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PIRATES!! In the mood for playing a short visual novel with pirates and BL romance? Then, as usual, Ertal Games is here to provide the experience! Jolly Roger is a visual novel developed for the Yaoi Jam (hence its shor…
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Chasing the Stars
Also known as Chasing the Stars, chasing stars, chasing-the-stars
Chasing the Stars is a steampunk-ish multichoice BL Visual Novel. Tirs is a workaholic, determined young man with a dream: going to space. Will he achieve his goal while dealing with college life, the academic research community and its begrudged, and his awful love life?
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18 Jun 2026
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- February 2021
- Chasing the Stars Soundtrack AvailableAfter many people asked about the original music of the game, I've decided to make the soundtrack available! Until now, it was a perk for the Kickstarter backers and my lovely supporters on Patreon, but from now on you…
- January 2021
- New Free Crossover Game!Can you imagine the characters from A Hand in the Darkness, Chasing the Stars, and My Burning Heart as cats? And living in a cat café? Well, imagine no more, this is it! A Cat Café Story is a very short Visual Novel (ju…
- November 2020
- Great news! Our more recent BL Visual Novel, Lurkers, was released yesterday! Lurkers is a short thriller revolving around the Jack the Ripper crimes. It features around 35k words, two suspects, three love interests, on…Store
- September 2020
- We have the pleasure to announce the demo of Lurkers is now available for Windows on the Steam store. Experience the grimmest series of crimes of the Victorian era in this short BL Yaoi Visual Novel, putting yourself in…Store
- June 2020
- To celebrate Pride, we've partnered up with @MidBoss to feature Chasing the Stars in their Summer of Pride Steam Sale! Check it out and share if you think your fellow gaymers might be interested. https://store.steampowe…Store
- Our Kickstarter campaign is now live! Follow Paul on his way to be a successful artist, meet other artists, writers and musicians, and get to know the most romantic and bohemian side of Paris! https://www.kickstarter.co…Patch notes
- May 2020
- New Game on Kickstarter- previewHello, I hope you're all healthy and fine! Just a quick message to let you know Night and Day, my new project, will be live on Kickstarter next week, on June 1st. Night and Day is a BL Visual Novel set in Paris in 1950,…
- Game updated!Now that I've mostly finished with My Burning Heart, it's time to go back to Chasing the Stars and fix all the small issues some players have about the game! Plus, of course, adding some extras that were planned since t…
- January 2020
- A Hand in the Darkness Banned from SteamToday A Hand in the Darkness has been banned from Steam. It was only a matter of time, to be honest, since the game doesn't comply with the current Steam guidelines (it did in 2017, when it was released, although it was…
- February 2019
- Our new game is on Kickstarter!As some of you might know, our new BL visual novel, My Burning Heart, is currently running a Kickstarter campaign. It's a story set in a 1001 Nights world, with beautiful art by 6nii9. This is the summary: Our protagoni…
- Additional text editing and CG gallery errors fixedI've posted a new build, fixing one of the CG gallery images still not showing up, edited a bit the text, cleaning typos and such, and fixed the achievement for Ending 12. Unfortunately, the "All Ends" achievement refus…
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