

He is a second-year student in class B and a member of the astronomy club at Uchihama Academy. Sō Akiyama ( 秋山 奏, Akiyama Sō) Voiced by: Takuma Terashima ( anime), Yurika Aizawa (7 years old)The main protagonist. The six main characters are students in the astronomy club at Uchihama Academy. When Yui Furukawa, a quiet girl, transfers late into the school year and appears before Sō, the gears of fate slowly begin to move. Sō Akiyama is a member of the astronomy club, and just before the festival is to begin, the student executive committee asks the club's members to calm the uneasiness among the students in regard to mysterious incidents at the old building. Each of the clubs decide to give it their all to make it a success. Before they move to the new building, the school will hold one last General Club Festival at the old building before it is closed down. In Search of the Lost Future is set in Uchihama Academy ( 内浜学園, Uchihama Gakuen) and with the number of new students at the school increasing every year, a new school building is constructed. Throughout gameplay, there are scenes with sexual CGs depicting Sō and a given heroine having sex. To view all plot lines in their entirety, the player will have to replay the game multiple times and choose different choices to further the plot to an alternate direction. Some decisions can lead the game to end prematurely, which offer an alternative ending to the plot. Throughout gameplay, the player is given multiple options to choose from, and text progression pauses at these points until a choice is made. There are four main plot lines that the player will have the chance to experience, one for each heroine. In Search of the Lost Future follows a branching plot line with multiple endings, and depending on the decisions that the player makes during the game, the plot will progress in a specific direction. Throughout the game, the player encounters CG artwork at certain points in the story, which take the place of the background art and character sprites.

The text in the game is accompanied by character sprites, which represent who Sō is talking to, over background art. Much of its gameplay is spent on reading the story's narrative and dialogue. In Search of the Lost Future is a romance visual novel in which the player assumes the role of Sō Akiyama.
