- My Burning Heart is in Steam's Visual Novel Fest - 7 August 2023
Take this chance to get your favorite Visual Novels at a discount! Have you played the whole collection by Ertal Games? ;)
- New BL Visual Novel! - 7 August 2023
PIRATES!! In the mood for playing a short visual novel with pirates and BL romance? Then, as usual, Ertal Games is here to provide the experience! Jolly Roger is a visual novel developed for the Yaoi Jam (hence its short length), with only one love interest but four possible endings. And it's now available on Steam! https://store.steampowered.com/app/2383620/Con_cien_caones_por_banda/ Check it out! ;)
- Happy Pride Month! - 19 June 2022
Happy Pride Month! To celebrate it, jump in the parade float with Adnan and Rashid in this short story, set after Rashid's good ending! (The format is a text-only pdf, so just download and read!) You can find it here: A June Parade
- Smol Side Project for Yaoi Jam - 4 September 2021
Hiya! I know many of you are looking forward to Night and Day's final release... Unfortunately, I'm still in coding hell, and I'll need some weeks more to sort everything out. I prefer not to give a date until I've made sure that everything works as it should, the script is thoroughly edited, and the game has been beta-tested, but I can assure you everyone involved is doing their best. In August, I took a week off (for my brain's sanity, as the hours of coding variables was driving me insane) to work on a side project: every year, I try to take part in the Yaoi Game Jam, usually making a demo for a future project. This year, since I'm knees deep in Night and Day and the next project is already waiting (Deep in the Forest), I opted for transforming an old pirates AU fanfiction of mine into an original Visual Novel. Hence, I only had to translate the text into English, make a few changes,…
- Bug fixes in the Russian version - 16 February 2021
Those pesky errors in the Russian version are now (hopefully) fixed! Please, comment on this post if you still find any.
- My Burning Heart is available in Russian! - 12 February 2021
Just a quick heads up to announce the official Russian translation has been added to the game!
- New Free Crossover Game! - 22 January 2021
Can you imagine the characters from A Hand in the Darkness, Chasing the Stars, and My Burning Heart as cats? And living in a cat café? Well, imagine no more, this is it! A Cat Café Story is a very short Visual Novel (just 7.5k words) with the fluffy version of our dear characters being themselves. Two endings and cuteness overload! Rating: G (I'm not into furry, sorry XD) Link to the game on itch.io
- Our new game is out! - 4 November 2020
Great news! Our more recent BL Visual Novel, Lurkers, was released yesterday! Lurkers is a short thriller revolving around the Jack the Ripper crimes. It features around 35k words, two suspects, three love interests, one bad ending if you choose the wrong culprit, and one good ending plus additional conclusions with the love interest of your choice, or a solo/friendship conclusion if you prefer. The rating is 15+. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1376840/Lurkers/ Come and have a taste of the grimmest side of Victorian England!
- New game demo available! - 14 September 2020
We have the pleasure to announce the demo of Lurkers is now available for Windows on the Steam store. Experience the grimmest series of crimes of the Victorian era in this short BL Yaoi Visual Novel, putting yourself in the shoes of the son of the first acknowledged victim of Jack the Ripper. Follow Eddy Nichols in his quest for revenge and maybe find some love on the side! Don't forget to add the game to your wishlist to be notified on the launch date! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1376840/Lurkers
- French translation update! - 10 September 2020
The French version of My Burning Heart is now available!
- Our website has officially launched! - 13 August 2020
After being inactive for months, we can now officially announce our website! https://www.ertalgames.com/ What will you find there? All the info about Ertal Games' projects, in a single place. Merchandising of A Hand in the Darkness, Chasing the Stars and My Burning Heart (and Night and Day's, soon!) Newsletters with info about our upcoming games, plus illustration sneak peeks and special offers! The games themselves aren't available on the website (they are all on Steam and itchio), but you can find the artbooks and DLCs. Check it out, please!
- Two days left; let's get that third stretch goal! - 28 June 2020
Only two days left to support Night and Day's Kickstarter! The two first stretch goals have been reached, so the spicy scenes will get an extra of pepper! But what about those who are looking forward to seeing more romance with a 15+ rating? The third stretch goal is for them! Back the game and grab some nice rewards here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/night-and-day/night-and-day-0
- Summer of Pride Steam sale - 11 June 2020
To celebrate Pride, we've partnered up with @MidBoss to feature My Burning Heart in their Summer of Pride Steam Sale! Check it out and share if you think your fellow gaymers might be interested. https://store.steampowered.com/curator/34979042/sale/SummerOfPride2020
- The Kickstarter for Night and Day is on! - 1 June 2020
Our Kickstarter campaign is now live! Follow Paul on his way to be a successful artist, meet other artists, writers and musicians, and get to know the most romantic and bohemian side of Paris! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/night-and-day/night-and-day-0
- New Game on Kickstarter - preview - 27 May 2020
Hello, I hope you're all healthy and fine! Just a quick message to let you know Night and Day, my new project, will be live on Kickstarter next week, on June 1st. Night and Day is a BL Visual Novel set in Paris in 1950, and it's a story about art, coming of age and jazz music. The demo is available on Steam (Windows version only) and itchio (Win, Linux and Mac), and although some side characters haven't got a sprite yet, the finished version will show all the characters. Apart from that and a couple of CGs missing, the demo is mostly in its final version, so please, check it out! You can take a look at the preview page of the KS campaign here: KICKSTARTER PREVIEW I hope you like what you see! ;) Feedback about the page is most welcome: do you like the rewards and stretch goals or do you think something is missing? Any questions about the story or the game system?
- My Burning Heart is available in Spanish - 10 May 2020
The game has been updated with the Spanish translation AND also the voice actors' bloopers. Check the "Extras" options! Our voice actors had a great time recording their lines and were so kind as to share with us some of their unlucky takes... or added some spicy comments! The French translators are still at work, but they promise MBH will have its French version very soon. So, apart from that, the only missing thing to do for My Burning Heart is the after stories, which will be worked on during the summer. I hope you're looking forward to seeing what happens to Adnan and his love interests next! I also wanted to remind you that the digital art book of My Burning Heart is available on itchio, with all the art of the game, sketches, concept art, and a short story with some past events between the Sultan Abd al-Rashid and our despicable Great Visir. You can find it here: https://ertal-gam…
- Bug in the latest update fixed! - 14 April 2020
Thanks to the quick and helpful Steam support, the bug we found last week when updating the game is now fixed! So the German version now works fine and there shouldn't be any issue with the CG gallery. If everything goes well, the Spanish version will be added next week ;) Please, report if you find any other bug; especially with Mac, since none of my team members are Mac users.
- Bug Fixes - 3 April 2020
German translation and missing achievements fixed! Please, leave me a comment on this post if you still find these issues (especially if you play on Mac, since I can't test Mac builds myself). Thank you for your patience!
- Check out our new BL project! - 2 March 2020
Night and Day is a dating sim visual novel about art, coming of age and jazz music. Our protagonist, Paul, moves to Paris in 1950, pursuing his dream of becoming a great artist. He will meet an assortment of other "bohemians" trying to live out their dreams, being it becoming a painter as Paul, a writer or a jazz musician. The demo is available on itchio. What you will find on the demo: The first two days and a half of Paul's new life in Paris! (around 10k words) We get to meet Ferdinand, Gilles and a bit of Emile. Stats system, Paris map and CG gallery implemented. Paul and all the love interests have finished sprites. All the necessary backgrounds are in the game, although two of them lack a night version. One CG. There's a longer, more complete demo planned for next month, before the launch of the Kickstarter, that will include: The first four days: Paul gets to know Emile better and…
- MBH Artbook Available - 2 February 2020
The digital artbook of My Burning Heart is now available! 70 pages full of the beautiful art of the game, concept art of the characters, sketches, additional promo art, and a 3k words side story about the Sultan and Harun's past relationship! The physical version, as well as some merchandising (stickers, prints and acrylic keychains) will be available very soon on our website, still under construction. As of today, you can get the digital artbook on itchio: https://ertal-games.itch.io/my-burning-heart-artbook Check it out, please!
