Save The Villainess Kickstarter & Demo!
In this romantic dark-comedy murder-mystery game, you guide a villainess who cannot remember what story she is trapped in... or who is trying to kill her. Can you find clues, seduce potential enemies, fight off fiends, and calm angry furniture while solving the mystery of this world?
Our friends over at Best Laid Plans Productions, Inc., are currently running a Kickstarter campaign for their upcoming game, Save the Villainess.
Save the Villainess has a two to three hour demo that is now available for you to try on its Kickstarter page. In the demo, you can meet up to four different suspects and love interests, including a Crown Prince, a Duke of the North, a Childhood Friend, and a Servant. The full game will include even more love interests, including a mysterious woman…
If you enjoy the demo, the Kickstarter campaign will help the developers fund even more beautiful art (including new character models, outfits, and CGIs) as well as further mysteries, puzzles, and animations.
The Kickstarter will run from July 22-August 22.
As always, please make sure you are aware of the circumstances and risks that backing a Kickstarter can pose. Most of the time it is completely safe and creators follow through with what they promise. Unfortunately, sometimes it doesn't always pan out that way. Feel free to read Kickstarters Accountability page for information about anything you may be wondering/concerned about.
While we at Otome Lovers are confident in Best Laid Plans producing their game to full completion should they meet the Kickstarter goal, we still want to warn the community about Kickstarter's in general. This is something we do every time we showcase a Kickstarter.
Demo Review & Twitch Playthrough
Our very own Abubis, played the demo and wrote up a review on it. If you'd like to read it, please do so. It gives some very helpful insights into what the demo and the game offers.
Amjara also wrote up a review for the demo, so please read it as well. Another amazing perspective.
We will also be playing the game's demo, hosted by Admin/Curator JeminiJess, over on our Twitch account, Friday July 26th at 1pm CST.
VoD for the Twitch stream, below:
Info
Save the Villainess is an Otome isekai roleplaying game, with optional romance developed by Best Laid Plans Productions Inc.It's primary genres include: Visual Novel, Mystery/Investigation, and Otome, while it's secondary genres are: Dark Comedy, Satire, Psychological Horror, Historical, and Lovecraftian.
About the Game
Inspired by isekai anime such as My Next Life as a Villainess and Tearmoon Empire, as well as satirical fantasies such as Discworld and romantasy authors like Sarah J. Maas, Save the Villainess is a darkly comedic investigative visual novel that lets you control a villainess who can't remember the romance novel she is trapped in…
Or which character wants her dead.
Can you guide your amnesiac villainess through a menacing manor, determine which (wo)man is out to murder her, decide between romance and revenge, escape from eldritch horrors, and solve the mystery of this world?
Key Game Features
A Fully Animated World: This game contains a fully animated world created from hand-crafted 2D art, complete with animated characters, backgrounds, CGIs, and cutscenes.
60+ Hours of Gameplay over 4 Routes: Each route offers diverse sub-routes and mysteries, as well as 32 animated bad endings and 10 good endings.
User Choice: Your decisions in the story determine whether you live, die, find a lover among five possible partners (including three men, one woman, and one nonbinary character), forge a life alone, or pursue secret endings.
Diverse Gameplay: Save the Villainess features several modes of gameplay that allow you to detect and unravel mysteries - including point-and-click searches for clues, deductive reasoning, interrogations of suspects, and turn-based battles.
Variable Difficulty: Play in Story Mode to get in-game indicators about your likelihood of survival or play in Detective Mode to survive by your wits alone. Change mode at any time in the Settings menu.
Play Your Way: Use our save/load system to save at nearly any point in the game. You can also skip and move backwards through scenes, or use the chapter system to revisit or skip any chapter you have played.
Characters
They may be the main characters, but they are also the Suspects who may want to kill the Villainess...
About the Devs: Best Laid Plans Productions Inc.
Tanya is the company's co-writer, co-editor, junior programmer, marketer, and community manager. She is a published author and an enthusiastic lover of villainesses - particularly the tiny one that she lives with. In her spare time, she enjoys witty repartee and macarons more than she cares to admit.
Emily is the company's co-writer, co-editor, senior programmer, and art/sound/GUI designer. She is an experienced programmer and amateur musician/artist. In her spare time, she fends off Voya – the villainess kitten who lives with her and plans to rule over the world.
You can find them many places online. If you would like to find them or contact them, we have listed out their socials below: