Echoes: The Lies We Tell Ourselves
by Oldcat
Game Details
- Version
- Episode 3 Public
- Developer
- Oldcat
- Engine
- Ren'Py
- Status
- Ongoing
- Language
- English, Japanese
- Censored
- No
- Updated
- 30 May 2026
About
A film student arrives at Oakheart University hiding behind a persona he built specifically so no one asks about the person underneath. Charming and outgoing on the surface, quietly watching everything from behind the camera underneath, he's more scared of being seen than of anything else on campus.
The story follows his attempt to build something real with six young women who are each carrying their own version of the same problem: secrets, self-deception, and the lies they've gotten used to telling themselves. Whether he can drop the act with any of them, or with himself, depends on choices that push past the performance rather than just around it.
Play centers on conversation and observation as much as pursuit, with the campus setting and its cast doing the work rather than a checklist of scenes. It's built as a visual novel first, so the drama comes from what people won't say out loud rather than from spectacle.
Changelog
- Episode 3 is officially live! In this chapter, Noah must navigate the heavy consequences of his past actions. When words are just masks, the hidden subtext is the only truth. Will you dive deeper into their worlds and risk everything, or step back to protect yourself?
- Episode 2 Public
- The Origin Story: Delve into the memories that shaped Noah. Discover the truth behind the scars he hides from the world.
- Evolving Relationships: Boundaries will be tested. Whether it’s a late-night confession, a chance encounter on campus, or a challenge from a chaotic friend, you will see a new side to Mina, Grace, Roxy, and Elara.
- The Shadow: You can’t run forever. Something—or someone—from the life you left behind is closer than you think.
- The script has changed. Are you ready for the second act?
- Episode 1 Public
- 777 renders and 15 animations
- Over 22693 words of dialogue and story.
- Introduction to all 6 main female characters
- The complete first act of MC's journey
- 15 background music and 71 sound effects
- 2 Lewd replayable events
- Japanese, Simplified Chinese and Thai translations
- And many more systems!
- Fixed the Chinese and Japanese UI lagging problem.
- Fixed the glitch where the character name was displayed incorrectly when changing to another language on the character information and director's notes screen.
- Fixed the issue on the character information screen where if you click on a character card and accidentally move the mouse to another character card, the selected character information would automatically change to the other character.
- Fixed the issue where selecting a filter or character in the gallery screen would force you to select an item in order to close the window.
- Fixed the director's notes system, which at first required dragging the mouse horizontally to read the entire text because it wasn't displayed in full width.
- Episode 1 Demo
- Initial Release
Talk about this game