I feel like there’s a gaping Katawa Shoujo shaped hole in my heart. Is there any official material other than the visual novel that I can read/exists?

Hi friends

I downloaded it on my laptop but it’s so crappy that it freezes every 2 seconds

I was thinking on steam deck I could download the original game for Linux but I’m having trouble opening it

There’s also a patch but I can’t quite figure out where to put it and what to do

Any help is much appreciated and also thank you to this sub cause you guys discussing this game made me find it and damn it’s so good

Much love 🩷

Hi friends!

edit: okay maybe I shouldn’t say horror haha but like does any messed up stuff happen cause I love crazy twists

Edit: this is the post I’m referring to if someone could explain what it is https://www.reddit.com/r/katawashoujo/s/nrcXyf9nX7

I found this game after playing doki and looking for other recommendations.

I’m in love with it haha I don’t wanna write spoilers but I’ll say that I’m going to play it a lot regardless of it being a horror game or not —

But I wanted to ask because I saw someone write something about an alpha ending or something that seemed horror ish and as the game is now I can’t imagine it.

Either way imma love this game but I had to ask because in really adhd and I will sometimes run through games too quickly to try to get to the endings and this only happens when I really love them 😭

Thank you 🩷🩷🩷

It was 2020, I was 16 by then and the lockdown had just started. The isolation was getting to me and I started felling very lonely all of a sudden, I was not one for the romance genre, but the felling of longing was too much for me so I decided to play a romance visual novel that I heard good things about called Katawa Shoujo.

I downloaded the game and was really surprised that the menu had an option to disable 18+ content, I wasn't expecting it to have these kinds of scenes (not that I was sad about it having lol)

So I played through the game and was happily surprised by the quality of the writing, I absolutly adored all of the routes (minus Shizune, sorry Shizubros) specially Rin's. To this day her storyline has a special place in my heart. I am sure that this game helped me become a more empathetic person overall, I even did a sign language course because of it!

But, what I want to get at is that, by the time I finished Hanako's route (I think it was the third storyline I choose) I was surprised that I didn't get excited by the sex scenes or wanted to jack off even once. When normally scenes like that would categorally make my 16 year old self do the deed.

So, an epiphany came to me. The reason I didn't want to jack of to the girls was that I was seeing them as "real". People with their own dreams and fears, insecurities, hopes and people that they love and love them in return. So, I understood. The reason I was able to jack of to all the porn I used to consume back in those days was because I never even once considered any of the people acting in it real. My mind would think that they were just avatars for my desires, that they would simply disapear when I closed my browser window. I was dehuminizing them to such an extent that it wouldn't make a difference if they simply were sacks of meat instead of real people.

And this realization SHOOK me to the core, I was disgusted. And for two whole weeks my cock would only get the minimum of blood to not necroze and fall of. And it is not that I didn't want to get hard mind you, I simply COULDN'T GET A TINY LITTLE BIT HARD NO MATTER WHAT. Eventually I was able to get a litlle bit of pump here and there, but I don't know when I was able to shoot my load again. My Linguine was not the same after this, It took years to have him working back to normal.

To go deeper, after this "Epiphany" I started having a really bad relation to porn since then. I didn't like it anymore, and wanted to stop watching. Something that I never achieved and that's something that gave me some mental anguish for a time (today these things don't really boder me anymore, but I still would like to stop watching it entirely). I couldn't even masturbate thinking of my crush or some shit like that because I would fell guilty about "using" that person without their consent.

My boy is working fine these days, but I am fairly sure that I spent about two years and a half with ED because of all that.

Have no regrets, would do it all over again, would do it just for Rin alone.

Alright, welcome to the 490th thread of Free Talk Friday. Here you can talk about anything you want, doesn't have to be Katawa Shoujo related, the only rule is don't be a jerk.

Hey everyone,

I’m at my wit’s end here. I’ve been playing Katawa Shoujo for a while now, and I’m just ONE achievement away from 100% completion on Steam. That one missing achievement? The elusive "Bundle of Choices."

I’ve already gone through all the main routes, explored the different endings (good, neutral and bad ones), and unlocked every CG in the gallery. I’m pretty sure I’ve made every choice I could think of at least once, but nothing seems to trigger that last achievement. 😫

Has anyone here managed to unlock "Bundle of Choices"? If so, any tips on what I might be missing? I’d really appreciate any advice—I’m starting to feel like this achievement is trolling me at this point.

https://preview.redd.it/aybck89jbmzd1.png?width=644&format=png&auto=webp&s=4cadde51a722d55b85191ca6c3a006727c40e8bb

Thanks in advance!

Sorry, that I am not a Japanese speaker. I am going to put first-person pronouns of the characters in VNDB, that draw personality and speech styles of each character. According to Japanese scripts, both Hisao and Kenji use "ore" pronoun that reflect their confident personality.

Although I watched only Deep End scene replay to review the pronouns due to the fact that this script have numbers(>!20 and 12!<) that made text more readable for a non-Japanese reader. I think that Emi, Hanako, Lilly and Shizune use "watashi" pronoun, Rin uses "boku" pronoun, while Misha uses "atashi" pronoun.