‘College Repackage’ is a visual novel game made by RubyAsba Studios. A short game where you are packing to go to college, sounds simple… right? Well while I was playing it I found that this game is much more than that, with several secrets hiding beneath the surface.
I stumbled across this game while scrolling through Itch one day. I was mostly intrigued by the game engine it was made with; Turbowarp, a modded version of the popular kids coding platform Scratch, AND they made it so it works on mobile! All I can say was that this game pushed beyond this compact coding program.
This game starts off with you waking up in your family’s home. You quickly find out from your dad that today is the day you’re meant to be going to college. What an eventful morning already!
The game is about packing your bags so you can be ready to leave; you need to get things like clothes, snacks, your toolbox, all the essentials! But as I was doing this, I found that I wasn’t only packing to leave, I was also unpacking this character’s past.
GAMEPLAY
I have played this game over and over, trying to find everything I missed the other times. And truly, the character’s history goes deeper than you’d think.
You start the game by being woken up by your dad, you quickly realise that you had forgotten that today is the day that you are to go to college and you need to pack up your things so you are ready! And as you wander the house you can interact with some objects and even talk with your family too!
The game is simple in the sense that you are just going into the different rooms of the house to collect all the things you need. And… that’s it. Oh wait, did I tell you that if you go into the wrong room at a wrong time you can get sometimes be met with something that shouldn’t be there?
On my first playthrough I was playing it normally, I was right at the end and I decided to go back to the bedroom to see if I was maybe missing something, and then I saw it. A human figure stood outside the window, casting a shadow within the room.
And that was not all. On another playthrough I went into the pantry when I wasn’t instructed to, and suddenly the door locked behind me. After a few moments of struggling the screen faded and I was shown a memory. It was set in a school, no pupils or teachers were there, except one. They dared the player character to go hide in the cupboard while the teacher was away, and of course the character went in.
This is what started my theorist brain cogs turning.
Overall Thoughts
From the art to the story, this game is top notch.
I haved played this well over 10 times, just trying to find all the secrets and being emersed into the world.
The game has been in development since 2024, and it got an update on August of 2026, I can tell that so much love has been poured into the game over those years, and I bet the developer with continue to improve it with the same effort that they have for years.
‘College Repackage’ is a quick game where you can either follow the given path where nothing bad happens, or you can make your own path and find all the secrets which make this character the way they are and why this game is a thing.
This game has many layers, and I think I have figured out this character’s story, but I’m gonna leave it to youse to come up with your own theories.
Other Information (from Steam page):
Cost: FREE
Play length: 15 mins~
Tags: Visual Novel, Point and Click, Role-playing, Story game, Choices Matter.
Release Date: 8th December 2024
Platform Availability:
- PC
- Mobile
Both versions can be played in browser or downloaded from itch.io.
| Criteria | Scores | Our Scores |
| Artistic Achievement | 1-5 | 5 |
| Gameplay | 1-5 | 5 |
| Value/Cost | 1-5 | 5 |
| Controls | 1-5 | 4 |
| Length | 1-5 | 5 |
Written By: LouArtStuff
About: Hiya! I’m Lou! I love to play different types of games, read any genre of book, and delve a little too deep into the meaning of anything I see!
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