Love in a Bottle Progress & Updates (Patreon)

Hi everyone! With January coming to and end, we were able to share a lot of new looks at our future projects, namely dropping the Summer at the Edge of the Universe demo and a demo preview of an unannounced project. Now, we want to share some progress & updates for Love in a Bottle, an upcoming ecchi romp dating sim we're publishing through our publishing wing Bellhouse.

Love in a Bottle is being developed by lovelandisle and will be releasing this year. All of the CGs are finished as well as some sprite revamps! Here's an example with the love interest Clymene.

lovelandisle has also been releasing artist commentaries on her process for making the CGs here on our Patreon. Currently there's 2 up to read right now, with the 1st one being free for everyone!

There's also been a lot of progress on the first part of the game that'll be part of the demo. So much so that we'll be releasing the first demo for Love in a Bottle on February 5th as part of the Steam Next Fest! This demo release will also be on itch.io. We've shared a few screenshots from this demo section in our Discord and social media.

Now, onto the biggest news...

Love in a Bottle is a pretty ambitious game with 4 love interests, a town to explore via point-and-click, a lot of outfits & hairstyles for Ankora, and more. We want to make sure the game is as polished as it can be before releasing and ensuring that no one working on it crunches, so we'll be delaying Love in a Bottle by a month and a half, with the new release date being April 2nd, 2024. No, this isn't a delayed April Fools joke.

Although we're sad to have to delay it, we hope the demo coming out next week will be great so please look forward to that!

p.s. The Storyteller's Festival is going on right now on Steam and we're part of it! It's a weeklong celebration for visual novels and other narrative-driven games on Steam.