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Katawa Shoujo is a bishoujo-style visual novel set in the fictional Yamaku High School for disabled children, located somewhere in modern Japan. Hisao Nakai, a normal boy living a normal life, has his life turned upside down when a congenital heart defect forces him to move to a new school after a long hospitalization. Despite his difficulties, Hisao is able to find friends—and perhaps love, if he plays his cards right. There are five main paths corresponding to the 5 main female characters, each path following the storyline pertaining to that character. The story is told through the perspective of the main character, using a first person narrative. This game uses a traditional text and sprite-based visual novel model with an ADV text box. Katawa Shoujo is under development by an international team of amateur developers, and will be released free of charge under the Creative Commons BY-NC-ND License.

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After 5 years of development to the day, Katawa Shoujo is now complete.

Katawa Shoujo download links:
Torrent: Windows | Mac OS X | Linux: see below
DDL: Windows | Mac OS X | Linux x86
Do not download this content if you are not 18 years old or over.
Direct download links coming back soon.

ATTENTION: The Linux version has a faulty and potentially dangerous launcher script. Until the full download can be replaced, please download Dl.katawa-shoujo.com and replace the one in the full download (Torrent here) with it.

The Internet, January 4th 2012 - Four Leaf Studios is proud to present the full release of Katawa Shoujo, free of charge. It's been five long years until this day, with a multinational group of twenty-one developers working on art, music, writing, programming, and direction, to say nothing of the innumerable contributors to the project both past and present, but it's finally here.

Katawa Shoujo is a visual novel set in the fictional Yamaku High School for disabled children, located in modern Japan. Hisao Nakai, a normal boy living a normal life, has his life turned upside down when a congenital heart defect forces him to move to a new school after a long hospitalization. Despite his difficulties, Hisao is able to find friends — and perhaps love, if he plays his cards right. There are five main paths corresponding to the 5 main female characters, each path following the storyline pertaining to that character. The story is told through the perspective of the main character, using a first person narrative. The game uses a traditional text and sprite-based visual novel model with an ADV text box.

The story of Katawa Shoujo is a long one, spanning over a decade. In December of the year 2000, the doujin Schuppen Harnische was released by the artist RAITA of circle Zettai Shoujo. One of the pages in the extras section of the doujin contained a sketch imagining a game about disabilities set in a Japanese high school. If not for later events, that may well have been the end of it. With the sticky in 4chan's anime board in January of 2007, though, interest was suddenly sparked in the idea within, and the idea of creating this game came about. After months of brainstorming, but little progress, a core development team by the name of Four Leaf Studios was formed in April of the same year. With this, Katawa Shoujo was set on the path to its final creation.

Four Leaf Studios is a volunteer group of twenty-one developers from around the world, having come together for the sole purpose of developing Katawa Shoujo. Hailing from many different countries, backgrounds, and professions, Four Leaf Studios became committed to working towards Katawa Shoujo as an entirely free game, with no money involved in the project.

With that, the story of Four Leaf Studios is finished. As a single entity, we will not be producing another game. But even though our story has ended, you will now be able to experience a new story; the story that Four Leaf Studios existed to create.

We hope you enjoy Katawa Shoujo.

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Katawa Shoujo release date announced

Katawa Shoujo release date announced

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Katawa Shoujo will be released on January 4, 2012.

Katawa Shoujo Act 1 v5

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A new version of Act 1 has been released, with the biggest change being three added languages: German, Hungarian and Russian.

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Cat_Anarchist
Cat_Anarchist

If someone wondered where all mods, devs of game crying for admins of Moddb and mods were deleted from here.

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Guest
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Where to get them now?

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Cat_Anarchist
Cat_Anarchist

Who know... Say thanks 4LS, who hate their fans.

Update: They returned them.

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PrimeraEspada
PrimeraEspada

Easily one of my fav games! It is soooooooooooo good! Thank you, DDLC april fools day(I really hope you got that)!

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-Kawaii_Chizuru-
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I'd love to give this a 10, but I can't since I'm new...awesome game though :D

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Guest
Guest

love this,truly amazing,you guys should make a sequel to this game

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drmaddog42
drmaddog42

999999999999999999999999999999/10

Best VN in existence

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Neon-Ghost
Neon-Ghost

11/10 Made me cry.

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TrIcKsTerAxEl
TrIcKsTerAxEl

This was the first eroge/vn i read XD

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