Harlequinade

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• Community & Events·1 Sept 2026Official

  Fall in Love Visual Novel Steam Festival is live!

  Fall in love with visual novels from September 1-9 in the Fall in Love Visual Novel Festival!Harlequinade is currently taking part in the Fall in Love Visual Novel Festival, a Steam festival dedicated to romance visual novels from around the world, hosted by Studio Élan! From September 1-9 you can find over 200 visual novels in the festival, ranging from discounted games, new demos, and more~A few of our other visual novels are on sale as well!And you can try out the demo for our other upcoming game as well~
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• Announcements·12 Aug 2026Official

  August Updates – Pierrot’s Route

  Hi everyone, happy August! July was a very busy month for me—I ended up boothing at 2 conventions, Anime Blues Con and OffKai Expo—but now that it’s August I’ve been able to settle down and resume work on Harlequinade.Next month we’ll be running a Kickstarter for Harlequinade where you can get exclusive merch for the game as well as contribute to it! You can follow the Kickstarter page to be notified when it launches.I was expecting some people to like Pierrot, but I wasn’t expecting so many people to like him more than Harlequin, the game’s namesake! So to honor that, this month’s devlog is centered around my own Pierrot, Giles.Like a lot of romance visual novels, Harlequinade has a common route where you spend time getting used to the setting and the love interests before splitting off into the stories for specific love interests. Harlequinade’s common route’s first draft is finished and is a little over 25k words long, though you won’t be able to see all of it in a single playthrough—there’s lots of scenes that are limited from your choices, such as which clown you want to spend time with. After the common route, the next step is the love interest routes!Giles’ route is already around 10k words long. I decided to start on his first because I felt it’d be harder to write, as Giles is a quieter, shyer character. He isn’t confident and smirking like Lynn, he’s someone who worries what other people think of him. Trying to balance both Colette and Giles’ problems while romancing him is a little hard! And not to mention the timeloops...The structure of Harlequinade’s story is somewhat convoluted, given the amount of choices it has. Most of the choices don’t affect the ending you receive, but do alter the scene you’re in and potentially future scenes—something simple like telling Giles “I have a roommate” might lead him to saying something different to you later on, as he can’t relate to that. There’s a lot of smaller choices like that.As for artwork, there’s a few upda...
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• Announcements·19 Jun 2026Official

  Demo out now!

  The demo for Harlequinade is now here, just in time to celebrate the Games for Pride sale on Steam!A night of fun turns into a night of horror when you find yourself trapped in a never-ending carnival as the most death-prone college student ever!Harlequinade is a timeloop horror romance visual novel about a college student trapped in a carnival that resets every time they die. Can you trust the clowns there to help you see the day through?In this preview of the carnival, you'll be able to...customize your protagonist from 2 character looks with a changeable name and pronounsmeet the 2 male love interests at the carnival, the Harlequin and the Pierrotdie several timesThe demo is just under an hour long.
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• Community & Events·11 May 2026Official

  Harlequinade is part of The Storyteller's Festival!

  Harlequinade is taking part in The Storyteller's Festival this week, alongside 300+ story-driven games hosted by Two and a Half Studios!We also have 2 other visual novels taking part in the festival that you can check out~
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• Announcements·16 Mar 2026Official

  Announcing Harlequinade, an upcoming horror timeloop otome game

  As we’re wrapping up development on our current otome game Crimson Waves on the Emerald Sea: Amaranthine Moon, it’s time to announce our next otome game — Harlequinade, a modern timeloop horror romance game!A never-ending carnival and a death-prone college student…Tired from your studies, your friends drag you out for a night of fun out at a traveling carnival. But for some reason, you can’t help but feel the sense of déjà vu…Harlequinade is a horror otome romance visual novel about a never-ending carnival and a day that keeps going on forever—unless you find out how to stop it for good with the help of the clowns stuck at the carnival with you.This visual novel will feature a customizable protagonist, 2 male love interests (the Harlequin and the Pierrot), and lots, and lots, and lots of ways to die. Wishlist it on Steam to be notified when the demo comes out!
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