Reviewing Limerence, an al|together-Inspired Visual Novel

Limerence is a freeware original English-language visual novel by Zalor, a solo independent visual novel writer/developer and commentator. It is written in Ren’Py and was first published on March 5, 2026. Zalor describes it in a brief, poetic introduction on its online home, Itch.io: This is a story of love not quite unrequited but unrealized. Of two souls longing for etheric purity over the grounded. For the subdued comfort of a dreamy haze over the real. It is all that, and a wish granted. Zalor (Itch.io page for Limerence) I read Limerence and will review it here. The title screen. Readers who are familiar with my visual novel reviews (this is my 49th review of a novel I had no role in making) may do a double take upon seeing that I am reviewing a “new” visual novel, noting that a majority of my extant reviews have been of novels published in the 2000s. While I do plan to review some “newer” visual novels in the future, there is a special reason Zalor’s Limerence landed on my…