gets more and more Played for Drama further into the game.
• Self-Harm: If overstressed but not at her limit, Ame can force P-chan to help her cut herself, followed by a forced KAngel stream where she tells her followers to seek help if they're considering this and that they are not alone. It's also implied that this isn't the first time she cut her wrists.
• Selfie Fiend: Ame and KAngel regularly post selfies of themselves. It's one of Ame's Idle Animations.
• Sex Sells: The Sexy streams give some of the biggest contributions to followers, but if you're too reliant on them KAngel will end up pushing her boundaries too far and get banned for inappropriate content. And Ame's stress levels skyrocket every stream, too.
• Sexier Alter Ego: Ame can start thinking that KAngel is this, and wears her costume at one point when sleeping with P-chan. She even also asks P-chan whether they think she or KAngel is sexier in a DM, not to mention all the provocative streams that are conducted while she is in her KAngel persona.
• Sexy Discretion Shot: Whenever P-Chan engages in xxx with Ame, she will get off her chair, walk out of view of the webcam, and hearts can be seen while sound effects play. This actually serves two purposes- in addition to the expected one, it conceals that Ame is really masturbating because P-Chan does not actually exist.
• Shown Their Work: If you're familiar with online streaming culture (and many things that occur around it on social media) then everything that occurs online in-universe, down to the Image Board comments, will seem very authentic.
• Slut-Shaming: Commenters will sometimes insult KAngel by calling her a "slut" or a "whore" on Tweeter and Metube.
• Soundtrack Dissonance: KAngel's on-stream suicide in the "Dark Angel" ending is accompanied by the 8-bit rendition of "INTERNET OVERDOSE" just like in the standard 1 million celebration stream.
• Stress Vomit: During the start of the "INTERNET OVERDOSE" mental breakdown sequence, Ame will start puking rainbow-colored vomit over a bunch of hateful comments thrown against her, twice even on stream. People start harassing and doxxing her over it, and the rest is history.
• That Man Is Dead: One of the darkest endings in the game involves a blood-splattered KAngel streaming while holding a memorial photo of Ame, as she hallucinates badly for most of the day, presumably also to death.
• There Are No Therapists: Technically averted, you can explicitly tell Ame to visit a therapist at the hospital. Though it's treated like other going outside event and only changes the stats. Ame never seeks therapy despite many events that would require one.
• Through the Eyes of Madness: Once the implications that "P-Chan" is nothing but a fictional character in Ame's mind gets out, the whole game's narrative becomes this. When Ame takes a drug or is suffering from hallucinations, it's also your screen that distorts.
• Timed Mission: When the game begins, you have until Day 10 to get KAngel to 10,000 subscribers. Once you hit that, you have until Day 30 to help her achieve her dreams of internet stardom and get her to 1 million subscribers.
• Title Drop:
  • One of the endings is titled "Needy Girl Overdose", the Japanese name of this game. It's an event that triggers at Day 30 where you'll have to answer Ame's questions correctly or she will destroy her own computer.
  • The darkest and longest ending of the game is titled "Internet Overdose", the theme tune of this game.
• Title Theme Drop:
  • If KAngel has been pretty successful, near the end of the month Ame excitedly links you to a MV she helped produce — "INTERNET OVERDOSE".
  • The secret "Happy End World" ending plays a MIDI version of the game's theme tune.
• Tomato Surprise: The game has you play as P-Chan, the lover and producer of the titular streamer Ame/KAngel who helps her with her streams, talks to her, and takes her out on dates to places that she tweets about afterwards. The Omega Ending reveals that “P-Chan” is just an Imaginary Friend that Ame made to cope with her extreme loneliness, and she has been doing everything by herself with no one to help her.
• Transformation Sequence: Ame's transformation into OMGkawaiiAngel involves a flashy sequence where she changes her hair and outfit.
• Two-Faced Aside: Whenever Ame does something noteworthy enough to post about it on Tweeter, she posts it on her KAngel account with a bubbly, charming caption and then usually follows it up on her private account with a more disdainful or negative aside.
• Verbal Backspace: One of the stream topics that can be unlocked is a sponsorship deal. In the first rank of it, KAngel drinks a soda on-stream but ends up spitting it out while insulting the taste, then quickly has to say that was a mistake and it tasted "better" than expected to avoid losing the sponsor. A similar goof happens when she's sponsored by a make-up company and realizes it's even worse than the bargain brands.
• Video Game Cruelty Potential: You can make P-chan an asshole who essentially pimps their girlfriend out for content, says cold things to her, doesn't comfort her in her time of need, and leaves her on read.
• Video Game Cruelty Punishment: Keeping Ame's affection level at 0 leads to the "Cucked" ending, in which she leaves P-chan for a popular streamer.
• Woman Scorned:
  • Ignore her texts and Ame gets increasingly angry. Do it too many times and you get a Game Over.
  • The "Nerdy Girl Overload" ending sees Ame leave for a penthouse and hook up with another streamer, only to find that he's been cheating on her with another female streamer and be rightfully furious. While the outcome isn't shown, the chainsaws that pop up on the sides of the screen and rev up with each angry and regretful tweet imply a messy outcome.
• Yaoi Fangirl: If you take Ame to Ikebukuro, she will make a post about buying BL and making P-chan read her "fav doujins". She also makes reference to her love of BL as KAngel in a Super Chat reply in her Netlore 4 stream.

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