Hello fellow villains and villainesses! 

This is Tanya and Emily - the villainesses behind Save the Villainess - here. We are absolutely thrilled to announce that after just 14 hours on Kickstarter, you helped us fully fund our game at $20,000 USD…

And even better, when we woke up after a long-needed sleep… we found that you helped us fund our #1 stretch goal of shirtless models/sprites for all of the men!

You can see a preview of our gorgeous shirtless models/sprites of the men in their extended profiles. 

So far, we only have images of the men with their collarbones and shoulders showing… but thanks to you, we can incorporate full-size shirtless models of Edmund, Izel, and Ben from our amazing partners at Somate Studio. Thank you for making this possible!

Trust us when we say we’re ready to show off these gorgeous, shirtless men at every opportunity in the full game!

Our next stretch goal is to commission teenage character models/sprites for our major characters! That would allow us to do extended flashbacks with teenaged Jane and the other characters, particularly Edmund, Izel, and Ben. We can delve deeper into the original villainess’ past and what might have led to her being on trial…

We also want to spotlight some amazing streamers and their coverage of our game! 

First, the amazing otome streamer and influencer OtomeAddicted has streamed one of our favorite and wildest game scenes – Izel’s introduction – on our Steam page for the Time Masters festival! Please check Otomeaddicted's stream on our Steam page now to see how she handled our brilliant and strange Duke of the North! 

Second, the perceptive and fantastic BlerdyOtome did a 2-hour interview with us where we did a deep dive into Save the Villainess’ characters, influences, plot, and the reasons for why our game could only work as an interactive and fully animated visual novel where only you the player can save the villainess. If you want to learn more about our game, please check it out.

BlerdyOtome also wrote a beautiful and comprehensive article covering our Kickstarter campaign. Please do take a look over at her work!

Third, we have had so many amazing streamers cover our demo so far - and many more will cover it today and throughout the month. We are so grateful to these amazing people for spending hours playing the demo – often in one sitting! 

You can check out some of their collected playthroughs in this Youtube playlist of Save the Villainess Streams.

Enormous thanks to streamers like Tsunderee, ComfyTea, DeeGenerate, Pixachu, DexPrice and (Twitch only so far) Aither, Dokiizutea, Pommelie, Rainbow Sparkles, Reizna, Hanakyo, Voyevoda Rose, Mikiikun, Peculiar Little Rabbit, Ricebits, NeviahofFlame, Skyelockheart, Veenalicious, TMGCafe, Chiisuri, Deltalegionair, Tatsuhiko Hiroki, Miyazu Sumire, Kyrazuu, Ecrivaiin, and Yuki Ikusaba for covering our game. 

We are truly grateful for their support and willingness to cover our game, which leads them to fights with furniture, entanglements with potentially murderous love interests, and attempts to survive a strangely haunted manor. We cannot wait to see you dive into the demo as well!