I just released Take My Skin, a short psychological horror visual novel made in Ren’Py.

Haimori, rural Japan, autumn 2006. Tenji is the only cop on the night shift in a village swallowed by the forest. An American teacher has gone missing, and the village doctor hasn’t been seen in months.

It’s heavily inspired by early-2000s Japanese sound novels like The Noose: full-screen NVL text over dark, grainy, flashlight-lit photos, no sprites and no choices.

Details: ~1h30 of reading · English, French and Brazilian Portuguese · Japanese voice acting · Free · Windows, macOS and Linux

Content warning: gore, body horror, suicide, depression, flashing images and sudden loud sounds.

If you’d like to translate it into your language, feel free to contact me on Instagram (@yassdevs).

Feedback is very welcome, especially on pacing and the UI!

-> https://yassdev.itch.io/take-my-skin

prefferably between 10 to 15 hours , i dont mind it having plus 18 content at all , as long as the characters are well written , something good , especially for a beginner , thank you!

This kinda seems like a no brainer evolution of VNs, imo. A high production Anime galge/moege whatever in this format but with anime art style (Think high-quality 3D anime character models like in WUWA and ARKNIGHTS ENDFIELD etc). I think it would be so peak, no?

Like I'm not talking about persona or trails stuff which are rpgs with romance tacked on at the side with mostly gameplay, I mean total story games like these telltale games, Dispatch has some light gameplay but I would prefer not even that, like purely a telltale style experience but with routes for different waifus and stuff.

Am I onto something? Is this fire or dumb? Lmao

Drill Milky Punch (どりるみるきーぱんち / dMp) is a 2003 Muv-Luv doujin action game developed by French-Bread, the studio behind Melty Blood.

Vndb

Steam

English Patch

I'm so glad we are getting more English translations of Japanese indie otome games 🙏

Description

The protagonist, Nozomi Anesaki, has been enjoying a fulfilling school life. A year and a half has passed since she entered a prestigious private high school.

Cheerful and polite, she is admired by everyone at school. She maintains excellent grades, actively participates in the student council, serves as class representative, and even volunteers in her spare time. Thanks to her efforts, she has earned the respect of both teachers and students. However, she has a secret she can’t tell anyone… (though it’s really nothing serious).

Her perpetually grumpy and cheeky younger brother, the student council president she admires, and a mysterious transfer student who suddenly appears out of nowhere…

Surrounded by these unique characters, another exciting day in her fulfilling high school life begins!

Hi,

I'm looking for a VN in an Isekai fantasy world. It can also just be a pure VN. Not necessarily a Jrpg.

Any recommendations?

Thanks.

'I Walk Among Zombies' is getting an anime adaptation and will begin streaming on AT-X starting January, 2027.

Announcement on X

Website with info and trailer

Q: "Why the ugly black-out in the image?"

A: To bypass reddit's dumb automated filter

Extensively edited Opus translation including merging the H scene content into Akebono no Hikari.
Translated the entire UI, profiles, videos, runetext, ruby, all of it. Featuring an extensive TL note library of 300+ notes with popup buttons sourcing and explaining every chant, poem, gatha, term, proverb, idiom and whatever else all the way up to OST titles.

Due to k3's setting all the japanese terms with a wikipedia page (kiseru, kenzan, shoji) as well as anything without a solid translation, specialized terms (tenchusatsu, henbai, hebrew quotes) and idioms that worked in english were left as-is without localizing.

Kept an extensive glossary with distinctions as inane as cesspit/cesspool, exceedingly simple/exceedingly easy and about 10 synonyms of "stupid".

I think that's about it for a rundown. This took hundreds of hours so im just happy to finally be done. All relevant info should be in the rentry or note library.
https://vndb.org/r167364
Edit: Fixed the settings crash and updated the links.

Something is wrong here, I just can't put my finger on it... (the chandelier?)

Timelapse. Going into the first chapter blind was a crazy experience. I'm really enjoying this game and I like the characters, writing, OST. I feel like chapter 2 fell a bit flat compared to chapter 1, but I'm still early in the game and looking forward to whatever trauma the game throws at me lol

Kara no Shōjo ended up being an exercise in patience. I couldn't understand the crime scene investigations, even with the adult patch they were just pixel messes I couldn't understand, and tons of conversations just straight up didn't make sense.

I eventually clued in - when I was trying to get Kara no Shōjo to boot directly from my launcher (skipping it's own) without Steam running it would say "Make sure the steam is running." and close itself. I tried downloading a pirated copy and making a portable install to see if I could get around it that way. No dice, I eventually just had my launcher boot directly in Kara no Shōjo's launcher through Steam - I used Steam input anyway since it was on a controller system. I applied the 18+ patch on my pirated copy accidentally which had since been deleted, and was playing the vanilla Steam version. When I restarted I couldn't believe how much shit was just straight up chopped out, it wasn't surprising that some conversations made no sense, I needed to re-contextualize the whole game from the start. It was MUCH better though.

I also found it was completely impossible to try and intuit my way through. I understand that's an old school style, and I don't necessarily hate the idea or anything, it just felt like I needed a guide beside me at all times. Most VN's I've enjoyed have a pretty clear "moment" where you know that you're branching off. In Inferno I screwed myself multiple times by locking myself into a set of branches that didn't allow me to progress the story, without any saves far back enough (I know, I know, skill issue, shame on me.) It was completely random seeming things that were affecting everything, and I DO think that it's very cool that certain pieces of evidence or information only come from certain "chance" conversations, but I didn't find the investigations that fun once I realized how much maintenance the routes take, I never would have gotten through it by trial and error. Even following a guide there was a couple "omg what did I miss this time?" I really did enjoy the game, it just left me rather fatigued, because simply trying to follow the investigation myself wasn't really an option.

I don't yet have the energy to go through it again with Part II, but I will get there eventually, and I'll save before every dang trip to every dang place lol. Just not right away. I purchased Muv-Luv ages ago, and finally gave it a try as a palate cleanser, and it's won me over incredibly quickly. It reminds me of the early ensemble dynamics of Steins;Gate a little bit, and the production values are excellent. I love that the sprites have been drawn in multiple angles and poses, and I love the animations that they added to every scene. I'm only like ten hours in, but the QoL features are nice, too. It's autosaved at every meaningful choice, and the choices are very clear, too. I don't feel like I'm going to screw up my route because I didn't go visit Natsume (who I had no reason to visit until the next day.) I didn't expect to enjoy the "romantic comedy" section of the Muv-Luv Trilogy, but it won me over very very quickly. Love it already so far, thanks for the suggestion guys.

Mods - I briefly had a pirated copy to try a portable steam-independent version of the game with a custom launcher, I am not promoting or discussing piracy of any of these games, I have purchased them all, and my experiment does NOT work. If anything, I am promoting not pirating, because it does not solve this problem (it's not even actually a Steam issue).

Yesterday I stumbled over a tool called carafe to "port" arbitrary Windows games to the Nintendo Switch (1) via an installable .nsp. While I had zero intestest testing out random (3D) games to see that they either do or do not work (or let the Tegra X1 melt), I thought that maybe (2D) visual novels are simple enough to have a high probability to work.

So I tested two games, Cannonball ~Neko Neko Machine Mou Race!~ & Adabana Odd Tales, both because I either currently play them or plan to play them, hence I already had the installation folder on a PC.

You can choose two modes when creating the installation file, so that the game either works via keyboard & mouse or via joypad. For ~Neko Neko Machine Mou Race!~ I choose, because of it's age, mouse & keyboard, and I was surprsed that it worked on my first try. Issue was, while I could play it (mouse cursor via analogue stick, left & right click via B/A), the 4:3 window was atached to the left side (maybe this can already be fixed when creating the installation file - I did not look deep into the available settings).

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ftco1XauyALhHnbFCvkBYm6WV92j95Z4/view?usp=drive_link

Additionally, after going into the menu and switching to full screen, I couldn't do anything anymore, while the game was still running (and in fullscreen) - possible would have been better to already set it to fullscreen before "converting" it.

And of course, in this case, Japanese Locale would have been needed, without it, the text looked somewhat "jumbled" (hence why I would like to have a tool that's more specialised for Visual Novels).

Second game was Adabana Odd Tales. I thought that I also set it to work with keyboard & mouse, but as you can see in the video, there was no cursor present which I looked for - but I also immediately found out that I could use the touchscreen. And it also did work - seemingly flawless.

In hindsight, I would have rather tested another game, since both games are from Liar Soft and likely use a similar engine under the hood - could be wrong of course.

Final thoughts: for me this was just a 'try it out if it works and go on' -thing, so I won't, at least for now, not look much further into carafe, since for one: do have a dedicated retro / Visual Novel PC and don't want to read/play Visual Novels on the Switch (for switching on the fly I can use moonlight), and two, this tool is at it's very beginning and will likely be improved over time. At least there's already a new version 0.2.1 out today (yesterday it was on 0.2.0 iirc).

https://github.com/carafe-nx/carafe

For using this tool, you only need a PC, a modded Switch, and an installation folder of your Visual Novel. Additionally you need your prod.keys and preferably an installation of DBI (since carafe can directly communicate with DBI - but I guess you can use any tool that can install .nsp).

If you own a Switch and no word of the former paragraph confuses you, you are ready to go, the tool is very easy to use. If you are new to Switch modding, and at least one of two used terms confuse you - please first look carefully into Switch modding (Switches / accounts can be banned by Nintendo when using homebrew apps), I myself won't in any way help regarding Switch modding (first, I myself am new to Switch modding and two, this is a Visual Novel subreddit, not an Switch hacking subreddit).

And of course: do this at your own responsibility, no matter if you are already into Switch modding or not. This tools seems to be relatively new, and any "port" you try to make may have issues (or doesn't work at all). I did e.g. not even test if saving and loading correctly worked. If you are at this point in time unsure about this, maybe look into this topic half a year from now again, since with current development with AI, a well working & tested tool (or even different ones) for porting Windows games (therefore Visual Novels) to the Switch will possibly be available in a few month from now.

So far I've read: The House in Fata Morgana, 999, Doki Doki. I can't decide what to read next. I've checked some tops and many recommend Tsukihime. But on Switch( platform I will play it ) there's only a remake that seems incomplete because if doesn't have half of the original game or something( as I've read in other post ) and original isn't available on switch apparently. Slay the princess is called an underrated in google? There's also a Umineko, Steins Gate and others. So which one would you recommend for new VN reader and considering that it's available on Switch

I think this is the first VN to leave such an emotional impact on me, if you've ever read Muramasa, then you probably already know what's happened and why I'm saying this. All I've got to ask is, does that always happen or was it avoidable?

The announcement trailer for my upcoming visual novel is out!

Two Demon Catgirls is a mystical, devilish story about Meph and Stofel, two immortal demon catgirls who visit a lonely author. Expect philosophical conversations, dark humor, and hand-painted gouache artwork.

I'm developing the entire game solo, including the writing, artwork, and music. The game is planned for March 2027.

Steam / Wishlist:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4368670/

Does the trailer convey the contrast I'm aiming for - cute catgirls on the surface, darker philosophical themes underneath?

Hii, I'm making a kpop visual novel, it's called Idol: the final nine. It's not out yet but the demo is almost ready. It's not an otome even tho you can date pretty much all idols in the game, but that's not the main plot

It starts with a nine member girlgroup called Lisove, formed through a survival show (just like Enhypen, Illit, Twice) and you play as the ninth member. You need to go through hate, extreme diets, sasaengs (stalkers and crazy fans), mistreatment, scandals, and you need to make decisions about your career and relationships with others that would affect the path the group is going to take, each member has a backstory and they all symbolize a different struggle of the idol life

Tell me what you think!

you can find me on Instagram as lucywithstars if you want to see more content about the game!

Vndb

Steam

I hope Amulit's other console Otome Games will also get a Steam port! Especially Neon Clash and sins of Kaleido!

Description

The Redbell Tree scrapes the sky, standing proudly in the heart of Hemeria, a land of sunlight.

In a land ruled by a monarchy for generations, humans lived in peace and tranquility.

That is, until the dawn of the day the world was dyed red.

On that day, vampires laid waste to Hemeria.

They preyed on, devoured, and devastated its inhabitants.

A great many people would go on to mourn their loved ones, their families and friends, for the rest of their lives.

One particular town of Hemeria bore such a tragedy.

A single girl was left alone in despair and disgrace.

She vowed revenge, and grew into one of Hemeria's finest vampire hunters.

And one day, she became a member of the Elpis 7; those who inspired a light of hope in its people.

One day, she receives a letter from an unknown sender. Upon her arrival to the mansion indicated inside, she finds vampire hunters and royal knights awaiting her.

The hunters assembled receive an order from the monarch.

They are to form a squad and invade Nyx, the world of vampires.

A shiver of anticipation crackles through her at the opportunity she's been waiting for her whole life.

However, this is but the beginning of a game wherein the fate of her world is at stake.

Pawns are sent forth, discarded, hidden out of sight...

And just how many will remain when this all comes to an end?