
A masterclass in indie design, Being a DIK - Season 1 delivers an unforgettable experience from start to finish.
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Verdict
96%
Steam
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IGDB
Verdict score based on confidence-adjusted Steam reviews?
Overwhelmingly Positive on Steam (96% positive from 12K reviews)
Standout indie gem
Limited professional critic coverage
A young man, from a low-income family, moves away from his widowed father and his summer love to attend college at Burgmeister & Royce. As he is cast into freshman life and persuaded to join the up-and-coming fraternity Delta Iota Kappa, he'll be exposed to a new world filled with conflicts, alcohol, drugs and sex. Being a DIK is a choice driven adult Visual Novel (VN). In this game you play as a young male attending college and the choices you make will affect the characters around you and shape your character and adventure. Will you choose to play as a nice, caring and romantic guy or as someone more straightforward and daring? The girls in the game like different and may or may not be attracted to you based on your choices. Can you resist the temptations along the way to get the girl of your dreams or will you relent and just...experiment? Hey, it's college after all! The game is a Visual Novel and it's made more interactive through optional mini-games and free-roam events where you can explore the current environment. You can purchase boosters, cheats and skills to make the mini-games easier to pass and find hidden items that unlock special lewd artwork and more. Being a DIK Season 1 includes Episodes 1-4: Episode 1 - The Initiation Episode 2 - Maggot Brothers Episode 3 - 100% Episode 4 - When worlds collide Season 1 is packed with more than 361 animated scenes and over 8000 images. You can expect an 8-12 hour game that can be replayed numerous times to experience different paths and girls. Being a DIK: Season 2, and future seasons, will be a continuation to the story and released and sold separately as DLC.

Runs well on modern hardware.
Last updated 2d ago
Aside from the sex scenes etc., the story is really amazing. The characters, the dialogues, the suspense of the scenes. Everything is well done!!
Amazing game—my favorite in the genre. The protagonist feels very genuine and has enough depth to make him a strong lead for the story, which is also top-notch for this type of game and with many different choice implications. It really draws you in and makes you invested in your relationships with the girls. Most of them are interesting as well, making it worthwhile to try different choices to win them over. The minigames are fine—they’re not my favorite part—but the scenes are excellent, with brilliant character designs and decent animations. Each character feels unique, and overall, it’s the most worthwhile game in the genre in my opinion. 9/10
There comes a time in every man's life when he needs to look in the mirror and ask himself how exactly he got to that place. You have to truly reflect on the decisions you have made along the path that led you to the place of your final reckoning. It's still not clear, even to me, why I bought this game. There's nothing wrong with it, with those nudity scenes it's perfectly stellar. But when you look at it as a choice, you realize how damaged I and the rest of humanity are. What prompted me to buy a game like this? What part of my soul felt so empty that I thought a virtual girl could fill it? When I look into the infinite depths of my own loneliness, I see a pool of reflection. My face is not there, there is no face. There are only tears in that puddle, tears of shame, loss and confusion. If it were up to me again, I know I would buy it in a heartbeat, I know I would load it up and skip the countless window prompts so I could get a single bite of the pornographic images that are available online. However, despite the abundance of naked virtual women waiting in the digital sphere, I chose to purchase this game and dedicate hours of my life to it. That time will never return to me, it is lost just like my soul and like time I fear never to find it again. There is something broken inside me, something that desires sensations beyond my reach, something that moans every night knowing that there is no real princess, it is simply an illusion. In my quest to find meaning in this long life, I searched for the colorful lights and sounds of a world that only exists in a pop-up window on my computer. I'm not sure what the moral of this review is, I'm not sure of my place within the universe, all I know is that no amount of virtual girls can cure the big rot that has plagued me
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