Élan Festival Recap 🎃 (Patreon)

Weren't able to attend the Élan Festival premiere or want all of our updates in text format? Here's a recap of everything!

p.s. you can also rewatch the video here on our YouTube.

Our first announcement is that Please Be Happy has passed over 5k copies sold! PBH will be celebrating its 1st birthday-anniversary next month and to celebrate we have brand new anniversary merch available for pre-order and a reprint of the PBH art book hic et nunc.

We also have a brand new look at Our Home, My Keeper, our collaboration game with ebi-hime. While the game has undergone a few delays, we're happy to say it's making more headway now- here's a look at the sprite for Fay, the fairy!

Lock & Key: A Magical Girl Mystery is currently undergoing an art overhaul- while the team is still the same, we're taking some extra time to make sure the artwork is as polished as it can be. To help with this, we'll be launching a Kickstarter for the project next year, so stay tuned for that. And if you haven't already, check out the demo available on Steam!

Now onto Bellhouse announcements...

Last year at Élan Fest we announced we would publish the Steam release of Who is the Red Queen, a horror yuri game by 4noki + co. It's been over a year since its Steam release and we now have couple keychains available on our store!

Last year we also announced we'd be publishing Love in a Bottle, a point-and-click yuri romance game about a love demon trying to make it on her own in the world- but there's too many hot women for her to meet! We're happy to share that jaxcheese will be composing the game's OST with hazel contributing to the character themes.

We're also happy to announce that the game now has an official release date- February 14th, 2024! This Valentine's Day you'll be able to play as Ankora and romance several women in Love in a Bottle ♥ Wishlist it on Steam!

Our last Bellhouse-related announcement is for Twofold. We first shared the world of Twofold with you with the release of First Snow, a free prequel to Twofold following Allison and Eileen, two members of the art club. Now, though, we're ready to share more of the world with you! The demo for Twofold is now live on Steam & itch.io...

...and the full game will be out at the end of October! After over a decade of development, Twofold is finally ready to be played by the world.

Physical copies of Twofold are up for pre-order and will ship sometime in December. These copies will come with a digital key though so you can play as soon as it launches later this month.

The next main game from us at Élan is Summer at the Edge of the Universe, a solarpunk LGBT+ romance visual novel about a group of friends going on one last trip across the universe before going their separate ways. This will be our largest game we've ever made and you can get a taste of it... right now! Our Patrons who pledge more than $5/month can get early access to the demo right now.

Our limited time Élan ​Fest merch is a ticket stub and fall-themed keychains, which are available for pre-order now!

We also have a few more upcoming things like a Please Be Happy & Highway Blossoms vinyl print, National Park Girl physical copies and more that we'll share more of later down the road!

Thank you so much being with us and supporting us. We're a small team of devs passionate about queer games and sharing stories of women loving other women and we couldn't do it without your continued support.

Until next Élan Fest...!!!

— Arimia