---
title: "Talents"
description: "Play as Alice Rodriguez, a struggling young adult who's living a double life as an office worker by day, and a renowned web novelist at night. Despite that, the"
image: "https://t.vndb.org/cv/20/101920.jpg"
---

# Talents

![Talents](https://t.vndb.org/cv/20/101920.jpg)

**Aliases:** T🎮lents

**Developer:** Izumi Games

**Release date:** Jul 13, 2025

**Platform:** Windows, Linux, macOS

**Language:** English

**Rating:** 5.0/10 (avg, 3 votes)

## Description
Play as Alice Rodriguez, a struggling young adult who's living a double life as an office worker by day, and a renowned web novelist at night. Despite that, there is something she ultimately wants to do: to write and design a story-based video game. She reunites with her childhood friend, Kris, and was offered a partnership in his startup game company. 

With the opportunity offered, will she have the courage to risk despite the challenges? Will your writing skills help their way to success? Who are these rowdy co-founders? And what is this game jam?

[From [itch.io](https://izumi-games.itch.io/talents-demo)]

## Characters
### Alice Rodriguez
A famous yet financially-struggling web novel writer who wanted to write and design a story-based video game.

- **Gender:** Female
- **Alias:** MC
- **Birthday:** 1 May
- **Role:** Writer, Office Worker
- **Personality:** Daydreamer
- **Voiced by:** Meagan Johnson

### Harry Dominic Claude
A flirty and fashionable digital artist who is famous under the name "Nick".

- **Gender:** Male
- **Birthday:** 15 April
- **Role:** Artist
- **Engages in:** Painting, Flirting
- **Personality:** Stylish
- **Voiced by:** Thomas Prater

### Kris Silvan
A star game producer who wanted to create his own game studio. A childhood friend of Alice (MC).

- **Gender:** Male
- **Birthday:** 18 December
- **Role:** Childhood Friend, Executive, Producer
- **Voiced by:** Nasim Benelkour

### Souma Shin
A famous music producer with a bad reputation.

- **Gender:** Male
- **Birthday:** 22 May
- **Personality:** Tsundere
- **Role:** Musician, Record Producer
- **Voiced by:** Dylan Aldridge

### Sousuke Shin
A reserved, analytical software engineer who tries his best to be creative.

- **Gender:** Male
- **Birthday:** 22 May
- **Personality:** Reserved
- **Role:** Coder
- **Voiced by:** Jamil Burger

### Alex Bagette
A star game producer and CEO of Alexis Studio.

- **Gender:** Female
- **Birthday:** 26 September
- **Role:** Executive, Producer
- **Personality:** Competitive
- **Voiced by:** Marissa Rothfarb

### Cheshire
The head programmer of Alexis Studio and one of its earliest members.

- **Gender:** Male
- **Birthday:** 29 August
- **Personality:** Carefree, Friendly, Smart
- **Role:** Coder
- **Voiced by:** Alister Cado

### Lucy Myers
A famous composer who used to work and be friends with Souma at their past entertainment company. She now works at Alexis Studio.

- **Gender:** Female
- **Birthday:** 14 November
- **Role:** Musician, Record Producer
- **Personality:** Sly
- **Voiced by:** Seni Rivera

### Coworker
- **Gender:** Unknown
- **Birthday:** 10 March
- **Role:** Coworker
- **Voiced by:** Steph Scaturro

### Game Jam Announcer
- **Gender:** Unknown
- **Birthday:** 1 January
- **Traits:** 
- **Voiced by:** Jeme Casco

### Game Jam Judge
- **Gender:** Unknown
- **Birthday:** 1 September
- **Traits:** 
- **Voiced by:** Sova Reign

### Supervisor
- **Gender:** Unknown
- **Birthday:** 5 October
- **Traits:** 
- **Voiced by:** Sova Reign

## Shops
- [Steam](https://store.steampowered.com/app/2528800/)
- [Itch](https://izumi-games.itch.io/talents)

## Releases
### English
- **2023-05-01**: Talents (Demo)
- **2023-06-10**: Talents (Demo 2.0)
- **2025-01-04**: Talents (Demo 3.0) - [Steam](https://store.steampowered.com/app/2587600/), [SteamDB](https://steamdb.info/app/2587600/info/), [Itch.io](https://izumi-games.itch.io/talents)
- **2025-07-13**: Talents - [Steam](https://store.steampowered.com/app/2528800/), [SteamDB](https://steamdb.info/app/2528800/info/), [Itch.io](https://izumi-games.itch.io/talents)

## Tags
ADV, Romance, Comedy, Nameable Protagonist, Slice of Life, Otome Game, Only Adult Heroes, Non-Japanese Voice Acting, Female Protagonist, Writer Protagonist, Protagonist's Childhood Friend as a Hero, Gamer Protagonist, Musician Hero, Side Portraits, Design Story, Gamer Hero, Artist Hero, Adult Protagonist, Protagonist with a Face, More Than Seven Endings, Music Recollection, Built-in Encyclopedia

## More Games from Izumi Games
- [He@rtstrings](https://pinovel.net/v36294)
- [I Like You](https://pinovel.net/v38865)
- [Meltdown](https://pinovel.net/v48376)
- [Happiness Inc.](https://pinovel.net/v50715)
- [Talents](https://pinovel.net/v44252)
- [Cyber Obsession](https://pinovel.net/v62936)

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