It was a fairly busy month for yuri visual novels, partly because of game jams, but there are some longer form yuri VNs too, including two new VNs written by ebi-hime. Here are all the ones that came out, and their information.
4/1 - Reflections: Beyond the Canvas
Developer: SoftHeartsStudio
Language(s): English
Available on itch (free)
Description:
You're a game art student.
Drawing comes easily to you. Imagining even more so.
Framing scenes. Studying light. Turning fleeting ideas into something real.
But one morning, a new student walks into your classroom.
And she looks exactly like the girl you dreamed about.
Exactly like the one you drew.
That shouldn’t be possible.
4/2 - Magic Exposure 2
Developer: Eastasiasoft & Witz Games
Language(s): English
Available on Steam ($2.99), Nintendo Switch ($4.99), Playstation Store ($4.99)
Description:
After the events surrounding the magic camera, Erika and Bianca's seemingly perfect relationship runs into trouble, leading them to break up. As Bianca processes her feelings, her life takes another turn for the worse when she encounters a second mysterious magic camera and meets Lúcia, the intelligent and polished president of the school council. Will fate rekindle her love for Erika? Or will it lead her down new paths with the newcomer?
4/3 - Guanyu Wo Bei Xuejie Jianhui Jia Dang Nüyou Zhe Jian Shi
Developer: Yuxinyuan Keji
Language(s): Chinese (simplified) and Japanese
Description:
Tenna, a girl who has just arrived in the big city, barely has time to feel the warmth of this land of opportunity before crashing headfirst into the harshness of reality.
In her moment of despair, the one who reaches out to help her…
…is a senpai who appears like an angel — Natsu.
4/6 - Majo Kuruibana
Developer: Nashiya Nashigo
Language(s): Japanese
Available on Novelgame (Free)
Description:
Kuro, the protagonist, had lost her mother to a witch at a young age.
Driven by a thirst for revenge, Kuro enrolls in the "Witch Academy", an institution where that very same witch reigns supreme as Headmistress.
A light-hearted "Revenge Yuri Visual Novel" in which you strive to reach the top of the academy alongside a cast of adorable witches.
4/11 - MIYACHI MELANCHOLY!
Developer: DEATHICUTE
Language(s): English
Available on itch (free)
Description:
You just got a text from your girlfriend asking to go out on a date! You rush over to find her...ooooonly to also find out that you have nowhere planned to go! Wuh oh! Big problem! And even bigger problem is that you're a broke teen! Luckily for you, you have an arsenal of really boring places to go! Yippee!
4/11 - Missing the Magnolias Again
Developer: Gray Lofi
Language(s): English
Available on itch (free)
Description:
A conversation on a walk, looking through photos on a phone. One prompts a realization.
4/16 - Café of Roses
Developer: ebi-hime
Language(s): English
Available on Steam ($8.99) and itch ($8.99)
Description:
(Note: This is an alternate reality version of another ebi-hime VN -- Cage of Roses)
It's early autumn, and the leaves are beginning to brown. Meike, a young woman who lives and works in the German city of Augsburg, wishes she could enjoy the peaceful atmosphere and the balmy weather, but she has a problem.
Meike's parents are determined to set her up with the wealthy young entrepeneur, Walter: a man who, at the age of thirty-two, successfully founded his own company, and who exudes self-confidence. Meike's mother, in particular, is determined to see her daughter married, and Meike is being harangued into a relationship with this man she does not love.
Tired and stressed, Meike decides to escape Walter one day by ducking into a quaint Victorian-inspired café where her friend, Henny, works...
But, in her visit to Café of Roses, Meike meets a young woman who will change the course of her life forever. Who is the mysterious Magdalena, with her fair hair and her red eyes, and why does she look so familiar...?
4/18 - Squeaky Stuff
Developer: SnowPaws
Language(s): English
Available on itch (free).
Description:
A short visual novel about two trans girls discovering new things about each other through transformation and a magical book.
4/20 - A Painting of the Sea
Developer: dutchduk
Language(s): English
Available on itch (free)
Description:
After an attempt on her own life two years ago, Maria has decided to abandon what vestiges remain of her humanity and live in total isolation. Emily wishes to break that isolation for her own gain, by any means necessary.
4/24 - Set Yourself on Fire
Developer: Denhop
Language(s): English
Available on Steam (free), itch (Name your own price)
Description:
A quiet town awaits death.
Stagnation is the default state of being.
Those who dare to hope are seen as demented.
Two aimless young women fall in love.
I lost my soul somewhere along the line. It must have slipped, fallen into a storm drain, vanished. It dissipated in that putrid water.
(Note: I wrote a spoiler-free review of this one)
4/26 - Roses of Love
Developers: KagariSoft & UnSetSoft
Language(s): Spanish, English, Japanese
Available on: Steam ($4.99, on sale for $3.74 until 5/5)
Description:
A new stage begins. The trip to a new city, meeting new friends and enjoying a good read. Yukiko manages to enter the prestigious Aoi Academy for young ladies and here she will meet her future partner.
Yukiko will share her day to day life with her friends and every day will seem unique in her eyes. From working in a cafeteria, to reading romance novels in a quiet place at the academy.
4/27 - Wuming Zhe
Developer(s): San Qi Luo Jiu & Shiljie Tingyuan
Language(s): Chinese (simplified)
Available on Steam ($7.99)
Description:
"Please tell me, does love have any meaning?" Follow in the footsteps of the girls, search for traces of the gods in a lost city, uncover the truth buried in the past, find a way to continue the future, and ultimately reach the end of the world—
4/30 - Our Home, My Keeper
Developers: Studio Élan & ebi-hime
Language(s): English
Available on Steam ($14.99, on sale for $13.49 until 5/14) and itch ($15.00)
Description:
Paige Crowley has a dilemma. Following the success of her recent series of children’s books, Paige has found herself struggling with a particularly persistent strain of writer’s block.
Fearful that her creative energy has gone for good, Paige decides to use her newly accrued cash to move out of the ever-busy London and into a quaint old home buried deep in the English countryside.
Paige hopes that a change of pace will reverse her fortunes, and she’ll finally be able to write a new fantasy epic her fans will adore…
But Paige gets rather more than she bargained for when she discovers her lovely new home already has an occupant. A brownie called Faye lives there, and she has been watching over the home for centuries.
Paige must learn to get along with her mysterious, other-worldly housemate – and, in the process, they may even fall in love.
4/30 - A Taste of Her Blood
Developers: Cutie Collective & Froey
Language(s): English
Available on itch (Name your own price)
Description:
Ksenia is a vampire who's lived among humankind for hundreds of years. After attending an unexpected party, she arrives home in the middle of the night and reflects back on her past life and how she originally met her wife: Eve.
4/30 - Distant Oceanic Getaway
Developer: Red Bean Taiyaki Studios
Language(s): Chinese (traditional), English demo, full game coming at some point
Available on Steam $8.99 (on sale for $8.09 until 5/7)
Description:
The cruise ship’s horns blast. You’re going to be spending the next 10 days aboard the Distant Oceanic Cruise, a luxury vacation for sapphics only!
Play as Maeve (customizable name), a heartbroken soul determined to move on from a cheating ex. There are only six other single sapphics on board— could one possibly be your soulmate? Only time will tell! After all, ‘tis the SEA-son for love!
