Sekai/Denpa
Harumade Kururu - In QA
Rewrite+ Harvest Festa - 100% translated, 40% edited, Steam page up, 2024 release
Subete no Koi ni, Hanabata o. - 50% translated
Sumire - Picked up
Sanarara R - 100% translated and edited, waiting on build
Glass - Picked up
New Glass - Picked up
Karakara 3 - 100% translated and edited, 70% engine work
Yume to Iro de Dekiteiru - 100% translated, 35% edited
Zutto Mae Kara Joshi Deshita - 100% translated, in editing
A Maiden's Serenade - 100% translated, 65% edited
Hoshizora e Kakaru Hashi 10% translated
Hoshizora e Kakaru Hashi AA - Announced
Akaneiro ni Somaru Saka - In programming, Steam page up, 2024 release
Hamidashi Creative - Announced
Inupara - In Development
Nekopara After La Vraie Familie - 2025 release
Raspberry Cube - Announced
Wagamama High Spec OC - 25% translated
Amairo Chocolate 3 - 100% translated, 15% edited, 2024 release
Kuri Kuri Click ~My Favorite Boobs - Q3 2024 release
Miko no Kanata Zero - 100% translated, in editing, engine work mostly done

Nekonyan
Happiness! Sakura Celebration! - Delayed to fix some bugs
Dracu Riot - Summer or Fall release
Angel Chaos RE-BOOT!- Rejected by Steam for a second time, early 2025 release
Melty Moment - 80% translated
Fureraba Complete edition - Vita exclusive content to be added to Fureraba a couple months after the fandisc release
Floral Flowlove - 100% translated, 75% edited, enging port ongoing
Love, Elections, & Chocolate - 100% translated and edited, in QA
Love Love Love, Burning in my Heart! - 100% translated and 74% edited
Ready or Not: The Deadline is Coming! - 100% translated, 75% edited, QA in progress
Mysteries of the Heart: The Psychic Detective Case Files - 100% translated and edited, engine work in progress
Hatsuyuki Sakura: White Graduation - 100% translated and edited, engine work queued
Futamata Ren'ai: Two Times the Trouble - Steam page up
Hold Me Tight All Night Onii-chan! - 65% translated, 50% edited, Steam page up
Making*Lovers: First Blush - Announced
Hacking the Moon to Find My Goddess - 100% translated and edited, engine and image editing in progress, Steam page up
Koikari: Love for Hire - After Hours - In translation
Renai:Royale: Love’s a Battle- "Victory Parade" - Announced

VisualArts
Summer Pockets Reflection Blue - 2024 release

Dualtail
Venus Blood Ragnarok - Kickstarter succeeded, November 2025 release date listed

Frontwing
KANADE - 2025 release
Sharin no Kuni - Working to resolve remaining issues

Aksys
Virche Evermore -EpiC: Lycoris- - November 7th release
>Despera Drops - March 2025 release
Utakata no Uchronia - 2025 release
Mistonia no Kibou -The Lost Delight- - 2025 release

Age titles
>Kimi ga Nozomu Eien ~Enhanced Edition~ - Delayed again to make changes after Steam review

Fakku
Two Beasts Or Not To Beast!! - 2.0 version, editing in progress
St. Yariman's Former Sluts: Mega MILF Edition - Winter 2024 release

Saikey Studios (mix of official/unofficial)
>Kobonnou na Ryousai Kenbo ga Part Saki de Toshishita Ikemen Joushi ni Otosareru made no Kiroku The Game - Announced
The Reason For Your Smile - Steam page up, Happy and NTR routes translated

HyoukanOpera
Knight Case Files - Trial released, 2025 release

MAGES. GAME
Corpse Party II - Darkness Distortion - 2024 release

Voltage Inc.
Project Code Kaleido Tower - 2025 release
Project Code Neon Mafia - 2025 release
Project Code Vampire Hunter - 2025 release

B-cluster
Re;quartz Raid - November release

MediBang Inc.
Cocktail Magic - Upcoming release
MoonFire: A Seeker's Saga - Announced

Kamitsubaki Studio
KAMITSUBAKI CITY REGENERATE - February 20th release

Shiravune
Destiny Star Girlfriend 2 - October 29th release
Destiny Star Girlfriend 3 - October 29th release
Sacrifice Villains - Q4 2024 release
The Restless Sheep & The Lone Wolf -A Tale of Cutthroat Lovers- - 2024 release
Criminal Border 3rd Offence - 2024 release
Kara no Shoujo III - Announced
Geminism - Announced
The Restless Sheep & The Lone Wolf -Woolly Eyes GAIDEN- - Announced
Real Hentai Situation! DT - Announced
Beastkin Training ~The Trials of a Beastkin Noblewoman~ - Announced
Another Way of Gettin' Paid - Announced
Night Shift Nurses - Announced

FG Remake
Doukyuusei 2 Remake - Announced
Yakin Byoutou Remake - Announced

Dramatic Create
Steam Prison Beyond the Steam - November 28th release
Nie no Machi -Iro Musubi- - 2025 release

Kagura Games
>Pure Pure Pero Pero Princess - Released
Yoru ga Kuru! -Square of the Moon- Remastered - 2024 release
>Welcome to Maison Chichigami - Announced

Aniplex
Seedsow Lullaby - Demo released, December 13th release
Fate/hollow ataraxia REMASTERED - Announced
Tsukihime -The other side of red garden- - Upcoming

Love Lab
Ever Maiden - 2024 release

DLsite
Friendly lab - unlock(); - Upcoming release
Club Suicide - Picked up
Sennagi Kegareta Chigiri to Kami Koromo - Announced

Idea Factory
Death end re;Quest Code Z - 2025 release
Temirana: The Lucky Princess and the Tragic Knights - 2025 release
Battlefield Waltz - 2025 release

Harukaze
Monkeys! - English release planned

Moonchime
Haunted Obachestra Vol.1 Awaking - Upcoming release

Alice In Dissonance
Fault Milestone 2 - Side Below - Upcoming release

MiKandi Japan
Libra of the Vampire Princess - All versions of the patches in testing

PRODUCTION PENCIL
Paradise Cleaning! -Tutor X Hypnosis- - Upcoming release

072 Project
Princess Paradise - September 27th release

F&C
NTR with hypnosis application - Upcoming release

Charon
Lost Paradise of Karuta - Announced

Sister Position
Ecchi de Ichizu na Doinaka Nii-sama to, Koshikiyukashii Byoujaku Imouto - Announced simultaneous release

Gamera Games
Homicipher - November 1st release

Kemco Corporation
Decollate Decoration - Trial released

Alliance Arts
All in Abyss: Judge the Fake - Demo released

Alterciws
Phantom Thief Angels: Twin Angel - Labyrinth of Time and World - Re:light - Demo released, Q4 2024 release

Hikari Field
>Select Oblige - November 8th release

motsuhouse
>MOOZ - Released
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>Stuff like this has been either added or updated since the last thread

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Reposted the thread because it was deleted. I'll repeat that this is a weekly thread and NOT a general. It gets posted every week to show translation status updates and it should not be treated like a general of which only one can exist at one time. This is a longstanding practice going back over a decade which anyone can confirm by looking at the archive.

Here is a screenshot of the posts that were deleted when the thread was nuked.

>>48098278
No and fuck off

>>48098162
Thanks for your service

>>48098171
Thank you.

>>48098177
I think someone did not realize VN has been on JP since the early 2010's.

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>>48098162
Definitely put in LingerieS by Ramune Games on the list.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2890890/LingerieS/

https://youtu.be/vb-fpZWjyG4
Video Footage.

I would put this under the Visual Novel releases. Supposedly this is releasing in December 2024 and has an 18+ DLC Patch On Steam itself. I also hope JAST and MG get it on their stores as well that is just the full 18+ Edition. It looks like an honest attempt at an Ecchi VN that is all about trying out Lingerie including Sexy outfits. It also has E-Mote, beautiful backgrounds, really good character design and Animation to it. So it's definitely high end for what it is.

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>>48099619
>◆What kind of DLC 18+?
>You can enjoy lovey-dovey sexual scenes between the main character and the heroines.
>All sexual scenes are animated.
>Only Japanese audio is available.
Only minus is that they prevent streaming and that it has Mosaic for 18+. But I think this was due to Steam putting those restrictions on them. Maybe if they are on the JAST/MG platform it can have no mosaic and no Steaming Restrictions placed on the game.

you just cant delete the weekly, this is clearly a nekonig inside job.

>>48099652
Mary must be fuming about all this degeneracy that she didn't get a chance to reject.

>>48100027
Releases that are listed as 18+ usually have an easier time passing. The heroines are also all adults.

Sukimazakura to Uso no Machi - Translation 100% complete TLC, editing, QA, image editing left

>>48099717
It's odd that it happened.

>>48100035
>>48100027
I wonder if that is how it managed to get past the review process. It was not in a school setting but more a Mall setting as well. Still interesting how they did it though lol because usually even if you do follow the rules somehow they find a way to reject your releases.

>>48100141
>Still interesting how they did it though lol because usually even if you do follow the rules somehow they find a way to reject your releases.
What are you even talking about? Maybe like 5% of VN releases get banned by steam. Hasn't the only ban this year been Tenshi Souzou?

>>48098162
If the problem persists, put a vtuber somewhere in the OP to make sure it doesn't get deleted by nujannies.

>>48100150
VN wise, An Aunt After My Own Heart also got banned, along with the second attempt to put the Chinese version of Hamidashi Creative Totsu on Steam (though that was more of an extension of a ban from the previous year).

Tokyo Clanpools also got banned non VN wise, though that falls into the DT2/2-2 category of submitting an uncut ecchi all ages game rather than making a Steam cut.

>>48100141
This year at least, with the amount of caution VN publishers have taken, the more usual seems to be reviewers causing headaches instead of outright bans. Obviously you have the current Kiminozo headache (though since that is intended to be an all ages release without a patch), but something like Aoi Tori was given radio silence for 2 months by the reviewer before having the build rejected for having too little content and needing to resubmit.

>>48100347
>Tokyo Clanpools also got banned non VN wise, though that falls into the DT2/2-2 category of submitting an uncut ecchi all ages game rather than making a Steam cut.
Sadly I wish more publishers would just shift over to MG/JAST than to keep it hostage on Johren or Switch.
>This year at least, with the amount of caution VN publishers have taken, the more usual seems to be reviewers causing headaches instead of outright bans. Obviously you have the current Kiminozo headache (though since that is intended to be an all ages release without a patch), but something like Aoi Tori was given radio silence for 2 months by the reviewer before having the build rejected for having too little content and needing to resubmit.
Steam has bad rules as a whole. Sure the reviewers look at things, but like you notice they outright just ban things even when they follow the rules. Nekonyan is a good example with their releases this year. I think the one game that was having a remake even was rejected twice and now has to go into next year because of arbitrary reasons. It's obvious someone in there is making it harder for Japanese games to be approved especially when they are not nudity related.

>>48100136
I bet that's a job of a newfag janny who no have idea how /jp/ works. Is like trying to merge the jav thread with the /hc/ board.

>>48100430
>Is like trying to merge the jav thread with the /hc/ board.
good idea

Destiny Star Girlfriend is already out now.

>>48099717
>>48100136
>>48100430
It's happened before, that's what I've assumed the reason is also

>>48100359
>Steam has bad rules as a whole. Sure the reviewers look at things, but like you notice they outright just ban things even when they follow the rules. Nekonyan is a good example with their releases this year. I think the one game that was having a remake even was rejected twice and now has to go into next year because of arbitrary reasons. It's obvious someone in there is making it harder for Japanese games to be approved especially when they are not nudity related.

Steam has vague rules which are interpreted by individual reviewers, leading to wildly inconsistent enforcement. That said, at least for VNs, there is almost always something the reviewer can point to in the submitted Steam build to justify a perma-ban (though builds can be failed, without being banned and allowing a re-submission, for reasons other than content, such as "being incomplete", while other titles can have a build be rejected for content without being outright banned, as is the case for KimiNozo right now). For Angel Reboot specifically (the last NekoNyan title to be outright banned), the sample screenshots originally on the Steam page included an image with visible areola, so the build initially submitted to Steam likely included content the reviewer could point to and justify a ban, and the second submission by the Chinese publisher did not get looked at as a result of it being viewed as a second submission despite the different publisher submitting the build.

>>48098723
It's /jp/, and visual novels have been part of it since 2008, don't make me pull Marisa on you now.

>>48102050
2008? Wow. I did not know. What was it like back then in terms of VN's?

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>>48098177
sorry, only h*loshit generals are allowed

>>48101374
Yes, but these were closed for the lack of daily bumps. This one got banned instantly.

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>Announced last year to arrive in 2024
>Still no updates
What's Lovelab's deal

>>48104681
They were crying and blaming Shiravune for all their games flopping a few months ago.

>>48104722
And they were half right. Porn games with mosaics doesn't attract many costumers, less if they're censored/altered them to get the Steam approval.

>>48104722
Do you have any juicy screencaps? I didn't hate their old releases as much as other people, but given their output or lack of I think that they mostly have themselves to blame.

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>>48104742
I don't think you understood my post.
>>48104746
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Companies can choose to localize games without girls in highschool uniform if they want to use steam as the main platform. It's not rocket science why certain games were rejected.

>>48105110
>games without girls in highschool uniform
Rules out shitloads of games

>>48104852
My bad, for some reason I misread LoveLavs for Laplacian. Though this doesn't change very much; Shira is more known for high number of releases rather than sales and LL had a bad reputation for shaming their costumers over social media when they dared to ask for better localizations.
VNs business is still very niche and the number of costumers low, really low. Screwing them with your arrogance will decrease the incomings, low revenue will make other companies avoid you, and without support the business flops.

>>48105625
How does SP keep existing then?

>>48106712
Nekopara and kickstarters.

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>>48106712
Not him but SP A (SolP) is dead, the other SP (SekaiP) is half dead. The later also suffered some damage control from their CEO comments (Dovak) and had not alternative but make him shut the fuck up from the official channels. As for now they're agonizing because their adult store is blocked from using Visa/MS cards.

kiminozo is up, but the $40 list price is ...

>>48108227
... not even worth to pirate it, we know.

>>48105110
Games with school uniforms are generally fine, you just need to not be dumb about what you submit to Valve when no one is going to be playing the Steam build without a patch anyways.

>>48108227
It's technically on sale for $36 not that that makes much of a difference

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I guess Valve didn't go too hard on them

>>48105110
For Shiravune, their bans have generally been for titles that were not located in school, with Meteor World Actor, Dohna Dohna, DT2, DT2-2, and An Aunt After My Own Heart. While they got stuff like Nukitashi onto Steam just fine.

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Why is doing this in modern games completely cost prohibitive?

>>48111309
You're wrong. We have plenty of short nukiges/hentai games with such or better animations. But these are short and sell like hotcakes.
Age can't effort it anymore as their budget got shrunk with all of their late flops.

>>48111440
>You're wrong. We have plenty of short nukiges/hentai games with such or better animations.
If anything that proves I'm right because no one is able to do it in full length games anymore as far as I'm aware. Doing something like that should have gotten cheaper not become a budgetary impossibility.

>>48111440
And they have like 2 sprites and 3 backgrounds

>>48111504
You're only right about the long VNs. The cost will never go down as their engine needs a lot of manual inputs and isn't as cost efficient like the Ai animated ones like the Imouto engine used for CloverDays/White Album because... it's way cheaper.
>>48111550
More than few spirites and backgound, just enough for 2-5h nukiges.

>>48111309
The 3D Ace Attorney games are up there as gold standard for what VNs could be doing, but instead we just get poorly used paper cutouts. And by that I mean they aren't even using the sprites cleverly like what you posted.

Please don't do this to me, I still have so much to read!

>>48113409
Ace Attorney has Gameplay, high production values and commands a high price point of a full priced Game or 50-60$ VN, especially Danganronpa and even Rance. That is just too much money to get started and to be able to do these things. I do wish we had VN's with Gameplay elements and had the Fanservice elements with Ecchi kind of like a Fire Emblem Fates/Awakening where there is headpatting your favorite Lady, relationship mechanics and then playing an SRPG but more of a hentai version. It would be interesting to see if VN companies could create something like this at the 45-50$ range, 50$ if all Characters had Imouto Engine on top. Only company I can see doing this is VenusBlood with a newer title with Dualtail/Ninetail just because they have a Game Engine capable of the SRPG and Economy management, they also have solid character designs, storytelling and are improving static images to have more animation on gameplay.

>>48114306
Come on now, it's disingenious to say the AA games have gameplay. Maybe there is some old touch screen interactive parts, but they make up 1% of the actual meat of the product. The rest of the "gameplay" is simply presenting evidence, which is effectively like having a laundry list of choices where the correct flag is hidden unless you sleuth it out.

>>48114086
You're not missing much spiking this shitty release. Wait until some groups decided to start a restoration project.

>>48111632
>>48111504
I think it comes down to the fact that if companies can not do the Imouto Engine or E-Mote somehow, they probably should try to do what Orcsoft does and add a few more frames to convey the hentai scenes as a whole. Maybe that can be a good balance or a transition until it's easier to do Imouto Engine Animation on Characters like Clover Days/White Album.

>>48114378
Not exactly. You make it seem easy like it's just something you make and it's done and everyone could do it. If it was true, why is there not thousands of VN creators who have Gameplay elements on the scene? Why do we not see Imouto Engine on every game even on the lower end? Because it's not easy and costs are high to get someone to make a customized engine for themselves. It takes talent and it's not always so simple and easy to do.

>>48114306
AA series save money by having almost no voice acting though. It probably doesn't have much higher budget than a long VN with full voice acting.
I see some vns Live2D for more lively sprites nowadays, however not everyone likes it, some people find moving sprites just creepy.

>>48113409
Production value doesn't matter as much as you think it does in this medium.

>>48115642
That is a good point with Voice Acting work. That is most of the budget alongside Artwork. Something would have to be cut to make it work or the price would need to be raised, and there would need to be titles that can convince people to accept the rising of costs.

I would agree with you on Live2D/Imouto Engine, but only on Sex Scenes. Which to me would be too exaggerated and kind of look like cut outs trying to move fluidly in which looks bizarre and believe me I have seen it. It's just too weird, same can be said about Character Portraits as well if it's too much movement, but I do tend to forgive it more if it's just basic movement like Eyes blinking, Mouth movement when speaking and some small animation that help convey the emotions of the scenes.

>>48115664
NTA but I agree up to a point. Ace Attorney and Danganronpa are huge stretches because they have a literal AAA studio with tons of resources backing those projects. I think it depends on the producer/company and the works they put out vs saying it needs to be uniform. For example I can enjoy Clockup Works, Nitro+ or even works from Liquid, Waffle without needing Live2D because the Art, Story, Characters and the work they put into their VN's are high end and command their prices. It's like they understand the Entertainment and Art while knowing what a VN is and can convey so much due to people supporting them and allowing so much variety of storytelling they know what works for their audience. But let's say it's something like a Moege that is very common, maybe it would help in some way to make it stand out more or to create this sense of something between Light Novel and Anime.