AIKAGI, a short visual novel from Azarashi Soft and Frontwing, is a romance with an iyashikei flavor. Iyashikei, sometimes translated as “healing”, describes soothing works that show people living out ordinary, peaceful days. Add in a cute girl and a cozy shared apartment and you have all the ingredients for a warm, cuddly love story. […]
Forgive me Lord for I have sinned. Repeatedly and with great pleasure. Through the few hour playtime of The Humbling of a Holy Maiden, I’ve corrupted one of your servants. And she liked it. Not Your Standard Isekai Following the standard ‘reincarnated in another world’ theme, you play as the ‘Professor’ who has died and […]
Every hero has an origin story. These days, it’s probably been made into a 3-hour long CGI spectacle. Villains too – we naturally wonder what compels a person to install a death ray on their moon base and try to destroy the world. But what about the people standing behind these titans? And no, not […]
Dohna Dohna ~ Let’s Do Bad Things Together is an adult RPG/visual novel, where you do bad things to fight against those worse than you. Living in a dystopian city where everything is controlled by an evil organization, you have to resort to some pretty evil things yourself… Objectionable Adult Content Let’s get this out […]
Love Flute is the latest visual novel with casual simulation gameplay from Korean developer TALESSHOP to get an English localization. TALESSHOP first hit my radar when I gave their previous entry, The Blind of the New World, a try. I quite liked that, and so I was eager to see what their newest game would […]
I’ve played a lot of visual novels in my time, but not much otome. So Olympia Soiree, a substantial otome with serious themes from developer Otomate localized to English by Aksys Games, was a great opportunity to try something new. I wasn’t sure what to expect, but I’m glad I gave it a shot. Olympia […]
Money makes the world go around. Yuki, the protagonist of Renai Karichaimashita: Koikari – Love For Hire knows this well. This visual novel developed by ASa Project and brought to us by NekoNyan follows his life as a ‘rental human’, acting as a lover, brother, and more to different heroines. Siscon Woes Yuki loves his […]
I played X-Change when I was probably too young to be allowed to. My memories long faded, when I heard that JASTUSA was releasing the X-Change – Complete Collection with a remastered version of the games, I was intrigued. On hearing that it even included X-Change R, with a bunch of new content, I decided […]
Money, woman, and power. These are all common to fantasize about. Harem Kingdom hits all three by transporting you to another world, where you’re the king and it comes with a built-in set of wives. This is by Smee, who also created the popular comedy romances Fureraba and Making*Lovers. Unlike the previous titles, this one […]
Currently on Kickstarter until mid-October, Dear Mom: My Letter to You is a slice-of-life social sim and romance visual novel by indie developer Mangoku418. It follows the story of Ayame Kawasaki, an 18-year-old high school student who lost her mother to suicide one year earlier. After having shut herself away during her year-long absence from Yamada Hoshi […]