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[satoshi-mochida]

National Park Girls: Love Our Parks Edition releases today on Steam and Itch.io, and physical copies(Windows/Mac/Linux) are available on Studio Elan's store. This contains all 5 episodes of the VN.

[blerdyotome]

Elan Festival 2023 Brings Some Exciting Yuri Announcements

This past Sunday, yuri game development team, Studio Élan announced some exciting upcoming Sapphic visual novels during Élan Festival 2023 hosted by their adorable mascot, Melanie (voiced by Madeline Dorroh)! This is an annual showcase current and upcoming projects from Élan and their publishing wing Bellhouse and trust there is a lot to talk about! So, let’s check out all the announcements from…

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[vnstudioelan]

National Park Girls - Episode 5 is nearly here...

Wishlist it on Steam to get notifications for its release!

We're so excited to bring you the conclusion to this lovely series...

[yurimother]

Nature Comes Alive as Anime Girls in Long-Awaited ‘National Park Girls - Episode 3’

The third episode of Studio Coattail’s supernatural visual novel National Park Girls was released on November 6 for PC. The second episode was published in October 2019, making the gap between chapters over one year. National Park Girls is published by Sekai Project.

National Park Girls follows cynical park ranger Eve, relegated to a remote cabin in Yosemite National Park after an incident with tourists. To her surprise and often chagrin, she finds herself the unlikely housemate to three strange girls... the physical embodiments of national parks!

Studio Coattails describes the third episode:

National Park Girls - Episode 3: Daughter of Zion is the third installment in the episodic visual novel National Park Girls. Yosemite has always been cranky, but she's been acting stranger than usual lately. Could it possibly have something to do with Zion? Join Eve as she grapples with these questions as well as her own self-worth. Fun times all around here in Yosemite National park.

National Park Girls is written and directed by Syon Santeria (Highway Blossoms) and features art by Satchley (Doki Doki Literature Club). The game is fully voiced in English and includes an original soundtrack.

You can get National Park Girls - Episode 3: Daughter of Zion now on Steam, Sekai Project, and other digital storefronts.

[mgcoco]

Guest art I did for the VN series National Park Girls by Studio Coattails! 

National Parks and anime girls... what a winning combination 

[vnstudioelan]

OUR BIG HALLOWEEN ANNOUNCEMENT!

Today, we're excited to announce that the Studio Élan family is getting a little bigger, as we'll be officially merging with Studio Coattails. 

As the co-developers of Highway Blossoms, we've worked closely with Coattails for years and have several overlapping members and projects. So, we decided to make it official and join forces once and for all. From here on out, Coattails games like National Park Girls and other currently unannounced titles will be released under the Studio Élan name instead. 

Our first new release with Coattails will be the upcoming Episode 5 of National Park Girls, titled Eternal Evergreen Pt. 2, which is slated to be released in January 2023! Episode 5 will be the final episode, concluding the story that began in 2019. 

National Park Girls is the story of Eve Adams, a United States park ranger stationed at Yosemite National Park. After a stressful work incident, Eve encounters three strange girls who claim to be Zion, Yellowstone and Yosemite themselves! Follow her as she gets closer with these supernatural cuties - and discovers a new kind of love for the parks themselves.

Although our focus is and will continue to be on making sapphic visual novels and games, with this new expansion, we may occasionally release other kinds of games in the future as well. In addition to making games, Studio Coattails also provides voice acting casting and directing, and will continue to offer and operate this service under the Studio Coattails name.

Along with the news of the merger, we also have something else we're excited to share with you: a release date for our next game, Please Be Happy. We're thrilled to announce that it'll be coming to PC in just three weeks, on November 21, 2022!

Please Be Happy is the story of Miho, a Korean fox spirit or gumiho, who arrives in Wellington, New Zealand as part of a lifelong search for a particular human. Set in a fantasy version of our own world, PBH is a relaxed, slice-of-life story about finding fulfillment and what it means to be alive.

We began working on Please Be Happy in earnest in 2020, and after numerous setbacks, restarts, and changes, we're so happy to finally be sharing it with the world. Written by Josh (Heart of the Woods, Highway Blossoms) and with art and direction by adirosa, this will be our longest game to date. 

It will only be available for PC/Mac/Linux on its initial launch, but we're aiming to have it out on Nintendo Switch and other consoles in early 2023. The game features 2 different romantic routes with 2 happy endings each, and includes full English voice acting, over 40 CG's, and a brand new soundtrack by Sarah Mancuso.

Finally, if you're going to be at Anime Expo Chibi in Ontario, California next month, then make sure to come see us in the Dealer's Hall at Table 120, right by the Artist Alley. We'll have merch for sale as well as free goodies to giveaway. This is our first time ever appearing at a convention on our own, so we're hoping to meet lots of you there!

For more news, follow us on Twitter, Patreon, TikTok and Instagram @ vnstudioelan!

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Putting the "natural" in "supernatural"!

As a ranger, all Eve ever wanted was to protect and preserve the land. But after five years of working for Yosemite National Park, she’s just about ready to throw in the towel. 

The people are careless, her co-workers are annoying, and thanks to an increasingly tight budget, Eve can hardly do her job. Fed up and burned out, she lashes out, and she's transferred to a remote cabin post.

But as soon as she arrives, Eve meets three strange girls. Not only do they claim to live there, but they also say they’re the manifestations of Zion, Yellowstone, and Yosemite National Parks! 

Are these girls really who they say they are? Why is Yosemite so obsessed with her research? And why does one of them have a volcano on their head? 

Find out all of these things (and more) in National Park Girls!

Features

Multiple episodes of nature-filled fun! (Episode 5 will release sometime this year.)

Adorable character art and CG art from Satchely!

A CG gallery filled with gorgeous guest art!

A beautiful original soundtrack

FULL voice acting in English!

National Parks as cute girls!

Get National Park Girls on

Steam || Itch.io

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Thrifty Gaming: Games That Won’t Blow Your Budget #104

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