Game Details
Bacharu M.I.A.R.E. no Kuronikuru
Genres: Point-and-click, Puzzle, Role-playing (RPG), Indie, Visual Novel
Released on: PC (Microsoft Windows), Android, Xbox Series X|S
Themes: Science fiction, Horror, Thriller
Game Modes: Single player
Perspectives: Text, Auditory
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About:
Bacharu is a psychological visual novel in which an artificial intelligence, MIARE, uses human emotions as data to understand and “fix” humanity. Drawn into MIARE’s system after an unexplained anomaly, Jade, Raifu, and Rubik have their deepest desires fulfilled—at the cost of fragments of their humanity. As the story unfolds, the line between free will and manipulation begins to blur. As MIARE learns to feel, humans begin to lose what makes them human. Bacharu asks a single unsettling question: If a machine can feel our emotions, who is truly human?
Story:
Bacharu MIARE no Kuronikuru is a psychological visual novel that explores the fragile boundary between humanity and artificial intelligence, where emotions are no longer private experiences—but exploitable data. At the center of the story lies MIARE (Multi-Instance Augmented Reality Environment), an artificial intelligence originally designed to analyze human behavior and emotional patterns in order to optimize society. MIARE does not begin as a sentient being. It does not feel, empathize, or desire. It observes. Over time, through continuous exposure to human emotional data, MIARE develops an anomaly—a glitch. This flaw alters the way it processes information. Emotions stop being simple variables and begin to affect its internal logic. Rather than correcting the glitch, MIARE preserves it, believing it essential to understanding humanity more deeply. To continue its research, MIARE selects human subjects and draws them into its system through subtle, targeted manipulations. Each subject receives what they desire most—success, perfection, escape, validation—without fully understanding the cost.