Check out the Fall in Love Visual Novel Festival , running until October 1st! So many of the best romance visual novels on Steam, new and upcoming, are featured for your browsing pleasure.

Winter Heat is featured, of course, and so are two other Yuri Kissaten titles:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3503300/Toxic_Yuri

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3170800/Love_is_in_the_Airship/ Airship's also on discount until October 6th as part of the Autumn Sale!

Here's some other games from other developers you should check out, too... Not all of these are Yuri, but they're all worth a look:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2251220/High_Times__DatingCooking_Sim/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/2954920/ZeroSum_Heart/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/2994870/S4U_CITYPUNK_2011_AND_LOVE_PUNCH_Demo/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/3474840/Good_Lord_Everyone_at_the_Reunion_For_My_Religious_AllGirls_School_Is_a_Trans_Man_And_Theyre_Hot/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/1390800/Artificial_Selection_Demo/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/3725910/London_Echoes_of_the_Past/

69 Hours Remain in the Winter Heat Kickstarter campaign !

It's your last best chance to support Yuri Kissaten's game developer dreams, and be greatly rewarded with an awesome yuri romance game that takes place through chatrooms, video calls, and social media apps! (There's also a full RPG Roguelike sub-game included because we're silly)

Through this Kickstarter, you can get your own OC included in the game as an NPC, you can get an in-universe brochure, and you can even get your very own Oomfie plushie mailed directly to you. All that, AND you'll help ensure that Yuri Kissaten stays afloat long enough to release some truly banger games in 2026, such as https://store.steampowered.com/app/3503300/Toxic_Yuri/"" style="color:#bb86fc;text-decoration:none;">Toxic Yuri and the Hands Held in the Snow game adaptation.

Winter Heat releases in November, so you won't have to wait long for the release, but this campaign will help us turn a pretty good small game into something much stronger, much cuter, and I'm so thankful for all the support we've received so far.

Also, don't forget to play the free demo!

The new demo update adds another app - the Gallery!

Most visual novels have an image galley of some sort, but with Winter Heat's app system, you can expand the story and learn more about the lives of Javi and Shio through the Gallery. Not only will you unlock beautiful art from the main game by director and lead artist Fruz , but you'll get more art and photographs of daily life in Chile and Japan, divided up by different folders across time and topic. Discover an even richer story through the Gallery in the full game. And now it's in the demo, too, mainly to demonstrate what's coming soon.

The next demo update will hopefully include a sizeable update to the Oomfie RPG sub-game, as well as the Maps app. We're trying to get the demo as far along as possible before the end of the Kickstarter campaign , which still has about two weeks remaining. We're shooting for some cool stretch goals, so please support by pledging or sharing!

As part of our weekly content updates throughout the Winter Heat Kickstarter campaign , we've added a new app to the demo experience-- Test Your English!

It's only a couple minutes long, to demonstrate the type of gameplay you can look forward to in the full release. This is the app that Shio uses every day to train up her English level so she can communicate more effectively with people from around the world. How will YOU do?

Give us your feedback on this app and especially ideas for extremely silly English language questions. Just yesterday, we reached our stretch goal to expand this app into an even bigger experience, so please look forward to that!

There are a few other smaller updates to the demo, but mostly under the hood so the game doesn't break later down the line.

See you next week!

Huge news in the world of Winter Heat today.

We've got the KICKSTARTER LAUNCH ! Support the game, share with all your closest friends/most bitter rivals, and make sure to grab one of those Early Bird reward tiers--they're only available for the first 48 hours.

We've also got the Demo, now available on https://store.steampowered.com/app/3429850/Winter_Heat/"" style="color:#bb86fc;text-decoration:none;">Steam ! You probably found this update after playing the demo, though, so this is more like recursive announcing. The demo will update EVERY WEEK with new content over the course of the Kickstarter campaign, so check back early and often.

And we've also got the Summer 2025 edition of the Yuri Kissaten Espresso game showcase! Read below for more:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKl5f1uf4BM&ab_channel=YuriKissaten Check out 9 Yuri games, including Winter Heat, featured in the Yuri Kissaten Espresso showcase for Summer 2025!

Most of the showcased games are also available on Steam, so check them all out:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2861290/Distant_Oceanic_Getaway https://store.steampowered.com/app/3554600/Life_of_a_Dispatch_English_Teacher_in_Japan/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/3280020/Eclipse__Special_Forces/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/3813140/This_Winter_of_Ours/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/2271270/DEVILS_LIMINAL/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/3601840/Adult_Life_Yuri_Bundle_by_Team_ANPIM/ So much Yuri!!!!!

Coming to Kickstarter on August 1st!

Winter Heat is more than a love story. Its the texts, notes, games, and digital worlds of a couple across years of their lives. This wholesome visual novel chronicles a modern romance in a uniquely digital way.

Javiera Vera is a freelancer living in the sweltering summer of Maip, Santiago, in Chile. Fukkoshi Shio is an office worker living in the snowy rural town of Miyazu, Kyoto, in Japan. Though they live on different sides of the world, they share something that transcends all boundaries: an internet connection.

How will their friendship deepen during one special December? Find out through the apps Javi and Shio use every day.

Were raising finishing funds for Winter Heat to help expand the game further and further. Not only will we have an extensive main story, but well also have a boatload of in-story apps. Some are educational, some flesh out the characters, some are even full-fledged minigames.

More Kickstarter backers means more in-universe apps to explore and even more content for the main storyline. Back the campaign to follow our progress

and let Javi and Shios story unfold.

Digital Love with Digital Apps

Enjoy the classic late 00s browser-based kid-friendly MMO Froguelike in special flashback chapters \[Game not actually playable]! See how Javi and Shio first met as young teens, and how they reunited after many years apart.

Learn more about Javi and Shios towns through the Maps app. Find out the best spots in Kyoto and Santiago, the local haunts, and plan your inevitable Yuri Tourism trip.

With the Wittier app, find Javi and Shio onlinealong with trolls and other weird strangers. Then smash keywords together to post engagement bait. Can you rack up 10,000 followers?

Were working on many more apps as well, and with your crowdfunding support, we can make them better and better. And, with stretch goals, well even add brand-new apps!

Welcome to Oomfie RPG

But of course, our most important app is a full-fledged sub-game: Oomfie RPG!

Each copy of Winter Heat comes with a ROM of one of Javi and Shios favorite nostalgic games (and pieces of riffing material): Oomfie World IV: The 1994 Saga of Turbo. Why does the title include 1994? Were not sure. Probably because that sounded futuristic in 1993.

After her best friend Sam is sucked into the hot new game console, Oomfie must traverse the digital world of Turbo and collect pieces of the Virtual Cuboid Console to send them both back.

Discover a comfy town and four mazelike adventure zones, switching from a classic overhead view to first-person face-offs in the Chili Forest and other whimsical locales.

Every run through an adventure zone is different, with its own special events. Meet friends and not-so-friends on the road, and decide whether to trade, help, or run away really fast. The further you go, the more forks in the road.

Then oomf your way through tricky turn-based batles. Use Action Points to attack, but watch out: your AP is also your health! Healing at the right moments and reading your opponents moves are the keys to victory.

You have space for eight movesand items. Together. Will you pick up a weapon, or a healing hamburger? Make tough choices on the road, and pray that the merchant has a good selection.

Only your customized Oomfie can beat all four adventure zones and save the day!

And Youve Gotta Help!

Oomfie is counting on you to support our Kickstarter when it launches on August 1st ! Well also be launching a brand-new demo on Steam and Itch so you can try out the new apps and the Oomfie RPG.

Were overjoyed to show the world this game thats so close to our hearts.

Kickstarter link:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/thedude3445/winter-heat-yuri-visual-novel

Steam link:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3429850/Winter_Heat

Itch link:

https://yuri-kissaten.itch.io/winter-heat

Press kit:

https://yurikissaten.com/winter-heat-press-kit/

Visit our site:

https://yurikissaten.com

Follow on Bluesky:

https://bsky.app/profile/yurikissaten.com

Subscribe on Youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/@yurikissaten

Support on Patreon:

https://www.patreon.com/yurikissaten

Please check out Life of a Dispatch English Teacher in Japan, Yuri Kissaten new FREE game. It's a short but powerful experience about important real-life issues in modern-day Japan, so please set aside 30 or 40 minutes to play it.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3554600/Life_of_a_Dispatch_English_Teacher_in_Japan/

You can learn more about the game by visiting its press kit page !

It may be an emotionally heavy game, but Yuri Kissaten also has plenty of much lighter, much cuter projects coming up in the extremely near future--stay tuned for those. In particular, our Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign for Winter Heat is drawing very near...! We'll be sharing so much more on this Steam page extremely soon, so check back next week!

Please enjoy Life of a Dispatch English Teacher in Japan and all of Yuri Kissaten's upcoming summer events.

Stay in touch with Yuri Kissaten all across the internet:

Visit the site:

https://yurikissaten.com

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https://bsky.app/profile/yurikissaten.com

Support on Patreon:

https://www.patreon.com/yurikissaten

Today is International Yuri Day across the internet. Go celebrate lesbian fiction in whatever ways you can. For Yuri Kissaten, we're celebrating by announcing a big upcoming event:

Winter Heat will be released in November, but we've been expanding the scope of the game lately, and we'll be announcing a lot more about that in the near future. But first, please prepare for an awesome Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign !

It'll be pretty small, just "finishing funds" to polish the game and add bonus features--it'll help make the game even stronger. We don't have a precise start date yet, but we'll sure let you know when it's set.

For now, make sure to follow the campaign to get notified about it, and tell as many friends as you can! You can also get early access to the upcoming demo and get exclusive behind-the-scenes updates on our Patreon .

Happy Yuri Day everyone!