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The Caligula Effect: Overdose

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Critic score4 critics
First release
May 17, 2018
Publisher
FuRyu, NIS America
Genres
Role-playing (RPG), Adventure · Action, Science fiction

Mobius. An idyllic world that exists for the sake of letting people forget about the pain and problems of reality. In this world created by a sentient vocaloid program, μ, reality and fantasy has become blurred, allowing people to relive their high school years in bliss. Yet in this seemingly beautiful and perfect world, something is amiss. Escape from this false paradise with your fellow students and return to reality in The Caligula Effect: Overdose!

Also known as COD.exe

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Storyline
The Caligula Effect: Overdose is an enhanced retelling of a role-playing game set inside a virtual reality world called Mobius. Created to shelter troubled people from the pain of their real lives, Mobius traps its inhabitants in an idyllic high school existence, where they are made to relive the same three years of adolescence over and over without end. The protagonist is one of the few to awaken to the truth: that this comforting paradise is an artificial prison overseen by a god-like vocal program known as Mu. Refusing to remain, they join forces with Aria, the former keeper of Mobius, to found the Go-Home Club, a band of students determined to break free of the simulation and return to reality. Standing against them are the Ostinato Musicians, devoted followers who serve Mu and brand the Go-Home Club as dangerous traitors. What follows is a struggle to escape a beautiful lie and reclaim the harsh truth of the real world.Read more

The Caligula Effect: Overdose is an enhanced retelling of a role-playing game set inside a virtual reality world called Mobius. Created to shelter troubled people from the pain of their real lives, Mobius traps its inhabitants in an idyllic high school existence, where they are made to relive the same three years of adolescence over and over without end. The protagonist is one of the few to awaken to the truth: that this comforting paradise is an artificial prison overseen by a god-like vocal program known as Mu. Refusing to remain, they join forces with Aria, the former keeper of Mobius, to found the Go-Home Club, a band of students determined to break free of the simulation and return to reality. Standing against them are the Ostinato Musicians, devoted followers who serve Mu and brand the Go-Home Club as dangerous traitors. What follows is a struggle to escape a beautiful lie and reclaim the harsh truth of the real world.

Release dates
PlayStation 4
May 17, 2018
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Mar 12, 2019
PlayStation 4
Mar 12, 2019
All 10 release dates
Nintendo Switch
Mar 12, 2019
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Mar 15, 2019
PlayStation 4
Mar 15, 2019
Nintendo Switch
Mar 15, 2019
PlayStation 4
Mar 22, 2019
Nintendo Switch
Mar 22, 2019
PlayStation 5
May 30, 2023
Game modes
Single player
Perspective
Third person
Keywords
jrpg, turn-based combat

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56

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