- Demo 3.0 update is out now! - 30 March 2026
Hi sweets!It's hard to believe nine months have flown by since our last Demo 2.0 update! During this time, we detoured to work on two other smaller projects and were ruthlessly held back by the struggles of real life. While development fell a bit behind schedule, we've finally made it—Demo 3.0 is served!And with English translation! All thanks to our brilliant volunteer El💖This Demo update includes:Extended StorylineIncludes a portion of the "Family Route" following the Common Route. The current Demo total is approximately 54k words (excluding variations!).New Art AssetsBeyond the brand-new backgrounds and CGs, we've also polished and revamped several character sprites!Gallery & Journal Features Finally Implemented!Our artist Norika designed a stunning UI, which the programmer Sinope worked tirelessly to bring to life. Currently, the "Journal" features: Branch Map, Character Profiles,…
- Taishō Romance Theater is taking part in the Choose Wisely Festival! - 8 December 2025
Hi sweets!We are thrilled to announce that Taishō Romance Theater is a participant in the Choose Wisely Festival 2025, hosted by Studio Ephua, which is now live on Steam!This week-long event celebrates over 390 games centered around deep narratives, player choices, and meaningful consequences. If you haven't experienced our visual novel yet, now is the time! During the festival, you can download and play the free demo for Taishō Romance Theater.It is a dark and diverse romance story set in 1920s Taishō-era Japan, where amnesiac actor Kotori Sakuma is pulled into long-buried secrets after a friend's mysterious death. As he becomes entangled in magic, conspiracy, and haunting blood ties, his search leads him toward a darker truth.If you enjoy the Taishō Romance Theater demo, the single most important thing you can do to support our launch is to Wishlist the game! Wishlists help us immense…
- EN & JP Translation for Demo 2.0 is Live! + Devlog Notice - 5 September 2025
Hi sweets!I'm so excited to post this, as we have some very important updates to share with you today!!!✨EN & JP Translation ReleaseThanks to the incredible help of our kind volunteers El and 蛇村铃田, the full English and Japanese translations of Demo 2.0 are now complete!🎉This was a huge collective effort, and we are deeply grateful to them for contributing their time and passion to bring Taishō Romance Theater closer to more players around the world.We're truly excited for you to experience the story in these languages, and we hope you enjoy the translations as much as we do.💖⚠️NoteWe've noticed that on some devices, text may overflow beyond the text box. We are currently collecting information to help resolve this issue.If you encounter this problem, please let us know by leaving a message via Discord, email (sweetsomestudio gmail.com) or comments, including the device you're using (l…
- May & June | Dev Log #3 - 1 July 2025
Hi sweets!Welcome to our dev log for May & June!It’s been a super busy couple of months for all of us—especially Norika, who’s been working incredibly hard! Originally, we planned to release Demo 2.0 in early June and post the May dev log right after that. But things took longer than expected as they always do 😅, and by the time we were ready, it felt a bit silly to still call it a "May" update. So here we are, with a joint log for both months instead.We know Demo 2.0 isn’t available in English just yet, but even so, it might still be worth downloading just to poke around and see what’s new 😉.I’m handling the English translation on my own now, and since the script for Demo 2.0 is over twice the length of Demo 1.0, you can imagine it's gonna take quite a while… Sorry about that! 🥲 Whitefish's writing is beautiful, and I’ll do my best to bring you a translation that’s accurate and beau…
- A major update of Demo 2.0 is released! - 26 June 2025
Hi sweets!We’re beyond excited to bring you this update of Demo 2.0, and it’s full of new things we can’t wait for you to see! Here’s what’s included:A completed prologue Even without counting the overlapping word count in different branches, the new story content in this update is more than twice the length of Demo 1.0.A ton of new art assets 7 new background illustrations (not including variations), 12 brand-new CGs (also not including variations), a completely new opening animation, more facial expressions for characters, and updated or newly added NPC sprites and little comics.A redesigned UI layout We’ve revamped the UI for the Prefs, About, and Help pages, along with many other subtle tweaks and design touches throughout the game.A carefully crafted battle scene Although TRT is a visual novel, we’ve always wanted to bring you a more dynamic and varied experience, and this new batt…
- Japanese translation is live as well! - 6 May 2025
Hi Sweets, Thanks to the generous support of @蛇村铃田, the Japanese translation of the Taishō Romance Theater Demo 1.0 is now available. Again since there is no native Japanese speaker is our team, we kindly ask for your understanding regarding any typos or unnatural expressions. The demo is available for free download. We would be truly happy if you gave it a try. All the best, SweetSome
- April | Dev Log #2 - 1 May 2025
Hi sweets! We hope you’ve enjoyed the demo—now available in English! Here we present you the dev log for this month. Again Norika wrote the Chinese version, I (Sinope) converted it into English while adding a whole lot of details about the translation and programming work I’ve done😉. A quick summary of what we’ve accomplished this month: A brand-new, beautiful UI design across all interfaces English & Japanese translation for all Demo 1.0 content Whitefish is still writing, a lot, to be specific around 40,000 Chinese characters Norika is still drawing, also a lot, to be specific new CGs plus refinements to existing backgrounds and other art assets I myself improved some animation/transformation code and added the English translation Plus, Norika also has some reflections on project management for indie games. She’ll be writing a separate article about it, and I’ll be translating it in…
- English translation is live! - 27 April 2025
Hi sweets, Thanks to the generous help of our volunteer, 橘子 (Orange), we are finally releasing the English translation for the Taishō Romance Theater Demo 1.0! However we didn’t have much time for testing, so please bear with us if you come across any bugs, and feel free to kindly report them to us. Also, since none of us are native English speakers, please forgive any unnatural phrasing, grammar mistakes, or punctuation errors you might notice, and report them as well! We’d love to know your feedback on the translation quality. We are very excited to finally share this story with a wider audience, and we hope you enjoy it as much as we do. Looking forward to hearing what you think! BTW, the Japanese translation is on the way~ All the best, SweetSome
- March | Dev Log #1 - 8 April 2025
Hi sweets, welcome to our first dev log for March 2025! This log is originally written by Norika, our artist, in Chinese and then translated by me, Sinope, into English. And I'm gonna be very open here that due to the strong personal colour in her writing, translating it accurately isn’t exactly easy. Hence I decided to completely improvise while making sure all the important and necessary information is conveyed. Beyond that, the writing will be mine, possibly with a strong personal colour as well. This is how our dev logs will work from now on. English users, you're stuck with me. Anyway, I'd like to thank Norika for writing the dev log, as I originally thought I'd have to write both the Chinese and English versions myself. Her writing the Chinese version definitely saves me a lot of work and provides a framework for the English log, which means I don’t need to think about the content…
