Date: 7 November, 2025
Author: Peter Christiansen
We’ve all had bad days. It happens. But the events depicted in Lump In my Throat form a tale that goes beyond such. Beyond merely bad. Its protagonist can not catch a break as one thing after another just goes wrong, sending her gender dysphoria into overdrive. And yet she pushes ever onward, refusing to back down from the awful hand that fate has decidedly dealt her.
While none of her efforts manage to prevent the obstacles from piling ever higher, she’s trying, and that’s what matters. If you don’t try, however low the odds of success, you won’t know whether somewhere, somehow, there could potentially be a light at the end of that dark tunnel.
It can be difficult to even consider when your head is spinning and your sight is …
Date: 7 November, 2025
Author: Peter Christiansen
We’ve all had bad days. It happens. But the events depicted in Lump In my Throat form a tale that goes beyond such. Beyond merely bad. Its protagonist can not catch a break as one thing after another just goes wrong, sending her gender dysphoria into overdrive. And yet she pushes ever onward, refusing to back down from the awful hand that fate has decidedly dealt her.
While none of her efforts manage to prevent the obstacles from piling ever higher, she’s trying, and that’s what matters. If you don’t try, however low the odds of success, you won’t know whether somewhere, somehow, there could potentially be a light at the end of that dark tunnel.
It can be difficult to even consider when your head is spinning and your sight is blurring from negative emotions. Something only further fueled when an insensitive store clerk addresses the protagonist as “sir”, rather than “ma’am”.
Thankfully, she does have some good in her life, a little something she can always count on to raise her spirits, when the world seems entirely determined to hate her. Which certainly seems to be the case on this particular day.
There’s no denying that such a rollercoaster works well in getting the player to care about the protagonist, and not just a little either. None of the bad things were even remotely her fault, after all. She simply desired to exist. To live her life.
A life that will, hopefully, be brighter going forward. Especially compared to just about every moment of the day depicted within this visual novel, as it certainly left a lump in my throat.
Lump in my Throat is available on itch.io.
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