Author: Ivanir Ignacchitti

Springfox Games has opened a Kickstarter campaign for Nif Nif. The child-friendly roguelike deckbuilder is under development for PC (Steam) and the campaign aims at a US$12,833 goal for crowdfunding. Nif Nif puts players in the role of a piglet trying to rescue other creatures that have been affected by gooey dirt. Now you must help them and save the world with the power of cleaning. As a roguelike deckbuilder, the game showcases the protagonist’s efforts as a sort of “fight for cleanliness.” Cards will represent tools and tactics he implements to deal with the mess that covers the other…

Devolver Digital has announced the release date for The Plucky Squire. The game is coming to PC (Steam), PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, and Xbox Series X|S on September 17, 2024. Developed by All Possible Futures, the concept behind The Plucky Squire revolves around Jot and his friends. They’re all actually characters from a storybook living their magical adventures. One day, the villain Humgrump learns about the true reality and his inevitable doom, as he will always lose against the forces of good. So, he kicked out Jot, changing the story and ruining the original good ending. Now as Jot, we…

Introduction to Moonless Moon Moonless Moon is a text adventure created by Kazuhide Oka and the team at KAMITSUBAKI STUDIO. With moody ambiance and a visual novel-style gameplay, it invites us to experience the struggles of an adolescent girl in a unique situation. A Unique Concept and Storyline Yomichi is a normal girl who is going through the process of growing up. All around her, reality seems much more complicated than it did when she was a kid. Coming to grips with this truth is a hard pill to swallow, and she often ends up in a depressed state. However,…

NekoNyan has announced Renai X Royale: Victory Parade. This is a fandisc for the ASa Project visual novel Ren’ai x Royale, packing together both Japanese epilogue stories in a single release. RenaiX Royale: Love’s a Battle is a romance comedy visual novel in which various girls compete for the love of our ordinary protagonist Komachi Hirotaka. Their all-out fight soon becomes a messy war behind his back after the arrival of a transfer student claiming to be his childhood friend. The story includes love interests, such as the idols Renna Amagamine and Yuna Kagaya, the protagonist’s brocon sister Nonoka Komachi,…

NekoNyan announced Koikari: Love for Hire – After Hours. This is a two-in-one pack with both fandiscs the ASa Project visual novel got in Japan. No release window was provided. Koikari: Love for Hire (also known as Ren’ai Karichaimashita) tells the story of Shinkai Yuki. He’s a siscon and wants to make his sister happy with his money. However, she demands him to go to university, making him look for a way to pay for his own tuition as well. Besides the pile of odd jobs here and there that he already has, he ends up finding a sketchy job.…

Creative brands KAMITSUBAKI STUDIO and yokaze have announced the release date of Moonless Moon. The text adventure with a music theme is coming to PC (Steam) on August 8, 2024. It’ll be priced $ 9.99 (USD). Written by Kazuhide Oka (Piano at 5 a.m.), Moonless Moon tells the story of Yomichi, a simple girl living an ordinary student life. However, when night comes, she ends up in another world. Exploring new places and making new friends, she enjoys this time a lot. But it gets her thinking if perhaps she could just leave behind her ordinary daytime world. According to…

Introduction to Minds Beneath Us Minds Beneath Us is a sci-fi adventure and the first game by indie Taiwanese developer BearBoneStudio. It already seemed like a stylish experience by looking at the Steam page. However, playing it, I got to know an impeccably written, scathing look at the future prospects of society. A Dystopian Future Imagine a future where society has advanced so much that there’s barely any need for humans in most industries. Automation and AI development have destroyed the livelihoods of many, especially the people who were already in worse conditions. In this futuristic society, a new industry…

Nintendo has revealed that Emo is actually a new game in the Famicom Detective Club series. Emio – The Smiling Man: Famicom Detective Club will come to Nintendo Switch on August 29, 2024. It costs $49.99 and will have a physical edition as well. Famicom Detective Club is a series of text adventure games by Nintendo that came out back in the 1980’s. They were created by Yoshio Sakamoto of Metroid fame and drew inspiration from Portopia before becoming a reference in the genre themselves. In the series, players must investigate areas in a mix of point-and-click exploration and text…

HuneX has announced the worldwide release date for Steam Prison: Beyond the Steam. The fandisk for the otome visual novel is coming to Nintendo Switch on November 28, 2024. A PC (Steam) version is also in the works with publisher MangaGamer handling this version. However, the game’s official page still points to it having a general 2024 release window. Meanwhile, the Switch version was updated to include the date. Steam Prison tells the story of the privileged Cyrus Tistella. As someone who lives in the utopian Heights, she has always had prejudice towards the lower area of the Depths and…

MangaGamer has announced the western release of Rose Guns Days. The gangster visual novel by writer Ryukishi07 will be available in English, Chinese, and Japanese on Steam and MangaGamer’s own store. Rose Guns Days was originally released by 07th Expansion in Japan in four seasons, from 2012 to 2014. This new version will follow the same individual chapter sale structure, but it’ll be upscaled from 480p to 1280 x 960. The game takes us to an alternate history of Japan in which the country was taken over by Chinese and American forces during World War 2 as a way to…

BearBoneStudio has announced the release date for their first game, Minds Beneath Us. The upcoming sci-fi adventure is coming to PC (Steam) on July 31, 2024. A demo is currently available on the Valve store page. Taking place in a dystopic Asian society of the future, Minds Beneath Us tells the story of a data ghost. For some reason, it’s now sharing a body with a young man’s subconscious. Now it’s up to the player to make choices, dealing with many challenges. As the story progresses, you will learn more of a conspiracy that’s slowly creeping up and may lead…

Eastasiasoft has announced the release date for the upcoming otome game Hakuoki: Chronicles of Wind and Blossom. The Switch edition of the classic visual novel will be available in English on August 1, 2024. The digital edition will cost US$49.99, and physical pre-orders are available on Play-Asia. Hakuoki: Chronicles of Wind and Blossom is the latest edition of the first console otome game by Otomate to come west. The title came west on PSP, 3DS, PS3, Android and iOS, and was later rereleased in an enhanced edition divided into two parts for PC and PS Vita. The new Switch version…

Shiravune has announced the western release of The Restless Sheep & The Lone Wolf -A Tale of Cutthroat Lovers-, and its fandisc The Restless Sheep & The Lone Wolf -Woolly Eyes GAIDEN-. Both games will be available in English on PC in 2024, with Steam, Johren, JAST, and MangaGamer as store options. Known in Japan by the abbreviation “Yourou”, The Restless Sheep & The Lone Wolf is a visual novel by CLOCKUP. The team behind it includes director Ryou Akutsu from Euphoria, Maggot Baits, and Dead Days, and writer Tatsuya Kurashiki (Maggot Baits, Dead Days, Lkyt.). In the story, we…

Brazilian developer Ghost Penguin has opened the Steam page for their upcoming visual novel Dare to Lucid Dream. The game will be available in English and Portuguese in Q4 2024 according to the store page. Dare to Lucid Dream tells the story of Sonny, a young boy who has lucid dreams. In those crystal-clear moments, he meets people from his school, like another boy that he has never interacted with in real life. Though this would not normally just be a small, mundane event, he soon notices something is different. Whatever he said or did seemed to reflect somehow in…

Developers Millenium Kitchen and TOYBOX and publisher Spike Chunsoft are bringing Natsu-Mon! 20th Century Summer Vacation to Steam on June 27. Despite no official comment from the companies, the page reveals an English version is in the works and will be available on PC on August 6, 2024. As the companies have yet to formally talk about this English release, it’s unclear whether it will remain exclusive to PC or will also come to Switch.  The game’s been available on Nintendo’s system in Japanese since July 28, 2023. Natsu-Mon! 20th Century Summer Vacation is an adventure title about enjoying a…

The official Bustafellows X (formerly Twitter) account announced that they’ll have a special panel in Anime Expo 2024. A talk show featuring voice actor KENN will be available in the event at the AVIOT Booth’s mini stage on July 6th, from 6:00pm to 6:45pm. Bustafellows is an otome game by developer Extend and came out in Japan in 2019. Publisher PQube brought it west in 2021 for Switch and Steam, and it was one of the highlights of that year for visual novels. Check out our review for the game. In Bustafellows, we follow a young girl called Teuta. After…

Aksys Games has announced the upcoming release of Fitness Boxing feat. Hatsune Miku. The Switch rhythm exercise game is coming west in Fall 2024. Fitness Boxing is a series of fitness games by Imagineer that has players act out the movements of boxing. Using the Joy-Con motion controllers, players have to do uppercuts, dodging maneuvers, and the like following the music rhythm. The series is no stranger to unexpected collabs, as there was a Fist of the North Star edition international release in 2023. There, players could act like Kenshiro and see situations just like the manga series. For Fitness…

NekoNyan has revealed that Aoi Tori is coming to Steam on June 28, 2024 at 10AM PDT/1PM EDT. The visual novel is already available on other PC stores, such as JAST, MangaGamer, Denpasoft, Fakku, and Kagura Games. Along with the date announcement, NekoNyan mentioned it’s “extremely important” to get the adult patch for this game. Unfortunately, the company had to make major cuts to have the game approved by Steam. As a result, the base Steam release only includes the Common and Mary routes. The patch will restore the game’s original content. Not only does this add adult scenes to…

Publisher Shiravune has officially unveiled the English release of Geminism. An opening video and the PC store pages for it are now available. The visual novel by developer CRAFTWORK is coming west in 2024, with Steam, Johren, JAST, Denpasoft, and MangaGamer as options of where to buy it. Geminism is the latest visual novel by developer CRAFTWORK, the brand behind Sayonara wo Oshiete. In fact, the illustrator for the new game is Nagaoka Kenzou, who acted as designer and director for that classic title. The game shows twin girls fighting against each other at 2AM with improvised weapons. Behind them…

Developer CRAFTWORK has revealed the English release of Geminism will be handled by publisher Shiravune. The company has also announced that the game’s store pages on Steam, Johren, JAST, Denpasoft, and MangaGamer will open on June 6, 2024. A release window was not provided. Geminism is the latest visual novel by developer CRAFTWORK, the brand behind classic title Sayonara wo Oshiete. More information is likely to come once the store pages are available, as Shiravune hasn’t publicly talked about the game yet. In the game, twin sisters fight each other for supremacy, and each of them has a mysterious man…