A Sensei's Story

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About this game

Unhappy with your life? Then see if the grass is truly greener on the other side...of the world! Will you work hard and be the best English teacher you can be? Or, will you mess about and become the bane of the Teach English to Speakers of Other Languages world?

"A Sensei's Story" is a 240,000 word interactive novel by Dom Fella, where your choices control the story. It's entirely text-based—without graphics or sound effects—and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination.

Find out if you have what it takes to teach English in a foreign land, as you live, laugh, and love each day in Japan!

• Play as male or female; straight, gay, bisexual, or asexual
• Experience what it's like to live and work in the Japanese city of Fukuoka
• Make friends, enemies, or lovers out of your fellow co-workers
• Become your eccentric boss's new pet or drive him up the wall with your antics
• Visit a scenic island where you can go fishing, swimming, and tomb raiding
• Teach with kindness and intelligence or sarcasm and stupidity

Ratings and reviews

It's an enjoyble enough read. It's quite short and the humor may not be for everyone. The listed word count is a bit deceptive. It achieves this by not using standard looping techniques/if statements for choices and writing out whole bits of conversations over again.

A nice break from the high-stakes CoG books. I found the game hilarious from time to time, you really have to throw yourself into these stupid jokes, however. The more you allow yourself to relax and have fun, the better. It's nice for one playthrough and an afternoon, since the character lack real depth and the plot is kinda non-existent, to be actually invested in a secondary playthrough, unless you're going for the achievement grind. After that, you heard all jokes and it's not funny anymore

I thought this was gonna be about a sensei that trains fighters or something. This story could have easily been called Life of an English teacher in Japan. The story was very realistic, almost to the point of boredom. The ending telling me to restart was just weird; this story was different from other choose your own adventure games. While somewhat bland and not a very fun game to play at all: the book itself is written well and it has good dialogue.

What's new

Fixed a bug (for real, this time) where the app could lose progress when the app goes into the background. If you enjoy "A Sensei's Story", please leave us a written review. It really helps!