Happy New year people who come here! Hope you made it out of 2018 well enough and are ready to march into 2019. I’m mostly going to talk about the steam stuff that happened this year as well as my reasons for why the unfinished stuff I played this year was almost all better then the finished things. First though, what is coming next year?
From Mangagamer we are almost certainly getting Rance 7&8 as well as Escaslayer, which for the most part is a decent lineup. Quest is the second biggest Rance game in the series so if that makes it out I’ll at least be busy for a while. 9 probably won’t happen and MG don’t have any other games in their current announced lineup.
For Sekai/Denpa, we have Re;Lord 2 and maybe(but unlikely) Baldr Sky. I’ve lost almost all my hype for Baldr due to the wait plus the drama around that release, and Re;Lord is an episodic release that spoils its ending in the first scene of the first game, so playing that is going to feel draining, though it will be funny at the least.
Kagura Games, the big upstart with almost 10 English releases already, seems to have a lot in the pipeline. To many to honestly talk about, a lot of them look to be about the same as what has already released. Corruption themed RPG/Wolf Maker. Nothing really stood out when I looked last but who knows, they might surprise me and in fact I hope they do.
Finally we have Lilipalace’s sequel from Frontwing of all companies. It’s a bigger game in all ways and something I am looking forward to.
A lot of Vn companies showed up this year, but this isn’t a VN blog so I won’t go into that stuff in detail. Just know that next year and the future of VN’s in general will be heavily decided by how Steam handles more VN’s and so let’s talk about that massive change this year, porn on Steam and how that is handled.
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