
A masterclass in adventure design, Katawa Shoujo delivers an unforgettable experience from start to finish.
97
Verdict
98%
Steam
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IGDB
Verdict score based on confidence-adjusted Steam reviews?
Overwhelmingly Positive on Steam (98% positive from 5K reviews)
Compelling narrative and story
Standout indie gem
Limited professional critic coverage
Katawa Shoujo is a bishōjo-style visual novel by Four Leaf Studios that tells the story of a young man and five young women living with varying disabilities. The game uses a traditional text and sprite-based visual novel model with an ADV-style text box running on the Ren'Py visual novel engine. The game is licensed under the Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-ND.

Runs well on modern hardware.
Last updated 7d ago
> Plays 4-chan "disabled girls dating sim" expecting it to be sorta darkly funny at best or sorta cringe horny nonsense at minimum. > Actually the most lovely and nice thing I've ever played. Yes even with the R18+ patch. > Stupid thing nearly makes me cry, which is not super easy to do. >please play it its really good. > Lilly best girl don't @ me.
I still find it hard to believe this masterpiece was made by people on 4chan… The characters are authentic and very endearing. It handles the topic of disabilities with the necessary sensitivity and maturity while still having a good story. It can be funny, relatable, romantic and at times tragic. The soundtrack is excellent as well. Best of all it’s free.
some ppl dont know what good visual novels are well i do and i give this visual novel a 9/10 not only is the plot pretty interesting the character developement and how they are writen is just pure magic at this point they put you in a hell of an emotional rolecoaster trough almost every act doesnt matter wich character you choose you will always find yourself thinking about something deep that just came up while you where playing what i did notice is that alot of people complain about this game being another freak book to jerk of to disabled girls i dont think thats true (as long as you dont play the R18 version) its way more then a dating sim these characters are writen in specific ways just to show that these girls are just as normal as us and there everything but sad little pushovers that always get dragged into an harem of the MC take a look at rin and emi even tho they dont have arms/legs they both still manage to acomplish things some of us cant even imagine this game is more then a dating sim its a life lesson.
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