4Chan Visual Novel Katawa Shoujo is coming to Steam

Draugoth

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Four Leaf Studios is pleased to announce that Katawa Shoujo will soon be available on Steam and Itch!

Release on both platforms will be on 16 Aug, 2024.Thank you very much to everyone who's played over the last twelve years.



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Heard good things about it, but I don't play/read many VNs. I did go through WORLD END ECONOMiCA episode.01, because it was made by the author of Spice & Wolf. If there are point and click elements and choice like in The Crown of Leaves I'm a little bit more interested.
 
Never heard of this game before, so if you're like me here's the backstory:
The New Year of 2007 was bound to be business as usual for the /a/ board of 4chan until on 4th of January, Anonymous posted an omake page from the doujin Schuppen Harnische by RAITA of doujin circle Zettai Shoujo, detailing character art for a dating sim he dubbed "Katawa Shoujo." For reasons we will never know, someone's genius idea of actually realizing RAITA's idea of the game caught on like wildfire and soon suggestions ranging from tender love stories to depraved sex fantasies were running amok in the thread. The insane idea of creating an actual original game, based on nothing but a single picture and the sparse ideas RAITA had written in the margins titillated the imaginations of Anonymous so much that people became truly serious about the fledgling project.

Soon, there were development forums and for the next months, ideas and suggestions were flying around, with people trying to flesh out their ideas, drawing sample art, writing sample text, trying to control the chaos of dozens of people arguing and bickering about the direction of the game. From there, the most active people began the actual game development as a working group named Four Leaf Studios and the project truly took off in the summer '07.

The final chapter comes in the year 2012. For five long years Four Leaf Studios toiled on the project, with the eventual release sometimes seeming like it would never come. By the end of 2011, though, the end was in sight and the final push to complete the game began.

On January the 4th, 2012, Katawa Shoujo was released.

Cool to me because it's a community project, regardless of the content.
 
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I wish they had an additional route or something for the Steam version.

Good that's its officially being put on there though, it's surprisingly well written at times.
 
Hopefully they're not revealing the 4chan origin in their marketing. I'm assuming they want to actually sell this product.
 
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