Our historical yuri visual novel, Olga Doesn't Die, is now out on Steam!
The imperial family's advisor is a witch, a hag, the devil in disguise. A historical drama yuri visual novel set during a time of political
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The imperial family's advisor is a witch, a hag, the devil in disguise.
At the turn of the 20th century, unrest stirs in the far-north Empire of Muscovy over bread and war, taxation and tyranny. The shadows whisper about the imperial family and about an immortal witch.
They whisper, "The imperial family's advisor is a witch. An old hag with a head full of white hairs. She knows magic like demons. The devil in disguise, tricking the emperor with her dark arts."
As the "witch" is violently exiled from the capital, the gears of revolution continue to turn toward blood.
—A historical drama yuri visual novel.
features
32k words (2-3 hours)
4 major endings; 2 love interests
6 CGs
9 original tracks
Extras gallery (art, music, developer notes)
Achievements (NEW for Steam!)
If this game sounds up your alley, please do check it out! And if you enjoyed it, please do leave a review!
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Hi, this is shino! I recently announced the formation of the Snow Fairy Circle label on social media and want to share it with my newsletter.
Q. What is Snow Fairy Circle?
A. Snow Fairy Circle is a yuri visual novel development label focused on publishing commercial games created by 4noki.
Games under this label will be made with the same philosophy as my other games:
“Filling the world with cute girls and yuri one story at a time.”
If you’re interested in the games that I’ll be releasing under the Snow Fairy Circle label, do check out the socials and website for the new label!
https://bsky.app/profile/snowfairycircle.com
https://snowfairycircle.com/
in-development
The first game under this label is the newly announced Star Eden: here sleep angels, a 3-chapter long yuri kinetic novel featuring 3 different GxG couples.
The story begins in a world of angels waiting for humanity to be born. When one day, a girl appears in the garden of Genesis, the secrets of the world begin to unravel.
On the development team for this game are both familiar and new faces.
I am in charge of the scenario writing and character design as well as sprites + cut in graphics. (it’s a me, shino!)
Lyraden is in charge of custom music. (Who is the Red Queen? OST)
papaya is in charge of CG art, including the key visual above. (Who is the Red Queen?, Lachesis or Atropos CGs - just to name a few games we’ve worked on together)
u is in charge of the GUI, including the logo seen above.
Please wishlist the game on Steam if you’re interested!
A kinetic yuri visual novel starting in a world of angels waiting for humanity to be born.
I always appreciate your continued support and would love to see that support extended to these additional endeavors.
My kemonomimi serial killer x yandere toxic yuri kinetic novel entry to Toxic Yuri VN Jam 2 is out now!
Check it out @ https://4noki.itch.io/lemure-lemure
A string of serial murders sends the Whitechapel district of Londinium into a fearful frenzy. Amidst those blood colored whispers, a white cat continues her daily life in the slums doing odd jobs and nothing of note.
Then, one day—as if ordained by God— she meets her fated lover: a dirty, dirty liar.
—Serial killer toxic yuri.
Please note that the game features sensitive content. Be sure to read the content warnings before downloading.
[kemonomimi toxic yuri] A stray cat living in the slums of Whitechapel meets a liar who claims to love her.
A quick introduction to the game I'm working on for Toxic Yuri VN Jam 2! Please look forward to this yurige about a serial killer and a woman who is somehow more problematic.
A bite-sized zombie apocalypse omegaverse yuri visual novel
My short zombie apocalypse omegaverse yuri visual novel for Omegaverse Yuri Jam - “My Affection that Dies” - is out now!
Check it out @ https://4noki.itch.io/my-affection-that-dies
My girlfriend committed suicide, but I couldn't bring myself to touch her dead body. Then the world collapsed, and she revived as a zombie.
This story is a tragedy. Therefore, there is no happy ending.
—A zombie x omegaverse yuri kinetic novel.
Content warnings:
Please be advised that this game contains sensitive content such as: suicide, death, alcohol, zombies, cannibalism, omegaverse typical sexism
Features:
2.3k words
A story told in CG/cut-in sketches
[omegaverse x zombie x yuri] We dreamed for the end of this world.
Please do check it out if this game sounds up your alley!
shino
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It’s spring! (If you live in the northern hemisphere.) Soon to be summer!
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And with the commentary on the weather out of the way, let me yap about the various ongoings happening this month and the upcoming ones.
may: omegaverse yuri jam
My girlfriend committed suicide, but I couldn't bring myself to touch her dead body. Then the world collapsed, and she revived as a zombie.
This story is a tragedy. Therefore, there is no happy ending.
“My Affection that Dies” is a bite-sized story told through CGs and cut-in sketches. A zombie apocalypse tragedy set in an omegaverse universe, telling the ending of a beta and an omega.
I’d like for the game to be released by end of May to carve out time for a potential Toxic Yuri Jam entry as summer rolls around. The art and writing are complete, so what’s left to do are scripting touchups, sound, and some UI-related elements.
Keep an eye out for this black-red-white yurige!
june: battle action fantasy vn jam
Speaking of jams, I’d also like to remind folks that our annual chuunige jam is happening again this June. If you’re interested in making chuunige or reading them, do check out the 2026 edition of Battle Action Fantasy VN Jam too!
A game jam from 2026-06-01 to 2026-07-01 hosted by 4noki, pumpkin spike & Crystal Game Works. Make a visual novel that feels straight out of
july: olga doesn’t die steam release
And just to talk about July as well, Olga Doesn’t Die will be releasing on Steam early July (start of Q3). Be sure to wishlist our historical yuri visual novel if you’re interested and leave a review when it’s out.
The imperial family's advisor is a witch, a hag, the devil in disguise. A historical drama yuri visual novel set during a time of political
And with that, keep staying yuri!
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Olga Doesn't Die, our latest historical yuri visual novel, will be released on Steam Q3 2026.
The imperial family's advisor is a witch, a hag, the devil in disguise.
At the turn of the 20th century, unrest stirs in the far-north Empire of Muscovy over bread and war, taxation and tyranny. The shadows whisper about the imperial family and about an immortal witch.
They whisper, "The imperial family's advisor is a witch. An old hag with a head full of white hairs. She knows magic like demons. The devil in disguise, tricking the emperor with her dark arts."
As the "witch" is violently exiled from the capital, the gears of revolution continue to turn toward blood.
The imperial family's advisor is a witch, a hag, the devil in disguise. A historical drama yuri visual novel set during a time of political
Historical drama yuri visual novel - Olga Doesn't Die - out now!
Our historical drama yuri visual novel entry to SWAK Jam 2026 is now out!
The imperial family's advisor is a witch, a hag, the devil in disguise.
The imperial family's advisor is a witch, a hag, the devil in disguise.
At the turn of the 20th century, unrest stirs in the far-north Empire of Muscovy over bread and war, taxation and tyranny. The shadows whisper about the imperial family and about an immortal witch.
They whisper, "The imperial family's advisor is a witch. An old hag with a head full of white hairs. She knows magic like demons. The devil in disguise, tricking the emperor with her dark arts."
As the "witch" is violently exiled from the capital, the gears of revolution continue to turn toward blood.
—A historical drama yuri visual novel.
Features
32k words (2-3 hours)
4 major endings; 2 love interests
5 CGs
9 original tracks
Download Olga Doesn't Die for free on our itch.io game page!
It's been a while since I've been on tumblr, but I wanted to share this here too!
I'm putting together a roster of folks to potentially work with in the future on a commercial yuri visual novel. Basically, I want to find people who I will pay to work with on a game (earliest next year).
This form is for people who are interested in being contacted to work on a commercial yuri visual novel with shino (4noki) some time in the
sorry that this is yet again about Keeper 😭🙏 But does she have a reference sheet like the main trio? Her design really stands out from everybody in the cast, so I've been meaning to ask this for a while actually
(^^) douzo douzo
i ran out of time during pre-planning for lachesis or atropos, so keeper + itoha design references are both annotated full body sketches
i suddenly remembered you had an ama over here on tumblr so i figured i should ask this here
Will Keeper (Lachesis or Atropos) ever have a route?
Since King got datable surely the other hot spooktober villain will have one too heh (not forcing you to write a keeper route! i'm just really curious lol)
I forgot that I had a tumblr... oopsies.
No plans at the moment for a Keeper route unfortunately. There's a story idea that's buried super deep in the backlog that follows after the LoA Towa bad ending, so if I ever get around to that it would be fun to have Keeper show up (^^
Thank you for always being Keeper's strongest supporter 🙏 (I have one of your Keeper fanarts as my phone home screen right now)
Thank you so very much for Who Is The Red Queen. It has left an imprint in my mind, and I truly loved all the clever wordplay in the script. It was misterious, tragic and lovely- I adored the characters too!
I only played it because I had a cold and wanted something to read, but I am so very glad I did. Thank you for giving something so beautiful for free.
thank you so much for enjoying it! I'm really happy to hear o(≧▽≦)o
Sci-fi omegaverse yuri visual novel Void Hyperion out now!
Our Yuri Game Jam 2024 entry, Void Hyperion, is out now!
In the far future, humanity has taken to the stars and found monsters known as Voidlings. A captain of the human Empire is assigned a suicide mission to destroy the nest of a Void Queen near the Empire's borders. However, unbeknownst to her, those by her side may have different thoughts.
Features:
~18k word script (1-2 hours)
2 endings / 1 per heroine
5 original tracks (with a music player!)
If this sounds interesting to you, please check it out!
Join the Empire's military in the fight against the Void. Alpha, omega, beta all welcome!
spooky indie visual novels you've never heard of for spooky season
since it's October I thought I'd put together a list of spooky indie visual novels (horror, Halloween, creepy, dark comedy, anything in the spirit of the season goes) that you've probably never heard of but can play right now on itchio!
model employee
Model Employee is a corporate horror visual novel. Just discharged from the hospital and massively in debt for their life-saving cybernetics, the player-character must adapt to the “extreme” work-life balance of a Tethys Team Member- but they have help.
Penny, the artificial personality that controls all security, waste disposal, and employee surveillance in the facility, specializes in reinforcing an especially cutthroat variety of workplace culture- and she’s taken an interest in you.
If you want to get ahead in your career, you gotta be willing to take some risks.
model employee is such a tightly structured visual novel for being made in just one month for a game jam, making full use of everything while surprising you at every corner. every part of this game was so well planned and thought out- dystopian corporate satire isn’t my cup of tea (we’re living it) but the way they present everything in this game makes it feel so much more intense.
beary the hatchet
It’s Halloween 199X, and you killed someone during your morning shift.
Honestly it’s inconvenient. This job was imperfect, sure, but you got to wear a mask with no questions asked and the pay was livable. But now you’ll have to keep the body in the backrooms till your shift is done. Bummer.
“You’re… the absolutely WICKED and AWESOME Bearwater Grizzly Killer, aren’t you?!”
…and now enters the dreaded true crime fan.
beary the hatchet is such a uniquely lovely game to look at, even if the subject matter is grim. I love the color palette and tones in this, I love the 2.5D graphics, I love how expressive all of the designs are. it’s a game oozing with style.
WE KNOW THE DEVIL
Anyone can kill the devil; that’s why they always make teens the vampire slayers, the magical girls. But some kids can’t even get that right; and that’s why meangirl Neptune, tomboy Jupiter, and shy shy Venus have to endure one more week of summer camp and each other, singing boring songs about jesus, doing busywork for adults, and hoping god’s radio can’t hear them.
Before they can leave the summer scouts, they’ve got to spend twelve hours in the loneliest cabin in the woods and wait for the devil to come and live through the night–or not. You know.
it’s a visceral experience, something that feels foreign and familiar at the same time. I love the direction for it, the sketchy monochrome sprites against the colored photos- parts when there aren’t any characters on screen feel that much more real, like you’re watching found footage because of how tense everything is.
disconnect
Late at night, a phone call from a friend keeps disconnecting from you… On and off, on and off, constantly…
…What would you do if you realized your friend wasn’t who you thought they were? And how would you react when the truth was finally revealed?
(“̷̢̑W̸̨̊o̸̫͊u̷̱͝ḽ̸͛d̴͉̐ ̵̚ͅy̵̜̽o̸̥͗u̷̮̎ ̷̜̏s̶̤̄t̸̥͐i̴̻̕l̸̰͝l̸͉̓ ̷͕́ȁ̸̩c̸̡̓t̵̜̊ ̵͓̈t̶̙̄h̶̦͂e̸̩͠ ̸̩̅s̶̘̏a̷̪͛m̵̮͒e̴͖͑ ̸̭́w̷̨̚á̴̱y̵̯̑?̶͎̌"̷͈̆)
Find out what happened to our scaredy-cat protagonist, Indie－a famous horror storyteller on the H-T-M (Horror, Tales, and Mystery) forum. What would she do when she unintentionally uncovered a mystery hidden deep within her own home?
I love the style of disconnect and the unorthodox way of getting to the truth of the matter. I’m not normally one to play furry VNs, but the designs are adorable and I love the presentation of the game, it has a lot of animation in it. there’s also one moment not too far in on this screen that made me scream…
curse of the juniper tree
Curse of the Juniper tree is a tale of two siblings, a cursed tree and an isolated village.
It is a short kinetic visual novel featuring 2d exploration. Walk around the snowy village and talk to its inhabitants! Story is loosely based off the fairytale called The Juniper Tree by the Brothers Grimm in Grimm’s Fairy Tales in 1812.
this is a lovely and short story about two siblings living in a frozen land together. it’s a very atmospheric story with so many beautiful blues and detailed character designs. the controls were a bit hard to figure out at times but it’s worth your time.
reaplaced
Grea Perrim is a reaper of souls, and it’s her duty to bring the deceased to the other side. But in the world of reapers, death isn’t any kind of equalizer. The value of a soul is directly tied to the peculiarity of its death.
Grea’s supernatural senses bring her to a Halloween house party with three costumed guests. She soon finds the most valuable kind of soul: the victim of a locked-room murder.
In order to reap the soul, Grea must unravel the identity of its killer and explain its death in full.
Is this the work of a human? A witch? Or something else entirely…?
reaplaced is a fun little whodunnit set on Halloween about a grim reaper out on the hunt who finds herself in the middle of a murder mystery. it’s much more indepth than I was expecting and the soundtrack is wonderful—there’s a lot of small touches to it that make it great.
Silver Thread
An exorcist that doubts the existence of ghost might sound contradictory but to Alicia Wilkershire, this is the right way to get closer to the truth. Her latest job sounded like another run-of-the-mill case and she greeted her client with her usual pessimism but is it, really?
Silver Thread is a spooky and short RPGM game about a skeptical exorcist trying to help a guy with his problems. the style is lovely and if you also like this kind of style, the developer has several other RPGM games like this!
Elevator Hitch
Elevator Hitchis a short 2.5D surreal horror/escape room visual novel with point-and-click and puzzle elements following the story of two co-workers suddenly finding themselves stuck together in a "Perfectly Normal" 70s office elevator.
They must explore each liminal-looking floor and find a way to
get off the elevator to their actual destinations.
like a few others on this list, Elevator Hitch was made in just a month for the Spooktober Visual Novel Jam and was my favorite game from the year it came out (2022). it's more of an adventure style game than pure visual novel, so expect puzzles and a lot of bad ends! this developer also has a lot of other similar style adventure visual novels.
The Case of the Serialized Killer
When a popular illustrator is found dead, disgraced demonologist Harold Ludicael is hired to summon her ghost. Ghosts are the one thing he can't summon, but with sharp insight, perhaps he can solve the mystery, and resurrect the most important thing:
His career.
this visual novel is an absolute feast on the eyes as all of the art is done by traditionally painted watercolor artworks! the characters are all unique and the world feels very lived in. if you like murder mysteries then check it out.
Stillwater
"𝕊𝕖𝕖𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕤𝕥𝕣𝕒𝕟𝕘𝕖 𝕥𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕘𝕤 𝕔𝕠𝕞𝕖 𝕒𝕥 𝕒 𝕡𝕣𝕚𝕔𝕖…"
A woman arrives with a mysterious letter in hand addressed to her grandfather. Etched in crimson is a foreboding message, a warning—a promise made from a time forgotten. Private Investigator Hugo Laurent and his assistants must solve this bizarre case before an old family's curse befalls them all.
Stillwater is a lovely looking game - I love everything about the art direction for it. it's not overly scary but very atmospheric with several endings to find.
Who is the Red Queen?
Alice falls down the rabbit hole into a Wonderland not quite right. Meeting an eclectic collection of people, animals, and some things in between, she sets out on an adventure in this odd new place to find the missing Red Queen. Or, more specifically, to find the pieces of the dismembered queen whose body has been strewn across the land.
a familiar but new take on Alice in Wonderland, now with a lot more yuri. like a lot of the VNs I've recommended, this was originally made in just 1 month. this one in particular has a lot of dead ends, mention of gore & dismemberment, and other content warnings.
okay now that you've made it this far I'm going to promote my gay horror / Halloween visual novels
Asphodelium
Hazel is an ex-adventurer who's settled down with some of his previous guildmates after the adventure of a lifetime—taking down a doomsday cult that tried to end the world, but at the cost of killing their former guild leader who turned against them. Despite their adventure still haunting him months later, he's tried to move on. —That is until a man with the same face as their guild leader approaches him.
This is a story about cults and killing and killing cults. And being in love.
Asphodelium is a melancholic dark boys love visual novel that I made solo in about 3 months. it's entirely in NVL mode (I love you NVL) and around 3 hours long and my personal favorite game I've made so far.
Dahlia
a vampire has snuck into your room while you were sleeping. the only question is - are you next on her menu?
Dahlia is a very short sapphic visual novel made in under 36 hours for the Velox Formido game jam, a jam for shortform visual novels. survive being trapped with a lovely little vampire, or don't.
also NVL mode because I love NVL mode. this is a short and sweet vampire visual novel I made solo in a weekend for a game jam that has several different endings.
Witch You Want
With a rather sparkly magical paper, you find a job listing for a local witch needing an assistant with making potions before the town festival that weekend. You sign up, unsure exactly what to expect......
A pompous and questionably excellent witch runs a local apothecary in town but finds that if she wants to make enough potions before the festival that weekend to sell (and keep her ongoing potion shop afloat) she'll need some assistance. After a dubious help wanted ad, she gains you as an assistant. Will the two of you see through to the festival? Will you be able to make a single potion? Will this girlfailure capture your heart?!
this is my latest visual novel that released just a few days ago! I directed & programmed this short cutesy game for a game jam at our studio. it's pretty fluffy romcom with a potion minigame in it. please help our girlfailure make potions, she needs all the help she can get.
