Yuri Games not on Steam

[Retalle]

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.

[tenshi_a]

Really, as a group, we all just need to remember to put our strong off-topic opinions into nice shiny new threads, rather than continuing on the informational listing / curation threads.

More off-topic conversation threads = stronger community... maybe. XD

[Curly]

I think you can make sub forums in discussion sections can't you? Could potentially just make an off topic sub forum in the group where people can have these types of discussions, and that way they won't clutter up the main forum for the people who aren't interested in them.

[tenshi_a]

On topic just before this thread gets locked (oh what a waste)....

Anyone heard anything about whether there are yuri options in the later Summon Night games, since there were in the earlier ones?

The 6th one's just been announced for an English release:
http://www.siliconera.com/2016/06/07/summon-night-6-lost-borders-heads-west-2017/

(Vita / PS4 btw)

[Rasp]

Originalmente postado por Curly:

I think you can make sub forums in discussion sections can't you? Could potentially just make an off topic sub forum in the group where people can have these types of discussions, and that way they won't clutter up the main forum for the people who aren't interested in them.

problem is it usually starts with an on topic discussion of the various games listed and devolves from there nobody MEANT for things to go off the rails they just naturally went off the rails

Edit: And now we're just making it worse! GAH!

[LumberingCrane]

Originalmente postado por tenshi_a:

On topic just before this thread gets locked (oh what a waste)....

Anyone heard anything about whether there are yuri options in the later Summon Night games, since there were in the earlier ones?

The 6th one's just been announced for an English release:
http://www.siliconera.com/2016/06/07/summon-night-6-lost-borders-heads-west-2017/

(Vita / PS4 btw)

This probably won't mean anything now since it's so late, but having played Summon Night 5, I can confirm that there is definitely a yuri route in that game, no questions about it. It's the most blatant in the series too iirc; obviously romantic in nature, completely reciprocated, and all that good stuff. If you want to know who to pursue for this, the character route in question is Ruelly's. Unfortunately, the other female routes are not really romantic in nature. (Another one almost is since the girl confesses to you, but you reject her)

Edit: Oh, and Rasp might get into it; it's a fairly compelling SRPG as well. Do note though that I personally found the translation job made by localization team to be completely immersion breaking at worst and pretty stiff and stilted at best. You have been warned. It's available for the PS Vita and PSP.

[tenshi_a]

It is never too late to confirm a yuri route in a game!

Even if you had been 20 years late, I'd still thank you, and.... would probably take a look at the game on my shelf and say to myself "huh, I should really get round to that sometime... I wonder what device plays PSP games these days....".

(which is exactly what I did, a copy of the game having arrived here in the meantime)

(I have... backlog issues...)

(well not really issues... just, there are so many, many, many shiny things in the world....)

The localisation is by a company called Gaijinworks led by the fellow who was in charge of "Working Designs" in the 1990s, so unfortunately they have a cult following who really like games to have that specific kind of bad, inaccurate, unnatural translation and aren't likely to ever change. :/

[LumberingCrane]

Originalmente postado por tenshi_a:

The localisation is by a company called Gaijinworks led by the fellow who was in charge of "Working Designs" in the 1990s, so unfortunately they have a cult following who really like games to have that specific kind of bad, inaccurate, unnatural translation and aren't likely to ever change. :/

Oh wow, that makes a lot of sense. I checked their forums to see what people thought about the translation and was surprised to find the majority (if not all) of the people over there *vehemently* defend it; even though I thought it was so obvious how terrible it was.

*Sigh*, this should give you a very accurate depiction of what the game's translation is going to be like if you want a sneak peek before playing it:

http://a.disquscdn.com/uploads/mediaembed/images/2953/3077/original.jpg

...yeah. That's what the rest of the game is like too.

[tenshi_a]

Seems like normal fare for them, which is to say: "yikes!"

When I was growing up, my dad used to talk in reverence about a children's TV show he liked, called "The Magic Roundabout" - and how he'd heard that the fellow who was doing the voiceover for it got all these French puppet animations to make an English version, and he didn't actually understand very much French, so he just looked at the pictures and made up amusing stories.

To my dad, that seemed a perfectly acceptable example of localisation. I guess something of this technique has to strike at just the right age, then you're a fan for life.

It really does seem like rather than actually translating, the folks at Gaijinworks are just looking at the pictures and making things up as they go along.

And somehow it's acceptable.

Ah well, if they weren't doing the Summon Night series, perhaps no-one would. It was *somewhat late* for a PSP game as it was...

[Rasp]

to be fair the flat translation is REALLY bland - yeah the localization isn't much better but it's slightly more interersting in a WTF kinda way? not saying it's good it's clearly not but it seems to demonstrate SOME personality.

I guess pick your bad - I'll take interestingly bad over ZZZzzz......

[LumberingCrane]

Originalmente postado por DDST Rasp:

to be fair the flat translation is REALLY bland - yeah the localization isn't much better but it's slightly more interersting in a WTF kinda way? not saying it's good it's clearly not but it seems to demonstrate SOME personality.

I guess pick your bad - I'll take interestingly bad over ZZZzzz......

If it was wtf kind of interesting/funny all the time like the dub of the 'Ghost Stories' anime then it wouldn't be so bad. But during moments when it's not being weird it just sounds stilted; like the structure of the sentence is all wrong. It feels like they just translated from Japanese to English word per word; without altering the structure at all. I just end up thinking most of the time that no one who fluently speaks english would talk like this. Stuff like "I'll disappear you" just sounds weird to me. I know that's technically grammatically correct, but I haven't heard anyone say those kinds of lines anywhere. It's pretty immersion breaking, especially at moments where it's supposed to be serious.

But uh, the gameplay + yuri is worth it though. Again, this is legit yuri guys. In the Summon Night: Swordcraft Story series no matter how blatant it may be it never really gets into relationship level of serious since it's either one-sided show of romantic affection (with your character not blatantly reciprocating it) or just really strong subtext. This game has actual reciprocated romantic feelings between two girls...but of course subtext route is there plus route that ends with "Why are you hanging out with me instead of the guys? Are you gay or something?" in which the the protagonist will reply "What?! Oh no, I just want to be really close friends!" and route that ends with other girl confessing to you but you reject them even though you specifically chose to go down that route. But hey, there's ONE legit yuri, so there's that.

[Lilias Amell]

Originalmente postado por CBanana:

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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.

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Huh. I remember playing this back on my PS2. Can't remember the yuri context but its a really fun game nonetheless