August 26 marks the release date of both SHINRAI – Broken Beyond Despair (nine years ago) and GENBA no Kizuna (one year ago). To celebrate the occasion, we’re currently running our annual anniversary sale which you can learn more about in a separate post here. That’s not all, though! While our newest project is still …
Category Archive: Announcement
Aug 26
Anniversary Sale 2025
Today, both of our murder mystery visual novels celebrate their release anniversaries! It’s been exactly nine years now since the launch of SHINRAI – Broken Beyond Despair (2016) and one whole year already since GENBA no Kizuna has come out! As part of the celebration, we are once again running a little sale which will last until …
Jun 26
Summer Sale 2025
The end of June may be upon us, but of course, it brings with it a new beginning: namely that of the annual Summer Sale! So if you’ve been mulling over how to spend your summer vacation or how to survive the hot days ahead, we’ve got you covered! Both our visual novels SHINRAI – Broken …
May 01
Neko No Sentouki Released!
If you’ve been following this blog closely, you may have caught a mention of Neko No Sentouki here or there, especially over these last few weeks. It’s an adventure visual novel created by SKredjun, a name that should also sound familiar to you, as she has provided us with many adorable chibi icons in the …
Mar 13
Spring Sale 2025
Today, the annual Spring Sale begins, lasting for exactly one week until March 20, 10:00 AM PST! In other words, you get yet another chance to grab both our murder mysteries (and their complete soundtracks) at a discount and enjoy the beginnings of spring with lovely moments of murder and beautiful bouts of despair, as …
Mar 08
Farewell, Xolf
Today’s blog post is going to be a little different. About a week ago, I received the incredibly sad news that Xolf, a fellow VN dev, mod for the Mystery Gamedev community, and a very good friend has unexpectedly passed away on February 22nd, 2025. If you’ve been around the English VN community for a …
Jan 01
Hebi New Year 🐍
2025 is the year of the snake! You could argue that snakes are even less similar to dinosaurs than dragons are, but I’d still say close enough! So here’s hoping it will be another dinotastic one! I would have loved to draw something for the occasion, but once again, that sadly didn’t quite work out. …
Dec 21
Weekly Update #542: SHINRAI Saku Announcement
Today, we’re excited to properly announce our next visual novel project: a follow-up to SHINRAI – Broken Beyond Despair, titled…
Dec 19
Winter Sale 2024
That’s right, the annual Winter Sale is back and, this year, for the first time since the beginning of our decade-long dev journey, we actually have more than one visual novel to discount! Pretty wild, don’t you think? Honestly, it kinda blows my mind that we can include something else in these sales events now. …
Nov 04
Dinovember Sale
Since GENBA no Kizuna didn’t fit the criteria to be included in Steam‘s most recent Scream Fest, we’ve decided to simply run a week-long custom sale for it! Originally, I was considering to have the sale up running during the Scream Fest, but ultimately decided to postpone it by a week, as Dinovember simply seemed …