Anything you guys are keeping tabs on and excited about? Drop them here.

I have to say this Waffle game Eden's Ritter II's art is so damn cool. I'm curious about these now. It's kind of like a real gothic stylized version of Asagi's look or something.
The HD makes me wonder if it's a remaster though? 

https://x.com/waffle1999
http://www.waffle1999.com/game/112edens02hd/

The sexy times look tentacle approved.

Color me intrigued

New Liquid game. 

https://nexton-net.jp/ms-toybox/darkone/elfhime/

https://x.com/Ms_toybox/status/2029744534427783270

This looks good!

http://www.gocha-mix.com/dc/dc01/index.html
https://bookmate-net.com/ec/66537
https://x.com/Gotcha_MIX

Tapestries:
https://x.com/sofmap_ams_r18/status/2037134882644910338

(03-26-2026, 08:32 AM)EchelonV Wrote: This looks good!

http://www.gocha-mix.com/dc/dc01/index.html
https://bookmate-net.com/ec/66537
https://x.com/Gotcha_MIX

Tapestries:
https://x.com/sofmap_ams_r18/status/2037134882644910338

(02-22-2026, 06:23 PM)EchelonV Wrote: Anything you guys are keeping tabs on and excited about? Drop them here.

I have to say this Waffle game Eden's Ritter II's art is so damn cool. I'm curious about these now. It's kind of like a real gothic stylized version of Asagi's look or something.
The HD makes me wonder if it's a remaster though? 

https://x.com/waffle1999
http://www.waffle1999.com/game/112edens02hd/

The sexy times look tentacle approved.

I know the Rance games are super popular so id like to try out more alicesoft games(played some of dohna dohna and i really liked the artstyle/music/colourful nature of that game, although the theme is pretty messed up with what the main characters do for a living lol) and evenicle was also a pretty fun RPG from what i played(i actually used trial and error to make my way probably about halfway through the game in japanese back in the day before the english version was released LOL). for upcoming stuff im not too sure, its mostly stuff thats seemingly been in hiatus forever or we haven't gotten an update on in a long time at this point, theres the english release of SUMAGA, its probably one of the VNs i most want to see in english right now along with the Aquaplus VN Routes, and then there is Axanael which also looks interesting going off of its really dope opening, but since we haven't even gotten SUMAGA yet i doubt they would announce an english version of that anytime soon. at least we got tokyo necro and fullmetal daemon. i hear really good things about full metal daemon muramasa. and tokyo necro is another one i need to get back to, it has some interesting world building and the characters seem pretty fun. action scenes are fantastic from what ive read so far.  I guess there is the sequel to monochrome mobius coming out in may so i really need to finish that first game(its an RPG though, but made by aquaplus and in the same world as utawarerumono)

im really hoping we get the Dokyuusei 2 remake and Kakyuusei remake, but dating sims don't really seem to get much attention these days and im not sure how well the first Dokyuusei did. its also crazy to me that tokimeki memorial got a new release on the switch but Konami still refuses to localise it in english, its such a classic game though and i want to be able to play it(there is the SNES version fantranslation but thats easily one of the weaker versions of the game) at least the ToHeart remake is in english but the 3d models look bad amongst other flaws that weren't present in the original and im waiting for a fan translation of the original version, at least since Shizuku got a fan translation hopefully the team has gone back to toheart again. 

Spoiler

 

Spoiler

 

and one that came out pretty recently in english was the nukige Love Juiced by atelier kaguya, as far as i know its the first atelier kaguya game to get an english release, and I really hope its not the last! I have most of them on DMM or DLSite from when they had a big sale on them, and they all have some really hot art in them with the occasional live2d scene(i assume its live2d at least) i really like the artists they have for their games(i think its mostly yoppy these days) speaking of nukige, maybesoft games always seemed pretty cool, i read a review for one of their titles that apparently was pretty funny/interesting beyond just the h-scenes. they got pretty creative with some of the h-scenes in their games though including this one game that also had a sequel where everyday objects like a bike seat would turn into a dildo or whatever(as a general example) and yeah their games look pretty silly and i like the cartoony artstyle they had. since they are older VNs now i dunno if we would ever get any in english since i imagine the company must have long gone out of buisiness by now sadly. 

as far as tinkerbell goes id love to see more inyouchuu from them, although its been quite awhile since the last one. the one that takes place at the ski resort? seems quite interesting and id love to see it get translated in english someday. there was some game from them that came out recently that ill probably buy when it goes on sale, as i was looking at some of the CGs for it and it looked like it had more scat content then the usual tinkerbell title(although sometimes the way it was done almost seemed too over the top to the point of kinda taking away from what would be a hot scene? like it doesn't make much sense to have multiple uhhhh logs somehow coming out at the same time from one hole?)
this one, ikkon fujou:

Spoiler

 

and another company i like to keep tabs on as far as nukige go is moonstone cherry, they did the imouto paradise games(really wish we could get a fourth one, there is nothing else quite like those for moe nukige really?) i know one of their newer titles got a translation so i imagine the sequel to that will come out over here eventually as well. with that being said, i already went off on a tangent for long enough i think and i haven't really checked in awhile whats new/coming out soon on DLSite or FANZA/dmm in awhile, so im not too sure what new stuff is coming out, i know theres some more atelier kaguya games with some great artwork coming out as usual(though i will say there UI or whatever its called for the menus still seems super rudimentary/dated at this point, ive had issues with glitches in several games where after having the game running for sometime, suddenly the buttons aren't where they should be and i have to move the mouse completely away from a given option for it to actually go down and be selected, not sure how to explain it here in a way that makes sense. but in general their menus and whatnot could probably use a huge overhaul and its been the same since there early titles and never changed), but outside of that not too sure what else is new.

 Anyways i really like Eroge and think its pretty interesting, especially looking at older titles from the PC 98 era and early 2000s. sadly some of those games from the early 2000s are not that easy to find these days if they never got any sort of digital re-release and were disc only. i managed to get a physical copy of Pure Heart ~Sekai de Ichiban Anata ga Suki~, although that one you can still find digitally out there, but the opening song by Kotoko is great and i like the artstyle of it, the characters look really cute and i guess they are all supposed to be robot girls? its also one of the earlier titles by SAGA PLANETS, the company that went on to make Kinkoi(great VN by the way, freaking loved it, lots of good humour and some good fanservice/h-content but the themes and characters are fantastic as well) so its a little sad they haven't made that title more accessible these days with a re-release. also i tried playing it a bit, and it seems interesting since it seems its got some gameplay/sim aspects where i think you can upgrade the main robot heroine so she can win fights and stuff, however i couldn't figure out the gameplay loop and kinda got stuck at the start of the game. maybe i could at least find a full save so i can view the h-scenes. theres also just something really charming about a lot of the art in older VNs especially, from the 80s/90s to even some of the early-mid 2000s stuff.

some screenshots(mostly NSFW) from it:

Spoiler

 

one of the newer atelier kaguya covers:

Spoiler

 

Spoiler

Spoiler

 

whoops that post got way too long. not sure how off topic that was. well it seems there are still some good new VNs both for eroge, safe for work, or straight up nukige, but im a bit worried of things drying up over time, since a lot of the great companies pretty much stopped working on stuff or shut down. I think alicesoft is still going but i dunno how much of the old staff is there so hopefully they can still make more quality stuff like dohna dohna, guess we will just have to see what happens there. at least compared to hentai anime there is still lots of cool stuff, just wondering if it won't eventually go the same way(or maybe it already is? not trying to be gloomy, i genuinely wouldn't know. it does suck seeing gacha stuff get so much attention, there was a gacha tokyo necro game, and it did get an offline version(no voice acting) but a lot of h-scenes or even interesting story stuff are just stuck in these miserable gacha games that waste either way too much time or money(both honestly) the utawarerumono lost flag gacha is getting an offline version, and while im worried the overall gameplay loop will still be miserable id love to have that extra lore since i love that series/world, so hopefully that offline version gets an english release at some point.)

 so yeah would love to know if you have any insight/knowledge on the state of visual novels in the industry and if there is anything we should be a bit worried about in terms of quality or releases or how successful these games are(any interesting interviews out there from devs that have an english translation or anything?)(guess all the BS with mastercard/visa probably ain't helping sales too much) honestly if i could get a DMM JCB card i would, but i imagine its probably only available to people in Japan? I think they even had some deal where if you signed up for it you could get some free points.

(03-06-2026, 07:15 PM)EchelonV Wrote: New Liquid game. 

https://nexton-net.jp/ms-toybox/darkone/elfhime/

https://x.com/Ms_toybox/status/2029744534427783270

Quote:as far as tinkerbell goes id love to see more inyouchuu from them, although its been quite awhile since the last one. the one that takes place at the ski resort? seems quite interesting and id love to see it get translated in english someday. there was some game from them that came out recently that ill probably buy when it goes on sale, as i was looking at some of the CGs for it and it looked like it had more scat content then the usual tinkerbell title(although sometimes the way it was done almost seemed too over the top to the point of kinda taking away from what would be a hot scene? like it doesn't make much sense to have multiple uhhhh logs somehow coming out at the same time from one hole?)

Inyouchuu Wai was the latest one, took place in winter: https://vndb.org/v29780

You might be thinking of the one before it with the resort and snake lady, Shuu. That is my least favorite since it's short and has so much guro. But yeah Wai had feeding tubes and a lot of scat... but it does have some amazing scenes. It was a lot better than Shuu to me overall.

Great post, it's cool you like so many VN's of various eras. The PC98 stuff looks so cool.

But I honestly don't keep up with VN's a ton outside of Tinker Bell and some tentacle/monster series. I hope it's in a better state than how sorry the OVA industry is...

(04-26-2026, 12:58 PM)EchelonV Wrote:

Quote:as far as tinkerbell goes id love to see more inyouchuu from them, although its been quite awhile since the last one. the one that takes place at the ski resort? seems quite interesting and id love to see it get translated in english someday. there was some game from them that came out recently that ill probably buy when it goes on sale, as i was looking at some of the CGs for it and it looked like it had more scat content then the usual tinkerbell title(although sometimes the way it was done almost seemed too over the top to the point of kinda taking away from what would be a hot scene? like it doesn't make much sense to have multiple uhhhh logs somehow coming out at the same time from one hole?)

Inyouchuu Wai was the latest one, took place in winter: https://vndb.org/v29780

You might be thinking of the one before it with the resort and snake lady, Shuu. That is my least favorite since it's short and has so much guro. But yeah Wai had feeding tubes and a lot of scat... but it does have some amazing scenes. It was a lot better than Shuu to me overall.

Great post, it's cool you like so many VN's of various eras. The PC98 stuff looks so cool.

But I honestly don't keep up with VN's a ton outside of Tinker Bell and some tentacle/monster series. I hope it's in a better state than how sorry the OVA industry is...

I really love VNs set in winter and so Wai sounds like the perfect inyouchuu game to me since the scat is a bonus for me (hopefully the story is interesting too, but i guess thats somewhat irrelevant for now unless we actually get it in english someday) I really hope this october we get another inyouchuu game in english, I want to believe it could happen XD. it might not have happened last year but this is the year, surely, right??? its gotta be! we need to convince JAST somehow to bring more of the series over here somehow. i guess i could re-install Wai since i have a digital version of it from DMM along with most of the games, just don't have a lot of space at the moment(i should have gone with a bigger C drive back when i bought my laptop)

as for the VN industry, i don't know for sure, but it certainly seems like its in a better state then the OVA industry, at least to me. thats why i was hoping you would have some insight, i really can't say for sure, cause its probably still not the same as things were in the early 2000s, but at the same time there are still a lot of high quality VNs coming out as far as i can tell. im just not sure if things are going to slowly start declining until we eventually hit a similar state as the OVA industry(gosh i hope not...) but that seems kinda unlikely to me, but again im no expert on any of that, so for someone like me that doesn't have a lot of knowledge on VN sales and how things are going in that industry, its hard to say, id love to see if i can find some comments or interviews from people in the industry but i suspect if there are any they probably wouldn't be translated in english.

Yeah, safe to say the violence levels ramped up with Inyouchuu. It was more black screens and the visceral sound effects doing the work in the past, some barely even have blood at all like Shoku. I think due to Ouka/Kikuka having regen capabilities, someone at TB got a little too violent happy with ideas around them. I'm not judging but that should be reserved for other series and experiments, like Fuka. Stick to demons, tentacles, and impreg with Inyouchuu!

Oh yeah you like scat... haha. Well maybe you'll like that stuff about Wai then. The Sui route seemed pretty crazy. And some good stuff with her and Rinko. The twins are MIA again, which is doubly why I think the need some redemption after Shuu...

I am guessing that Shuu was kind of a product of the lockdown era too. TB games have always been pretty big with a lot of content, but that feels rushed and some girls even like Takeru barely have any scenes. It's a stain on this otherwise great series. I might dismiss how Etsu feels a bit non-canon too or too tame, but it's vastly better than Shuu at least.

I think Wai has my favorite Rinko scene too. She had a lot of violent BDSM stuff early on, but thankfully not as much in there. Just good ol' tentacles and painful belly fun... "normal" Inyouchuu. XD

I'm hoping we get Hanamaru 2 this year, then maybe JAST or someone else can license more Aojiru games. I'm up for another company if they do it well, translation and uncensored. I guess JAST was maybe sitting on Inyochu for years working on it. They announced it that one summer and it came out a few months later. Now Hanamaru 2 on the other hand, it's been two years since the announcement I think... weird.

Hopefully VN's stay strong. I think some companies are still doing alright. The real worry would be if there's not new young talented artists to take up the mantle, which seems to be an issue somewhat. One positive we can maybe think of too is if the industry slows down some, hopefully the English/uncensored side still keeps going along the way. I always loved Shin Inyochu but the JAST release gave it a fun second life to me. Best case scenario would be getting a new Inyouchuu in the near future again, while JAST gives us Hanamaru 2 and more uncensored Inyouchuu!