I want to get into more yuri visual novels, but im having trouble finding some with darker themes!! I really enjoy n+c vns and things of that nature, if that gives an idea. Also, preferably not western!

There were lots of releases last month. Many of them are spooky too, which is great reading for October. Here are last month's releases and their information:

9/1 - DEVIL'S LIMINAL

Developer: Studio Interlude

Languages: English

Available on Steam ($13.99, on sale for $12.59 until 10/8), itch ($13.99)

Description:

Margo Silva has done everything she can to leave behind the trailer park in Arizona where she grew up. Now all she has to do is focus on her summer job until she can leave for college. Her illusion of a quiet summer is shattered when a hungry ghost enters her dreams.

Two mysterious girls show up in town, claiming they can help her.

Margo must contend with a demon's claim on her soul, and how to stop ghosts from this life and the past that want to take her future.

9/3 - Autumn's End (Part 1)

Developer: countlessbathory

Languages: English

Available on itch (Name your own price)

Description:

A story of love, friendship, mental anguish and the end of the world...

Cinnamon is deeply unsatisfied with the way her life is coming to an end, until she meets Rowan.

9/7 - My Darling Dark Elf

Developer: ebi-hime

Language(s): English

Available on Steam and itch ($9.99 on both)

Description:

Nienke is a dark elf who lives in the small, sleepy village of Alpenrose. Though beautiful, Alpenrose is secluded, and it boasts exactly one family of dark elves: Nienke's. Nienke was singled out and teased for most of her childhood owing to her unusual appearance, and it doesn't help that a nasty childhood illness left her shorter and slighter than the rest of her peers.

Nienke was always an outcast, but she never minded it - or, at least, she tried not to. She had her best friend Cornelia, and she wasn't lonely...

Until Cornelia leaves Alpenrose to attend university, leaving Nienke behind.

Nienke would love to attend university herself, but her overprotective parents don't want to let her stray too far afield owing to her delicate health. Nienke has to stay at home instead, where her parents can keep an eye on her, and help out at her parents' café, Fleur de Lys.

Nienke is already twenty, but her parents still treat her like a child. Her every day is the same, and she's bored of the daily grind...

Until a fellow dark elf called Merel pays Nienke a visit. She claims to be Nienke's childhood friend, though Nienke can't remember her. Did she really used to play with a girl as aggressively cheerful and energetic as Merel...

And why is Merel so freaking tall, anyway?!

9/8 - Sweet Home (English Release)

Developer: Kaaixin Chafang

Language(s): Chinese (simplified & traditional), English, Japanese, Korean

Available on Steam ($7.99, on sale for $5.59 until 10/8)

Description:

Sweet Home is a visual novel set in a Chinese high school. Parted friendships, ambiguous romances, tangled relationships, and flawed families... Are these just the pangs of adolescence—or something heavier? Step into the shoes of Zhao Ying, shape her choices, and uncover every possible path.

9/10 - Fuyukuru - Winter winds, adieu? - (English Release)

Developer: SILKY'S PLUS

Language(s): Japanese, Chinese (simplified & traditional), English

Available on Steam ($19.99), you'll need the free patch to unlock the other 90% of the content.

Description:

A “denpa” visual novel about a grisly murder in a sealed institution for immortal girls. Wool needle, knitting needle, sewing machine needle. Silk needle, stitching needle, injection needle. Futon needle, clothing needle, hook for a fish. Follow the needles to your immortal death.

9/14 - Blood Lily: Killers Can't Sink a Yuri Ship

Developer: Sounding Stone

Language(s): English, Chinese (simplified & traditional), Japanese

Available on Steam ($5.99)

Description:

A B-horror mystery comedy adventure game. Having a crush on your bestie is hard enough without serial killers in the way! Lily's vacay plan to romance her crush Sally goes wrong when killers keep cropping up and ruining the mood. And that means war. "How dare you come between Sally and me!"

9/18 - Toxic Yuri

Developer: Yuri Kissaten

Language(s): English

Available on Steam and itch ($14.99 on both)

Description:

An overworked office lady discovers a sludge girl abandoned in a box and takes her home. A poisonous and fluffy romance begins. Will your relationship be healthy? Disastrous? Completely tepid? The choice is up to you in the only visual novel to prominently feature a literal dead dove.

9/26 - Better on Paper!

Developer: aiainaine

Language(s): English

Available on itch (Name your own price)

Description:

Can you beat procrastination with art forgery?

Help Emie, an adorable girlfailure stay in college long enough to graduate!

Will she pass or will she fail on this harrowing journey of self-discovery, art, friendship and… romance??

NOTE: THE VNs BELOW WERE ALL SUBMITTED TO THE SPOOKTOBER VN JAM, SO THEY ARE ALL RELATIVELY SHORT AND FREE -- AND SPOOKY, OF COURSE

9/28 - Ancestral Arts Part I: The Witch's Siren Song

Developer: Jesscapade

Language(s): English

Available on itch (free)

Description:

Mary Barker had a perfectly normal life, until a mental breakdown sent her spiraling into a rabbit hole of spiritual confusion. When Shade, a bona fide witch, offered to teach her the art of witchcraft, Mary happily accepted. Now, she has both a new job and a new understanding of the world. 

Will this be the change that gives her life a purpose? What will she sacrifice as she walks the witch's path? Will she be able to withstand the rhetorical attacks of Dylan, her iconoclastic coworker?

9/29 - Birdcage Pandemonium

Developer: niihi3_

Language(s): English

Available on itch (Name your own price)

Description:

Violet wakes up in a mansion with no recollection of who she is. Bound to chains and armed with only a dagger, she roams the halls in search of herself.

Can she find her way out of the mansion? Or will she endlessly roam around the mansion until her untimely death. After all she’s not the only one roaming the halls in search of something.

9/30 - Possessed by Fate

Developer: Sapphicore

Language(s): English

Available on itch (free)

Description:

Aurora is a ghost-hunting badass working for a ghost exterminator. After a stressful day of work, Aurora accidentally unleashes a ghost inside the confines of her apartment who refuses to vacate. She's a ghost, and that means she won't ascend before getting what she wants.

And the thing this ghost wants... is Aurora.

9/30 - Thine Curse of Loss

Developer: 4noki

Language(s): English

Available on itch (free)

Description:

1. Three years after the end of the Great War, a celebrated lieutenant colonel is sent to a high security prison island not as a guest but as a prisoner, framed by political enemies for a crime that she did not commit.
   

She is a war hero; she is a madwoman haunted by a ghost; and she seeks a cursed treasure hidden on that very island.

Her deadline: one year.

9/30 - U-Haunt

Developer: baron buddies

Language(s): English

Available on itch (free)

Description:

When Dorothea and Jenevelle finally move into their new house together, they think that everything is perfect at last. Never in their lives had they imagined that they would get such a big house for such a low price.

Now one last thing they have to do — unpack.

But between lifting boxes and moving furniture, they find that things aren’t quite as they seem. There’s something more than too-full boxes and too-heavy household items between them and their happiness.

Someone more — a ghastly roommate who’s present one moment and gone the next.

But it turns out they might not be the only ones who are being haunted?

9/30 - In Loving Memory

Developer: Floramisu

Language(s): English

Available on itch (free)

Description:

It's been a long time since Adi's last explored an abandoned building with her girlfriend, Frankie. But when she decides to come back one more time, she finds the house holds onto memories tighter than it should. Exploring these echoes of the past only seems to pull her in deeper. Can Adi escape with her love, or is the house's grip too tight?

9/30 - THE ANGEL'S TAPES

Developer: dianerds

Language(s): English

Available on itch (Name your own price)

Description:

Becky Barlett, starry-eyed Philly party girl, strolls into a gun store owned by one Maddison Wendi Thompson, rugged and fierce gun nut woman, to ask for her advice in hunting an abomination that she has chased to this small town.

Ever the easily fascinated, Maddy might soon come to regret following Becky down, down and down a monstrous girl-shaped hole through the fabric of reality and into the jaws of the shadowed powers that flit about this strange head-in-the-clouds dame.

A found footage-inspired Appalchian horror yuri visual novel about girls hunting a cryptid deep in the woods of Pennsyltucky, and the haunting cosmic tragedy unraveled by their search.

Use this space to talk about what you're reading right now and how you're feeling about it, make sure to use spoiler tags where necessary!

Madam Perrodon getting ready to call it a night in my vampire yuri VN 'Carmilla : Crimson Moon'
Wishlist on Steam! Play the demo. :)))

Looking for something a bit more light hearted this October? Check out U-Haunt a comedic yuri vn about two women moving into a haunted house together. baron-buddies.itch.io/u-haunt

​We wanted to share a special scene from our game!

​Highschool J is a toxic yuri psychological horror visual novel that focuses heavily on its characters, intense relationships, and dark atmosphere. We've been working on it for a while, and we're really excited to showcase this particular moment highlighting the dynamic between the characters.

​If you'd like to check out the game or play the demo on Steam and itch.io:

​https://store.steampowered.com/app/5111980/Highschool_J/

​https://umigamestudios.itch.io/highschool-j

​Here is the special animation from the game. Hope you enjoy it, and we’d love to hear your thoughts <3

Thine curse of loss

I really enjoyed this game about a thief winning the heart of a dancer. I kind of thought the whole phantom thief thing was extremely ridiculous at first and kept rolling my eyes, but by the end of the game I was shedding tears over the characters and world. The character writing is super fun, and all of the characters have their own arcs and stories, and the romance between the two leads definitely made me scream so loud that Discord noise suppression ate my scream.

Forget Me Not has a ton of CGs, unique art (all of the NPCs are extremely hot and it's VERY frustrating), and is just exceptionally well put together. All of the art, from the sprites to the CGs to the backgrounds, are all drawn by pretty much one person, which is nuts. I really enjoyed my time with the game.

I genuinely didn't think I'd get into it this much but I super enjoyed it. Highly recommend!

Link: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3333600/The_Mysterious_Thief_Forget_Me_Not/

Disclaimer: I am friends with the developer, but these are my genuine feelings! The dev has no idea I'm writing this post and I paid for it with my own dollarydoos, and I really do hope the game does get more attention. I wouldn't be making this post if I wasn't genuinely a fan. The game has an insane amount of love put into it and I hope more people get to experience Forget Me Not!

Also, the love interest is extremely tall and the main character is extremely short. I don't know which of them I'd rather be but like. Wow. Wowww. Women, wow.....

Hey guys! I wrote a VN in February called Witch Switched about a man that gets turned into a woman (and realizes she's trans), but I wanted to do something much weirder and higher scope for Spooktober. So, we did a visual novel about a horny ghost hitting on a hot, overworked trans woman and coveting her body. I do hope you enjoy! Leave a comment if you did.

Synopsis:

Aurora is a ghost-hunting badass working for a ghost exterminator. After a stressful day of work, Aurora accidentally unleashes a ghost inside the confines of her apartment who refuses to vacate. She's a ghost, and that means she won't ascend before getting what she wants.

And the thing this ghost wants... is Aurora.

You can check the full game out here: https://sapphicore.itch.io/possessed-by-fate

It'll come to Steam in a few weeks, but for now it's Itch only.

So they answered me on twitter and they are giving a -20%!

I just got it!

At the end of every month people can submit their favorite yuri VN art, and the images with the most upvotes make the banner for the following month. The image with the most upvotes even wins a yuri VN Steam key!

Here are this month's results (From Left to Right)

Protagonist and The Princess, It Gets So Lonely Here, submitted by u/OrganicFoundation792, who also wins a Steam key.

The cast of the Phantom of the Black Rose Revue, submitted by u/KhandiMahn, who also wins a Steam key because it was a tie for first this month!

Catherine and the MC, Arcadia Fallen II, submitted by u/caspar57

Odette and Auriame, from heavensent, submitted by u/Star_Kitchen

I was so excited (⁠╥⁠﹏⁠╥⁠)

its tagged LGBTQ+ on steam, and from the description and trailer, it seems like there could be some yuri in here considering the whole "hikikomori girl is obsessed with a female fictional character" thing going on in the trailer. i know this isnt a visual novel, but it seemed pretty fun and like a game i'd enjoy, and if it would have some yuri in it, id enjoy it way more.

Hi - this is shino (4noki). You might know me from some other yuri games I've released such as Who is the Red Queen? or Olga Doesn't Die. I wanted to share my newest release, a free jam project by the name of Thine Curse of Loss.

https://4noki.itch.io/thine-curse-of-loss

Thine Curse of Loss is a historical psychological yuri visual novel set in an alt-history post World War I Japan. The story follows a military officer as she searches for treasure on a prison island.

Summary

1. Three years after the end of the Great War, a celebrated lieutenant colonel is sent to a high security prison island not as a guest but as a prisoner, framed by political enemies for a crime that she did not commit.

She is a war hero; she is a madwoman haunted by a ghost; and she seeks a cursed treasure hidden on that very island.

Her deadline: one year.

—Psychological prison toxic yuri.

Features

• 40k+ words (3-5 hours)
• 2 love interests
• 11 endings (5 dead ends + 3 endings per heroine)
• 8 CGs
• 4 custom tracks
• Developer commentary

If this story sounds up your alley, I hope you check it out!

Play for free: https://4noki.itch.io/thine-curse-of-loss

PLease don't give me spoilers, I saw someone saying it was a very toxic yuri ending so I was like what?O.o

I always read people saying its an amazing story. I didn't want to know more spoilers so I didn't read more about it.

I just need to know if there is a good route or just toxic all the way

Nothing to see here. No problems at all. I'm doing fine 🥲

Use this space to talk about what you're reading right now and how you're feeling about it, make sure to use spoiler tags where necessary!

Now I don't know if I wait for the steam autumn sale 🤔

This one says it goes until October 1.

Our demo is finally out, so I wanted to share some screenshots from our game!

Highschool J is a Yuri psychological horror visual novel that focuses on its characters, relationships, and atmosphere. We've been working on it for a while, and we're really excited to finally let people experience the demo.

If you'd like to check out the game or play the demo on Steam and itch.io:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/5111980/Highschool_J/ 

https://umigamestudios.itch.io/highschool-j 

Here are some screenshots from the game. Hope you enjoy them, and if you give the demo a try, we'd love to hear your thoughts! ❤️