Palworld developer Pocketpair has seemingly announced a dating sim spinoff by the name of More than Just Pals, but there's reason to believe it might not be a serious prospect. The game was revealed…
March 31, 2025 | 09:37 EDT
Big Blue Sky Games' first title, Merchants of Rosewall, is a blend between a visual novel and store manager with a unique take on crafting. It’s an impressive first outing for the indie studio. Not…
March 4, 2025 | 02:19 EST
Visual novel developer Mages has announced Steins;Gate Re:Boot, which appears to be either a remake or enhanced remaster of the original 2009 visual novel. As noted by Automaton Media, details about…
October 28, 2024 | 11:19 EDT
Publisher Team17 and developer Sassy Chap Games have announced that Date Everything! has been delayed to next year, but I think you'll like the new release date (if not the delay itself). Per a…
October 11, 2024 | 09:12 EDT
Developer and publisher Rogueside has announced Best Served Cold, a narrative-driven murder mystery adventure game in which you play a bartender in a city inspired by 1920s Bucharest. The game is…
October 3, 2024 | 09:45 EDT
Developer and publisher Little Bat Games has revealed that three major free Vampire Therapist updates are on the way, bringing new scenarios for you to discover. The first of those updates, "The…
September 16, 2024 | 08:47 EDT
Nintendo has announced that an Emio - The Smiling Man: Famicom Detective Club demo is due to arrive next week, and what's more, the demo will be updated with new chapters in the following days. The…
August 16, 2024 | 11:27 EDT
While the rest of the world was playing Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree, I was playing Tsukihime -A piece of blue glass moon-. Obviously, these games are on completely opposite sides of the…
July 19, 2024 | 01:23 EDT
Nintendo has revealed what's behind the mysterious Emio trailer that appeared on the studio's official YouTube channel last week, and it's actually a new entry in a long-dormant (well, sort of)…
July 17, 2024 | 10:33 EDT
Little Bat Games, developer of "analyze-'em-up" therapy sim Vampire Therapist, has announced that two major high-profile voice actors have joined its game's cast. The first is someone you'll know…
June 4, 2024 | 09:50 EDT
There’s been an uptick to the brightside lately, and that’s excluding the deluge of wholesome games that have become part and parcel of the indie scene as of late. Pessimism is no longer at the…
May 15, 2024 | 07:11 EDT
Today publisher aNCHOR announced that the Nintendo Switch port of the beloved visual novels Muv-Luv and Muv-Luv Alternative will get a stand-alone release. For now the release has been confirmed…
March 26, 2024 | 04:08 EDT
Broccoli hosted the 3rd-anniversary livestream for the highly praised otome visual novel Jack Jeanne, announcing that a sequel is coming. During the recorded broadcast on the game's official YouTube…
March 16, 2024 | 08:28 EDT
Today Aksys Games hosted a livestream to announce upcoming games, including the localization of Nihon Falcom's JRPG Tokyo Xanadu eX+ for Nintendo Switch. If you're unfamiliar with the game, it…
February 1, 2024 | 06:47 EST
Developer Type-Moon has announced that a Fate/stay night remaster is launching in the West, bringing the Japanese visual novel overseas for the first time. Per a post on the official Fate/stay night…
January 30, 2024 | 08:42 EST
PQube announced the release date of the upcoming visual novel Konosuba - God's Blessing On This Wonderful World! Love For These Clothes Of Desire! Yes. That is the actual title. It's the…
January 11, 2024 | 09:43 EST
Today Bushiroad hosted a big event at the Tokyo Dome venue in Japan, and it had quite a few reveals to share, alongside new footage and details about games that have already been announced. We start…
January 6, 2024 | 10:54 EST
The crowdfunding campaign to port an all-ages version of the beloved visual novel Kimi Ga Nozomu Eien (also known as Rumbling Hearts) to Steam has just concluded successfully. The campaign on the…
December 29, 2023 | 10:03 EST
Following the announcements that the beloved original Muv-Luv trilogy of visual novels is finally coming to the Nintendo Switch and the Muv-Luv 20th Odyssey Box special edition, today we get a…
January 24, 2024 | 10:38 EST
Following the announcement that the beloved original Muv-Luv trilogy of visual novels is finally coming to the Nintendo Switch, publisher Anchor announced the Muv-Luv 20th Odyssey Box. While details…
December 21, 2023 | 11:55 EST
Hatoful Boyfriend creator Hato Moa has taken to social media to confirm that Epic Games has paid her royalties owed for the game since 2021. In a post on X (formerly known as Twitter), Hato Moa says…
December 12, 2023 | 04:13 EST
With the recent release of Fate/Samurai Remnant, many may find themselves wanting to delve deeper into the complex Fate franchise, and a new opportunity has been made available thanks to the newly…
December 8, 2023 | 05:28 EST
Japanese developer Acquire and publisher Aniplex revealed a brand new upcoming visual novel titled Hookah Haze. The game is inspired by the Hookah lounges (or Shisha lounges) that are rather…
December 4, 2023 | 03:43 EST
Kimi Ga Nozomu Eien is one of the most beloved visual novels released in the early 2000s, and now it's coming back on PC via Steam. The game was was initially born as an eroge, and it was never…
November 29, 2023 | 09:00 EST
The crowdfunding campaign to bring to Steam an all-ages version of the beloved visual novel Kimi Ga Nozomu Eien (also known as "Rumbling Hearts") has reached its funding goal this morning. …
November 23, 2023 | 02:46 EST
Today indie developer Oppai-Man officially announced its next adult visual novel, titled Forbidden Fantasy, and revealed the release dates for the first chapter. Initially, it'll launch form the…
November 17, 2023 | 08:43 EST
Today Anchor released a brand new visual novel localization, and it's one that Muv-Luv fans have been awaiting for a while, the prequel of Muv-Luv Alternative Total Eclipse titled "The Imperial…
November 14, 2023 | 04:51 EST
Today the crowdfunding campaign for the mystery adventure game Dark Auction: Hitler’s Estate has successfully concluded. The campaign was hosted by publisher Izanagi Games on the Japanese…
October 31, 2023 | 10:15 EDT
Western visual novel fans have been asking for an English localization of the beloved game Kimi Ga Nozomu Eien for decades, and a clear path to that goal has opened today in the form of a…
October 27, 2023 | 10:11 EDT
Today, during a livestream from Japan, Muv-Luv publisher Anchor had big news to share about the popular visual novel series. The main trilogy, which includes Muv-Luv and Muv-Luv Alternative is…
October 22, 2023 | 01:00 EDT
Few visual novels are as beloved among veteran Japanese fans as Âge's Kimi Ga Nozomu Eien, also known as Rumbling Hearts due to the English title of its dedicated anime series. Earlier this year,…
October 13, 2023 | 05:30 EDT
Mages has announced that a brand new game of the legendary visual novel series Memories Off will be released in 2024, and this time around it's not a drill. While the series received many spin-offs…
October 1, 2023 | 11:31 EDT
Today Hatoful Boyfriend creator Hato Moa took to X (formerly Twitter) to mention that she has not received any royalties for the sales of the game since the acquisition of Mediatonic by Epic Games in…
September 29, 2023 | 03:02 EDT
Stories from Sol: The Gun-Dog is an absolutely charming PC-98 style visual level, and for now, it's coming only on PC. Yet, its developers have wider ambitions. TechRaptor spoke to creative…
September 25, 2023 | 05:21 EDT
Today, during the celebrations of Aniplex Online Fest, the publisher announced that the legendary visual novel Witch on the Holy Night will come to PC via Steam. It'll launch on December 13, 2023,…
September 10, 2023 | 04:32 EDT
Few visual novels are as legendary as Type-Moon's Tsukihime, and its reimagination, Tsukihime: A Piece of Blue Glass Moon is coming west. Today, Aniplex released the first trailer in English. The…
August 23, 2023 | 09:23 EDT
Muv-Luv Dimensions developer NextNinja announced the next SSR pilot who will get his own gacha banner in the recently-released Muv-Luv mobile game. We're getting the hero of the original trilogy…
August 23, 2023 | 01:24 EDT
Today NextNinja and Anchor hosted a new livestream sharing what's coming for the recently-launched mobile game Muv-Luv Dimensions. During the livestream, we heard from producer Masayuki Yamagishi…
August 14, 2023 | 12:52 EDT
Frontwing released a new trailer of the visual novel Ginka, which is officially coming in English. The visual novel was originally revealed at the latest event by publisher Bushiroad and it's going…
August 12, 2023 | 07:24 EDT
A new Anonymous;Code trailer has been released, and this one's all about gameplay mechanics. In previous trailers, we've been introduced to characters like Azuma, Bambi, and our heroes Pollon and…
July 21, 2023 | 09:10 EDT
Today Shiravune announced the release date of the English localization of the legendary visual novel White Album: Memories Like Falling Snow. The English version, which was announced last month,…
July 20, 2023 | 09:21 EDT
There are many ways to express your love for a visual novel and its characters, and a Muv-Luv fan decided to have an iconic (and slightly "out there") scene from Muv-Luv and Muv-Luv Alternative on…
July 16, 2023 | 03:00 EDT
Astrolabe Games hosted a presentation at Bitsummit Let's Go! in Kyoto, showcasing its upcoming lineup of charming indie games. We start with the top-down shooter Zombie Soup, developed by AeonSparx…
July 15, 2023 | 01:56 EDT
Today Entergram announced the release details of the PC version of the visual novel Aquarium, starring HoloLive Vtuber Minato Aqua, and there is good news for those who hoped for an English…
July 12, 2023 | 11:21 EDT
Today Entergram announced that it'll soon share details about the PC port of its popular visual novel Aquarium starring Vtuber Minato Aqua. According to the announcement made on social media,…
July 7, 2023 | 04:55 EDT
Today, during its panel at Anime Expo, well-known visual novel publisher Sekai Project made a couple of announcements about the Neko-Nin exHeart series. First of all, the publisher is localizing the…
July 3, 2023 | 05:13 EDT
Satirical anime visual novel Needy Streamer Overload has passed a million sales, developer and publisher WSS Playground has announced. The game was released in January last year and depicts the life…
June 30, 2023 | 09:22 EDT
Today Mages released a new trailer of the upcoming game inspired by the popular manga and anime The Quintessential Quintuplets. The trailer showcases the adorable opening cutscene of the game titled…
June 24, 2023 | 08:18 EDT