Monster Girl Therapy

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• Community & Events·1 Sept 2026Official

  33% OFF for the Fall in Love Visual Novel Festival!

  Fall in Love? I don't know about that, this is therapy after all ... But there IS a fat discount, 33% for the first time! =]Also, TONS of fascinating visual novels in this festival, so take a look!#FallinLoveFestival
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• Announcements·11 Aug 2026Official

  Dev Blog: The structure of a game | Monstrous anatomy

  Even though pacing has become a popular lens through which we analyse media, the general structure of video games is still underdiscussed. Sometimes, that’s probably an aftereffect of the level-by-level logic used in early arcade gaming, sometimes writers simply take the structure of films or TV shows for granted, with mixed success. But since all of this has a MASSIVE impact on the overall experience, today I’m going to dissect the structure of Monster Girl Therapy. A monstrous example, so to say!SPOILER WARNING from here on! MacromonsterFirst, the game as a whole, starting with the basics:There is an intro that introduces (duh) the overall concept and the protagonist as briefly as possible. 2–3 minutes may not sound like much, but in a text-based game, I wouldn’t want to ask much more of the players. The setting is established along the way or simply relies on stereotypes in people’s heads. After all, the players are here for the monster girls and THEIR rambling!After that, they can take a walk on the deliberately compact map. Besides five locations with monster girls, it’s also possible to find “corrupted” data remnants that illustrate the setting and tone through a short dialogue. As players continue exploring, they can also discover dialogues between multiple monster girls, essentially functioning as secrets. I affectionately nicknamed them “Bechdel nodes”, if only in my head. ;DOnce you’ve completed the first level of all five locations (more on that later), the path to location number six opens, where the finale takes place; a classic point of no return. The finale, in turn, draws on the events of the previous five locations and brings them together thematically.All in all, the game usually takes between 3 and 6 hours to complete.What may catch your eye here are the numbers: 6 “real” monster girls really isn’t that many, and although the corrupted encounters are meant to at least reinforce the FEELING of a lived-in world, I opted for a relatively small cast f...
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• Announcements·20 Jul 2026Official

  OUT NOW in English & German!

  Long story short: Monster Girl Therapy can now be played in English and German! With the German version, we also have a batch of news, fittingly focussed on the German-speaking world. (But enough of all that after this one!)Welcome to Monstermädchentherapie!Ah, these wonderful compound words! As an official name for a video game, this one would be rather unwieldy though, so I’ll stick with Monster Girl Therapy … which doesn’t change the fact that the interactive narrative with minigames and puzzles can now be played in German! After updating, just change the language in the menu at any time. In fact, this isn’t just any random translation: Even though I originally wrote the game in English, I am a native speaker and planned for both versions from the start. Practically speaking, the German one can be understood as a “second original”! I wouldn’t go so far as to say you should play the game again (unless you are REALLY interested in language comparisons!) … but if you haven’t checked it out yet, this might be an additional reason to do so. I also have a recent blog post about the details of the translation!Games Composed in GermanyAs in previous years, there is once again a big Steam festival for games from Germany: Between July 20 and 27, Games Composed in Germany offers a look at the things being developed here … and of course, there are plenty of discounts to go around! Monster Girl Therapy is taking part as well. A little game in German for free, coming soon!My first little game, Vom Drachentöten (“On Slaying Dragons”) is only out in German, but soon, it will also be available for free! It has 95% positive reviews (out of 21 total :D) and recently reached 500 copies sold, which is a nice occasion. Since not much is happening with the game anymore and the price has always been very low, it might also just be positioned better as “free publicity” for me as a developer. Steam Support has already been contacted – so if you’d like a free German-language RPG, add it to...
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• Announcements·14 Jul 2026Official

  Dev Blog: Translating things

  If everything works out, the update with the German translation of Monster Girl Therapy will be released on July 20th—just about a week from today! =)And since translation is a COMPLEX art riddled with fascinating little rabbit holes, today’s blog post is going to be a bit more unstructured than usual.A long list of names for monster girls, places, and concepts, mixed with random thoughts and anecdotes about translation, as well as brand-new German insultsMay contain character spoilers here and there! Also, none of this is final.I’m a huge fan of free translations (and even localizations, if they make sense!), and this game has practically no direct ties to English-speaking cultures anyway. So there’s no reason to cling to the “original”—a free translation it is!My names follow one simple rule: anything linguistically inspired by other cultures (like “Equitania Equinox” or “S’Sinbal”), as well as anything that works well in German (like the “Madame”), stays the same. Everything else gets Germanized!Shaliva becomes “Sabbrine,” a portmanteau of “sabbern” (salivate) and the girl-next-door-name Sabrina. My alternative was “Aschlick,” (from “Schlick”/”slick” and Ashley) but someone kindly pointed out that it has a very… uh… ANAL ring to it, even in English! Which genuinely hadn’t occurred to me?! Other ideas included “Schelima” (“Schleim”/”slime”, but it sounds vaguely Arabic), “Speileen” (“speien” means barfing, which is just too much!), or “Speichelle” (“Speichel” is literally saliva, but it also means “spoke,” so this could honestly be a fine bicycle girl).The metropolis of “Sliwhelbud” is now “Kriechlingen” (from “crawl” or “creep”), which has this cutesy hyper-German feel while still capturing the right vibe.Shaliva loves to say “bro,” and finding German equivalents turned out to be surprisingly tricky! “Alter”, “Dicker”, “Lan” (variations in the vein of “dude” or “mate”), as well as the brothers “Bruder” and “Brudi” all carry their own baggage—sometimes regional, s...
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• Announcements·5 Jul 2026Official

  Dev Blog: You can’t play as a girl. Here’s why.

  First and foremost, I’d love for women, non-binary folks and everyone else to play Monster Girl Therapy. But the character you’re playing? He’s a guy, as cis-het as they come, and definitely not someone who would even use words like that. This blogpost explains how the game makes sure you know that—and of course why!Celebrating the gender revealI know for a fact that a specific moment of my game has hurt its financial prospects. (In case you haven’t played yet, no story spoilers… yet!) Right off the bat, you have to choose an avatar, and you’re shown a bunch of archetypical fantasy characters, clearly divided into two gendered sections. If you go for a female avatar, the protagonist refuses and deletes the corresponding choices from the game.“Wait, no! That’s a girl, isn’t it? I’m a guy, so I’ll take one of the guys.”After that, only the “guys” remain, and you’ll also get an achievement. Congratulations! As you can see, two thirds of all players tried to pick a female avatar at some point, and when promoting the game, I actually got quite a few comments like this one: I also heard from one person who refunded the game in this exact moment… Which is of course somewhat unfortunate (I hope they would’ve liked it!), but I also get it. In fact, I think it’s really cool that people want to play their monster girl games as girls! Unfortunately, this was never an option.But first, what exactly is happening in this scene?Making the protagonist of Monster Girl Therapy male is not enough: The player, whoever they are, needs to be conscious of this as well. This might sound self-evident, but especially non-male players have identified with male avatars for decades, projecting their own identity onto them. Consciously or subconsciously, they might imagine the protagonist as any gender, which isn’t helped by the pixelated chibi characters of an rpg maker game. So essentially, the game is TESTING the player’s assumptions, and “correcting” them before the game even starts!If the pl...
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