Rock Paper Shotgun has reviewed Kaschei, a free experimental visual novel made for the Toxic Yuri VN Jam 2, praising it as an inventive piece of interactive fiction that deliberately fragments its story across multiple linked files and interfaces rather than presenting a single, unified game. The piece matters as a spotlight on the "toxic yuri" genre, a niche but active corner of indie game jams focused on exploring difficult, often destructive relationships between women through experimental, non-traditional storytelling formats.

The game presents a mystery of belonging, hollowness and resentment through an assortment of interconnected artworks and documents, styled at times like an instant-messenger conversation, and drawing comparisons to forensic-investigation games such as The Roottrees Are Dead. It has few traditional narrative choices, instead inviting players to piece together meaning by opening different files and layers, and it uses formatting details like font, text colour and sound effects to convey emotion, alongside a distinctive soundtrack. The reviewer, who completed it over a couple of evenings, felt the ending arrived abruptly, a limitation attributed partly to the constraints of the game jam. Kaschei is available to download for free on Itch.io.