We Are OFK’s adventure visual novel has a great premise and will make you fall in love. This beautiful graphic novel builds such a strong bond with players that you won’t just fall in love with OFK’s charming cast – you’ll find yourself falling in love with their favourite boba store. It’s a fictional story about a real band made up of fictional people who make real music because they’re tired of working in fictitious companies. It’s like a game about Hatsune Miku or K/DA that tells about their lives before they became famous.

We Are OFK is a beautiful and emotional award-winning story that explores the tense and often bloody nature of the Los Angeles music industry through the lens of digestible themes and relatable characters. The game was published and developed by Team OFK. The game is available on Nintendo Switch, PS 4 and 5, MS Windows, Linux, and Mac OS.

Meet an Amazing Group of Creative Friends

At the heart of We Are OFK is a group of friends navigating their messy private lives and exploring what it means to be creative. These friends (Luca, Carter, Jey, and Itsumi) form a band called OFK, whose music you hear throughout the game – but before the band was formed, they were just four friends hanging around the highs and lows of LA. The birth of OFK has everything you’d expect from a legend in the City of Angels, from struggling artists to record labels.

Medium Strength Mixed Game

In telling this story, We Are OFK adds colour and emotion to all the ordinary aspects of life. Luca’s story begins with a job she doesn’t enjoy, while Itsumi leaves bitterly. As they unwittingly stumble towards the founding of OFK, their mutual relationships are explored, developed, and challenged again and again. These relationships are the driving force behind OFK’s plot, and each character somehow depends on the other to advance their story.

The first two episodes show Luca’s friends pushing him to embrace his creative side as a singer, but his reluctance causes concern for his producer Jey, who fears the project will fail. Amazingly, We Are OFK manages to tell an inspiring story without losing sight of this fundamental human struggle – and the result is a story that makes you laugh, cry and cheer all the way.

Amazing and Unique Character and Upgrades

The story of We Are OFK would be nothing without the actors, and the OFK development team does a great job of bringing each character to life. Each character has a distinct personality, and each voice actor’s brilliant performances sell every bit of humour, style, and emotion. Like the story of We Are OFK, these stars are human to a fault – for example, Luca is funny and loving but never realizes that he can be selfish. At the same time, the enigmatic Carter has a dry sense of humour and tons of talent, but they have difficulty opening up to those they care about. The depth of each character is explored through We Are OFK’s main interactive feature, the multi-choice dialogue options that appear during conversations. 

They can express their opinions on lighter topics, such as hentai and frog reincarnation. Still, they can also allow players to try to convey the thoughts and feelings that the character feels most vulnerable to. There’s never a right or wrong answer – you’re here to learn about these characters, not decide their fates, and it’s a testament to We Are OFK’s writing that these dialogue choices feel so powerful. Because OFK’s cast is so interesting, you’re bound to do something right; help them get along or express themselves in a better way.

Interesting Features and Music Tracks to Calm the Nerves

Having multiple dialogue options pop up also serves a very clever second purpose – you can only respond with one option, but offering just a few adds a sea of depth to each character by showing a few things they’re thinking. You never feel like you’re playing for yourself – you’re always in the middle of someone’s head in the scene – and as such, We Are OFK brings its gameplay to life in a way that few games have done before.

If members of the OFK band win you over, you will surely like their music. Each of the game’s five episodes was composed entirely by LA omniboi, with an original soundtrack from OFK. Each song blends perfectly with the location of each session, both narratively and emotionally, and all OFK songs come with music videos that leave reality for a few minutes. These songs aren’t just good toe-tapping moments – they help cement OFK’s identity as a band, and each one has playable mini-games to: ‘Follow/Don’t’ see a drunken, emotionally lost Itsumi enter the stage theatre cabinet to retrieve his phone, swimming through LA underwater and rescuing lost cats along the way.

It’s clear that Team OFK cares about the music but also focuses equally on the game’s art style. While the game’s text is about companionship, the art style depicts moments of introspection and solitude that are often only visible to those they attract. The image of Itsumi alone in her room after listening to her distant parents’ voicemails lingers long enough to feel intimate—her isolation feels painfully real. Without a single word, you can feel her closeness and tears.

Good Team Partner and Cooperative

Team OFK’s art style also portrays the two sides of LA – a friend is always close at hand, but the conflicting feelings of loneliness are never far away. Most of the background characters in We Are OFK are painted as a faceless blur, meaning a character can stand on a crowded dance floor and still appear alone. At first glance, the art is sweet and full of beautiful images of sun-drenched streets, neon-lit clubs, and laid-back camaraderie – but deeper down, OFK’s art style adds a lot of story and character to an already buzzing game.

Conclusion

We Are OFK is a fantastic game that brings its characters to life in a way few games have done so clearly. An emotional story with a dizzying premise and a painful undercurrent, Team OFK’s debut is a unique experience that deserves a captive audience. We Are OFK’s fantastic art style, and high-quality writing means you deliver a solid idea – an interactive visual novel that’s deliberately not too interactive.

We Are OFK shouldn’t have the fast-paced action of As Dusk Falls or the game-changing decisions of Telltale – opting for the full text to enhance the experience, but We Are OFK is designed to look like a biopic and with reason. It tells a strong story; it doesn’t need anything else to immerse players.