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From left to right: Ramon, Kalei, Rosita, DJ Roadkill, Mitchelle, and Noel

Repurpose is a multi-part dating sim set in the afterlife; the original Demo released in July 2020, Part 1 released through itch.io in December 2022, Part 2 (and a Steam release) released on December 27, 2023, and Part 3 is currently in development. It's being created by Cereus Garden, a group whose members include Resident Rabbit/Eros (formerly known as Sensei Dezzy), Sam Rose, Sara Krebs, and TJ Lee.

Successfully Kickstarted; Demo on itch.io.


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  • Adam and/or Eve: Hordes, Limbo's antagonistic king of trash, is revealed in some routes to be the original Adam.
  • Afterlife Antechamber: The story starts in one, located in purgatory/limbo. There's tons of abandoned architecture and general gloominess, but there is also some brightness due to the Garden of Eden being relocated there.
  • Artificial Limbs: Mitchelle "Mitts" Moore is an intelligent tomboy who, in one scene, wishes to tinker with some scrap to build herself a new prosthetic hand.
  • Big First Choice: At the end of the game's prologue sequence, the player has to choose whether to live in Heaven, Hell, or Limbo, with some options being inaccessible if they hadn't befriended at least one of the respective afterlife's representatives. The choice immediately following that one determines which love interest's route is chosen.
  • Celestial Bureaucracy: Both demons and angels directly oversee the soul-sorting process, as well as assign and manage roles for souls once they're admitted into Hell or Heaven.
  • Cool Mask: DJ Roadkill, one of the prominent characters of the Purgatory route, is always seen wearing a dead bunny mask (eyes X'd out and a tire tread).
  • Dead to Begin With: The story's protagonist, and every other human in the story's cast, are former mortals whose souls have entered the afterlife.
  • Defector from Paradise: It's stated that humans can willingly choose to remain in Purgatory for eternity, rather than constantly work to earn a place in Heaven or live it up with the psychopaths in Hell.
  • Divine Date: Half of the romanceable characters are the angels and demons meant to help sort you and other recently-deceased humans into Heaven, Hell, or Purgatory.
  • Divine Misfile: To directly quote the game's description, "Rather than being sent to Heaven or Hell, the powers that may be are unable to decide where you should go."
  • Everyone Is Bi: The majority of characters are Bisexual or Pansexual, with Cheri defined as Omnisexual. The exceptions are Noel (Asexual), Rosita (Lesbian, including trans women), and Irene (Heterosexual, including trans men).
  • Garden of Eden: It's currently located within Purgatory, in order to keep it away from mortal hands, and is visited by the main cast.
  • Incompatible Orientation: A relationship with Rosita, who is Lesbian, must be strictly one of friendship if the in-game protagonist identifies as male; trying to tell her that she just "hasn't found the right man yet" will immediately cut to her Bad End.
  • Multiple Endings: Every romanceable character has their own set of endings, usually just dependent on Relationship Values but sometimes also influenced by a specific life-changing decision during their route; for example, Kalei's Best Ending also requires convincing him to take a break.
  • Ontological Mystery: One of the unanswered questions is how you ended up stuck between different afterlives, which not even the Celestial Bureaucracy is aware of. In the prologue, Ramon speculates that it must have been, quote, "a pretty brutal and traumatic death".
  • Secret Character: The Fayebael route requires first viewing the good endings of three different characters, while the Cherubim route requires first playing through the other secret character's route.
  • Story Branching: Following a prologue set in the Afterlife Antechamber, the player is given a Big First Choice of where their soul should head that is dependent on who they bonded with during it: Heaven if they befriended Kalei, Rosita, and/or Mitts; Hell if they befriended Ramon; and remaining in Purgatory if they befriended DJ Roadkill and/or Noel. Once that decision is made, the player can choose whose specific route to follow (including some new options, such as Irene if they went to Hell), and the decisions made during those routes will lead to Multiple Endings.

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