- Stickers! - 1 August 2026
Friends, our beautiful new chibi Love & Country stickers are now available for purchase on our website!Help show your support for Guhuhu Games by grabbing your favorite character (or the whole gang)!Go to our new Merch section to check it out and be sure to let us know on our socials if you did! That's all for now! Thanks again, and much love 💗XOXO,Guhuhu Games
- 🏖️SUMMER SALE IS LIVE🏖️ - 25 June 2026
Boy, it sure is getting hot over here in the Gu Lab! Cool down with a nice refreshing discount of Love & Country: The First Mission, on us. Well, on Steam mostly, but you get the idea.We made another Really Good Gif for you guys to help celebrate:Have a safe summer, everyone, and happy gaming! 😎XOXO,Guhuhu Games
- From the Devlogs #15: Updates! Merch! - 20 June 2026
Dearest Allies, We’ve been a bit negligent in posting about our progress, in part because it didn’t feel very exciting to keep saying that we are writing, particularly when the world around us is perpetually on fire. What’s a little project like ours in the face of all that? But we are still writing. We just finished our first draft of the baseline version of Lillian’s second mission. It clocks in at a whopping 770+ pages. For comparison, most routes in the first mission were in the 300-400 page range. It’s a significant leap in scope–intimidating to us as creators, but necessary to tell the story we want to tell. So while this process is taking no small amount of time, we hope you will find it worth the wait. A lot of care is being poured into making this the best possible thing it can be. Now that we’ve labored through a first draft, we’re switching gears to edit. It involves a lot of…
- ❄️WINTER SALE IS ON❄️ - 19 December 2025
She's back on sale, friends! Stay warm and cozy, curled up with a discounted copy of Love & Country: The First Mission, through Jan. 5!We even made another gif!Happy Holidays,Guhuhu Games
- ‼️BLACK FRIDAY to CYBER MONDAY FLASH SALE‼️ - 28 November 2025
We are happy to report that from today to December 2nd, Love & Country: The First Mission will be on sale! Enjoy a hefty 40% off this weekend, courtesy of Guhuhu 😘Look, we even made a fun gif to celebrate:Happy Thanksgiving to our fans in the States and we hope everyone has a wonderful and safe weekend.Love,Guhuhu Games
- 💕Guhuhu Games x Fall in Love Visual Novel Festival💕 - 24 September 2025
We are excited to announce that Love & Country: The First Mission will be partipating in the Fall in Love Visual Novel Festival here on Steam, presented by Studio Élan!Catch L&C at a wonderful 35% off, as well as tons of other fantastic visual novels on sale NOW from September 24th-October 1st! This is a fantastic time to try out games and demos you've had on your wishlist for months now, so go on! Thanks again to Studio Élan for having us, and props for organizing such a cool event. Love,Guhuhu Games
- From the Devlogs #14: A Very 'Love & Country' Update (ft. It's On Sale Again!) - 21 May 2025
Yoohoo! It’s Team Gu here with a little check in. We hope everyone enjoyed the L&C: The First Mission bonus content! It was such a delight to share that small peek into the thinking of our LI’s. A big thank you to everyone who checked it out. Your comments and feedback mean so much to us. So, what have we been up to for the past three months? We’re hard at work on the next script! As we mentioned in prior posts, Lillian’s story was originally envisioned in four chapters (you could say “missions” or “arcs”, but we’ll go with “chapters” for now). Our debut release was the first. The plan is to release the three subsequent chapters together. We have the broad strokes of the plot mapped out for all three, however, there are still a lot of details to be fleshed out from the general outline. There's a lot of work to be done! We’re also still figuring out how the plot differs from route to rou…
- 02.14.2025 Content update - 14 February 2025
New bonus content will unlock after all four endings have been played.
- From the Devlogs #13: A Guhuhu State of the Union (2/1/25) - 1 February 2025
Hey there, Valentines! Well, well, well. It sure has been a while since y’all have heard from us! We’ve been sitting on some news for a while and now is finally the time we get to share it. FIRST THINGS FIRST An exciting update is coming to L&C by way of BONUS CONTENT. There will be TWO unlockable scenes that you can access after playing through all four endings. You may need to download an update to your game, however, no additional purchase is required. It was a lot of fun to put the new stuff together, including some new art and music! You’ve gotten a sneak peak if you follow us on socials (for real though, who is that mystery woman?). The free update for L&C drops FEBRUARY 14th, so mark your calendars! SECOND THINGS SECOND There’s one other small change with this update that has big implications. You’ll notice on the main menu (as well as on Steam and itch.io) that we’ve made an add…
- From the Devlogs: Post-Mortem (9/26/24) - 2 October 2024
Hello everyone! Back in June, we released our very first visual novel. It was exhilarating to bring ‘Love & Country’ to life, but absolutely nerve wracking to release it into the wild. Now that it’s lived and breathed on the internet for three months, it seemed high time for us to conduct a post-mortem. There were many decisions throughout the creative process that had further reaching consequences than we realized. This project required us to experiment and to learn brand new skills. Sometimes it paid off. Sometimes it derailed everything. But we muddled through. If you’ve read our prior devlogs, you may already know about some of the obstacles we encountered. Here we’ll try to focus on the bumps and obstacles that we haven’t written about before. If you are a dev or or an aspiring dev looking to learn from our mistakes, or just curious about what we are thinking about doing differentl…
- Introducing the 'Love & Country' Original Soundtrack - 21 September 2024
We are extremely excited to announce the release of the official 'Love & Country' Original Soundtrack, beautifully composed and arranged by none other than Guhuhu composer extraordinaire Zachary Pinkham! Within, you'll find a condensed and masterfully arranged version of Zach's original score. A lot of labor and love went into its creation, so please give it a listen--wherever you stream your music! Additionally, you can listen to the awesome original end theme song "Love & Country" by Ben Moy here: https://bnmy.bandcamp.com/track/love-country-from-the-game-love-country-by-guhuhu-games Please be sure to support our musicians with your clicks! Thanks, gang! XOXO, Team Guhuhu
- Achievements: Achieved! - 23 July 2024
Welcome to our first official patch/update! With the game having just celebrated its 1 month anniversary, we're happy to bring you *cue drum roll* ACHIEVEMENTS! We had a ton of fun thinking of dumb things to say about very important milestones in the game and we hope you will too! Apologies that we couldn't have them out at launch; I know it's annoying that so many of you have already gotten through the whole thing already. Better late than never...? Eh? Anyway, in addition to adding achievements to the game, we've also fixed some minor graphical and textual things (thanks to Feena for pointing those out to us!). And that's it! Thanks for playing 'Love & Country', everyone. We
- From the Devlogs #12 (7/1/24) - 1 July 2024
(Quick aside from the other dev, Juliana: "TODAY IS KATIE'S BIRTHDAY!!! Happy bday KT 💖") Greetings lovelies! First off, we are overflowing with gratitude to everyone who has checked out ‘Love & Country’! It was terrifying to put something we poured so much of ourselves into out in the world, not knowing how people would react to it. To see that people are drawn to these characters who have existed only to us for so long leaves us thankful to the bottom of our hearts. We so appreciate you giving Team Gu a chance! We hope you will continue to leave comments, ratings, and reviews, etc. Your support means the world to us. As a dev with a new game out there, I’ve had a lot on my mind over the past week, thinking about what went well (and inevitably what I wish had gone better) with the final stages of development. We will be doing an actual postmortem down the line, but today I wanted to t…
- To Our German Players - 23 June 2024
Hallo zusammen! First of all, thank you for being here! We really appreciate that so many around the world are excited about 'Love & Country'. That said, we have had multiple questions and/or comments surrounding the topic of our game being unavailable in the Steam store for Germany. Unfortunately, this is out of our control; Steam does not sell ANY games with adult content in Germany. However, if you still want the game, you are not completely out of luck! Because of Steam's weirdness about Mac builds, we ALSO have our game for sale (as well as the demo) on itch.io. Links to the page can be found through our linktree here: https://linktr.ee/guhuhugames As always, thank you so much for the support and we want you to know (and this is for everybody) that we LOVE hearing from you! Tschüss, Team Guhuhu
- From the Devlogs #11 (6/27/24) - 17 June 2024
Welcome to our second devlog about the music of Love & Country! This is Guhuhu’s in-house composer Zachary Pinkham. Last time, we talked about the aesthetic of the music and its historical influences. This time I would like to focus on the most unique aspect of music: how the music actually works! I would also like to tell you all about the biggest mistake I made working on the music; a mistake that ended up costing weeks of time that I hope to save you all from by sharing knowledge I learned the hard way. Something that immediately stood out to me when I first read the script of Love and Country was how quickly the game’s tone can change. A conversation can go from jovial to seductive to somber in a very short period of time. I also noticed how continuous the action was—the events of the entire game take place in a compressed period with very few jumps in time at all. Taking all of the…
- From the Devlog...Logs #10 (5/20/24) - 16 June 2024
Hallo meine Leiben! Did you miss us? We’ve been pretty quiet on socials for the past month but with good reason–we’ve been working furiously on completing the game. Today is officially one month to release day, a thought that fills us with equal parts terror and joy. After two years of pouring our hearts and souls into this project, we’ll finally be able to share it with you! What’s left for us to do? The game is programmed. We are still polishing some parts–an animation here, an extra CG there. After that, we’ll be moving into testing. Once we confirm that everything looks and sounds exactly as intended, we’ll be trying our darndest to break it. In doing so hopefully we’ll get the final product as bug-free as possible. Additionally, after some back and forth, we’ve decided that the official asking price for ‘Love & Country’ will be $14.99 USD. It’s no exaggeration to say tens of thousa…
- From the Devlog...Logs #9 (3/17/24) - 15 June 2024
Salut mes amis ! First off, thank you to everyone who checked out the updated version of our demo! And an extra special thanks to marieblueangel for doing a playthrough on Youtube! She has a lovely reading voice, so you should definitely check out her other videos too (like, subscribe, etc.). The most pressing question we’ve received has been “when will the whole thing come out?” As you probably know from our previous logs, our composer Zach was dealing with a nerve injury. The timeline for his recovery was uncertain for a while, but the great news is that Zach is substantially recovered and back to composing. Now that the path forward is clear, we are ready to set the big date. Mark your calendars– ’Love & Country’ will be released June 20th! Team Gu has a lot to do before then to bring you the rest of the story of Lillian’s first mission. Jules is practically wearing out the tips of h…
- From the Devlog...Logs #8 (1/20/24) - 14 June 2024
Happy Gu Year!!! We are so excited to ring in 2024 with an UPDATED DEMO for ‘Love & Country”!!! So what can you expect with this new version? Updated artwork! We’ve replaced some of the character plates and CGs. Hopefully you’ll like the changes we’ve made. (Note from Katie: I think Jules has made Anton and Émile even more handsome! Not sure how she did it. Let us know what you think!) New effects! We’ve been hard at work learning about all of the bells and whistles we can add using Ren’Py, like camera pans and light animations. More accessibility! Did you know that Ren’Py has a really cool self-voicing feature? We’ve added some visual description for game elements not described in text. We also programmed Ren’Py’s self-voicing feature to indicate when a character is speaking French or German (reading out only the translation rather than botching the pronunciation of the spoken language…
- From the Devlog...Logs #7 (9/20/23) - 13 June 2024
Greetings, lovelies! Today we come to you with some unfortunate news: despite our best efforts, we will be delaying the release of ‘Love and Country’ to January 2024. We were so hard at work that our super talented composer Zach actually injured himself! Much of his composition work is performed digitally, which, when combined with the desk job that pays his bills, resulted in too much time spent at a computer. If you’ve ever suffered from a repetitive stress injury, you know it’s no fun. While we are still waiting for Zach’s official diagnosis (it looks like tendonitis or potentially a nerve injury) it’s become abundantly clear that he needs time to rest and recuperate. We are pouring everything into ‘Love & Country’, but we never want this project to come at the cost of anyone’s health. The music is such an important element of the experience we want to deliver. There is a cliché in d…
- From the Devlog...Logs #6 (8/17/23) - 12 June 2024
Bonjour mes chères ! If you follow our socials (and you should because we post all kinds of goodies on the platform fka Twitter, Instagram, and in our discord server) you've probably seen the brand new TRAILER for 'Love & Country'! If you haven't seen it yet, go watch it on YouTube! We had some amazing vocal talent--Leah Booth (@lil_leahbee on instagram) as Lillian, James Aaron Oh as Emile, and Tim Winters (@timandhisvoices on Twitter) as Anton. Thanks to Very Berry Studios for helping us find these awesome actors! (Note, the game does not have voice acting in it, but that is something we intend to add in a future release. We'll be running a crowd-funding campaign down the road for this.) The other thing you may catch in our trailer is the release date--November 2023! It is a little later than we had originally planned, but we promise the wait is worth it. I've had a sneak peak from our…
