Exes Assault!!

In Exes Assault!! you start as Jorge, dropped into a corporate office job by a father who never asked what he actually wanted, and surrounded by exes he never expected to see behind a desk again. It’s a branching visual novel built entirely around those uncomfortable reunions, and every choice you make with each of them steers the story down a noticeably different path.

Exes Assault!!’s Four Very Different Routes

Jacob Reyes, Ivaan Agarwal, Gabriel Miller, and Kevin Jones each anchor their own route in Exes Assault!!, and the writing treats them as genuinely distinct people rather than palette swaps of the same personality. Jorge’s dialogue choices shape which relationship deepens and which ones stall out, and a planned route combining Jacob and Gabriel adds a further layer players specifically look forward to reaching.

Completing even one route properly takes a real time investment — the Jacob route alone runs around fourteen hours on a single path — so choosing who to focus on early matters more than it might in a shorter game.

What the Exes Assault!! Community Actually Talks About

Discussion around Exes Assault!! tends to center on writing quality and comedic timing more than any single mechanic, and it’s been a regular topic on visual novel community forums throughout its development. One recurring point of frustration during its earlier build cycle was that some announced routes were only partially available at certain points, which understandably left some players wanting the full cast finished before diving in.

Karma-style consequences from earlier dialogue choices carry forward in ways that are not always obvious until a later scene calls back to them, which is part of why replaying a route with different choices tends to reveal content a first playthrough missed entirely. Players comparing notes often find that a line delivered casually in an early office scene turns out to matter a great deal three or four chapters later, once a specific route starts paying off the setup.

Beginners tend to rush through dialogue the way they would in a faster-paced game, and that’s the biggest mistake here — the pacing rewards reading carefully, since half the comedy and most of the foreshadowing lives in small asides rather than the main plot beats. Exes Assault!! works because Jorge’s discomfort feels real — he did not choose this job or these reunions — and watching him navigate both, one dialogue choice at a time, is what keeps each of the four routes worth finishing on its own terms.