- Toxic Yuri Release Date - 9/18! - 7 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 Fest! - Special Sale - 2 September 2026
Winter Heat is participating in this year's Fall in Love Visual Novel Festival! It's -35% off, its biggest sale yet. Winter is coming (to the northern hemisphere) so grab this game before it gets too chilly.Three of Yuri Kissaten's games are included:There's hundreds of other games on sale or upcoming that you should check out. Here's a few:
- Winter Heat is in the 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: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's Demo Releases 6/6 - 4 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!
- 1.24 patch - 5 May 2026
Adjusted "texting mode" text margins "Special Production" in credits now has a graphic Updated credits Fixed unlocking apps acting strangely Fixed typo in awards Cawmix - Fixed StarCrash having incorrect page count Cawmix - "Chapters" are now "Pages" TYE - Updated the About page TYE - Fixed incorrect image RPG - Fixed "Toss" sometimes saying "Inventory"
- 1.22 Fixes - 28 April 2026
RPG - Girlfriend now has intended effects RPG - Adjusted layering in Route 3 TYE - Gauntlet text size fixed TYE - Gauntlet fixed "96% complete" Maps - "ī" displays correctly now Noteswap - Swapped order of a note Fixed two achievements not triggering. Some awards are now hidden until achieved. Fixed bug where going to skeleton guard immediately and dying would trigger Penguin dialogue. Thanks for playing!
- 1.2 Update - OOMFIE RPG! - 25 April 2026
Winter Heat 1.2!!!Oomfie RPG is now completableAdded many new achievements Test Your English Added gauntlet Added Anteater graphics on main menuSorry for the delay! Oomfie RPG is here.It's a tough adventure, but with your help, Oomfie can save her friend and escape the virtual world! Let's make Oomfie real again.BTW the game goes on sale tomorrow
- InterfaceX26 Starts April 27th! - 16 April 2026
InterfaceX26 is coming SOON! A Steam event with 150+ games that use a fake OS, with demos, discounts, and debuts! ☃️ We'll participate with Winter Heat which will get a discount during the event! Learn more here: interfacex.netAnd watch a cool promo video here!Who knows, maybe we'll have a content update by then........ hint hint......
- 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…
- Version 1.1 - Valentine's Update - 15 February 2026
Version 1.1 of Winter Heat is here! We've made a LOT of changes since last update, the previous updates involved a lot of first week bug fixing (we released 5 versions during that first week), so now we've been up to the actual fun updates! Along with lots of bug fixes and QOL improvements. Some of the smaller changes include:Made all the menus fancierUpgraded the header on those menusMade the save menu blue and added a note to avoid confusion on what menu you're inFixed some image errorsUpdated controller support (Most apps should work correctly now!)Made the Cawmix reader a little betterAdded a new comic for the Cawmix app And too many other little UI adjustments to be worth listing here but sure enough the whole game should look 20% nicer now.But most importantly of all... ACHIEVEMENTS ARE HERE! A new menu button has appeared and it's for the achievements, or Awards as the game calls…
- Winter Heat Attends the Love, Romance, and Heartbreak Debutante Ball - 14 February 2026
Winter Heat is stepping onto the dance-floor of the brand-new Valentine's Day event-- the Love, Romance, and Heartbreak Debutante Ball. 120+ games are featured, and many of them are on sale. Javi and Shio will thank you very much.Winter Heat will also be receiving a new content update extremely soon, hopefully this weekend! This news post is basically here to hype you up for that.So check out this new Steam event. You can also enjoy the LRHDB Direct showcase-- And take a look at some great games in the event that have some Yuri in 'em:
- Yuri Kissaten Espresso - Winter 2025 Showcase - 14 December 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: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 apps like an educational Maps app, the parody microblog…
- Winter Heat - Now Available!!!!! - 13 December 2025
Thanks for waiting so long; Winter Heat is now released for everyone to enjoy!Please let us know your favorite moments, and please leave a short review after you've played--I cannot stress how important it is to leave a review for small games on Steam, and how big an impact every single review makes.While the main story of the game is complete, and there's a bunch of in-game apps to enjoy, there's plenty more content coming to Winter Heat throughout 2026. We're creating a roadmap that will chart the future planned updates and bonus content, so you can have something to look forward to over time.Stay tuned for that, and remember to follow our updates on Steam or on our various social media accounts to stay updated on all things Yuri!
- Love is in the Airship - Choose Wisely Festival 2025 Sale - 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.
- Winter Heat: New Release Date - 3 November 2025
As was briefly mentioned in our Monthly Update, we’ve decided to push back the release of Winter Heat. Initially it was going to be released on 11/11, now it’ll be 12/12! This is largely due to the classic game dev issue of not foreseeing how long the development of a game will take, and even largelier due to Oomfie.Developing the minigame (subgame?) took so long for the lead artist that not much progress was made in the main story art for a whole month, the programming of the Oomfie RPG also took some time that the other apps/minigames needed. In general just know that putting an RPG in Ren’py ain’t easy don’t try this at home!!!But otherwise, a lot of progress has indeed been made for the other apps! Maps, Wittier, etc. It’s all coming along nicely. ヽ(*￣▽￣*)ノNow with the side content mostly completed it’s time to actually finish the main thing. Yes instead of the other way around, we…
- Fall in Love Visual Novel Festival is Here! - 30 September 2025
Check out the Fall in Love Visual Novel Festival, running until October 1st! So many of the best romance visual novels on Steam, new and upcoming, are featured for your browsing pleasure.Winter Heat is featured, of course, and so are two other Yuri Kissaten titles:Airship's also on discount until October 6th as part of the Autumn Sale!Here's some other games from other developers you should check out, too... Not all of these are Yuri, but they're all worth a look:
- 69 Hours Remain... - 29 August 2025
69 Hours Remain in the Winter Heat Kickstarter campaign!It's your last best chance to support Yuri Kissaten's game developer dreams, and be greatly rewarded with an awesome yuri romance game that takes place through chatrooms, video calls, and social media apps! (There's also a full RPG Roguelike sub-game included because we're silly) Through this Kickstarter, you can get your own OC included in the game as an NPC, you can get an in-universe brochure, and you can even get your very own Oomfie plushie mailed directly to you. All that, AND you'll help ensure that Yuri Kissaten stays afloat long enough to release some truly banger games in 2026, such as Toxic Yuri and the Hands Held in the Snow game adaptation. Winter Heat releases in November, so you won't have to wait long for the release, but this campaign will help us turn a pretty good small game into something much stronger, much cut…
- Demo Update: Gallery App Added - 18 August 2025
The new demo update adds another app - the Gallery!Most visual novels have an image galley of some sort, but with Winter Heat's app system, you can expand the story and learn more about the lives of Javi and Shio through the Gallery. Not only will you unlock beautiful art from the main game by director and lead artist Fruz, but you'll get more art and photographs of daily life in Chile and Japan, divided up by different folders across time and topic. Discover an even richer story through the Gallery in the full game. And now it's in the demo, too, mainly to demonstrate what's coming soon.The next demo update will hopefully include a sizeable update to the Oomfie RPG sub-game, as well as the Maps app. We're trying to get the demo as far along as possible before the end of the Kickstarter campaign, which still has about two weeks remaining. We're shooting for some cool stretch goals, so p…
