- Toxic Yuri Launch Celebration Sale - 22 September 2026
Love is in the Airship is on sale this week to celebrate the release of Toxic Yuri, our newest game and Airship's spiritual sequel. Both games are silly, cute, raunchy, and have a bunch of bad endings--if you liked one, you'll definitely like the other.Toxic Yuri is also -10% off for its launch week.You might notice a familiar face if you play long enough...Also, if you want all three of Yuri Kissaten's full games, we created a special Triple Pack bundle! I highly recommend this!Get -10% off the games you don't already own.
- Toxic Yuri Release Date - 9/18! - 10 September 2026
The Toxic Yuri release date is close! Yuri Kissaten’s third full game will launch on September 18th, 2026. Doku-chan will be unleashed onto the world in all her glory, and nobody can stop her, not even us.Yuri Kissaten has spent the last many months crafting the most delightfully noxious romantic comedy visual novel of all-time, and we’re really excited to see you explore it all. We’ve buried some gut-busting gags, eye-poppingly adorable moments, and pitch-dark terror all throughout this game, with 15+ episode variants and 10+ endings.Can YOU earn your happy ending with Doku-chan? Or will things just end up toxic? Try out the Episode 1 demo to prepare.At launch, the game will be available on PC, Mac, and Linux. It will only be available in English at first, but we plan to add Japanese and Chinese localizations by the end of 2026. And, if the game’s a big hit, we’ll keep adding more loca…
- Fall in Love Visual Novel Festival! - 2 September 2026
Love is in the Airship is participating in this year's Fall in Love Visual Novel Festival, along with two other games from Yuri Kissaten:There's hundreds of other games on sale or upcoming that you should check out. Here's a few:
- Nonbinary Coded Games Event! - 14 July 2026
Winter Heat is on sale for -25% off this week during the Nonbinary Coded Games event! This is a really great event run by NomnomNami and npckc, two of the best LGBTQ+ indie game developers, so I hope you'll check out all the games featured. Love is in the Airship is also taking part in the event!https://store.steampowered.com/curator/46105077/sale/NonbinaryCodedGamesHere's some other cool games to check out:
- Gay It Loud Demo - Now Available! - 15 June 2026
Gay It Loud, Yuri Kissaten's latest dating sim, now has a demo available for everyone to enjoy!Play the Gay It Loud demo today and experience the culture of a bunch of gay girls (and one guy) in the far-off year of 1995. The shopping mall of your dreams comes to life. Let's hang out there.Gay It Loud Demo Features• A 15,000+ word story, most of "Day 1" of the story. Four characters to meet and flirt with.• Five quarter-life crises among sensitive Gen X slackers.• Highly polygonal computer graphics mixed with amazingly adorable 2D sprites.• Immersive brands and ads from the 1990s of your dreams. Collect them all!Gay It Loud Demo Characters• Verity: Go-getter and ray of sunshine. Loves games of all kinds (doesn’t mean she’s good at them).• Zamira: Failing artist brooding over her next career move. She sees this mall as a pointless stopgap. Another round of Skee-Ball will change her mind.•…
- Toxic Yuri Demo Release Date - 6/6 - 3 June 2026
Finally, the Toxic Yuri demo will release to the public on 6/6!Doku-chan is almost here... You're almost ready to meet this putrid pile of cuteness.So, spread the word and let the world know what's to come. And try to get all three ending ranks--Toxic, Tonic, and Tepid!
- Women's Day Sale 2026 - 7 March 2026
Winter Heat is 20% off and Love is in the Airship is 30% off as part of the Women's Day Sale on Steam!! Check the full event here: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/womensdaysale2026 Winter Heat: Love is in the Airship: You can get both with an extra discount with the Yuri Kissaten Duo bundle:
- Yuri Kissaten Studio Update: A Lilyful Year to Come - 24 February 2026
Yuri Kissaten completed its first full year as a game studio in 2025, and wowzers was it an adventure!If you remember, we embarked on the "5 for '25 Campaign," an effort to work on and announce five different games throughout 2025. In the end, we only released one full game, Winter Heat, and one smaller game, "Life of a Dispatch English Teacher in Japan," though we learned a whole lot in the process. And we really did end up revealing all 5 games as planned!Look at all the games we worked on in 2025:We ran our first crowdfunding campaign, we attended our first live event and first Steam events, we made three different showcase videos, we did social video marketing... It was a big year of firsts.And so, 2026 will be just as ambitious, but with more targeted, specific goals. I have no clue how many games we'll announce, and how many games we'll release is still in flux (it seems like four…
- Yuri Kissaten Espresso - Winter 2025 Showcase - 13 December 2025
Kyoto, Japan - December 13th, 2025 - The newest Yuri Kissaten Espresso showcase for Winter 2025 premiered on Youtube today and gave the world an overview of 5 new and upcoming Yuri game releases for 2025 and 2026.Watch the full showcase here: Here’s a round-up of everything we saw from Yuri Kissaten and from partner studios:Winter Heat:Launching TODAY!After a successful Kickstarter campaign, Winter Heat has finally released for the world to enjoy. It will also receive several free content updates throughout 2026, including an Oomfie RPG expansion and an Epilogue storyline.A narrative game about love in the digital age, Winter Heat follows the story of Shio, a woman living in snowy Kyoto, and Javi, a woman living in sweltering Santiago. Follow their long-distance love through online chats, video calls, and social media apps. Plus, there’s a smorgasboard of side content through in-game ap…
- Winter Heat - Releasing 12/12! - 10 December 2025
Yuri Kissaten's next game, Winter Heat, is finally releasing on December 12th, this Friday. Javi and Shio's long-distance love is finally here on Steam and Itch!Enjoy a cute-as-cotton storyline that dishes out cozy comfort and quiet delight as two women fall in love and try to make their relationship work over the span of several years. Experience daily life in Japan and Chile, and even some educational elements here and there. Endure a tough roguelike deckbuilder-style RPG starring the one and only Oomfie--yes, really!We're also planning multiple free content updates throughout 2026 to keep you happy in these trying times. Winter Heat is a great game that you've got to give a go.Let us know how you like it!
- 30% Sale for the Choose Wisely Festival 2025! - 9 December 2025
Love is in the Airship is participating in this week's Choose Wisely Festival 2025, hosted by Studio Ephua.Please check the festival out and look at all the recently released and upcoming narrative games all over Steam. There's lots of LGBTQ+ games included, as well.To help celebrate, Airship is currently 30% off, its deepest sale yet. The funniest Yuri dating sim of 2024 can also be the greatest gift to any lesbian in your life this holiday season. Just think about it.Please support Yuri Kissaten as we try very hard to release 4+ games in 2026! We're also releasing free updates to this game throughout the year, so really, this game is the gift that keeps on giving. It helps us keep food in our bellies, and also helps that dear lesbian who's just aching for a game that keeps getting content updates after she's already beaten it.(And don't forget about Winter Heat, releasing extremely so…
- Fall in Love Visual Novel Festival + Autumn Sale! - 30 September 2025
Love is in the Airship's on 10% sale until October 6th, which is a nice little bonus if I do say so myself. Buy it now and become one of the first people to get 100% of the achievements so you can brag to all your friends about how you conquered Yuri Romance forever.In addition to the Autumn Sale, Love is in the Airship is also featured in the Fall in Love Visual Novel Festival, running until October 1st. You can see a bunch of other Yuri games, Yaoi games, Bi games, and even purely Het romance games if you're truly daring. It's a wishlist-a-palooza for the average Steam VN fan.Yuri Kissaten has two other games also featured, both of which are releasing in the next 6-7 months:But there's plenty of other featured games I think you should check out too! Not all of these are Yuri, but all are worth a look:
- Check Out Cool Steam Events! - 7 August 2025
Yuri Kissaten is appearing in multiple events throughout the month of August. Check out Love is in the Airship, as well as plenty of other games that are also featured.The East Asia Indie Games Celebration is going on now until August 19th. You can see the latest from developers all across East Asia. Yuri Kissaten fans will enjoy these other cool narrative games (some are even Yuri too!):This game is also premiering in the Debut Festival!In addition, we're currently participating in two itch bundles, but Steam can be strict about linking outside stores, so follow us on social media to keep up to date on those.We're still working to get the next Love is in the Airship content update out, but it'll take some more time because we are very busy with Winter Heat, whose Kickstarter campaign was successfully funded in a jaw-dropping four hours! It's still going on and we still need your suppor…
- Yuri Kissaten Espresso - Summer 2025 Yuri Showcase Video - 2 August 2025
Check out 9 Yuri games, including Life of a Dispatch English Teacher in Japan, featured in the Yuri Kissaten Espresso showcase for Summer 2025! Most of the showcased games are also available on Steam, so check them all out:So much Yuri!!!!!
- NEW KICKSTARTER - Winter Heat, Starting August 1st - 26 July 2025
Coming to Kickstarter on August 1st!Winter Heat is more than a love story. It’s the texts, notes, games, and digital worlds of a couple across years of their lives. This wholesome visual novel chronicles a modern romance in a uniquely digital way.Javiera Vera is a freelancer living in the sweltering summer of Maipú, Santiago, in Chile. Fukkoshi Shio is an office worker living in the snowy rural town of Miyazu, Kyoto, in Japan. Though they live on different sides of the world, they share something that transcends all boundaries: an internet connection.How will their friendship deepen during one special December? Find out through the apps Javi and Shio use every day.We’re raising finishing funds for Winter Heat to help expand the game further and further. Not only will we have an extensive main story, but we’ll also have a boatload of in-story “apps.” Some are educational, some flesh out…
- New FREE Game from Yuri Kissaten! - 19 July 2025
Please check out Life of a Dispatch English Teacher in Japan, Yuri Kissaten new FREE game. It's a short but powerful experience about important real-life issues in modern-day Japan, so please set aside 30 or 40 minutes to play it.You can learn more about the game by visiting its press kit page!It may be an emotionally heavy game, but Yuri Kissaten also has plenty of much lighter, much cuter projects coming up in the extremely near future--stay tuned for those. In particular, our Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign for Winter Heat is drawing very near...! We'll be sharing so much more on this Steam page extremely soon, so check back next week!Please enjoy Life of a Dispatch English Teacher in Japan and all of Yuri Kissaten's upcoming summer events.Stay in touch with Yuri Kissaten all across the internet:Visit the site: https://yurikissaten.comFollow on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/yur…
- Happy Yuri Day from Yuri Kissaten! - 26 June 2025
Happy Yuri Day from Yuri Kissaten! We're making so many Yuri games, and you should celebrate by checking out our games and wishlisting the upcoming ones! :3c You should also check all the great Yuri games recommended by the great Steam curator Hella Yuri.Love is in the Airship's DLC is still pending, but in the meantime, it'll be going on sale for the Steam Summer Sale extremely soon. If you're thinking about buying, make sure to NOT buy it today on Yuri Day and please wait for it to be 20% off.DO, however, wishlist our most important upcoming game, Winter Heat.Plus, check our Winter Heat's Kickstarter pre-launch page, which we'll be sending out a cross-promotion news update about soon. Support Yuri as much as you can today!
- 1.01 Patch Notes + Japanese Localization - 21 May 2025
We've updated Love is in the Airship. There is now a Japanese localization available, plus some minor updates in advance of the bigger content update coming soon. Added Language Switch. Switch in the settings menu or the main menu! Language should automatically be set based on your system language, Added Japanese language, Updated credits, When clicking on Auto-Foward button, a message on the top left will display telling you it has been toggled., Skip Unread Text is now turned off by default, Adjusted skip button to be gray when you are unable to skip., Fixed typo in Intro ("theirchance to get onto the Tibarn."), Fixed typo in Bar visit 1 ("dreamsare"), Fixed window graphic not appearing when inputting name, Fixed bug where player name will not be renamed to "You" if you make your name blank, Fixed "Triangle" achievement not triggering if you do the "Horns and Umbrellas" route, In the…
- Yuri Kissaten Espresso - 5 New Game Trailers! - 24 March 2025
In advance of the Game Pavilion event in Osaka on March 29th, we’re showing off 5 new game trailers with our first-ever Yuri Kissaten Espresso! (You can also read this post on our site.) As we announced before with our 5 for ’25 Campaign, Yuri Kissaten is working on many different projects this year. We’re doing our absolute best to create a diverse slate of lesbian-centric narrative games that move and entertain. It’s a ridiculous notion to stake ourselves on a brand-new indie game studio in 2025, but we’re doing it anyway. Our first Yuri Kissaten Espresso video shows off 5 new game trailers–and 2 of them are brand-new game announcements! Without further ado: Yuri Kissaten Espresso – 5 New Game Trailers Links to the individual trailers are below: Ryugaku Ren’ai https://store.steampowered.com/app/3503260/Ryugaku_Renai/ Winter Heat https://store.steampowered.com/app/3429850/Winter_Heat/…
- Visual Novel Fest Sale - 4 March 2025
Love is in the Airship is on sale on Steam for the Visual Novel Fest! It's 20% off from now until March 10th at 10 PM PDT. If you haven't picked the game up yet, this is its biggest sale yet, and it'll be the biggest price drop for the game for a while. If you have picked the game already, this is the perfect St. Patrick's Day, Mar10 Day, or Pi Day gift for your friends, loved ones, and rivals. As we said in the previous announcement post, Love is in the Airship is going to receive a content update pretty soon, probably in mid-May. If you liked the hidden secrets buried throughout the game, you're going to love digging for even more brand-new scenes when this content update comes out. We're also releasing one brand-new romanceable character route--a secret for now, but that character will be revealed very soon!
