It's time for my usual round up post. Here are the yuri VNs that came out last month and where you can find them. There were quite a few longer form yuri VNs released this month.

8/11 - Ad Nauseam - The Wrong Side

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Developer(s): throwpup & lolratz

Language(s): English

Available on itch ($11.00), currently only a partial release, the rest to come out this year.

Description:

Tsurine is a PsySpec wrapped up in the intensity of her job, and the delirium that comes with dissociative amnesia. One night, a mysterious woman offers to help recover her lost memories. All Tsurine must do in exchange is hunt down the missing fragments to an unusual key.

Ad Nauseam is an intricate choice-heavy psychological thriller about an amnesiac facing both real and mental horrors within a world akin to an endless, liminal hospital. The game itself is an RCN (Roleplay & Click Novel) - a fusion genre of Visual Novel, RPG, and Point-&-Click games that centers around distressing content and how people choose to cope with trauma. Uncover the secrets of this strange world, and the ones lying within your own forgotten memories. Will you accept your limitations, or will you dive deep into delusion for a chance at hope?

8/12 - Sekai ga Owaru Sono Mae ni

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Developer: Chuuto Mikan

Language(s): Japanese

Available on Novelgame (free)

Description:

In a world blanketed in green.
Two girls, Mebuki and Hisame, lived their lives while traveling.
They didn’t know when or why things had come to this. But as long as they were together, they were content with that.
—That is, until they picked up that mysterious “shard.”

A world covered in greenery—a world where just the two of them are gradually freezing over, as they embark on a journey in search of the mysterious “shard.”

8/16 - Yuriraisu

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Developer: Towasoft

Language(s): English

Available on DLsite ($6.99)

Description:

Arisu, Yuri's twin younger sister, died.

Yuri was unable to accept that tragedy.

One day, she had a dream.

When she came to, Yuri found herself lying on a bed in a dark room.

"I'm home, Yuri-chan."

Yuri was overjoyed to be reunited with Arisu, who should have been dead.

However, there was something different about Arisu—she seemed more alluring and mysterious than usual.

Fearing that she might lose Arisu again, Yuri chose to spend a sweet honeymoon-like time with her.

Unaware that she was merely being toyed with in the palm of a wicked god's hand...

8/18 - Chiaroscuro Lovers

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Developer: Liuli Hua Tang Zhizuo Zu

Language(s): Chinese (simplified), English and Japanese are forthcoming

Available on Steam ($6.99)

Description:

A domineering CEO-like older sister who’s gentle only to her sister, a childhood friend who became her doctor, and a cheerful girl only she can see. Who was Chu Hebai before losing her memories, and how did she become entangled with them? A melancholic yuri AVG about regret and unspoken love.

8/18 - The World Well: Blood of Caro

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Developer: Basi Ningmeng Zhizuozu

Language(s): Chinese (simplified & traditional), English, Japanese

Available on Steam ($11.99)

Description:

814 R.E. War looms over Redimus, a vampiric empire rotting from within. Ancient technology and blood magic clash in the shadows while the aristocracy feasts on the suffering of the oppressed. You guide two outcasts bound by circumstance: 4, a fugitive assassin with a stolen weapon and a past that hunts her, and Noma, a resistance mage whose mechanical body is both her armor and her cage.

Their journey through ruined cities and haunted histories is more than a quest for revenge; it's a fight to reclaim the future from those who have written it in blood. Navigate branching alliances, tactical dialogue, and a magic system where the past can be weaponized. Will you expose the empire's atrocities, or become the monster they fear?

8/24 - Money for Girls: Amortized

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Developer: Porpentine Charity Heartscape

Language(s): English

Available on Steam ($15.00)

Description:

A girl detective faces her greatest mystery yet: saving her mom from crippling debt. But beware: the gorgeous tropical landscape conceals a world of sin. The popular girl at school has shown a disturbing interest in you, and your mother's predatory loan is dressed to kill. Can your sugary heart survive, or will the ants feast?

8/25 - L3XA

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Developer: EstelaPunk.dev

Language(s): English

Available on itch (free)

Description:

It's Dr. Daphnis' first day on her mission aboard the S.S. Columbus. The mysterious alien specimen that she must keep alive awakens strange feelings inside her. Will she follow her ambition and move forward in her career, or will she let go of everything and embrace the unknown?

8/28 - Drown in Yesterday's Sea

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Developer: Ningbing Jian Zhan

Language(s): Chinese (simplified), and English

Available on Steam ($1.99, on sale for $1.59 until 9/4)

Description:

Xiamen, Fujian Province, 2024. One day, 19-year-old Xiamen University student Gu Mengzhi meets a sea spirit named Coral, and the two quickly become close. However, as their bond deepens, a stranger appears and disrupts everything. The stranger seems to want to kidnap Mengzhi for some reason. Soon, Mengzhi realizes she's been caught up in a conspiracy. What's really going on? Will Mengzhi and Coral be able to uncover the truth and get away safely?

8/28 - The Day of Revenge

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Developer: Ningbing Jian Zhan

Language(s): Chinese (simplified), and English

Available on Steam ($1.99, on sale for $1.59 until 9/5)

Description:

The story takes place in a fictional world of sword and sorcery. The protagonist, Amelia, hails from a family of mages but was cast out due to her utter lack of magical aptitude; forced to move into a haunted house, she encounters the ghost of the home's former owner—and so the story begins.

8/30 - I Thought I Knew You

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Developer: Baamurin

Language(s): Japanese, English (machine translation), Chinese (machine translation)

Available on Steam ($3.99, on sale for $2.99 until 9/13)

Description:

A coming-of-age yuri visual novel set in a university. Players take on the role of a female protagonist and deepen their relationships with three girls. The game features a multi-ending format where the story branches based on the player's choices.

Use this space to talk about what you're reading right now and how you're feeling about it, make sure to use spoiler tags where necessary!

Time for another monthly round up post!

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The Toxic Yuri VN Jam 2 on itch concludes in July, and it features almost 500 entries. That's right, almost 500 yuri VNs! Obviously enough I'm not going to go through every single one of them here. I was planning on at least posting the winners here, but the judging is still ongoing. I highly recommend checking out the game jam if that's your cup of tea.

Here are the other releases from July 2026 (None of these are part of the Toxic Yuri VN Jam)

7/15 - After-Rain Bookmark

Note: AI assets were used for this VN

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Developer: Sun Panpan

Language(s): English, Japanese, Korean, Chinese (simplified)

Description:

After-Rain Bookmark is an all-ages school yuri visual novel set during the rainy season.
The story follows Shizuku Shirakawa, a quiet library committee member, and her classmate Shiori Shiraishi as they prepare a small library project for the school culture festival. Through handmade bookmarks, rainy walks, and time spent in the old music room, the two girls gradually grow closer while learning to express feelings they have long kept to themselves.

The story focuses on everyday life, emotional intimacy, and a gentle confession.

Available on Steam ($1.99)

7/16 - A Scarlet Dream Beyond the Library

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Developer: LovelyLoom

Language(s): English

Description:

As Remilia navigates a forest with a wounded Flandre, they discover a mysterious library as their only shelter against the imminent sunrise. Follow the Scarlet sisters' journey as they search for a solution to Flandre's destroyed wings, and meet a mysterious librarian that Remilia... really likes.

Available on itch (free)

7/17 - Breathe in Your Kiss

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Developer: project foolsring

Language(s): English

Description:

Spend some quality time with your mermaid wife under the sea.

Available on itch (free)

7/19 - RE_SERVE

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Developer: Anna Lena

Language(s): English

Description:

You are a simple bartender, stuck behind an empty bar, watching bodies move in tandem with the music on the dance floor.

What begins as a regular shift changes as a strange and captivating woman takes the seat in front of you. You should serve her a drink, you know which one?

Available on itch (free)

7/19 - D.C. al Coda

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Developer: FumbleBaum

Language(s): English

Description:

Waiting for her connecting bus, Ella has nothing but time, her own thoughts, and the company of a pianist playing in the flat behind her.

Available on itch (free)

7/20 - Fireworks Ending

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Developer: CuteShadow

Language(s): English

Description:

I like endings with fireworks so I made a game with toxic love confessions because you can never have a normal wholesome love under fireworks apparently. Well, whether or not you think it's toxic is up to your interpretation.

Available on itch (free)

7/20 - Calamity Cait

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Developer: Xavier Bell

Language(s): English

Description:

In a sleepy coastal town, Cait watches whales. It's her job, and she might even say she's good at it. But there's more to life than whales, and Cait is on a mission to find out exactly what that means.

Her sights are set on Molly, a coworker and friend, or maybe something more. Cait is never really sure where things stand. There's only one way to know for certain.

Available on Steam (free)

7/20 - Paradise Keeper

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Developer: Saltie

Language(s): English

Description:

You're stuck in a chatroom with a convicted killer who’d rather be anywhere else. How well will you get to know her?

Available on itch (free)

7/24 - no fox season

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Developer: NovaB12

Language(s): Russian, English, Chinese (simplified)

Description:

One rainy day you come home from the store and find a wounded fox on the road. In spite of your strict parents who forbid you to have pets, you decide to take her in.

Can you take good care of her if you don't even know what foxes eat?

Available on Steam ($3.99)

7/28 - Dissolution of the Silent Union

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Developer: Umigame Studios

Language(s): Turkish, English, Japanese, Russian, Chinese (simplified)

Description:

The silent union of two girls begins to dissolve in an abandoned high school. A melancholic and liminal short story played in a single sitting, where the fear of collapse is felt at every moment.

Available on Steam ($2.99, on sale for $2.69 until 8/11)

Now that it's July, it's time for my usual round-up post about the previous month's yuri VN releases. Many of this month's releases are short, free, and toxic thanks to the Toxic Yuri VN Jam, which is still going on!

6/5 - Bianca Must Die

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Developer: reverie

Language(s): English

Available on itch (free)

Description:

After a year of planning, Whitley attempts to murder her girlfriend, Bianca.

“Go ahead,” says Bianca.

Will you take her up on that, or listen to what she has to say?

6/5 - Where is my lady?

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Developer: Paradox White Cat

Language(s): Russian, English

Available on Steam ($4.99)

Description:

Where am I? And where is my lady? I often wander when I sleep, but I've never gone this far before. Well, what should I do now?

The colorful adventure of an unlucky maid. Will she be able to return home?

6/12 - Sophomoric Blasphemy

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Developer: gore doll

Language(s): English

Available on itch (free)

Description:

a t4t toxic yuri [angel x human] sadomasochistic piece of debauchery

6/14 - Ant They Were Roommates

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Developer: d'Arc

Language(s): English

Available on itch (free)

Description:

Four queen of ants have been kidnapped into a single house. Before the food runs out, they'll have to either work together and build their colony, or eliminate all the others.

As the only Polyneoptera here, white ant queen "Shiro" has no ability to fight against the other real ants. Without even wanting to become a queen, the only choice she was given...is to convince them into helping her escape, by using the magic of LOVE.

6/15 - A Day To Remember (Steam Release)

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Developer: LovelyCinnamon

Language(s): English

Available on itch (usually $1.00, but on sale for free right now), Steam ($1.00)

Description:

You play as Aino, wanting to confess her feelings for Rain after being around her for so many years.

Both haven't had much time together cause of adult life, can they strengthen their bond again like old times and maybe become something more? Or will they remain friends?

6/25 - Bittersweet Blossoms

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Developer: ebi-hime

Language(s): English

Available on Steam, itch (Usually $12.99 on both, on sale for $11.69 until 7/9),

Description:

A lesbian romance set in England shortly after WWI. The story centres around Dot, a young maid who begins to work in the crumbling stately home of Bly, and her young mistress: the devious, devilish Patience.

6/26 - Never Trust a Fox

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Developer: Nova B12

Language(s): Russian, English

Available on Steam (Usually $7.99, on sale for $5.99 until 7/10)

Description:

One rainy day you come home from the store and find a wounded fox on the road. In spite of your strict parents who forbid you to have pets, you decide to take her in.

Can you take good care of her if you don't even know what foxes eat?

6/27 - lemure;lemure

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Developer: 4noki

Language(s): English

Available on itch (Name your own price)

Description:

A string of serial murders sends the Whitechapel district of Londinium into a fearful frenzy. Amidst those blood colored whispers, a white cat continues her daily life in the slums doing odd jobs and nothing of note.

Then, one day—as if ordained by God— she meets her fated lover: a dirty, dirty liar

6/27 - Once Upon a Witch's Curse

(Note: This is not 100% yuri, also has a male love interest)

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Developer: Naoimh Murchan

Language(s): English

Available on itch (free)

Description:

Bonnie has always been prone to boughts of chaos - but now a potion mishap has caused a fearsomely friendly demon and a prickly fae prince to fall into her life... literally.

6/29 - Lily Trail: A Tale of Spirits That Bloom in the West

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Developer: Rosin Entertainment

Language(s): English

Available on itch (free)

Description:

Guided by a mysterious and recurring dream, a lone Sister leaves her abbey on the small island of Hybraesail and travels across the sea to the West. This is finally her chance to make her dream come true of founding her own school.

She joins a wagon driven by the mysterious Ven Barrister who plans to take a secret route. Joining her are Beatrix—a well-to-do young woman, Palmira—a skilled hunter and guide, Euodia—a woman hoping to improve herself, and a young girl named Itzel. However, not everything is that simple. Ven's past is filled with trouble, the other travelers have their own issues, and Itzel keeps talking about...a wish granting dragon?

6/30 - Becoming My Landlady's Pet

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Developer: 13th-Matsuri

Language(s): English

Available on itch (free)

Description:

You're Amy, a naive 22 year old trans girl trying to navigate college life, and Ashley (age 28) is simultaneously your landlady, and also your smoking hot roommate. How will you act when Ashley strikes a deal to help with your financial issues in exchange for sexual favours?

6/30 - Starlight Road

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Developer: OTOJANG Games

Language(s): English

Available on itch (free)

Description:

Short yuri (It's there if you squint OK?!) game about two idols.

6/30 - Cooperative Breeding: A Betaological Perspective

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Developer: dianerds

Language(s): English

Available on itch (Name your own price)

Description:

The Cotemate Accords brought forward an unprecedented initiative to ensure the continuation of productive and non-dysgenic alpha and omega coupling, and preserve the genetic diversity of the 3rd Galactic Cardinal's Migrant Fleet amidst the 'alpha drain' created by its ongoing state of war.

This was a very quiet month for yuri VN releases -- one of the quietest since I started doing this a couple of years ago. But fear not, there is still new yuri to consume.

5/2 - She Couldn't Do Anything

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Developer: Kyou System

Language(s): English

Available on itch (free)

Description:

Nothing is going Ann's way.

No matter how hard she looks, there's nowhere to go, nothing to do, and no one to meet in her depressed, pandemic-ravaged town. And while the job market is bad, the dating market is worse still: Everyone who catches her eye is already taken, happily partnered up long before she ever had a chance to shoot her shot. Meanwhile, the world outside burns, and the community groups where she might would've met someone wither with it.

But just as she goes to distract herself anew, there's a sudden knock at the door.

Join Ann as loneliness, desperation, and an unexpected visitor take her down a dark, thrilling path that leaves her dazed, breathless, and utterly powerless...

5/2 - Plushie Misery Girl Hangover

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Developer: claire deloone

Language(s): English

Available on itch (free)

Description:

A girl has a very bad night.

5/2 - I WANNA [___________] A CORPORATE ARCHDEMONESS

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Developer: dianerds

Language(s): English

Available on itch (Name your own price)

Description:

CORPORATE ARCHDEMONESS ELISE HOLBROOK IS ON THE VERGE OF GETTING PARDONED IN AN ACT OF IMMENSE DEPRAVITY, A RITE TO STAVE OFF THE BOREDOM OF AN UNENSOULED OLIGOGARCHY

SHE WILL SPEND THE REST OF HER LIFE REVILED, DRINKING HERSELF TO SLEEP IN THE MANSE OF THE MAN WHO CALLS HER MISTRESS. HER CURSED EXISTENCE IS A LIFE IN SOCIAL UNDEATH.

That is, unless one dead-end phlebotomist and duplicitous hung otaku girlfailure with a crush and vision for her can teach her how suited she is for a life in service to the lowest dregs of society, and the fact that former billionaire girls make wonderful BAD END heroines.

5/2 - almost nearly borderline PERFECT

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Developer: mala

Language(s): English

Available on itch (free)

Description:

Adelaide has been alone for a long time and values privacy above all. Her peaceful life is interrupted when she has a one night stand with an employee who seems to care about her a bit too much.

5/2 Shelly's Future Past

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Developer: Sexy Shelly

Language(s): English

Available on itch (Name your own price)

Description:

Shelly's Future Past is a Sci Fi Erotic Lesbian Time Travel Adventure, about a female protagonist 23 year old lesbian woman, who lives in the year 3077 within Cyber City with her best friend Triss

5/2 - Yuzu Yuri

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Developer: EerieEmilia

Language(s): English

Available on itch (free)

Description:

Five women drink their troubles away and try to produce entertainment.

5/4 - Your Crown Is Mine

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Note: This one is not 100% yuri, it has both male and female love interests.

Developer: lyyycaena

Language(s): English

Available on Steam ($18.99)

Description:

Take the throne and fix the corrupt kingdom— or worsen it! A villainess life sim and visual novel where you balance your stats, manage a country, and romance rival nations' leaders for foreign policy purposes. How will you rule?

5/14 - One Day

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Developer: LSAusa

Language(s): Chinese (simplified)

Available on Steam ($5.99)

Description:

A romantic comedy featuring "Reaper x Spirit Eye"?!

5/19 - My Affection that Dies

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Developer: 4noki

Language(s): English

Available on itch (Name your own price)

Description:

My girlfriend committed suicide, but I couldn't bring myself to touch her dead body. Then the world collapsed, and she revived as a zombie.

This story is a tragedy. Therefore, there is no happy ending.

—A zombie x omegaverse yuri kinetic novel.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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!

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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!

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Set Yourself on Fire is an English-language kinetic (there are no choices) yuri visual novel that came out on April 24th, 2026. It was developed by Denhop, and it's available for free on both Steam and itch. It's short, and only takes a couple of hours to read.

This game does feature some bloody violence as well as suicidal ideation. It's not really for the faint of heart. There's cute yuri to be sure, but the setting is grim.

PREMISE:

It's never fully elaborated on, but the game appears to take place in some sort of alternate history in the United States, where there is a war being fought on American soil in the 1980s or 1990s. In spite of this harsh environment, two depressed and seemingly hopeless high school girls meet and fall in love.

CHARACTERS:

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Alex is a bookworm with a difficult family life who likes to roam around the town, even at night, to avoid going home.

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Michelle also likes to read, though she prefers nonfiction. Her father was drafted, and she's all alone at home. She works at a diner to make ends meet.

WRITING:

An example of the game's writing style.

The author uses lots of prose, and at times I would say it is purple. The two girls have conversations that are fairly unrealistic, with deep philosophical implications, and in a lot of visual novels it wouldn't fit.

That said, for the most part it somehow works. These two girls are living in a terrible situation. That situation permeates all aspects of this visual novel, so you really feel embedded in this melancholic and hopeless world. So it's somewhat believable that they would be having such serious conversations.

Furthermore, the character-writing is quite good. Alex and Michelle gradually falling in love and finding hope in one another is especially beautiful to behold.

YURI CONTENT:

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This game focuses on a relationship between two women, and it features many sweet and touching scenes between them. For me, that means it as about as yuri as it can get.

ART:

This is perhaps what sets this visual novel apart the most as this yuri VN looks and feels unlike any I've ever read. The art helps establish a warm, cozy aesthetic, while somehow also being depressing. It uses 3D rendered sprites that aren't especially detailed, but they're also very expressive despite that lack of detail. People in it kind of remind me of LEGO figures.

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Many of the backgrounds are breathtaking and animated, so that you can see the rustling of leaves and other aspects of nature. The sprites are also sometimes animated, and any time they are it's a real treat.

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The game uses all kinds of interesting compositions, too. This isn't a VN where the text is always just at the bottom of the screen. In fact, it usually isn't. It can appear just about anywhere, and the compositions are effectively used to set different moods and convey different messages. While the game doesn't have traditional CGs -- most of them just use sprites and backgrounds -- the different compositions do make those scenes feel special.

Reading it feels very dynamic.

MUSIC:

Just as the art and writing establish a melancholic, cozy atmosphere, so too does the music. It's suitably melancholic when it has to be, but there are also some intense tracks for the more emotionally impactful scenes, as well as some heartwarming ones for the cute scenes between the two women.

TO SUM UP:

Biggest Strength: 

• Unique atmosphere and aesthetic
• Emotional, heartfelt storytelling.

Biggest Weaknesses: 

• The prose and writing sometimes feels unrealistic for a pair of high school girls. They sound like philsophy graduate students.

Summary: The various aesthetic aspects of the game establish a unique and powerful atmosphere that is somehow cozy and depressing at the same time, which is perfect for the story. This is probably the best free yuri visual novel there is.

OVERALL SCORE: 8/10 ("Very good" on VNDB)