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Yuri Kissaten · Published by Yuri Kissaten · Official site ↗
Positive — 96% positive (27 reviews)
Last updated 7 Oct 2026
A visual novel about living through a sudden and chaotic job loss, and making tough choices about your future. Based on the real-life experiences of foreign teachers living in Japan.
Indie, Simulation, Free To Play, Casual · 2025 · More free games
Step into the shoes of a dispatch English teacher navigating Japan’s educational landscape, making pivotal decisions that shape your future. A visual novel based on real-life experiences, offering a glimpse into a unique cultural journey.
About this game
In “Life of a Dispatch English Teacher in Japan,” you play as Maria Ramirez, an American working in Japan as an English teacher. It’s a rewarding, fun job, and you’re beloved by students and coworkers alike–until suddenly, one day you lose your job. You work for a dispatch English teaching company, and they lost their contract with your school, just one month before the end of the school year.
Out of nowhere, you must change the course of your life. You have a loving girlfriend to support you and other friends facing this alongside you, but ultimately you must make an extremely tough choice about your future.
This game is based on the real-life experiences of English teachers throughout Japan, on issues that tens of thousands of people endure every single year, and is designed to provide an up-close viewpoint of what the dispatch contract system does to the individuals impacted.
Live through real-life shock – You’re an English teacher in Japan, and suddenly, your life is turned upside-down. Experience the chaos of a last-second life meteor.
Make tough choices – End your relationship? Risk it all? There are no easy answers to how to face your future.
Exploration of underdiscussed issues – Tens of thousands of English teachers in Japan face the same problems every single year, and “Life of a Dispatch English Teacher in Japan” sheds light on these solvable issues to a mainstream audience.
A myriad of social issues – Job loss, foreign work visas, cross-country moves, same-sex marriage, adult loneliness–this game covers many different factors in a short time span.
Brisk story – Across all endings, the story runs about 6,000 words long, so a full playthrough should take thirty minutes or less.
Yuri Kissaten is a game studio that makes narrative-focused games about girls loving girls, founded in 2024 by Fruz and Beatrice Baker. We create experiences with strong stories and memorable characters. All Yuri Kissaten projects focus primarily on LGBTQ+ characters and their relationships, romantic and otherwise. We hope you enjoy our games!
This game was created thanks to:
Beatrice Baker, the beautiful director and writer.
Fruz, the captivating UI and background artist.
linguisticspaceship, the alluring programmer.
And this game couldn't have been possible if not for the incredible quality Creative Commons assets by character artist sutemo. Thank you so much.
System Requirements
Will my PC run this? →Minimum
- OS: 10
- Processor: 1GHz
- Memory: 1 GB RAM
- Graphics: DirectX or OpenGL compatible card
- DirectX: Version 9.0
- Storage: 1 GB available space
Supported Languages
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Toxic Yuri Release Date - 9/18!
The Toxic Yuri release date is close! Yuri Kissaten’s third full game will launch on September 18th, 2026. Doku-chan will be unleashed onto the world in all her glory, and nobody can stop her, not even us.Yuri Kissaten has spent the last many months crafting the most delightfully noxious romantic comedy visual novel of all-time, and we’re really excited to see you explore it all. We’ve buried some gut-busting gags, eye-poppingly adorable moments, and pitch-dark terror all throughout this game, with 15+ episode variants and 10+ endings.Can YOU earn your happy ending with Doku-chan? Or will things just end up toxic? Try out the Episode 1 demo to prepare.At launch, the game will be available on PC, Mac, and Linux. It will only be available in English at first, but we plan to add Japanese and Chinese localizations by the end of 2026. And, if the game’s a big hit, we’ll keep adding more localizations, and hopefully more platforms as well.The best things you can do to help build up the Toxic Yuri hype:Spread the word to everyone. To your family, friends, exes, situationships, old flings you met once on vacation and then never texted after returning home, and that one coworker you can tell is really into anime but hides it well.Sign our Day 1 Review Pledge! We need at least 10 reviews on September 18th in order to break Steam’s “small games” curse. Our first games didn’t manage it, so that’s why we’re asking YOU for help. Yes, you personally!For more info about Toxic Yuri, check out the game page on our website, or take a look at the press kit.Read full article on Community Announcements (funkydinosaurs)AnnouncementsOfficial
Gay It Loud Demo - Play Now
Gay It Loud, Yuri Kissaten's latest dating sim, now has a demo available for everyone to enjoy!Play the Gay It Loud demo today and experience the culture of a bunch of gay girls (and one guy) in the far-off year of 1995. The shopping mall of your dreams comes to life. Let's hang out there.Gay It Loud Demo Features• A 15,000+ word story, most of "Day 1" of the story. Four characters to meet and flirt with.• Five quarter-life crises among sensitive Gen X slackers.• Highly polygonal computer graphics mixed with amazingly adorable 2D sprites.• Immersive brands and ads from the 1990s of your dreams. Collect them all!Gay It Loud Demo Characters• Verity: Go-getter and ray of sunshine. Loves games of all kinds (doesn’t mean she’s good at them).• Zamira: Failing artist brooding over her next career move. She sees this mall as a pointless stopgap. Another round of Skee-Ball will change her mind.• Maya: She does NOT do children’s birthday parties. Stop asking.• Deb: A B-tier mean girl with C-tier conformist dreams. Melt this softie’s icy heart.• Marshall: A lot has changed about your ex. He transitioned, and he seems to live at the mall. But even though he said you shouldn’t get back together…About Yuri KissatenYuri Kissaten is a new game studio dedicated to making games about girls who love girls.The main minds behind this game are:Joi Massat, director, story, design, and art. Wow!Along with writing and additional art by Beatrice Baker and Fruz.We hope you enjoy all our very gay games!Also, Play Toxic Yuri!Our other upcoming game, Toxic Yuri, also has a demo. Play that too.Read full article on Community Announcements (funkydinosaurs)Patch NotesOfficial
1.11 Update
A problem with the Mac build has (hopefully) been fixed.Read full article on Community Announcements (funkydinosaurs)Patch NotesOfficial
Yuri Kissaten Studio Update: A Lilyful Year to Come
Yuri Kissaten completed its first full year as a game studio in 2025, and wowzers was it an adventure!If you remember, we embarked on the "5 for '25 Campaign," an effort to work on and announce five different games throughout 2025. In the end, we only released one full game, Winter Heat, and one smaller game, "Life of a Dispatch English Teacher in Japan," though we learned a whole lot in the process. And we really did end up revealing all 5 games as planned!Look at all the games we worked on in 2025:We ran our first crowdfunding campaign, we attended our first live event and first Steam events, we made three different showcase videos, we did social video marketing... It was a big year of firsts.And so, 2026 will be just as ambitious, but with more targeted, specific goals. I have no clue how many games we'll announce, and how many games we'll release is still in flux (it seems like four, but it could be three or five depending on what gets finished soonest). But I do know we're going to strive for our Six Sapphic Goals for 2026, and I'll share them with you.#1 Release demos early and often.While we will release 3-4 games in 2026, we're still working on plenty of projects, and we want to at least get demos out for every unreleased game by the end of the year. Store pages are nice, and a really big mark of progress, but demos are best because y'all players can experience them, and it's a lot easier to share. Even for games several years out, we'll try to get a demo out soon.#2 Work on RPGM projects!We've only done visual novels so far, but we had a lot of fun working on the imminently upcoming Oomfie RPG sub-game for Winter Heat. Both of us (Bea and Fruz) have experience making top-down adventure games in our younger years, and we want to bring that passion into Yuri Kissaten soon too. Narrative games in all shapes and sizes are great!#3 Collab with new people.So far, we've worked with extremely small teams in our games, and one of the two of us has led every project ...Read full article on Community Announcements (funkydinosaurs)AnnouncementsOfficial
Yuri Kissaten's Winter Game Showcase
The newest Yuri Kissaten Espresso showcase for Winter 2025 premiered on Youtube today and gave the world an overview of 5 new and upcoming Yuri game releases for 2025 and 2026.Watch the full showcase here: Here’s a round-up of everything we saw from Yuri Kissaten and from partner studios:Winter Heat:Launching TODAY!After a successful Kickstarter campaign, Winter Heat has finally released for the world to enjoy. It will also receive several free content updates throughout 2026, including an Oomfie RPG expansion and an Epilogue storyline.A narrative game about love in the digital age, Winter Heat follows the story of Shio, a woman living in snowy Kyoto, and Javi, a woman living in sweltering Santiago. Follow their long-distance love through online chats, video calls, and social media apps. Plus, there’s a smorgasboard of side content through in-game apps like an educational Maps app, the parody microblog Wittier, and the deckbuilder-flavored mini-RPG Oomfie RPG!Website: https://yurikissaten.com/winter-heat-press-kit/Steam: Desert Blossom:Welcome to a fantasy yuri RPG set in a continent of another world. In the deserts of the Baihe Continent, a girl named Mars was born, breaking the curse. -- Embarking on a journey, composing an epic adventure about courage, life and love.Features multiple endings, 300+ items, dozens of character illustrations, and a total playtime of 10-12 hours.An English translation of the demo is now available, and the full game will be available in English in 2026.Steam: ZH RPG Studio: https://bsky.app/profile/zh-rpg.bsky.socialGay It Loud:Dating in the dreamy shopping mall of 1995! Hang out at the food court, have sloppy makeouts in the dressing room, loiter in the arcade, and collect nostalgic toys. Live the ultimate Gen X slacker dream, complete with pre-rendered 3D backgrounds, overly introspective twentysomethings, and a whole lot of window shopping.Experience lesbian dating with three girls (and one guy) to go out with! Five story routes, 50...Read full article on Community Announcements (funkydinosaurs)
