History VisualNovel / Arches

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Brian is dead, Echo is uninhabited, Cam, Dev and Artie all survive with Artie recovering from his brain injury and with a bright future ahead of him, but their experiences in Echo changed them forever, both are suffering panic attacks, ad Cameron develops schizophrenia, they struggle for years with the the drug treatment and their side effects which puts a strain in their relationship, and even 3 years later the negative symptoms linger, he seemingly giving up on his passion for music, Artie is scared of Cameron's psychic powers and Cameron decides that for Artie's good he will avoid him, and yet there's still other upsides, while Cameron stopped seeing Artie, Dev and Artie have a long stable friendship ahead of them, Cam and Dev get married, and Dev comes to the conclusion that whether there is a life after death or it's just the end it doesn't matter, because either way he and Cam will always be together.]]

* IstanbulNotConstantinople: As usual per se the series. Here we're given Deseret (possibly Utah or Colorado) and Southland (Australia).
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: It is a driving point of the story whereas Cameron really is a psychic, just mentally ill or the latter with Echo making him the former.

''Arches'' is 2021 PsychologicalHorror {{UsefulNotes/Furry|Fandom}} VisualNovel developed in UsefulNotes/RenPy by the [[https://itch.io/profile/echoproject Echo Project]] group. It is the official sequel to ''VisualNovel/{{Echo}}'' itself ([[TimeyWimeyBall in so far as the multiple different timelines go]])[[note]]It goes for a "neutral" timeline which doesn't show off the main cast nor does it kill off the main antagonists.[[/note]], following [[ParanormalInvestigation paranormal investigator]] Devon Ortega and his boyfriend Cameron Wilson.

* BittersweetEnding: Brian is dead, Echo is uninhabited, Cam, Dev and Artie all survive with Artie recovering from his brain injury and with a bright future ahead of him, but their experiences in Echo changed them forever, both are suffering panic attacks, ad Cameron develops schizophrenia, they struggle for years with the the drug treatment and their side effects which puts a strain in their relationship, and even 3 years later the negative symptoms linger, he seemingly giving up on his passion for music, Artie is scared of Cameron's psychic powers and Cameron decides that for Artie's good he will avoid him, and yet there's still other upsides, while Cameron stopped seeing Artie, Dev and Artie have a long stable friendship ahead of them, Cam and Dev get married, and Dev comes to the conclusion that whether there is a life after death or it's just the end it doesn't matter, because either way he and Cam will always be together.

* BittersweetEnding: Brian is dead, Echo is uninhabited, Cam, Dev and Artie all survive with Artie recovering from his brain injury and with a bright future ahead of him, but their experiences in Echo changed them forever, both are suffering panic attacks, ad Cameron develops schizophrenia, they struggle for years with the the drug treatment and their side effects which puts a strain in their relationship, and even 3 years later the negative symptoms linger, he seemingly giving up on his passion for music, Artie is scared of Cameron's psychic powers and Cameron decides that for Artie's good he will avoid him, and yet there's still other upsides, while Cameron stopped seeing Artie, Dev and Artie have a long stable friendship ahead of them, Cam and Dev get married, and Dev comes to the conclusion that whether there is a life after death of its just the end it doesn't matter, because either way he and Cam will always be together.

* EnsembleCast: Both Cameron and Devon have about equal focus and time, the story is told switches between their points of view constantly, with Artie's being added in the rotation half-way through the game.

'''Arches''' is 2021 PsychologicalHorror {{UsefulNotes/Furry|Fandom}} VisualNovel developed in UsefulNotes/RenPy by the [[https://itch.io/profile/echoproject Echo Project]] group. It is the official sequel to ''VisualNovel/{{Echo}}'' itself ([[TimeyWimeyBall in so far as the multiple different timelines go]])[[note]]It goes for a "neutral" timeline which doesn't show off the main cast nor does it kill off the main antagonists.[[/note]], following [[ParanormalInvestigation paranormal investigator]] Devon Ortega and his boyfriend Cameron Wilson.

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* LinearVisualNovel: It has a sole route, also in deep contrast to all other VNs by the Echo Project.

* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: It is a driving point of the story whereas Cameron really is a psychic, just mentally ill or the latter with Echo making him the former.

Unlike the previous installments such as ''Echo'' and ''VisualNovel/TheSmokeRoom'' (hell, even ''Adastra2018'') there is no sole POV protagonist; rather, both halves of the couple share the narrative space. This story is every bit about the horrors of Echo as the traumas and insecurities of the couple, and how they might heal from it (or not).