Closed Game

A 2015 H Game, written by Izumi Bany'a(of Kuroinu fame) and art by Sei Shoujo(of STARLESS and Bible Black fame). As you can expect of the first, it's brutal. Of the second, it is both erotic sometimes and twisted and erotic in other moments

In a futuristic, post-apocalyptical earth, most of the humans now live in a Earth depleted of natural resources, and are denominated Earthlings, while a small minority lives on a space station floating above the planet called Caellum Orbus, and are denominated Heaveners. Tougo Magnarten is an oprhan Earthling living a humble life as mechanic. His best friend is Celicia, a fellow orphan who became a bounty hunter after the local sheriff, George Mitchell, saw her shooting abilities on a contest. Tougo is constantly arguing with Celicia over the dangers of her profession, and is oblivious to the fact she is romantically interested on him.

Tougo life changes suddenly when the three are attacked inside a restaurant. Tougo is gravely injured but wakes up completely healed, but finds himself inside some kind of isolated complex. Soon he meets Celicia, George, and three other people who were also kidnapped to this strange place, all of these women.

Not long after, Celicia's sister Celine, which had been adopted by Heaveners and have not been by Tougo and Celicia since, appears through a hologram, and explains what is the reason they are there: a contest known as Closed Game is about to begin and they are the participants, the ultimate prize the reward of living in Caelum Orbs, in luxury. But, as it turns out, losing the game has lethal consequences, and certainly the odds are not in favour of the Earthlings.

Developed by Empress. Published in the West by JAST USA.


 * Absurdly Youthful Mother: Justifed since Celine is adopted and Caelum Orbs is said to have advanced medicine able to do basically anything.
 * A Date With Rosie Palms: Celine masturbates while watching other women being raped.
 * And Now For Something Completely Different: You get to pick Celine's choices in who she is going watch be raped. Unlike what you would expect, this has consequences for Tougo.
 * After The End: Though is never said what happenned, aside of resources becoming scarce.
 * Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: Sort of. One of Celine and Michiko's pets is a giant insect of an unespecified species.
 * Bi the Way:
 * Celine openly pleasures herself from watching other women being raped, and has sex with Tougo too in her route.
 * Michiko does it mostly with men but have one scene with one woman too.
 * Crap Saccharine World: For all the good things on Caelum Orbs, the inhabitants are disgusted by sex and it is forbidden. Then again, except for Michiko, which is no angel, they are said to be living pretty happily like that.
 * Downer Ending:
 * If you do not get locked in any route,.
 * Michiko's route..
 * Foreshadowing: In several points of her route, Michiko talks about how Tougo moans "femininely"..
 * Genre Blindness: It doesn't take several stages until the participants realize Closed Game is a show, after being told their suffering is being broadcast all over Caelum Orbs. It's like they never heard of reality shows before.
 * Heads I Win, Tails You Lose: By the time of the forest stage, Tougo concludes that the game is actually no game at all, and Celine had been cheating all the time. The girls had not been losing by being attacked and raped, their suffering was the attraction all along.
 * Heroes Want Redheads: In Michiko's route, Tougo ends up falling for her.
 * Hot Mom: Justified in Michiko's case since her daughter Celine is adopted.
 * Ill Girl: Marielle, which has an unspecified degenerative, and incurable disease, at least for doctors from Earth.
 * Malevolent Masked Men: The gimps, who use gas masks and physically attack the participants in order of raping them.
 * Red Oni, Blue Oni: Celicia is headstrong and agressive and Lacey is open to argument and cool-headed.
 * Sex Sells: Inverted and played straight. Heaveners are generally repulsed by sex, and Closed Game is advertised as a deadly competition. However, once the game starts, after some time it revolves more and more about rape, and according with Michiko that increased intheir interest, though not the point that the act has cased to be forbidden.
 * Tomboy and Girly Girl: Celicia and Celine grew up in different environments and it shows: Celicia is very tomboyish and agressive, and Celine is extremely feminine and tries to be graceful most of the time.
 * Utopia Justifies The Means: In her route, Michiko explains that the purpose of the Closed Game is show how wonderful sex is to Heaveners, who are generally disgusted by the idea of it, the Deadly Game aspect being just a way of attracting viewers without scaring them away with the idea of sex. Considering for how many seasons Closed Game has been likely running, Michiko's head count is likely on the dozens.
 * Villainous Crush: In her route, Michiko seems to develop one for Tougo, and Tougo goes back ad forth thinking if it's just sexual interest or she really likes him..