2026-09-01 17:02 UTC · Community Announcements · Crystal Game Works
Fall in love with visual novels from September 1-9 in the Fall in Love Visual Novel Festival!Heart of the Woods is currently taking part in the Fall in Love Visual Novel Festival, a Steam festival dedicated to romance visual novels from around the world, hosted by yours truly! From September 1-9 you can find over 200 visual novels in the festival, ranging from discounted games, new demos, and more~Several of our visual novels are on sale for the event!And you can try out the demos for our upcoming games as well~
2026-02-06 03:17 UTC · Community Announcements · Crystal Game Works
Heart of the Woods is currently on sale on Steam alongside its DLC! The base game and all of its DLC, such as the soundtracks and the artbook, are 40% off.You can also pick up our comfy slice of life yuri visual novel Please Be Happy on sale right now~
2025-09-30 17:56 UTC · Community Announcements · Crystal Game Works
Fight crime, be gay—do things the magical girl way!Lock & Key: A Magical Girl Mystery is out now! After several years of development, you can finally follow the married pair of magical girls Sherri and Kealey on one last adventure before their powers fade away for good.Sherri and Kealey Cohen, now a married couple in their late 20s, left the title of magical girls behind them over a decade ago. Now on the verge of losing their powers and entering a life of true normalcy, a string of unexplainable murders forces them to come out of retirement for one last adventure. Together with Nina, their ol
2025-09-24 17:01 UTC · Community Announcements · Crystal Game Works
The first Fall in Love Visual Novel festival has started! Enjoy 200+ romance-themed visual novels from over 100 visual novel developers, hosted by us!Heart of the Woods and its DLC are on sale for the festival~Our other yuri games are also in the festival, with some being on sale! Lock & Key: A Magical Girl Mystery, our very next yuri visual novel, releases on September 30th and has a demo you can try now!
2025-08-10 04:50 UTC · Community Announcements · Karen/あけみ
Hello, everyone!Heart of the Woods 2.1.7 and 2.1.6 have just been released, which fix a few minor issues that were either reported by the community, or were found in testing.We’ve also optimised and reduced the game’s install size by 102 MB (8%) with no quality loss!As always, thank you all for continuing to support Studio Élan…!〜 Karen/あけみ (akemin_dayo)Changelog for 2.1.7:On PC, it targets Ren’Py SDK versions 8.1.3.23091805 〜 7.3.5.606.In an effort to further bring all our titles in line with each other, the keyboard key "A" can now be used to toggle Auto Mode on and off. ※ The legacy Ren'Py
2025-06-16 21:14 UTC · Community Announcements · Crystal Game Works
Find unexpected love in the depths of grief...Our next yuri visual novel, A Tithe in Blood, is out now on Steam!As a reserved and unassuming university student in snow-bitten Hokkaido, the personal tragedy which visited Honoka Asakawa leads her to experimenting in a magical art thought long-lost — blood magic. Unexpectedly able to visit the sealed world of Meiji-era Sapporo, Honoka's quickly taken under the wing of the cheerful and bright Lady Yasue, a powerful mage who's remained in this gilded cage for a century.As their feelings for each other develop, the true repercussions of Honoka's fir
2025-04-21 03:12 UTC · Community Announcements · Crystal Game Works
Our next yuri visual novel, A Tithe in Blood, releases in just 2 months on June 16th! https://store.steampowered.com/app/2989270/A_Tithe_in_Blood/ A Tithe in Blood is a dark fantasy yuri visual novel about a woman discovering magic and finding herself in the middle of a sinister plot—can her love prevail? As a reserved and unassuming university student in snow-bitten Hokkaido, the personal tragedy which visited Honoka Asakawa would lead to her experimentation in a magical art thought long-lost — blood magic. Unexpectedly able to visit the sealed world of Meiji-era Sapporo, Honoka's quickly tak
2024-05-30 16:32 UTC · Community Announcements · Crystal Game Works
The time is here - you can now get your very own Tara plushie via Makeship! Pre-orders have started and will be up for the whole month of June. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/32794360/b41a26a1dbb414d29931629d6b091c062af83ca9.jpg Tara is part of their Pride Month campaigns, which means every plushie will have a plushie-sized pride cape come with it! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/32794360/8302315f22601d870018379de445831a2edb295a.png These plushies won't be for sale online after this pre-order period - so if you want a Tara plushie, don't wait! order the Tara plushie here
2024-02-15 22:09 UTC · Community Announcements · Crystal Game Works
❄️ Happy 5th anniversary Heart of the Woods!! ❄️ 5 years ago today, a pair of paranormal vloggers ventured into the woods (via Steam and itch.io)... Thank you to those who've been with us since then and to those who've ventured into the woods afterwards! Here's a brand new illustration of Morgan and Abby by adirosa 💕 {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/32794360/ed8868bfeafc373622b82a2c533244f7f829fa85.png Our Heart of the Woods merch including keychains, a tshirt, and physical copies are currently on sale on our merch store! We also have a new wallpaper featuring Morgan illustrated by caps, as well as an excl
2024-01-05 10:45 UTC · Community Announcements · Karen/あけみ
Hello, everyone! Heart of the Woods 2.1.5 has just been released, which fixes all known compatibility issues with the Steam Deck! It also fixes a few minor issues that were either reported, or were found in testing. As always, thank you for continuing to support Studio Élan! 〜 Karen/あけみ (akemin_dayo) and adirosa Changelog for 2.1.5: On PC, it targets Ren'Py SDK versions 8.1.3.23091805 〜 7.3.5.606. Fixed all known UI layout issues that were affecting the Steam Deck when the game was run from the Steam client in SteamOS 3 / Holo.Fixed an issue that could potentially cause videos to not play in c
2023-10-28 00:31 UTC · Community Announcements · Karen/あけみ
Hello, everyone! We've just released a fairly big update for Heart of the Woods! … In fact, we released five whole versions in rapid succession just now — 2.1.4, 2.1.3, 2.1.2, 2.1.1.1, and 2.1.1! (※ More on this below.) Our apologies for the large delay in getting these versions out — various external factors beyond our control prevented us from properly releasing these updates, despite them being feature-complete for the longest time. The main highlights of this release mostly have to do with our brand new controller UI and navigation support, which can be enabled and configured from within t
2023-03-12 19:23 UTC · Community Announcements · Foxshoe
We just launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund disc-based physical copies of our first three visual novels, "Highway Blossoms," "Heart of the Woods," and "Please Be Happy." We're also printing the artbook and soundtrack too! The game copies are disc-based and compatible with PC/Mac/Linux. The games are available in two versions: the Webstore Editions and Classic Editions. The Classic editions come in a DVD-sized case, and the Webstore editions come in a CD-sized case and have a reversible cover with a new illustration. There's also a special postcard and sticker sheet exclusive to the campaig
2023-02-20 00:16 UTC · Community Announcements · Karen/あけみ
Hello, everyone! Right on the heels of Heart of the Woods' 4th anniversary, we've just released a major update to Heart of the Woods! Heart of the Woods 2.1 fixes many long-standing issues of varying severity, vastly improves controller support, and even adds native support for ARM Linux (arm64 / AArch64, armv7) — notably including Asahi Linux (arm64e / Apple Silicon)! To go along with the 4th anniversary, we also have a new short story and artwork featuring Tara and Morgan! You can see them in our Patreon post here: https://patreon.com/posts/78737674 As always, thank you all for supporting St
2023-01-20 09:33 UTC · Community Announcements · adirosa
Hello, everyone! Heart of the Woods 2.0.4 has just been released, which fixes quite a number of issues. Thank you for your support across these many years! 〜 Karen/あけみ (akemin_dayo) and adirosa Changelog for 2.0.4:Fixed broken (※ incorrectly encoded) strings in the German (Deutsch) translation.Restored missing lines in the German (Deutsch) translation.Restored missing localised game name in the Traditional Chinese (繁體中文) translation.Fixed an issue where the default text size used during the accessibility onboarding would be too large.Created proper iconsets and updated the game icon across all
2021-04-08 05:54 UTC · Community Announcements · minute
Two years later...! Thank you all so, so much for your support over the last two years. We really couldn't ask for more! Some of you have already noticed, but now that it's official and actually available to all players... {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/32794360/0abdfb4d93c1361b95921da014cc0ca6c018f492.png We've added achievements! We've added 12 achievements to the game! Thank you all so much for playing: we hope the addition of achievements will motivate you to play through the game, recommend it to a friend, or just rack up some more numbers on your profile. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/32794360/0fda84850d86d6f9
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