- Check Out the Anime Game Festival - 9 September 2026
Ryugaku Ren'ai is taking part in the Anime Game Festival, currently running on Steam until September 14th. It features games from Japan, China, Korea, and the rest of the world, all with an anime art style.Our game's still a fair ways away, but in the meantime, you can check out some other cool games in the event from other developers, my personal recommendations (some of these are Yuri, too!):
- 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, on Steam and Itch. 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 ke…
- Fall in Love Visual Novel Fest! - 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:
- Gay It Loud Demo - Play Now - 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.•…
- 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…
- 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.
- 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 and Winter Heat, 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!!!!!
- COMING AUGUST 1ST: Winter Heat Kickstarter Campaign! - 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…
- Life of a Dispatch English Teacher in Japan - Our New Free Game - 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...!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/yurikissaten.comSubscribe on Youtube: Support on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/yurikissaten
- 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.And of course, check our Winter Heat's Kickstarter pre-launch page, but we'll be sending out a cross-promotion news update about it soon. We'll also keep sharing lots of news for Ryugaku Ren'ai over the next two years before its release, so make sure to follow this game and keep getting updates.
