Any good anime games on steam asides from the ones carpe fulgar published?

[Sabin Stargem]

I will give it a spin.  Thank you for mentioning it. 

[Ravenholme]

Analogue is the latest thing by the extremely talented Christine Love, and I love it to bits. It's fantastic, easily one of my favourite VNs because of the sheer originality of it and the quality of the writing. Character art is slightly generic, but I don't care, because it's really, really well written.

[SephkaBlight]

How exactly does it work? I played through the demo for a little bit

Do you just read through the logs and discuss it with the AI? If that's the case then I think I'll pass. As much as I like VNs they have to have more character interaction and romance involved for me to be interested in them

[Ravenholme]

How exactly does it work? I played through the demo for a little bit

Do you just read through the logs and discuss it with the AI? If that's the case then I think I'll pass. As much as I like VNs they have to have more character interaction and romance involved for me to be interested in them

I can't say any more than that without spoilering the awesome parts of the game.

[SephkaBlight]

Fine :<

I'll grab it during a steam sale or something

Also now that the topic has been revived Ys: The Oath of Felghana is now on steam and it's really good. Boss fights are quite challenging but a lot of fun

[Ruwen]

Cherry Tree High Comedy Club just came out and is available through gamersgate.
It's like a dating sim without the sex innuendo.

http://nyu-media.com/products/cherry-tree-high-comedy-club/

As for the localization... Well, it make me realize how much extra polish the Carpe Fulgur team add to their releases - like having a font that blend well in the game, or not having the text wrapping haphazardly.
At least, it's playable.

[SilentCaay]

A friend of mine got Analog: A Hate Story and Digital: A Love Story and was raving about them. I might pick them up on a good sale but I don't want to spend $10 on a VN of indeterminate length.

Cherry Tree High Comedy Club just came out and is available through gamersgate.
It's like a dating sim without the sex innuendo.
http://nyu-media.com/products/cherry-tree-high-comedy-club/
As for the localization... Well, it make me realize how much extra polish the Carpe Fulgur team add to their releases - like having a font that blend well in the game, or not having the text wrapping haphazardly.
At least, it's playable.

I was really hoping those fonts were just working fonts back when I heard about this... :< Still, I'll keep an eye out on Steam for it.

[evergreen183]

I'm a little shocked no one mentioned Braid.
Great puzzle game although some of the puzzles get really hard.
There's also "two" stories: The actual story - and the ...well... the "hidden" story. Can't really describe the second one without giving it away.

[SpaceDrake]

I'm a little shocked no one mentioned Braid.
Great puzzle game although some of the puzzles get really hard.
There's also "two" stories: The actual story - and the ...well... the "hidden" story. Can't really describe the second one without giving it away.

I'm not really sure I'd call Braid an "anime" game. :V

Anyway, I've played Analogue for myself, and I have to say I was deeply impressed. I do hope we get more "smart" VNs on Steam like that - I know I'm sure keeping an eye on whatever Love does next.

[dkellis]

I'm personally hoping for more variety in anime VNs released in English, because based on what is currently popular the "smart" VNs tend to all be really depressing. And frankly I refuse to play anything past a certain threshold of depressing.

[Ravenholme]

I'm personally hoping for more variety in anime VNs released in English, because based on what is currently popular the "smart" VNs tend to all be really depressing. And frankly I refuse to play anything past a certain threshold of depressing.

Analogue was depressing, but that does make one of the endings (The first one I got) all the better imo - because it wasn't depressing, it was incredibly heartwarming and the best way ever to round it off.

[dkellis]

Analogue was depressing, but that does make one of the endings (The first one I got) all the better imo - because it wasn't depressing, it was incredibly heartwarming and the best way ever to round it off.

Which would still require me to play through the depressing parts.

Ever since a personal RL thing I've reacted badly to depressing bits in my entertainment, and nothing in how Analogue (or Katawa Shoujo or whatever) has been presented and recommended by others has made me doubt that this same negative reaction may occur.

[BlondRobin]

Ever since a personal RL thing I've reacted badly to depressing bits in my entertainment, and nothing in how Analogue (or Katawa Shoujo or whatever) has been presented and recommended by others has made me doubt that this same negative reaction may occur.

Incidentally, both of the real endings for Analogue are arguably bittersweet at best, for reasons I'll avoid spoiling in a public place. If you're not inclined to more depressing stories, which I can certainly understand, I'd definitely advise giving it a pass.

I would recommend it to anyone else, though.

[Balto]

Well seeing as steam is becoming more open to anime-styled games and just all round awesome games thanks to the efforts of Carpe Fulfur, they released Y's Origins yesterday/today depending on your time zone

I came, i played and it was good

[jseah]

I sometimes wonder if an out-and-out visual novel might do well if translated.  Clearly a number of initial sales are not going to have the sexual content japanese VNs often have but there are a fair few out there that have none. 

Obviously fan translations and some official ones do exist, but definitely not mainstream.  The closest I could find to mainstream is Symphonic Rain, but the english translation was done on TL wiki and so not commercial. 
A taiwanese company did a chinese translation that I heard was on sale in Singapore (I come from there) and that's how I heard about it.  But clearly a chinese speaking east asian market has more in common, culturally, with Japanese VNs than an english speaking American/Europe market. 

So, anyone heard of a mainstream commercial translated VN?  Did it do well on sales?