Digital: A Love Story VS Godville

For your consideration for Uplink successors, the BBS era visual novel Digital: A Love Story. https://scoutshonour.com/digital/ Excellent visual novel you can finish over a weekend or two. - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

More broadly I'm sure there are many good freeware and/or demo dating sims to start out in the genre although I'm not versed enough to recommend any offhand (unless you count Digital: a Love Story). Source: about 1 year ago

Digital: A Love Story is a pretty unique experience set in the dial-up BBS days before public internet. Source: almost 2 years ago

First of all, consider the world of Interactive Fiction! Ever play 9:05? Give it a shot, promise it won't take long. Digital a Love Story, is another take on the genre. There's even a traditional VN as a sequel! Source: about 2 years ago

For something more technically simplistic, but a lot more plot-driven, try Digital: A Love Story. That one is a favorite of mine, and actually made me cry. Source: about 2 years ago

I believe https://godvillegame.com/ is very close to what you are aiming at. And they have pre-moderation that takes months (that is, your game has to have that much time). But apart from that I was enjoying this game for around 4 years and creating content was maybe the most fun part of it, even as only 2-5% of the creations were accepted. Source: over 2 years ago

Godville (https://godvillegame.com) seems inspired by it, but taken to 11. You can play as actively as you want, but you can also close the tab and not return for years, and your character will happily quest/level up/buy/sell/eat/fish/heal/revive/change guilds/get drunk/etc. On its own. IIRC it even allows spending money if that's your thing. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago