- Toxic Yuri Release Date - 9/18! - 7 September 2026
The Toxic Yuri release date is close! Yuri Kissaten’s third full game will launch on September 18th, 2026. Doku-chan will be unleashed onto the world in all her glory, and nobody can stop her, not even us.Yuri Kissaten has spent the last many months crafting the most delightfully noxious romantic comedy visual novel of all-time, and we’re really excited to see you explore it all. We’ve buried some gut-busting gags, eye-poppingly adorable moments, and pitch-dark terror all throughout this game, with 15+ episode variants and 10+ endings.Can YOU earn your happy ending with Doku-chan? Or will things just end up toxic? Try out the Episode 1 demo to prepare.At launch, the game will be available on PC, Mac, and Linux. It will only be available in English at first, but we plan to add Japanese and Chinese localizations by the end of 2026. And, if the game’s a big hit, we’ll keep adding more loca…
- Gay It Loud Demo - Play Now - 15 June 2026
Gay It Loud, Yuri Kissaten's latest dating sim, now has a demo available for everyone to enjoy!Play the Gay It Loud demo today and experience the culture of a bunch of gay girls (and one guy) in the far-off year of 1995. The shopping mall of your dreams comes to life. Let's hang out there.Gay It Loud Demo Features• A 15,000+ word story, most of "Day 1" of the story. Four characters to meet and flirt with.• Five quarter-life crises among sensitive Gen X slackers.• Highly polygonal computer graphics mixed with amazingly adorable 2D sprites.• Immersive brands and ads from the 1990s of your dreams. Collect them all!Gay It Loud Demo Characters• Verity: Go-getter and ray of sunshine. Loves games of all kinds (doesn’t mean she’s good at them).• Zamira: Failing artist brooding over her next career move. She sees this mall as a pointless stopgap. Another round of Skee-Ball will change her mind.•…
- 1.11 Update - 25 February 2026
A problem with the Mac build has (hopefully) been fixed.
- Yuri Kissaten Studio Update: A Lilyful Year to Come - 24 February 2026
Yuri Kissaten completed its first full year as a game studio in 2025, and wowzers was it an adventure!If you remember, we embarked on the "5 for '25 Campaign," an effort to work on and announce five different games throughout 2025. In the end, we only released one full game, Winter Heat, and one smaller game, "Life of a Dispatch English Teacher in Japan," though we learned a whole lot in the process. And we really did end up revealing all 5 games as planned!Look at all the games we worked on in 2025:We ran our first crowdfunding campaign, we attended our first live event and first Steam events, we made three different showcase videos, we did social video marketing... It was a big year of firsts.And so, 2026 will be just as ambitious, but with more targeted, specific goals. I have no clue how many games we'll announce, and how many games we'll release is still in flux (it seems like four…
- Yuri Kissaten's Winter Game Showcase - 14 December 2025
The newest Yuri Kissaten Espresso showcase for Winter 2025 premiered on Youtube today and gave the world an overview of 5 new and upcoming Yuri game releases for 2025 and 2026.Watch the full showcase here: Here’s a round-up of everything we saw from Yuri Kissaten and from partner studios:Winter Heat:Launching TODAY!After a successful Kickstarter campaign, Winter Heat has finally released for the world to enjoy. It will also receive several free content updates throughout 2026, including an Oomfie RPG expansion and an Epilogue storyline.A narrative game about love in the digital age, Winter Heat follows the story of Shio, a woman living in snowy Kyoto, and Javi, a woman living in sweltering Santiago. Follow their long-distance love through online chats, video calls, and social media apps. Plus, there’s a smorgasboard of side content through in-game apps like an educational Maps app, the…
- Thank you so much! - 9 December 2025
This game has recently reached over 450 players on Steam (as well as hundreds more on Itch), and it's seen a huge increase in profile in recent weeks due to the Kyoto ALT strike over some of the very same issues that this game discussed.Conditions have been getting worse and worse for English teachers in Japan, but the Kyoto ALTs did manage to secure a raise, one of the first of its kind for private dispatch ALTs. This game sure isn't to thank, but I know we've received many kind words about it since its release, especially since the Japanese localization.So, thank you very much for your support. This was not a large game by any means, but I hope it made at least a small impact on raising awareness. Thank you for playing and thank you for sharing.In other Yuri Kissaten news:Love is in the Airship is participating in this week's Choose Wisely Festival 2025, hosted by Studio Ephua. Please…
- Japanese Localization Released! - 3 October 2025
Life of a Dispatch English Teacher in Japan now has a full Japanese localization. Now, Japanese-speaking audiences have a chance to experience the story and the pain of the main character, too.If you have any Japanese-speaking people in your life, please share this game with them. The game is free, short, and addresses important issues for foreigner life in Japan, so I hope it makes a big impact. And thank you so much for the hundreds of people who have downloaded and played the game so far! It means a whole lot to the Yuri Kissaten team that people are enjoying our work. We hope to release more Japan-set emotionally heavy games in the future. (And cute ones too of course!)
- Yuri Kissaten Espresso Summer 2025 Showcase! - 1 August 2025
Check out 9 Yuri games, including Life of a Dispatch English Teacher in Japan, featured in the Yuri Kissaten Espresso showcase for Summer 2025! We already have passed 100 unique players for this game, and hopefully this showcase brings in even more new people who discover it.Most of the showcased games are also available on Steam, so check them all out:So much Yuri!!!!!
- COMING AUGUST 1ST: Winter Heat Kickstarter Campaign! - 26 July 2025
Coming to Kickstarter on August 1st!Winter Heat is more than a love story. It’s the texts, notes, games, and digital worlds of a couple across years of their lives. This wholesome visual novel chronicles a modern romance in a uniquely digital way.Javiera Vera is a freelancer living in the sweltering summer of Maipú, Santiago, in Chile. Fukkoshi Shio is an office worker living in the snowy rural town of Miyazu, Kyoto, in Japan. Though they live on different sides of the world, they share something that transcends all boundaries: an internet connection.How will their friendship deepen during one special December? Find out through the apps Javi and Shio use every day.We’re raising finishing funds for Winter Heat to help expand the game further and further. Not only will we have an extensive main story, but we’ll also have a boatload of in-story “apps.” Some are educational, some flesh out…
- Release Date Set: July 19th! - 17 July 2025
Life of a Dispatch English Teacher in Japan, Yuri Kissaten's upcoming free game, will release on July 19th! It's a short but powerful game about an important real-life issue, so please set aside 30 or 40 minutes to experience it.You can learn more about the game by visiting its press kit page!This may be an emotionally heavy game, but Yuri Kissaten also has plenty of much lighter, much cuter projects coming up in the extremely near future--stay tuned for those. In particular, our Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign for Winter Heat is drawing very near, and we'll be sharing more about it on this page soon as well.Please get ready for Life of a Dispatch English Teacher in Japan, because it's just the first of many Yuri Kissaten events this summer.
- Happy Yuri Day from Yuri Kissaten! - 26 June 2025
Happy Yuri Day from Yuri Kissaten! We're making so many Yuri games, and you should celebrate by checking out our games and wishlisting the upcoming ones! :3c You should also check all the great Yuri games recommended by the great Steam curator Hella Yuri.Life of a Dispatch English Teacher in Japan releases in just a couple weeks, but you can stave off your anticipation by channeling your excitement into all our other upcoming releases:And of course, check our Winter Heat's Kickstarter pre-launch page, but we'll be sending out a cross-promotion news update about that soon. Happy Yuri Day everyone, and please support all your favorite Yuri creators.
