About us
We’re Crystal Game Works, an indie video game development studio that specializes in queer visual novels that focus on various forms of love. Most of our games are fantasy stories inspired by shounen anime and manga and Victorian media. We’re fans of otome, boys love, and girls love and want to share our stories with you!
Our studio started in 2018 with the release of That Which Binds Us with some of our members having made games for years prior.
Our current projects are Harlequinade, a timeloop horror romance visual novel inspired by commedia dell’arte, and Lost Lune, a queer post-apocalyptic visual novel about a hellish world set in an eternal winter. Our most recent projects were Crimson Waves on the Emerald Sea: Amaranthine Moon, a Victorian vampire otome game, Asphodelium, a melancholic boys love visual novel about killing cults, and Canvas Menagerie, a wholesome boys love visual novel about a group of actors navigating their mid-20s together.
We also run various events, like the annual Otome Game Jam, Josei Jam, Winter Visual Novel Jam, Battle Action Fantasy Jam, and the Steam festival Otome Games Celebration!
Read our devlogs!
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August Updates – Pierrot’s Route
Hi everyone, happy August! July was a very busy month for me—I ended up boothing at 2 conventions, Anime Blues Con and OffKai Expo—but now that it’s August I’ve been able to settle down and resume work on Harlequinade. Next month we’ll be running a Kickstarter for Harlequinade where you can get exclusive merch for the game as well as contribute to it! You can follow the Kickstarter page to be notified when it launches.…
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Harlequinade Demo coming June 19th!
The demo for our next horror otome game is coming June 19th on Steam and itchio~ To celebrate being in the Games for Pride sale on Steam next week, the demo for Harlequinade will be released on Steam & itchio! It’ll be around an hour long and give you a taste at the timelooping carnival a college student has found themself in… You can’t go to a carnival alone, though — and that’s where your…
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New Game Announcement – Harlequinade, a Horror Timeloop Otome
Hi everyone! We have 2 fun announcements today — the release date for Crimson Waves on the Emerald Sea: Amaranthine Moon and the announcement of our next otome game! CWES: Amaranthine Moon will release on April 29th! The full release of our Victorian vampire otome game will be very soon, just a little over a month away! We’re excited to share the full game with you all and bring you back into Lucie’s world. As…
