#Amare Game

[chthonicchromestudio]

Story Mode + Spicy DLC Announcement

Darling, Darling... Devious! is here! Get the spicy DLC from Itch: [here] A Steam version will be released with an announcement later. + A story mode has been added to the base game, read more in this devlog: [here]

-> Studio: [Itch.io] [Carrd] [Bluesky] [Ko-fi] [YouTube]

[amaregames]

Issue 34 Release (Feb 16 - Feb 28)

Hello everyone!

Issue #34 of the Amare Bulletin is out now! :tada:

As we say goodbye to winter and welcome March, we have plenty of exciting news to share!

Inside, you’ll find:

New game releases, from mystery, fantasy and spicy Otome titles

Fresh episodic updates for visual novels and interactive fiction

Exciting new game announcements, including supernatural and sci-fi romance adventures

Crowdfunding updates, including campaigns that recently ended

Highlights from the latest game jams, including Queer Vampire Jam and Trans Joy Jam

We hope you enjoy this issue. Have a fantastic fortnight, and we’ll see you in the next one!

~ The Amare Bulletin Team

Itch Link for Download - https://amaregames.itch.io/amare-news-bulletin-2025/devlog/896775/issue-34-release-feb-16-feb-28

[velvet-cupcake-games]

Made Marion's winter-spring festival-o-rama continues with the Women's Day Sale! Our team is almost entirely composed of women and non-binary creators, and we're proud to be telling our stories for players like us.

We are on sale for 15% off until March 3, so come on by and snag a copy if you've been waiting for a little discount! We're streaming our preview of John's route again, so we hope you'll enjoy that as well.

[blank-house]

Keyframes Updated!

Well, folks. Our eyeballs are falling out and the last two weeks have felt a little like cramming for an exam— which is very funny considering none of the leads have been in college for a minute— but we did it. The Spring Semester demo that isn't really a demo is up!

You can now finally(!) enjoy the last two weeks of your semester with Deja, Cameron, Elio, Jamie, and Percy. Play from five new events, completely free on our itch.io page— including partial voice acting, eight CGs, and about 280,000 words total!

As we've mentioned before, we are releasing this update ahead of the Kickstarter!

If you haven't already heard, the Kickstarter only aims to fund production for Summer. We'll explain the reasons for this in full detail later, but for now, keep an eye on our social channels for news!

It's been a long year of development and an even longer wait, and we're excited to hear what you all think. We'll be taking a short break to recuperate, but our askbox is open! (But if you encounter any bugs, please send a report to support@blankhousegames.com.)

Until our next update, happy gaming everyone!

[rottenraccoons]

OBSCURA is in Early Access!

Rotten Raccoons is delighted to announce that our episodic dark fantasy romance, OBSCURA, has released the first half of Chapter Two now available on itch.io and and on Steam!

There's a marketplace under the mountain where anything can be bought and sold. Visitors wear masks to become faceless strangers. It's home to the unscrupulous, the outcast, and the desperate.

You're one of the desperate.

Strangers with their own secrets and ambitions can show you ways through the market. They'll guide you to your goal, but don't trust them to have your best interests at heart. 

First chapter of each route available in the demo to try a taste.

Choose the protagonist's name, pronouns, and mask.

Four mysterious love interests.

Over 120k words so far (70k in the demo, 50k in early access)

A dark, mature story with many ways to fail.

Timed choices! Or turn them off for an easier game.

Original music by Cajsa.

Use the default, OpenDyslexic, or Atkinson Hyperlegible font for ease of reading.

Once you buy the game, you get all current and future chapters.

Full list of warnings available here, our streamer/VOD rules are here.

See you under the mountain...

[bestlaidplansproductions]

Can you save the villainess when you don't remember who wants her dead?

Save the Villainess is an animated villainess isekai game that lets you:

🦋Control a witty and determined investigative genius of a villainess 

🦋Gather clues and solve mysteries and puzzles as an assassin stalks you

🦋Use your genre savvy to determine which of your potential love interests – including a Crown Prince, a Duke of the North, a Childhood Friend, a Servant, and a mysterious woman – is your would-be assassin

Play our fully animated demo on Steam or Itch.io now!

Join our discord server and mailing list for more information!

[rosesrotofficial]

Wishlist Killer Chat! Expanded Edition on Steam Now! 🔪

hello rotterlings!

we want to make KC! even bigger and bloodier in 2025, and have so many exciting stories we want to tell.

thanks to all your support and everyone’s interest in the survey we sent, we are officially planning a kickstarter for Killer Chat!: Expanded Edition in 2025!

this version will significantly expand on the game’s content with brand new storylines and more time to spend with your fave serial killer(s) <33

how ambitious we can be will depend on your support 🙏

help us to make Killer Chat! the best it can be by sharing the steam page with your friends, reposting our social media posts and wishlisting now! your support helps us massively :D

more updates on the kickstarter launch coming soon!

and look out for more surprises… 👀

with love, rosesrot and team :D

[idiasmentalhealth]

tis' the season ya'll

[wings-of-ink]

Chapter 5 is finally here!

Tumblr crew, please let me know right away if you see any issues with running the game. I *think* I fixed the issue with fonts not changing but I did the upload a different way so I'm paranoid. It works for me though.

This was a big one – do not anticipate your saves working. Such is the nature of a work-in-progress. Some of the code for early chapters had to change. I do apologize, I know it's a lot of content to click through.

I hope you enjoy it, and please let me know if you find any serious problems/errors – especially ones that break the game. I have tested it myself a few times, but I can only do so much on my own. I will be watching Tumblr closely for a bit, so if there are any urgent issues you can pop them into my ask-inbox.

This chapter was written using a different method. Mostly, it worked out for me and helped me find more typos and grammar issues, but I found more programming errors than normal. My hope is that all the major ones have been resolved. A game-breaking issue was found just this morning and took a few hours to resolve (it was a mess so I redid the entire section - peeps, if you see issues in the moment with Zahn let me know because they were my troublemaker, go figure).

A couple of new trigger warnings were added as well, so be sure to peruse the list if you may have areas of sensitivity. In the future, a couple of areas of this chapter may receive options to bypass segments with certain difficult content, so be advised that these do not have a skip function enabled currently.

Coming in the future…

Lunan is taking a break through the end of the year! I will still be monitoring Tumblr, answering questions, and resolving any technical issues of course. But I will not be writing chapter content. Some short extras may be posted in the meantime to Tumblr.

Each chapter will get a passage-by-passage check for typos and grammar issues before the release of Chapter 6.

A chapter skip function will be arranged so you can bypass content you've already read. This will likely be implemented before or with Chapter 6.

The release time for Chapter 6 is currently unknown but estimated for late Spring of 2025 (March-May *ish).

The Patreon will likely start up in January 2025 and will focus on early releases of new content and extras/POVs (including the spicy kind).

Thank you so much for sticking with me. I hope you enjoy this chapter and have fun with it!

~Lunan ^_^

PS: Also let me know if you find weird stuff in there that might be from testing, lol. I think I deleted all that stuff, but I am more than a little bit frazzled today and there is a real possibility that I left some garbage behind...

Itch.io Link:

[chthonicchromestudio]

[ENDED]Darling, Darling... Dead? - GAME KEYS GIVEAWAY 🤩[ENDED]

To celebrate the (soon-to-be) release of the full game of "Darling, Darling... Dead?", we're giving away 5 keys (Itch.io or Steam)! To participate in the giveaway, like or reblog the post, and on Friday, November 29, 2024, we'll pick 5 random blogs from the list. Good luck! If you are the winner, please have your Ask box or DMs open and respond to us within 48 hours. If you don't, we'll have to pick a new winner. Play the demo on Itch.io [here]!

Wishlist on Steam [here]!

[qkayoostudio]

The Summit Library: FULL DEMO out!

Grab your pen and ink, because...

The full demo of The Summit Library is now out to play!

The Summit Library is a high-fantasy romance mystery set in a magical Library.

In this update you continue your adventure in the Library; find clues to the mystery you've been tasked to solve, uncover new secrets about your magic, and get to know more of the Library's guests--old and new.

The demo features well over 60k words, around 4 hours of playtime, a preview of each main love interest's route; and now includes achievements!

🌟 If you want to dive a little deeper into the world of Eawin's Empire there is now also a walkthrough available if you donate $3 or more. In it you'll find guides to achievements and affection points alike, as well as character bios.

❗ With the addition of new achievements please make sure to start a new game!

[heart-forge]

Hybrid Public Update

There's an interloper in camp, and you witness the beginning of the end without having ever seen the start. Your strange new friends prepare for war: and you prepare to decide where you're going to end up.

Thank-you as always for your patience and I hope you like the update. This is publically available on the itch page, so let me know if you have trouble accessing things, if something doesn't work, etc etc.

[velvet-cupcake-games]

Will's Route Is Out!

The Scarlet Blade is here!  Made Marion Early Access v. 2.0 is out and available on Steam and Itch.io.

Patch Notes:

Will's route has been added! Will is a Sherwood love interest and can be chosen from the Sherwood Common Route.

We now have a notification system when a new Love Interest PoV scene has been unlocked. Love Interest PoV scenes can be found in Extras off the Main Menu. When a new one has been unlocked, you will be notified upon your first return to the Main Menu.

Make sure to check the Misc. section in Love Interest PoVs after finishing one of Will's good endings. There's a secondary character with his own PoV scene now.

Will's route is complete except for a single CG (full-screen illustration) at the end of Will Chapter 4a, which is a placeholder (albeit an attractive one). The final CG will be available in Early Access v. 2.1, which should be uploaded in the next couple weeks.

Changes Based on Feedback:

Along with adding the Love Interest PoV notifications, the biggest piece of feedback that we received from Robin's route was that readers wanted longer love scenes. I am happy to oblige! Will's scenes are longer and more detailed than Robin's were.

This means I will be revisiting Robin's love scenes for version 2.1, extending them in the interest of equal time.

You may also notice that Will's sexy cut-ins (only viewable to players who have explicit text turned on - the game's default) are more colorful and less shadowy than Robin's. We will also be revisiting Robin's cut-in at some point before launch, changing to the improved style and adding a second pose so there are separate cut-ins for each unique ending. This is not guaranteed for version 2.1.

p.s. I do recommend the bad endings, particularly in Will's chapter 4s. There are some unique experiences there that hint at some deeper mysteries in the game.

[blank-house]

We're in The Storyteller's Festival! Woot woot!

If you haven't wishlisted our game yet, consider doing so as it helps us out a lot. Other than that, do check out the incredible stories that are a part of the festival! Some of them are having major sales just for the week-long fest so don't pass up the chance to find a new favorite today ^^

Big thanks to @twoandahalfstudios for organizing the event <3

[prikarin]

Where Winter Crows Go's 1st Anniversary!

It's November 14th, which means it's been one year since Where Winter Crows Go's full-game came out!

All I can say is that I'm very grateful to everyone who's played this game, left a nice comment and/or review, or even supported me by buying it.

Your support motivates me every day and makes me think that my dream of being a full-time gamedev may not be so farfetched after all.

Thank you so much!!

Art by @antagames!!