Yuri Games not on Steam

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I thought I'd start a thread for yuri (and yuri optioned) games that aren't on Steam. I’ll get the ball rolling with a bunch of games I remember but hopefully others add a bunch more. Remember that we’re not allowed to post or encourage piracy on Steam.

Freeware/Web Games

Game: PISS
Genre: Point and Click Adventure
Link: http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/01/16/fancy-a-decent-adventure-then-go-for-a-piss/

Note that the top link in RPS's article isn't working and you will have to download it from the Dropbox link further below. Puzzles here are pretty standard point and click. Thematically the game is similar to Planescape Torment. There's a fairly prominent yuri romance that's encountered in the game for the main character.

Game: Embric of Wulfhammer's Castle
Genre: JRPG
Link: http://aeresland.net/

Although made with RPG maker, the game uses a JRPG setup but tends to make use of a lot of choice based adventure game elements. Plenty of female romance options and a lot of jokes about D&D. For better or for worse, there are also a lot of jokes similar to what you'd find in fanservice anime.

Game: 'Til Cows Tear Us Apart
Genre: Visual Novel
Link: http://www.kongregate.com/games/ThePixelHunt/til-cow-tear-us-apart

This game may be a bit crude on the pixel art and the jokes may be crude as well but there is a core of sweetness to this game. The main character and her alien sidekick are in a relationship. Game is thematically Science Fiction/Western hybrid.

Game: Violet
Genre: Text Adventure
Link: http://textadventures.co.uk/games/view/e-utl5-bu0yya2ycst0mrg/violet

You have to use the command “heteronormativity off” to turn it into a yuri game. This one’s all about trying to rid yourself of distractions so you can write that important college/university paper while reminiscing about the core relationship of this game.

Game: Mira's Magical Mishap
Genre: Visual Novel
Link: http://lemmasoft.renai.us/forums/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=26374

A cute and fluffy visual novel where you play a witch named Mira. Two possible yuri romance options.

Game: Cute Demon Crashers
Genre: Visual Novel
Link (NSFW): http://sugarscript.itch.io/cute-demon-crashers

A hentai visual novel with a large effort put in to being consent friendly. Choice of four demon characters with one of them being a succubus (the yuri option).

Game: Sugar’s Delight
Genre: Kinetic Visual Novel
Link (NSFW): https://visuallyneko.wordpress.com/visual-novel-downloads-windows/sugars-delight-for-windows-linux-and-mac/

Another hentai visual novel about two girls working in a bakery. There’s some fairly kinky stuff involving dessert in this one. Also has an Android version[visuallyneko.wordpress.com].

Game: Lesbian Spider Queens of Mars
Genre: Arcade
Link (NSFW): http://games.adultswim.com/lesbian-spider-queens-of-mars-twitchy-online-game.html

You’re a lesbian spider queen and you’re trying to recapture your slaves in this retro arcade style game. Apparently there’s an uncensored commercial version[wizardofvore.itch.io] as well.

Game: Romance Detective
Genre: Visual Novel
Link: https://nomnomnami.itch.io/romance-detective

Mystery and yuri romance with much silliness added. You're the romance detective and you've recruited a policewoman as your sidekick in order to solve crimes of passion.

Commercial PC Games

Game: Lonely Yuri
Genre: Kinetic Visual Novel
Link: http://www.dlsite.com/eng/work/=/product_id/RE079647.html

This visual novel won a dlsite translation contest some years ago. It’s about a pair of girls dealing with issues of loneliness and depression while beginning a relationship with each other.

Game: Neverwinter Nights Diamond
Genre: Western RPG
Link: http://www.gog.com/game/neverwinter_nights_diamond_edition

Game based on D&D 3rd edition. There’s a female/female romance option in the Kingmaker premium module here. As this game was built for user created content, more f/f content can be found in user modules. Here’s a page[neverwintervault.org] that’ll help you find some if you’re interested . Two modules with f/f options come to mind pretty quickly. The first one is Shadowlords, which had a fairly epic scope. A Dance with Rogues had a huge amount of talent/effort behind it but it is also on the sleazy side and it comes with epic trigger warnings.

Game: Demon Master Chris
Genre: Dungeon Crawl RPG
Link (NSFW): http://www.mangagamer.com/detail.php?goods_type=1&product_code=88

Play as a girl in a hentai monster girl collecting game with yuri scenes and plot. Has most of your standard problematic hentai elements.

Game: Dragon Age II, Dragon Age: Inquisition
Genre: Western RPG
Link: https://www.origin.com/en-ca/store/browse?q=dragon%20age

These fantasy RPGs probably go without saying. Dragon Age II and Inquisition both have 2 fully developed f/f romances.

Game: Mass Effect 3
Genre: Third Person Shooter
Link: https://www.origin.com/en-ca/store/buy/mass-effect-3/pc-download/base-game/standard-edition

Another one that probably goes without saying. The Science Fiction game Mass Effect 3 has 2 fully developed f/f romances as well as 2 less developed ones.

Game: Lilium x triangle
Genre: Visual Novel
Link: http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B00KT14NLC/ref=olp_tab_all

Note: Make sure if you’re importing this that it’s legal in your jurisdiction. This game is an ultra moé hentai visual novel where you play as a lesbian succubus freeloading with two sisters. Translation can be found here[niconii.wordpress.com].

Game: Sacrament of the Zodiac
Genre: (Kinetic?) Visual Novel
Link (NSFW): https://denpasoft.com/games/sacrament-sheep/

An eroge visual novel. It could be as story heavy as the later Sonohana games or it could fairly PWP.

Game: Star Wars: The Old Republic
Genre: MMORPG
Link: https://www.origin.com/en-ca/store/buy/star-wars-the-old-republic/pc-download/base-game/play-for-free

Note that even though the game is free to play, the yuri content is locked behind the paywalls of the end game expansions (subscribing for a month makes this significantly cheaper). The most fleshed out yuri romance for any of the character classes is Lana Beniko, a Sith lady that can be ruthless but is less on the dark side than a lot of her peers. Empire characters meet her sooner so can get more screentime with her. Republic characters get a Republic-only yuri romance fling with Lemda Avesta in the Makeb expansion.

Game: Yukkuri Panic: Escalation
Genre: Visual Novel
Link (NSFW) : https://www.jastusa.com/catalog/product/view/id/345

A yuri hentai visual novel. If you've ever seen the yuri hentai anime, Cream Lemon: Escalation, you'll recognize a lot of the look of this visual novel. Pretty explicit and apparently has some fairly dark endings.

Console Games

Game: GrimGrimoire
Genre: Real Time Strategy
Link: http://www.ebay.ca/sch/?_nkw=grimgrimoire

GrimGrimoire was Vanillaware’s RTS entry. The protagonist is Lilet and she gets a heavily subtext almost canon yuri relationship over the course of the story.

Game: Summon Knight Swordcraft Story 1 & 2
Genre: JRPG
Link: http://www.ebay.ca/sch/?_nkw=summon%20knight%20swordcraft%20story http://www.ebay.ca/sch/?_nkw=summon%20knight%20swordcraft%20story%202

In these JRPGs, you can choose to play as a female PC and get crushed on by female NPCs. There's some subtext and character endings. One thing to note, is that this isn't a simple pronoun swap. There actually is varied dialogue for playing as female.

[Teitoku Yukka]

Much appreciate for the information. But, why not including in this topic such things how Aoi Shiro, Akaiito, Seisai no Resonance, Sapphism no Gensou and many others? Much users don't know about this VN (just simple observation), but they (VN) like shiny star for Yuri nation. :)
I know, my point just silly, becouse thats difficult fill list - so many VN aren't on Steam.
Sorry for my terrible english.

[Retalle]

Escrito originalmente por 響:

But, why not including in this topic such things how Aoi Shiro, Akaiito, Seisai no Resonance, Sapphism no Gensou and many others?

For the first post at least, I wanted to list only freeware/web games or games that were reasonably easy to purchase. I also wanted to start out with games that had a readily available English version.

Sorry for my terrible english.

Your English is better than any of my secondary languages.

[Quilliano]

Heck yeah this list, thanks so much Yuri games cut my backlog queue any time, Steam or not!!!

[Curly]

Thanks for the recommendations! Will definitely have to check some of these out.

One thing to note though, if you look on the visual novel database there are literally 1000+ Yuri games that aren't released on Steam.

It might be better to clarify this list, and only list games that you personally have played and recommend, or only list games that are licensed and/or available for sale in English. Otherwise we're just gonna have people posting every well known yuri game ever made.

[Hanako]

Escrito originalmente por Curly:

One thing to note though, if you look on the visual novel database there are literally 1000+ Yuri games that aren't released on Steam.

Pedantry mode on - No, not really. Games are tagged 'yuri' on VNDB if they include a f/f scene at any point, and many male-protagonist-female-harem games have a scene between two girls at some point.

The tag for games that are primarily yuri has less than 150 games in it. https://vndb.org/g1986?fil=tag_inc-1986.tagspoil-0;m=0;o=d;s=tagscore

That's still a lot, though. And yeah, trying to post a huge long list of them in here, especially if you're just briefly naming them, gets pretty hard to read and make sense of.

(edit - i wrote Steam when I meant VNDB oops)

[province]

This is great, Thanks a lot!

[Curly]

Escrito originalmente por Hanako:

The tag for games that are primarily yuri has less than 150 games in it. https://vndb.org/g1986?fil=tag_inc-1986.tagspoil-0;m=0;o=d;s=tagscore

Ah whoops. Didn't realize there was a more specific tag. I just typed in yuri and assumed that that was the right one.

[Baddamobs]

Whoa...'Til Cows Tear Us Apart had a pretty sad ending ('least, the one I got). Gotta say, that was unexpectedly really good.

Thanks for the list!

[tenshi_a]

Is this a "PC-only" thread? If it's all platforms, I want to say - I really like the Senran Kagura series of games on 3DS / Vita.

They're fanservice-heavy brawlers with an all-girl cast of powerful schoolgirl ninjas who destroy each other's clothes while fighting, with giant boobs with comedy physics bouncing all over the place.

Some of the girls are romantically linked to each other, (and one of them just goes around trying to sexually harrass the others with surprise boob fondles...)

I think the story has a good balance of heroics, sentimentality and stupidity. Ok.... maybe the stupidity wins out in the end. XD

These games are just really ridiculous and cute and funny. I am fond of them. :)

Also - I have heard that there's going to be an HD remake of Senran Kagura Shinovi Versus on PC, coming out next summer!

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Escrito originalmente por tenshi_a:

Is this a "PC-only" thread?

Nope, the thread's definitely not PC only (I did add GrimGrimoire after all). It's just that it seems that the vast majority of game titles with prominent yuri in them are available on PC. There are a few yuri oriented titles coming up on console/mobile such as Land of no Night (PS3, PS4, Vita), Valkyrie Drive: Bhikkhuni (Vita), Valkyrie Drive: Siren (iOS/Android) but unfortunately they've not been released yet.

[tenshi_a]

Ok then, a few more things I know of historically but haven't played to know the exact content (warning: many of these are pretty old now):

* If you happen to have a copy of the Utena game for Sega Saturn (I do!), it's been fan-translated into English recently (just last month!) - I still need to rip it and patch it and stuff. :D

* Summon Night Swordcraft Story (GBA) - I remember when this came out, people were saying that if you choose a female character and a female guardian, your character and your guardian can share romantic affection. :)

* Summon Night 5 (PSP) is said to be due out sometime this year, published by Gaijinworks, and as far as I know has the same dynamic as before. It's a bit late for a new PSP game, I know, but as far as I know it's still going ahead.

* "Yoru no nai kuni / Land of No Night", is going to be released next year in North America under the name "Nights Of Azure". From the initial descriptions it seemed like it would be old-style super-tragic yuri, but it's difficult to see whether that was right, or what it'll end up being when it's released in English. There seems to be a bit of debate about it on the internet.

* I remember hearing there was some yuri content in the Fatal Frame / Project Zero series, but I have no idea what. I figured "in a horror game" is probably not ideal.

* Same goes for the (incredibly rare) PS2 horror game "Rule Of Rose". Actually, I vaguely remember this one being noted as being pretty grim, whatever the actual content was.

I'm sure there must be more. I just need to remember them.

[Baddamobs]

Maaaan, I really hope Land of No Night /Night of Azure is good: it has the potential, it just needs to stick the landing...

[tenshi_a]

Re: Nights of Azure -

There are some more articles on it today; it seems like they've stripped all mentions of love between the girls out of the English version promotional text (it seems it is now officially a story about strong friendship), and some of the commenters say it was only light / implied / one-sided to begin with in the original version.

http://gematsu.com/2015/11/nights-azure-details-leading-characters?
http://www.siliconera.com/2015/11/10/meet-arnice-and-lilysse-nights-of-azures-bffs/

So - I dunno. I mean, it seems very much down to interpretation.

I'm thinking it might end up on the level of something like Noir (the anime), or alternatively, in the way my brain interprets Bayonetta 2.

In my mind, Bayonetta and Jeanne became way more than just ancient shopping buddies. I mean, Bayonetta literally ran into Hell without hesitation, to save Jeanne in Bayonetta 2! I am pretty sure if the same happened to any of the men in that game, she would have got "oh it was his own silly fault" and just gone on with her day.

But I think that's just how things turned out in my head; it's not actually real or anything. But it is still completely satisfying. :)

[Baddamobs]

Escrito originalmente por tenshi_a:

Re: Nights of Azure -

There are some more articles on it today; it seems like they've stripped all mentions of love between the girls out of the English version promotional text (it seems it is now officially a story about strong friendship), and some of the commenters say it was only light / implied / one-sided to begin with in the original version.

http://gematsu.com/2015/11/nights-azure-details-leading-characters?
http://www.siliconera.com/2015/11/10/meet-arnice-and-lilysse-nights-of-azures-bffs/

So - I dunno. I mean, it seems very much down to interpretation.

I'm thinking it might end up on the level of something like Noir (the anime), or alternatively, in the way my brain interprets Bayonetta 2.

In my mind, Bayonetta and Jeanne became way more than just ancient shopping buddies. I mean, Bayonetta literally ran into Hell without hesitation, to save Jeanne in Bayonetta 2! I am pretty sure if the same happened to any of the men in that game, she would have got "oh it was his own silly fault" and just gone on with her day.

But I think that's just how things turned out in my head; it's not actually real or anything. But it is still completely satisfying. :)

While that's kind of a bummer, I've worked with "subtext that is barely edging around just text" sort of crap before so...ehhh, not a total deal breaker. Still, I'm pretty bummed out that it's not just a straight up relationship but meh.

[tenshi_a]

Rumour:

The weird girls-kiss-each-other-then-turn-into-weapons-and-fight game "Valkyrie Drive: Bhikkhuni" for Vita might get an English language release; trophies in English have been spotted.

http://www.exophase.com/game/valkyrie-drive-bhikkhuni-ps-vita/trophies/