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[Draugoth]

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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[KiteGr]

Any porn in it?

 

[Draugoth]

Any porn in it?

Yes.

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

It is the visual novel that has people with disabilities, right?

 

[KiteGr]

Yes.

Figures

 

[Draugoth]

It is the visual novel that has people with disabilities, right?

Yes, you date girls with disabilities.

 

[Holammer]

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.

 

[Crayon]

Yes, you date girls with disabilities.

 

[MrRibeye]

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.

Katawa Shoujo

Katawa Shoujo is a bishoujo-style visual novel set in the fictional Yamaku High School for disabled children, located somewhere in modern Japan.

www.katawa-shoujo.online

 

[nial]

Ah yes, the GOAT VN. Well, may finally try it.

 

[Makki]

Dont they make fun of a chick with a club foot for being clumsy in here?

 

[lh032]

i really cant imagine how a men would play this "game".

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

Kino.

 

[ReyBrujo]

Any porn in it?

Kind of, maybe.

 

[Ge Os]

I woke up and saw the announcement on Twitter.
What a day!

 

[Kurotri]

 

[TastyPastry]

that's a name i haven't heard in a long time. didn't they plan to do a sequel years ago?

 

[Guilty_AI]

i really cant imagine how a men would play this "game".

With a box of tissues by their side

for all the tears that will be shed

 

[Guilty_AI]

that's a name i haven't heard in a long time. didn't they plan to do a sequel years ago?

not happening, the mere existence of this game is a miracle in itself

 

[The Pleasure]

I heard they're living real kickass lives now.

 

[Kiya's Guard]

I was a bit shocked when a buddy of mine showed me this when it released don't recall how many years ago (15?), man

 

[Killer8]

It is the visual novel that has people with disabilities, right?

Can't wait.

 

[Boglin]

Can't wait.

 

[hououinkyouma00]

Everybody jokes about it because it's from 4chan but I played it when it came out and it's actually pretty good. Also not at all what you'd expect. It's very well done.

Can't wait.

What uh is this from? You know for academic purposes

 

[STARSBarry]

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.

 

[Guilty_AI]

Everybody jokes about it because it's from 4chan but I played it when it came out and it's actually pretty good. Also not at all what you'd expect. It's very well done.

Great music too:

 

[hououinkyouma00]

Started playing this again today and I still think it's better then it had any right to be.

 

[Red Crayon Aristocrat]

I miss when 4chan had this kind of creative energy, when was the last time 4chan was anything but embarrassing?

 

[NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt]

Any porn in it?

Hopefully there is and hopefully uncensored

 

[darrylgorn]

Hopefully they're not revealing the 4chan origin in their marketing. I'm assuming they want to actually sell this product.

 

[The Sum of Zero]

Hopefully there is and hopefully uncensored

Not on the Steam version as-is, but there's a patch you can download from elsewhere that restores those scenes.

Also I'm really surprised that the game on Steam is free.

 

[ResurrectedContrarian]

It is the visual novel that has people with disabilities, right?

 

[Guilty_AI]

I miss when 4chan had this kind of creative energy, when was the last time 4chan was anything but embarrassing?

Cavemanon

The Pre-historic Romance a million years in MS Paint to tell.

snootgame.xyz

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

Hopefully there is and hopefully uncensored

 

[MayauMiao]

Any porn in it?

If its from 4chan, yes to everything.

 

[NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt]

 

[yanhash]

Can't wait.

 

[STARSBarry]

Cavemanon

The Pre-historic Romance a million years in MS Paint to tell.

snootgame.xyz

Don't forget the actual paid game they made in the end based on all this lol.

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

 

[Red Crayon Aristocrat]

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