Gameplay

In NEEDY STREAMER OVERLOAD, you will be telling Ame-chan what she must do in order to reach her end goal. Sometimes she will act on her own which might actually prove to be harmful to her progression, but those are just obstacles to overcome!

The player also has the responsibility of managing three important stats that represent her fondness of you (Affection), anxiety (Stress) and mental health (Mental Darkness). On a near daily basis, the player will have to make the decision on if Ame-chan's well-being or fame matters the most. The

## Task Manager

Main article: Stats

The task manager tab serves as Ame-chan's stats, and hovering over them at the beginning of the game gives you a description of how each one affects gameplay.

### Followers

The follower count dictates how many followers KAngel has. Streams is the main way this number increases. If you have less than 10k followers by day ten, you will get the So Close Yet So Far ending. Some endings are dictated whether she has less than a million followers, a million followers, or two million followers.

Every time you reach a milestone, you gain a new stream idea. The main goal is to reach a million followers.

> this shows you how many people are looking at my social media and streams. the more people watch, the more they fulfill my need for approval! our goal is to make this number as big as possible!
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### Stress

Ame-chan's stress will raise when she streams or goes on the Internet. If it is consistently kept at 80 or higher for two days, you will trigger an event where she will harm herself, then instantly stream "Darkness". If you get her stress levels to 100, she will stream on her own again and her stress cap rises to 120.

> this shows you how much pressure im feeling. i might start acting weird if it gets too high, so watch out! i may even become more scared of the internet by day...
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### Affection

The affection count dictates how much Ame-chan loves you. Just like she describes it herself, managing her affection levels and making sure it doesn’t fall to zero or hit the max is important, failure to do any will get you two endings respectively (Cucked and Ground Control to Psychoelectric Angel).

> this displays how much i love you! it'd be sad if i don't love you enough, but if i love you TOO much i might be hard to handle. so try to strike a good balance, ok? <3
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### Mental Darkness

The Mental Darkness count dictates how much Ame-chan is doing well mentally. If it ever reaches zero you get a direct ending (Normie Life). The higher it is, the more things that unlock under Medication.

> this lets you know how im doing mentally. how well i cope with reality will change depending on the numbers. it might have a bigger influence on my future rather than my present state in the game!
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## Desktop

The desktop comprises the main gameplay, where you are able to control what Ame-chan does. Every action she performs will change her stats accordingly.

### JINE

Main article: JINE
JINE is the main chatlog that Ame-chan uses to talk to you. Through here, she will send you messages and you can select a pre-determined message to send her. If you aren't given the option to give her a message, you can send her emojis that she will also respond to. If you ignore her messages, she will post on Tweeter and gain 4 stress and lose 5 affection each time; ignoring her enough gets you an ending (Flatline).

### Stream

Main article: Stream
Initially "login" at the beginning of the game, every night you are able to choose what topic KAngel streams. You are able to get more stream ideas by performing various actions during the day. Streaming raises KAngel's follower count, but also her stress levels, and mental darkness levels if you stream Conspiracy Theories. In addition to that, a stat called "Rabbit hole" will increase if you do the previously mentioned streams. Streaming consistently every day will increase a follower multiplier called "Stream Streak Bonus".

### Hang Out

Main article: Hang Out
Hang Out will allow you to be able to spend time with Ame-chan, which will lower her stress and raise her affection. You can do three things, play games, spend time together, and \*\*\* (sex)

### Sleep

Main article: Sleep
Sleeping will make Ame-chan sleep for a period of time that you choose. Their main purpose is to lower her stress and mental darkness. Sleeping through each stage of the day does not lower her stress as much as sleeping from "Noon to Night" or "Noon until tomorrow" does, negating the possibility of exploitation.

### Medication

Main article: Medication
The medication tab will allow Ame-chan to take medicine. She starts out with *Depaz* at the beginning of the game. As you advance into the game and her mental darkness increases, more will become available. Likewise, as your mental darkness decreases, they will no longer be accessible. Taking the recommended dose does have little effect on stats, doesn't grant stream ideas and takes away one stage of the day. Taking more than the recommended dose (overdosing) affects stats more, has impact stream bonus, gives stream ideas and takes away two stages of the day.

#### Magicals

Main article: Magicals

This tab is only in the Switch port for this game. It acts the same as Medication, but due to censorship, almost all mentions or imagery of drugs had to be replaced by sweets.

### Internet

Main article: Internet
The Internet tab allows Ame-chan to go on the Internet. She will automatically post on Tweeter after doing a certain action. The options to choose from are: Posting on Tweeter (Social Media), searching people opinion’s on KAngel in Tweeter (Vanity Search), watching a movie or anime online (Video Streaming), going into /st/ (/st/) and going on a Dinder date (Dinder).

### Go Out

Main article: Go Out
The Go Out tab allows you to choose where to go on a date with Ame-chan. Most locations serve to lower her stress and increase affection, and going out at the mental hospital also decreases her mental darkness by 10. Certain places can grant stream ideas or trigger endings (Galactic Express).