- It's Leena's One Year Anniversary! Black Friday sale! Now on consoles! - 27 November 2025
Hey everyone, Tosh here! It's been exactly one year since Leena fully released on Steam, and to celebrate we're putting Leena on it's largest discount to date for Black Friday! I also wanted to give a small reminder as we never did an announcement for this, that Leena is now on ALL major consoles as of October 1st! It is ALSO on sale on Nintendo Switch for Black Friday! Notice Me Leena-senpai! on Nintendo Switch! We have a couple of things planned for Leena that we're excited to announce next year as well. Until then, we hope more people will enjoy the game on their platform of choice! One other thing! Dokimon: Quest is now also on Nintendo Switch as of today, November 27th, as Doki Monsters Quest! Check it out if you get the chance! Doki Monsters Quest on Nintendo Switch! Have fun!
- Leena is Steam Deck Verified! - 6 June 2025
Hey everyone, GameDevTosh here! Today I'm happy to announce that Leena is now fully Steam Deck Verified! You can find the green checkmark on the steam store page and when searching on the steam deck itself for valve approved verified titles. I pushed out a few updates the past week to take care of some of the issues that popped up during verification, and we've finally completed the verification process successfully. Thanks to everyone who has played the game so far, and I hope many more people will play and enjoy the game!
- Leena is coming to Consoles! - 7 April 2025
Hey everyone, GameDevTosh here! Today I'm super excited to finally announce that Notice Me Leena-senpai is coming to Nintendo Switch, Playstation 4, Playstation 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S! This is thanks to our console publisher Eastasiasoft, who will be working on the ports. You can watch todays Eastasiasoft Spring Showcase #24 for the official announcement as the #12 title: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBGpVSo6JBM eastasiasoft website You can also check out this link at eastasiasofts official website! https://www.eastasiasoft.com/games/Notice-Me-Leenasenpai This is a very exciting time for us, and it's been in the works for quite a while! A new key visual was commissioned for this special day, and I'm super excited to show it off! Sale To celebrate this announcement, we've put Leena on a two week sale at 50% off starting now! If you still haven't played Leena, we hope you'll…
- Patch v1.0.3.2 and Updated Soundtrack! - 11 December 2024
Hey everyone, Tosh here! Today I'm pushing out a very small patch that fixes the Tosh's Notes item, as it currently removes all disabled types of towers. It should only remove the red marks. Elixir of Death is specifically for removing ghost types. I've also reduced the price of Elixirs. The games soundtrack has been updated with the 6 final tracks of the game, three of which were intended for trailers. This includes the track for the main trailer seen on the store page, which is also used for Leena Mode. This increases the track count to its final number of 50 tracks. Thanks, and happy gaming! Changelog: - Fixed Tosh's Notes affect all disabled tower types - Adjusted the price of Elixir of Death - Adjusted some lair dialogue data - Added 6 tracks to the games OST
- Leena is Fully Playable on Steam Deck! - 29 November 2024
Hey everyone, Tosh here! I realize a lot of potential players are always wondering if a game would work on their decks, or are primarily a deck user. While we wait to get deck verified, I'm happy to say that Leena works great on the deck, and there should be no issues with it! While we don't have a native linux build available (yet) the game works great with proton, and with the deck controls. The initial install/run of the game on the deck may take a few minutes, but its normal. Should we make a native linux build, we'll make an announcement about it. Happy Gaming!
- Surprise! Notice Me Leena is now Released! - 27 November 2024
It's been a long time coming, but I'm super excited to finally say that Notice Me Leena-senpai! is now complete and fully released on Steam! We decided to release a bit early due to Black Friday week. You can grab Leena with a launch discount now! A new game trailer inspired by the second major update trailer has been added to the steam page to replace it, as well as a few new screenshots! The last Early Access version is v1.0.3.1, which is the official first release version. You can check out the final Early Access changelog down below. I hope to see more people playing Leena soon! - GameDevTosh Changelog for v1.0.3.1: - Fixed unique monster Bedlam's shields not being destroyed - Fixed Bedlam projectiles hitting towers in other lanes - Fixed an issue with Bedlam shield soft-locking the game when multiple were stacked together - Increased the HP gain of several towers - Fixed an issue w…
- Released Patch v1.0.1.8 - 25 November 2024
One of Leena's final patches before Release, this one is for balancing the latter half of the game, the end game content, as well as fixing a few bugs. Changelog: - Fixed a critical bug with certain bosses crashing the game in worlds 7 through 10 - Adjusted and balanced the waves of world 2, 4, and worlds 7 through 10 - Adjusted the starting gold of several maps - Adjusted the grid size and expansions of worlds 7 through 10 - Adjusted some dialogue - Fixed a bug in the item shop displaying incorrect item data if at least one item is in the inventory - Added more bosses to some maps - Adjusted the unique monster Exhausteeds explosion damage and explosion start time - Reduced the price of all items in the item shop - Increased the health gain of barriers and grinders per upgrade level by 5 - Reduced the prices of the following towers: Leena, Icicle, Missile, Portals, Flamethrower, Pellet,…
- Released Patch v1.0.1.2 - 20 November 2024
I just pushed out a small update to fix a reported issue with portals crashing the game. Portals should now be working properly. Should you have any issues, please report the bugs in the steam community forum or the yanako rpg's discord server in the #leena-senpai channel. Thank you!
- Leena's final major update is here! Release date announced! - 19 November 2024
Hey everyone it's been a while! First I'd like to apologize for the small delay. In our previous announcement we had given a few dates to aim for, as well as a tentative roadmap of how the last few updates would work out. In the end, I decided to combine all of the updates into one single final update, which would give me time to make sure everything worked well together and I didn't overlook any bugs. So a little about this update. Originally, I had planned to add 2 post-campaign maps, and the campaign itself would be 9 worlds, as stated in the Early Access description. However, I decided to scrap the post-campaign idea, and bring one of the maps into the main campaign. This means, there are now 10 worlds in the campaign, but there is no post-campaign. This brings the campaign levels to an even 30 levels, with the first world having four levels, and the final world having only two. The…
- Released Patch v0.2.5.0 - 5 August 2024
The first patch since the second major update, this update fixes a few issues: - Fixed a bug where watching a scene and retrying or exiting the map would entirely skip the scene when entering the level once again. Normally you should be able to re-watch the initial scenes until the level is cleared. - Fixed a bonus related bug involving set difficulties. - Created a build that is fully optimized. An engine bug was preventing this optimization earlier, but I have found a work around to do so now. - Scenes can now be instantly skipped, rather than having to wait for the fade out of the scene before transitioning. In controller mode this can be done as soon as the scene starts to load, but in mouse mode, you'll have to wait until the scene fully populates.
- Second Major Update, Roadmap, Tower Defense Fest, and End of Early Access! - 1 August 2024
Hi everyone, it's been a while! Today I want to announce Leena's second major update! But first, to celebrate this update, Leena is 50% off in the Tower Defense Fest sale! This will be Leena's final sale in Early Access, so get it while you can at this low price! Now to start off, yes Leena is still being worked on, and we're very close to completing the game! It'll still take a little bit longer, but we're inching closer and closer to the finished game. I'll also be discussing the final major updates and sharing a roadmap of what we have planned, as well as the estimated date we're aiming to fully release the game and exiting Early Access. So let's get started! Second Major Update For this second major update, I've been hard at work on a visual rework for many reasons. The main reason however, is localization. When I first started Leena, I had no plans to localize the game to other lan…
- Another small hotfix - 19 January 2024
- Reduced the range of bio archers from 96 to 30. This is to prevent most edge cases of soft locks due to out-healing the enemies damage while out of range in survival mode. The range may be further reduced before World 8 is released, and applied to all bio monsters. - Fixed a bug where special monsters were not affected by portals. - Fixed a bug where special monsters were not affected by super mines nor freeze mines.
- Hotfix for survival mode - 17 January 2024
I just released a hotfix for a bug found in survival mode. Please download the latest version to ensure the best playing experience. Thank you!
- Survival Mode! Full Controller Support! Item Shop! Bonus System! So much more! - 15 January 2024
Welcome to Leena's first major game update in Early Access! This update is massive! To celebrate, we'll be doing a sale for a week starting today! Now grab a seat and get ready to read up on everything that's new! Full Controller Support First off, we now have full controller support. Plug in your favorite controller and start playing! The entire game has been completely re-written to not only support controllers, but also features keyboard support as well as the legacy mouse only form of gameplay. What's more is you can swap on the fly by pressing (or clicking) a button on the device of your choice. Real-time Build Mode (Active Grid Mode) As seen in the previous picture, you can now build during waves! This was a highly requested feature, and since I had to do a lot of re-writing to get controller support in, I went ahead and just re-wrote everything and added the real-time build mode!…
- Adjusted Difficulty Settings and New Gem Difficulty Bonuses - 7 December 2023
Our first early access update! A small one but we're making progress. Here are the details of this patch: Adjusted all difficulty modifiers; these include gold, health and wave numbers for each difficulty. Added bonus gem calculation on map clear based on difficulty setting. End of map screen will now mention the current difficulty mode when describing bonus gems. Additional starting gold is now given based on difficulty setting. Increased the max upgrade level of towers to 9,999 in preparation of endless mode. Adjusted waves of Nightmare Realm As mentioned, each map will now give additional bonuses depending on the difficulty setting. This includes additional gems, and extra starting gold in an effort to balance the difficulties a bit more. While gems do not have a use at this time, they will be essential for the item and tower shops, as well as for endless mode, once they are complete…
- Leena is now out in Early Access! - 1 December 2023
After nearly two years in development Leena is finally out in Early Access! Leena started as a small jam game for Opera's #NoticeMe game jam back in Early 2022 as a simple two week prototype that has been featured on the front page of Opera GX several times. Now, here we are, after a successful Kickstarter campaign, in Early Access! With seven playable worlds and 22 complete levels, Leena will just keep getting better and better. We hope you enjoy playing as much as we had fun making the game! I can't wait to see how people will tackle the maps, the different difficulty settings, and the future content yet to come! To all backers and beta testers, thank you for the support!
- Updated Beta Version with Achievements and Retry Options - 27 November 2023
Hey everyone, just wanted to send out a quick announcement to beta players. I just released an update to Leena that adds steam achievements to the game, just in time for Early Access. For now only just a few achievements exist. Due to this update, in order to have the best play experience, I recommend deleting your save file, as previously completed levels with achievements will not unlock those achievements. For the players that have gained access today, I highly recommend doing this to have the best play experience if you have already started playing but wish to have all achievements. You can find the savedata file at: C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Project_Leena Retry Options This update adds some quality of life additions in the form of level retries. Previously if you failed a level, you would be taken back to the map select screen and had to re-watch cutscenes. Now, if you fail a…
- Steam Next Fest and an updated Demo! - 9 October 2023
Steam Next Fest is finally here, and Leena is in! I've updated the demo to now include the first two worlds of the game. This update also includes: New save system New Menus New Game Settings New Difficulty Settings This will be the last version of the demo, and it has a pretty good chunk of content for all to enjoy, including the previous score challenges with steam leaderboards! Previous demo players should have no compatibility issues, but in the off chance you do, please report it and we'll get on it ASAP! We're inching ever closer to Leena's launch into Early Access, and the alpha test is progressing well. We'll be starting the Beta within the next few weeks for Kickstarter and Indiegogo backers. The store page has also been updated with new screenshots, a new trailer, and new gameplay videos, so check them out! As always feedback is welcome in the discussion boards! Let us know wh…
- Updated Demo with Leaderboards! - 1 May 2023
This update to the demo brings many bug fixes, and many new things such as: - Range Indicators for all Towers - High Score Challenges - Steam Leaderboards for new challenges - Game Speed options - Tower Adjustments - Monster wave adjustments - Level failure now sends you back to map select instead of restarting the game - Gem rewards for map completion and challenges Bugs fixed: - Fixed a major bug where trying to open the game on steam would sometimes fail. - Other minor bugs High Score Challenges: - Courtyard II features 30 waves with Steam Leaderboard functionality - School Gates II features 35 waves with Steam Leaderboard functionality
- First Demo Released! - 30 March 2023
After a very long time, we now have our very first playable demo of Leena! This demo includes the very first world of the game as well as an extra secret challenge map you can unlock if you beat the first world. The secret map includes towers and enemies you won't see until later in the base game. Check it out!
