Erde is a romance visual novel adventure game set in a near future with a slight fantasy elements. The gameplay, like in most visual novels, consists of reading through descriptions and dialogues, and selecting choices where presented which branch the story or take the events in a certain direction. The protagonist of the game is a village boy named Takumi. The game settings consist of an actual world which is set around the village Takumi lives in, and a virtual world which can be accessed using special bed-like terminals. One day, a girl on a motorcycle crashes into his house, leaving the hole in the wall. As chance has it, she’ll need to stay until she fixes her bike and make it mobile again so she can get back on the road and see the world. Yoko’s aspiration to see the world does not leave Takumi indifferent and he starts to ponder the idea himself.
