Save the Villainess: An Otome Isekai Roleplaying Game

Congratulations! You are now in possession of one (1) neurodivergent romance novel villainess! 

Unfortunately, neither you nor she remember the bad romance novel you are trapped in… or which character wants her dead.

Guide your amnesiac villainess through mysteries, menacing manors, and (wo)men who may be trying to murder her.

Meet with five suspiciously gorgeous characters and pursue romance, revenge, or revolution.

Can you find clues, fight off foes, calm angry furniture, and escape from eldritch horrors while solving the mystery of this world?

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To learn more about Jane, see this series of moving pictures. 

To learn more about Edmund, see this series of moving pictures. 

To learn more about Izel, see this series of moving pictures. 

To learn more about Ben, see this series of moving pictures. 

To learn more about Servant, see this series of moving pictures. 

Save the Villainess' animated characters, backgrounds, and cutscenes allow you to step into a living painting... one where every corner, character, creature, and even cushion can lead to your death.

Guide your villainess by going on investigations, fighting battles, and making choices that fend off your death. When the story you’re trapped in hates you, you’ll need to make hard choices that could lead your villainess to romance, revenge… or even a revolution.

To guide your villainess toward the love - or single life - of your dreams, you also have access to an animated Love Menu. Just know that the choices you make will slowly change the lovers that your villainess has available!

✦ 60+ Hours of Gameplay over 4 routes: Each of the three main routes (Edmund, Izel, and Ben) offers three diverse sub-routes and mysteries, as well as 10 different good endings and 30+ bad endings. After you conquer the three major routes, there will be one final mystery to solve...

✦ User Choice: Your decisions in the story matter and 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. Shape your villainess’ fate, no matter how tragic or triumphant it may be!

✦ 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. You can even skip the entire common route after playing it once.

Best Laid Plans Productions, Inc. consists of two ladies who love the villainess otome isekai genre!

Tanya Yan: Co-Writer, Co-Editor, Assistant Programmer & Animator & Scripter, Marketer, Community Manager, Supplemental Art/Design/Animations.

Emily Woodhouse: Co-Writer, Co-Editor, Main Programmer & Animator & Scripter, Art & Sound Director, Graphic/GUI/UI/UX/Menu Designer, Supplemental Art/Sound/Music, Game Design.

Our talented collaborators include:

Character Sprites & Title Art: Somate Studio

CGIs: Somate Studio & Kmochi

Item & Tarot Art: Saleha Chowdhury, Kmochi, Karel Kok, Maciej Ptasinski

Backgrounds: Saleha Chowdhury, Karel Kok, Fuura Xen, Maciej Ptasinski, Son Huynh

Menu & GUI Art: Saleha Chowdhury 

Main Theme Song: JunbugP (Composition, Lyrics, Mix, Master; Their Twitter), Saki Rose (Vocals, Tuning; Their Twitter)

Trailer: Best Laid Plans Productions (Announcement Trailer); Sokei (Final Trailer)

Marketing Materials: Renerie (Itch.io/Steam Pages), Studio Ghost Legs (Social Media Profiles)

Game Logo: Yan Moe

Warning: This game contains scenes of psychological horror, implied violence, mild gore, suicidal ideation, and trauma, as well as actual deaths in the bad endings. Specifically, the demo includes an injury to the neck of the main character that draws blood, as well as a bad ending involving an enclosed space. There are some light effects in the game and some of the moving animations may trigger motion sickness in people prone to vertigo. There are also optional scenes involving spicy (though not explicit) sexual content with each of the 5 possible love interests. Player caution is advised.

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