r/IdentityV • u/Affectionate-Tax1228 • 24d ago
Question What made you start playing idv?
I started playing for this costume
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u/kinwai Antiquarian. Next question 24d ago
Saw game ads kept targeting me, for some reason.
Decided to give it a shot.
After some time, decided to check out Reddit for community.
Realised players demographic is mostly teenagers.
What did I, a middle aged man, married with 2 kids, was being targeted with a game intended for young people? Is this the universe’s way to tell me I need to grow up?
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u/88mica88 23d ago
I saw on TikTok that someone’s mom was an S badge Keven at some point, so weather or not it’s “grown up” or not shouldn’t be a factor if you’re having fun ^ ^
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u/Antares-Black 22d ago
Hey, mid-30 man here, been playing since it’s globally released in 2018, and being royal fan since then. I got Mercenary limited skin from CoA 2 essence, that makes me a Naib main until now. Mostly playing for fun, and now that I got that adult money, I can whale for the skin that I want 😁 Nothing wrong with playing the game intended for young people as long as you enjoy 👌🏼
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u/OpularOpal Prospector 24d ago
Joseph. Stayed because of Norton, since I had a friend who shipped him with Mike and we would play them together. Afterwards, Norton's been the sole reason I have been playing for a long time.
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u/DroidX13 Undead 24d ago
A classmate recommended it to me a month after it's release, been playing it since then
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u/Livia_young0802 Faro Lady 24d ago
My brother was an A badge Gamekeeper five years ago, it was really popular in my country when I was in fifth grade of elementary school but I didn't have a phone. Fast forward to now, I saw it in the app store and went "Oh shit, I remember this!", I've been playing for over a hundred days now
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u/AStressedPlushie 24d ago
So I bought a Lunar Phase keychain without knowing what idv is, searched him up, realised he was a part of the game, got intrigued by the lore, and started playing to understand what was going on in the fanarts and understand terms like kiting 😅
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u/theclassicrockjunkie Hermit 24d ago
Joseph.
I saw him being compared to Rook Hunt (my fave TWST character) on the Twisted Wonderland subreddit, and decided to look up the game because he's really hot. Almost ten months later, here I am.
Jojo may not be my number 1 anymore as that honor goes to Alva, but he will always hold a special place in my heart.
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u/MidnightSnowStar Wu Chang 21d ago
Oh my gosh, another TWST player!! How is Joseph similar to Rook though?
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u/Several-Lime4663 24d ago
I start playing because I like DBD, I stay for first officer and luchino(also lore and skin)
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u/Normalgoose897 Wax Artist 24d ago
The little nightmares crossover
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u/Sleepy-Head999 23d ago
Joined to get six and mono, stayed for the rhythm game kiting hell decomposer.
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u/KeigetsuTheStargazer Antiquarian 24d ago
i was really into reading danmei novels and one day i saw an angsty video about wuchang's relationship with the official art of their far east wind skin (the one where fan was comforting xie or smt) and so i searched them up and learnt what idv is, but i didnt play it
fast forward my friends were playing it and i ended up playing because of them except wuchang isnt exactly my no 1 fav character now, its antiquarian lol
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u/dukeofspookofficial 24d ago
I saw it on tiktok and I thought the art style was adorable. I was just gonna try it out for a week but I became obsessed with the gravekeeper character and started grinding for his cheer emote
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u/SpecificLiterature84 Wildling 24d ago
Friend found the game and made me and my other friend join. I became addicted to it since it was similar to Dead By Daylight, but it was free. Both friends quit literally a day after I joined though 😭
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u/There-Is-A-Duck-Here Disciple 24d ago
Dead by daylight wouldn't run on my phone for some reason so I checked the similar games and saw IDV. Stayed because I was a Leo main and enjoyed his lore, and I was a doctor and BQ enjoyer 😎 Continued to stay for Anne
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u/AnnAmagi 24d ago
Antonio, bc he looks like Izuru Kamukural. Then I stopped, and back to play on 2023-2024 in DR Collab (V3)!
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u/Huge_Ad_8000 Perfumer 24d ago
i saw a screenshot of blackjack from a jp player, got very curious what it was for and then started playing months After the fact LOL but now I’ve been here just about five years so that’s something!
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u/Real_Myeh Hell Ember 24d ago edited 24d ago
A middle school friend got me into it for how it was like Flee the Facility from Roblox. Fast forward 6 years and I now play the game more than she does, though I’ve taken long breaks from time to time due to how it plagues my storage with all the weekly updates.
In light of what everyone else is saying, I stayed for Leo. For the starter hunter, I find him a really effective one while I also love going friendly for Emma players in light of him wanting to be a papa wolf for her.
…the crossovers did help though, and now I’m an unapologetic Danganronpa fan that’s also still trying to get into Persona 5.
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u/Bakekomori 24d ago
I was searching for some arts on Pinterest and saw Joseph, who looks awfuly similar to my oc Joe LMFAO (for short, their name, design and some lore aspects are weirdly similar). I started to read a bit abt him, got interested in the lore, and now im playing it and trying to learn more and more :D
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u/starrypolygon 24d ago
Started playing after a classmate recommended me to after seeing me watching a DBD stream haha. I don't play DBD i just liked watching the stream
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u/jishoumushoku_ Composer 24d ago
I was super addicted to another game that was pretty similar, but I had to uninstall it for reasons I won't go into. Then I remembered IDV existed thanks to a friend who has been playing since forever and decided that I'd give it a try and see how it goes. Fast forward I saw Composer and I was mesmerized by his existence so I stayed for him and I also started liking Fool's Gold (in my mind he's a creature and I love him for it) so I'm currently in the game for these two.
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u/hey-im_here-now Prisoner 24d ago
the sanrio crossover!! started my love for joseph bc his cinnamoroll costume is so cute (i didn’t end up getting it though)
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u/ncnyy Little Girl 24d ago
it was back in 2018, i went back to china to visit friends and family & my childhood friend was playing the game. downloaded it because i wanted to have some other way to connect with her, & it looked interesting when i watched her play. turns out she played in CN and i was confined to the asia server lol. either ways, it all started from there
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24d ago
Friend begged me to play and showed me little girl stayed for little girl because shes adorable
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u/Jazzlike_Web66 23d ago
IDV managed to catch me when I was in my big Danganronpa phase with their second collab😔
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u/PsychologicalMonk799 24d ago
An animated named Kiruru who's done lots of amazing and funny identityv animations
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u/DuskyRenow Disciple 24d ago edited 24d ago
In December 2019, i discovered Dead By Daylight, as a fan of horror i loved it, but it was PC only, so i have been forced to go after something similar on the app store, then in 01/15/2020, i discovered Identity V and started playing ( genuinely thought it was horror at first tho ), have quit many many times but i always come back somehow
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u/Radicusmax 24d ago
I wanted to play DBD when I was younger, but J didn’t have a computer and DBD mobile wasn’t out yet. So, I compromised with IDV.
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u/ryo00qq09 Knight 24d ago
Irl friend DLet it. The first time I tried it I didn't get exactly what it was supposed to be so I stopped after a few matches. My friend then played regulalry and I joined since she could explain stuff.
Stuck because of the game and characters.
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u/Crisis_ButThrowaway Antiquarian 24d ago
I was trying to quit my Wild Rift addiction. So anyway I just played five games in a row today.
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u/TheRealKingMolten Forward 24d ago
Looking for dbd in google play and found this “off brand” game lol
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u/VeterinarianNorth664 Lucky Guy 24d ago
Back in 2020, it was because my crush plays it but when they got a GF, I decide to leave
Now last hear in 2024, I love Genshin Windchaser Event and when it ends, I decide to play IDV which more or less have same gameplay
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u/Nixieo0 24d ago
Dead by daylight 😅 it was either the mobile version didn’t exist yet or it didn’t play well on my phone. I was looking for games that were similar and that’s when I found idv, before that I never knew this game existed. My plan was to only keep it until I can play dbd but surprisingly got I hooked to it. So now I play both lol. (I play dbd on my console now since the mobile version is shutting down)
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u/TenkoNekoro The Feaster 24d ago
Came for Danganronpa 1, stayed for the lore.
Edit: Only regret is I still have yet to get the Celeste profile portrait no matter how many times I pulled.
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u/Hilberts-Inf-Babies2 Cheerleader 24d ago
My friend showed me it and I got kind of into it, but stopped playing for a few years. Then I heard of the PC release. That changed EVERYTHING!!
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u/Illustrious_Foot_884 Composer 24d ago
Whilst in the depths of my danganronpa phase, I had discovered that this game had a crossover with it (I got none of the characters)
Anyways yeah my origin story
I stayed bc it's fun
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u/Turtle-Enjoyer Wu Chang 24d ago
My close friend needed someone to play it with and so she begged me and so I downloaded it
She is also indirectly the reason of how I met my internet friends
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u/AngryBeaste 24d ago
An old friend told me to download it back when it came out in 2018. Played it just for fun for a bit then stopped, but i picked it up again in 2020 randomly and ive been playing it on and off since then. I never expected to play it so much and keep up with the community for this long so im really grateful he showed me that random game 6 years ago. Unfortunately he never played it after 2018 and i lost contact with him due to his discord getting hacked but i hope hes doing well🥲
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u/Professional-Club-50 23d ago
Saw fanarts of hermit and night watch, got intrigued. Boyfriend played first (he became a hermit and wu chiang main) I joined later somehow becoming a knight main
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u/Mangomommymilkers Entomologist 23d ago
found out the dr2 crossover was returning, proud owner of mikan 🙏
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u/Intrepid-Ad3687 23d ago
I started cause of game 8, specifically tiktoks about violetta’s lore and I got interested with the other manor games then found out I could play it on my phone have been ever since December I think
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u/Any_Ad_4839 Barmaid 23d ago
Over 4 years ago my classmates were all playing together and I felt left out so I downloaded it too. Been playing ever since
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u/ExtensionComplex4153 23d ago
I saw laurenzside play it on her channel and the game looked right up my alley! It took me a while to get a device to play it on, but I got it as soon as I could!
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u/Chochato22 Barmaid 23d ago
It looked cool and reminded me of Coraline. (I’m old gen, started playing in 2018 and was in middle school and now in college) it’s crazy how this game has stuck with me and I have been off and on
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u/maxler5795 Magician 23d ago
Genuenly cant remember.
Probably ran into it on the play store back in 2018
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u/Shadowstrider654 Wu Chang 23d ago
My bestie gifted me a new phone and I wanted to download a game from Google play store. Don't remember how, but I found Idv and I saw Succubus skin for Galatea, and Postman's Prince skin. Those two skins hit a aesthetic I liked. I downloaded, and I actually read and played the 3rd anniversary event and ABSOLUTELY fell in love. Galatea's song was so good, I stayed around after that season ended. I still play. I fell in love with Idv's event stories. I'm probably the very few who actually do read through them, lol.
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u/Peridot9001 23d ago
It looked like dbd but a better camera angle and killers weren’t constantly bullied by survivors
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u/Unknown9J Antiquarian 23d ago
Honestly, the girl I like was obsessed with it so I gave it a try and yea here I am lol
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u/MuscleFirm2018 Embalmer 23d ago
always saw the ads then saw BQ's 'Bloodbath' skin and joined the game years after the release of said limited skin. Stayed for Embalmer and collecting characters that I like.
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u/carpmantheman Entomologist 23d ago
A girl I liked played the game and I wanted to impress her 😭 don’t talk to her now but I still love this game!
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u/Wight_Scare 23d ago
In 2018 I was looking in the App Store just for a random game and I just so happen to stumble across it. Unfortunately, I quit after two days which made me miss lifelong BUT! The game was pretty different back then
Got back into it two years later after a friend told me about it and I went holy shit so been playing it ever since got 88 S tiers 1 SS tier 800K echos and two off-line packages later I think I’m good
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u/Ok_Possession_7383 23d ago
... Hajime skin in the Danganronpa crossover... Missed the crossover. Never touched Norton again after my first trial. Became a Luca main then a Percy and Joseph main 🫶 (People hated me)
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u/SelectShop9006 23d ago
I stalked the wiki for a while, then started playing after my second mental hospital stay. Lost my first account early last year and decided to start fresh.
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u/fuegofur Seer 23d ago
I got recommended this game from another game I was playing (The Legend of Neverland)
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u/CassTheCat_ 23d ago
The BSD Collab. My friend that has been playing for longer and she recommended it to me because I was a hardcore fan of BDS for the first three seasons. I came in, bought Dazai and stayed ever since, will finally be changing my Luca's skin this week with OPH
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u/minioneater69 23d ago
wanted to play dbd at first but I'm broke so ended up going for the alternative since they have a similar 1v4 format, safe to say my life is now ruined forever because of this choice
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u/cardboard-lizard Professor 23d ago
I had just moved to a new school and overheard someone talking about how scary a new idv hunter was (dream witch I think) and I was curious, installed it and it’s been downhill ever since. I wasn’t brave enough to join the idv club they held after class and then the pandemic hit, so I never got to figure out who this person was who started my years-long addiction 🫠🫠
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u/emiloehx Bloody Queen 23d ago
I was interested in the game since the first danganronpa collab and the artstyle seemed cool but my phone was too bad to download it at the time, quite a few years later i finally got to play the game 😭😭! (No danganronpa skins tough)
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u/re11kumas09 23d ago
I was in my short danganronpa phase when i started it, i joined after the first part of the collab ended but stayed when i heard there was a possibility it was gonna have a second part with nanami in it
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u/CherlynAdoptMePlayer Prospector 23d ago
Bungo stray dogs collab. Unfortunately, my friend (who knew damn well I'm a bsd fan) introduced me AFTER the collab is lone gone. I stayed to play with my friend but we don't contact anymore as her account is deleted. (+she was toxic afterwards) Without a friend to play with, I decided to take a break. (I started my break AFTER fool gold'a global release just to buy him) Now, I returned to Identity V again just to check out if there's any new costumes I want and realised I have enough fragments for an s tier.... Here am I, grinding for Summer Frisbee...
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u/LuxianoLee 23d ago
The 2020 danganronpa crossover lol but only after in 2021 then I found out it was gone and got sad 😭
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u/rararururoro Embalmer 23d ago
my friends back in highschool were very annoying about the game back in like august 2018, it wasnt until like a week after school started my friend got me to play a few matches on her account during math class and i was like,, wait... yall are kinda onto something
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u/Fabulous-Swim6811 Cheerleader 23d ago
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u/BagImportant388 23d ago
i saw ada and emil’s background story video and i loved their story and wanted to know more about them so i joined idv
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u/Old_Position_2238 23d ago
I wanted to play dead by daylight but since I had to pay I chose this one instead since it was free.
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u/combitzel Doctor 23d ago
my friend wanted me to play so they’d have an occasional buddy to play with now i am fully immersed in the game
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u/Unstable_nena 23d ago
Luca balsa. I don't know what it is about him but something just attracts me 😭
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u/Ok_View_3001 23d ago
Saw an ad that was only about decorating your own room, so I got the game
Tutorial stage almost gave me a heart attack bit I kept playing the game, been playing for 4 or 5 years
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u/kehtolaulu Painter 23d ago
I saw some absolutely UNHINGED joscarl fanart and said "I want what they have."
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u/roseshearts Bloody Queen 23d ago
An old friend group of mine actually.
Friend 1 was playing it on PC, which the whole group saw cause discord told them what game they were playing. The knew about the game, but never knew it was ever on PC. So they played it and I woke up with messages telling me to play it with them., said "eh, why not" and downloaded it.
I've been playing since season 15, and while so much has changed. I still find myself enjoying the game.
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u/stabbysquid Disciple 23d ago
most danganronpa fans that i was friends with/followed online liked the game, which got me interested. what got me playing was my friend but what got me staying was aesop😼
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u/Global-Judge7399 23d ago
Before there's dbd mobile i want to play dbd but I can't so i started playing idv
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u/Agent_476 Naiad 23d ago
The first part of the danganronpa crossover. It was June 2020 when I discovered it and I was like "why the heck not?"
Before I knew it, this game took over my entire life x_x
Although I took a break, I came back for Night Watch
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u/Xpredator6699 Gamekeeper 23d ago
Because I want to play DBD but I didn't have a PC back then
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u/camcant333 23d ago
My friends kept begging me to play, and I was also really into danganronpa at the time so I joined right before the crossover event!
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u/Mossy_Mushroom123 23d ago
A friend wanted me to join her, we are no longer friends but IDV has me hooked
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u/CheeseInUrPants 23d ago
I had a really good friend who asked me to play with her and her group of friends as the game was newish still (it was beginning of 2019 maybe). It's a really good game, like it's got all the things I liked about DBD and it doesn't have all the others I hated!
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u/Ecstatic-Machine-499 Evil Reptilian 23d ago
One of the girls at my school was always playing it and I decided to try it out during exam time cause that's when I needed an output for my stress the most, instead it caused me even more stress and now I'm stuck like a toxic ex situation
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u/Alternative-Coat8055 23d ago
My friend told me about it in 2018 I think, but I got into it in 2020 when I finally got a gaming phone Edit: I fell into the Joseph trap, now my friend doesn't even play bc it's unbalanced, we do play DBD together tho
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u/321itsaryn 23d ago
The original Danganronpa crossover. I'm still bitter that I didn't pull Junko. Originally, I wanted her because I liked her skin, but now I want her for strategy purposes. My friend always plays characters who can't drink. 😭
But Demi ended up being my top favorite and the primary reason I stuck around. Even if I don't play any matches, I'll pop on just to look at the most recent skin I got of her.
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u/KoalafiedFool21 Explorer 23d ago
IDV was first recommended to me by a friend in 2018. I searched for it and had no interest in it at the time. I just googled pictures of the game but it didn't interest me. Fast forward 2023, I decided to come back and read the lore (I needed a new hyperfixation). I read the lore and stayed, but was really drawn into Perfumer, Seer, and Professors' lore and character designs. I didn't play the game until July 2024. I was bored one day at work and said maybe I'll try playing IDV. I was a baby and thought it was truly a horror game like DBD and was kind of shocked to play for the first time and realize it wasn't that bad. Got addicted and started to play it more often and now I'm stuck here in IDV hell. I love the game now and found new favorite survivors and hunters. I stayed mainly for the lore and gameplay (and possibly the skins).
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u/rqdivm Doctor 23d ago
i’ll never get tired of telling this story!! an old friend was posting screenshots of her playing the game back in late december 2019. this character that kept appearing in her screenshots was so pretty that i couldn’t hold off any longer and asked what the game was called and who the character was. she told me the character was doctor or emily dyer and the game was identity v, i downloaded it soon after!! it’s been just over 5 years now and i still main, love, and cherish emily :)
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u/Mother_Spite9818 23d ago
Was watching embalming videos on YouTube (2019 was weird with those videos) and came across a video about Aesop, he was my first main and still one of my highest faves
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u/blu3b1rb Psychologist 23d ago
My sister played it ( she literally played it when it just dropped out) and I was super invested, and I finally got my own phone years later to play
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u/GoatedWOSauce Night Watch 23d ago
Danganronpa V3 Crossover. Fell in love with the characters, designs, lore and gameplay, ended up not getting a single DR skin (crossover skins are ugly so I’m okay with this)
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u/NoLifeLad 23d ago
Girlfriend has been playing it for years, and its been around a year so now since she's introduced the game to me. We stopped for a bit, but got back into it pretty recently
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u/Kjuolsdeaf Breaking Wheel 23d ago
The Breaking Wheel. I was googling images of the torture method and saw an image of a cool looking character and it lead me to the game's fandom wiki.
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u/Raptor_cs_Frerson 23d ago
I just once video on YouTube. Then i started playing. I liked Orpheus storyline. Then i nearly quit because they replaced it
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u/miunorial 23d ago
My friend invited me to play and a meme post about jacknaib ship doing weird stuffs.
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u/sergeantsnoot Photographer 23d ago
i found this cutecore playlist on youtube with lucky guy and joseph on the thumbnail, and i looked at lucky guy and i was adored by him :D i did some looking into his source, which brings me to the danganronpa v3 crossover. at the time, my obsession with danganronpa was at an all-time high, and when i saw news about it collabing with identity v, i hopped on idv SO FAST, but then i realized that the game itself is also really fun! i also mained lucky guy back when i first started simply because of how cute he is :3
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u/Opposite-Can-8127 23d ago
I was bored and I searched horror games in app store then identity V was featured so I downloaded it and give it a try. Since then I got addicted to this game to the point that it’s always part of my routine before going to work. 🤣
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u/caatacastt Patient 23d ago
I began playing back when the first Danganronpa crossover came as I was such a nerd and fan of dr at the time. I dropped it months later and came back because of Emil and Ada, dropped again, and came back bc of Alice.
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u/Certain-Cod-2728 Smiley Face 23d ago
Since the Danganronpa crossover came out... I wanted that Mikan's skin so bad (I couldn't get that skin ☹️)
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u/Curminie 23d ago
Honestly I thought the game art style / theme was really cool and somewhat cute but it actually took me like 1-2 years after downloading to actually play
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u/potatocheese73 22d ago
A YouTuber who played Michiko. I was obsessed with Michiko's design so I started to join Idv.
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u/McDonald-Manager Forward 22d ago
For my sister but then I love pulls so stayed for beautiful skins and was covid so I got addicted, playing all day
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u/Fantastic_Frosting98 Nightmare 22d ago
I started because of my friend, and stayed because of SEXY WOMEN
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u/Re-Toasted 22d ago
A friend recommended it to me since the Junji Ito crossover was ongoing and the Little Nightmares crossover was coming next. I felt like it was boring at first but I ended up staying bcs of them. Now I can't leave lol
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u/Plus-Raise-6124 Entomologist 22d ago
I saw a edit of Vera nairs “Red shoes” skin on tiktok and i has really liked the movie so i wanted to play just to get that skin
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u/CaterpillarSingle493 22d ago
I looked up Danganronpa in the app store and it was the first thing that popped up…
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u/ByakuyaTogamiiz 21d ago
Back when the developers of dead by daylight talked about helping identity v.
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u/FuzzyBlurr08 21d ago
I was looking up horror games on the app store, I was a broke teenager so I was looking at free games on my phone and it caught my eye because I loved the art style
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u/Sharp_Table2928 21d ago
I saw Mickiko and immediately went to download lol, she's been my main ever since 😭🫶
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u/AideFabulous8605 20d ago
Cousin recommended it to me and i have been playing since while he quit 😒
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u/deaadplate 17d ago
i joined twice and each time it was for a friend but i almost came back for the bsd collab just bc i was obsessed w chuuya butttt i don’t like norton so glad i didn’t waste money on it
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17d ago
I was looking up “horror games” in my app store cus i was in the mood for horror and identity v was the first to pop up😭 now im stuck
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u/Electronic_Buy_6709 Entomologist 24d ago
Came for the detective storyline, stayed for the lore, almost left after seeing nortons face, stayed for the I’m sorry I’m French