Repurpose is a multi-part LGBT+ positive dating sim set in the afterlife.
You and several others have passed away. Rather than being sent to Heaven or Hell, the powers that may be are unable to decide where you should go. You wake up in the Garden of Eden whose new home has been made in Limbo. You have three options: either take the trials to earn your place in Heaven, live it up in Hell, or remain lost in Limbo for eternity.
The game was created by Repurpose Studios (formerly Cereus Garden), a group whose members include Resident Rabbit/Eros (formerly known as Sensei Dezzy), Sam Rose, Sara Krebs, and TJ Lee.
The original demo released in July 2020, Part 1 released through itch.io in December 2022, Part 2 (and a Steam release) released on December 27, 2023, and Part 3 released in December 2024.
It was successfully funded through Kickstarter
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Repurpose can be found here on itch.io or here on Steam.
Two spin-off works were later released by Eros. The first, Loser Named Hana, stars Hana, a side character from the Heaven routes; it originally released on itch.io on March 13, 2024, with an extended edition released on Steam on October 31, 2025. The second, Under the Blood Moon, focuses on Ramón, one of the main love interests from the Hell routes, and takes place before his eternal damnation; its demo released on itch.io on April 18, 2026. Notably, Under the Blood Moon uses some of the same characters as Repurpose, but takes place in an alternate universe.
Tropes:
- Adam and/or Eve: Hordes, Limbo's antagonistic king of trash, is revealed in some routes to be the original Adam.
- Afterlife Antechamber: The story starts in one, located in purgatory/limbo. There's tons of abandoned architecture and general gloominess, but there is also some brightness due to the Garden of Eden being relocated there.
- Animesque: The art style of the game has a clear influence from both anime and western animation.
- Big First Choice: At the end of the game's prologue sequence, the player has to choose whether to live in Heaven, Hell, or Limbo, with some options being inaccessible if they hadn't befriended at least one of the respective afterlife's representatives. The choice immediately following that one determines which love interest's route is chosen.
- Cast of Snowflakes: Repurpose boasts a massive cast of visually distinct characters, all with their own sprites.
- Celestial Bureaucracy: Both demons and angels directly oversee the soul-sorting process, as well as assign and manage roles for souls once they're admitted into Hell or Heaven.
- Dead to Begin With: The story's protagonist, and every other human in the story's cast, are former mortals whose souls have entered the afterlife.
- Defector from Paradise: It's stated that humans can willingly choose to remain in Limbo for eternity, rather than constantly work to earn a place in Heaven or live it up with the psychopaths in Hell.
- Divine Date: Half of the romanceable characters are the angels and demons meant to help sort you and other recently-deceased humans into Utopia (Heaven), Hell, or Limbo.
- Divine Misfile: To directly quote the game's description, "Rather than being sent to Heaven or Hell, the powers that may be are unable to decide where you should go."
- Everyone Is Bi: The majority of characters are Bisexual or Pansexual, with Cheri defined as Omnisexual. The exceptions are Noel (Asexual note ), Rosita (Lesbian, including trans women), and Irene (Heterosexual, including trans men).
- Garden of Eden: It's currently located within Limbo, in order to keep it away from mortal hands, and is visited by the main cast.
- Incompatible Orientation: A relationship with Rosita, who is Lesbian, must be strictly one of friendship if the in-game protagonist identifies as male; trying to tell her that she just "hasn't found the right man yet" will immediately cut to her Bad End.
- Multiple Endings: Every romanceable character has their own set of endings, usually just dependent on Relationship Values but sometimes also influenced by a specific life-changing decision during their route; for example, Kalei's Best Ending also requires convincing him to take a break.
- Ontological Mystery: One of the unanswered questions is how you ended up stuck between different afterlives, which not even the Celestial Bureaucracy is aware of. In the prologue, Ramon speculates that it must have been, quote, "a pretty brutal and traumatic death".
- Secret Character: The Fayebael route requires first viewing the good endings of three different characters, while the Cherubim route requires first playing through the other secret character's route.
- Story Branching: Following a prologue set in the Afterlife Antechamber, the player is given a Big First Choice of where their soul should head that is dependent on who they bonded with during it: Heaven if they befriended Kalei, Rosita, and/or Mitts; Hell if they befriended Ramon; and remaining in Limbo if they befriended DJ Roadkill and/or Noel. Once that decision is made, the player can choose whose specific route to follow (including some new options, such as Irene if they went to Hell), and the decisions made during those routes will lead to Multiple Endings.