Lily's Day Off

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Lily's Day Off.

What can be said about Lily's Day Off?

...Quite a bit, actually. For starters, it's a Visual Novel available on Steam, iOS, and Android, among other platforms. What sets Lily's Day Off apart from other visual novels, however, is the story... or rather, the relative lack thereof.

The only consistent detail between each story in Lily's Day Off (and its sequel, Lily's Night Off, but that's a whole other can of worms) is the fact that the protagonist (that is, you) meets an idol known as Lilypad Lily. From there, the story can branch off in nigh-unpredictable ways. In one route, you could be Lily's manager. In another, a serial killer. In yet another, you end up becoming Lily's servant. And that's to say nothing of its sequel, Lily's Night Off, which has even more and even weirder endings than the first game.

Tropes used in Lily's Day Off include:

Beach Episode: Night Off‍'‍s DLC takes place on a beach.
Breaking the Fourth Wall: Lily, Nym, and Vicky do this after the player attains the Secret True Ending of Lily's Night Off, thanking the player for playing the game and apologizing for the developer's "dark sense of humor".
Downer Ending: Many endings in both games are this, the most notable of which is the Secret True Ending in Lily's Night Off.
I Call It "Vera": A chainsaw, affectionately (and rather uncreatively) nicknamed "Mr. Chainsaw", is present in both games. There's also the so-called "Lucky Knife", which is only present in the first game and only used in said game's "Insane Asylum" ending.
- In Day Off, the protagonist doesn't even prepare Mr. Chainsaw before Lily offers to become the protagonist's eventual successor in exchange for her life, resulting in the "Murdering Duo" ending. In the "Serial Murderer Lily" ending of Night Off, however, Mr. Chainsaw is used... on you, Lily's hundredth victim.
Multiple Choice Past: Depending on your choices, you could be a serial killer, a Hikikomori, Lily's manager, Lily's Childhood Friend, and in no less than three instances, a time traveler.
- Similarly, in Lily's Night Off, Lily herself could be a serial killer (oh, how the tables have turned...), a cat-eared alien, a vampire, a Yandere, a Magical Girl, a bank robber, or your comatose wife. The same still applies to you to an extent.
Multiple Endings: The highlight of both games, not only because of their abundance and relative ease of access (compared to other games with multiple endings, at least), but also because of just how weird they can get. Day Off has sixteen endings, and Night Off has eighteen (twenty-two if you buy the Beach Episode DLC).
- And if that's not enough, a majority of the endings in both games have no less than one of the main characters dying.
No Name Given: The player is never given an opportunity to name the protagonist, so said protagonist remains this, as do several minor characters.