Blackberry Honey news & patch notes

Hello everyone! I'm writing a quick post to let you all know that my cute comedic yuri visual, The Demon Queen's Dire Dilemma, has been released! It's a very silly and light-hearted story about an adorable- um, I mean, very scary and fierce demon queen, Lady Asmodeus, as she tries to make her ditzy human maid, Lisette, fear her. Will Asmodeus succeed, or will Lisette manage to get the better of her? You'll have to read the visual novel to find out 👀 https://clan.fastly.steamstatic.com/images/33024327/61836e899162ba60f8d75cd4fa842b6266949f77.png https://clan.fastly.steamstatic.com/images/33024327/694af8b7e1b08b4888a16f8fce26aa3a363907cd.png https://clan.fastly.steamstatic.com/images/33024327/8c7bc12b2eab3bef9daef66ecc7745e9527655af.png You can find the visual novel on Steam here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3446430/The_Demon_Queens_Dire_Dilemma/ This VN also takes place in the same universe as my previously released BL visual novel My Confounding Cat is Criminally Cute, so you might want to check them both out if you want to spot some of the cameos and references. Both Demon Queen and Confounding Cat are standalone stories, however, so you don't need to read them both to enjoy the other. Still, if you want to read Confounding Cat, you can do so here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2685600/My_Confounding_Cat_is_Criminally_Cute/ - ebi x

Hi everyone, I'm making a quick announcement to let you know that I'll be releasing a shiny new yuri visual novel, The Demon Queen's Dire Dilemma, on Steam Soon™! https://clan.fastly.steamstatic.com/images/33024327/37fb10716fa2eca80cc70f781b6dc41ee2f51d80.png The Demon Queen's Dire Dilemma is a short comedy story about a failgirl demon queen who's trying (and failing) to get her ditzy human maid to fear her. Lady Asmodeus is supposed to be a terrifying, all-powerful despot, so why does Lisette enjoy doting on her so much?! What's going on?!?!?! The VN is mostly finished, and a near complete build has been approved for release by Steam. The VN just needs another round of quality checking, and then it can be released! I'm not sure when the QC will be finished, but I'm hoping to release the VN either late Feb or early March. If you want to be notified when the VN is out, you can wishlist it here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3446430/The_Demon_Queens_Dire_Dilemma/ And Demon Queen actually takes place in the same universe as my cutesy all ages BL visual novel, My Confounding Cat is Criminally Cute. If you want to check that out, you can do so here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2685600/My_Confounding_Cat_is_Criminally_Cute/ As always, thank you for the support over the years! It's appreciated! I'll keep working hard to make stories that people can enjoy! - ebi x

​Hello everyone, I'm making an announcement to let you know that my cute yuri visual novel, ​Out of the Ocean​, has been released! It's a cute and wholesome story with two love interests (including a mermaid girl), a potential poly ending, and a whole load of adorable art! ​https://clan.akamai.steamstatic.com/images/33024327/101a1036a8881041766b69c821c39a136d67a925.png If you want to read something relaxing and light-hearted, then this is the visual novel for you. It's pretty sweet (though there is a little dash of drama), and I'm very happy with how it turned out! It's actually one of my longest yuri visual novels, since it sits at around 150k and it has multiple choices/endings, so that's exciting hehe :) If you like this sort of format, please let me know. I've been thinking about making some more long yuri visual novels with multiple heroines, choices, and branching, so if this visual novel does well, I might create other VNs like this in the future with longer, more detailed routes. You can find the visual novel here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3616970/Out_of_the_Ocean/ ​ Thank you, as always, for your support! It's appreciated!​ I'll keep doing my best to create more stories that people can enjoy! - ebi x

Hi everyone, I'm writing a quick post to let you know that I've been hard at work these last couple of months on my cute yuri visual novel feat. a mermaid girl, Out of the Ocean. The VN is very close to being finished, and it's been fully coded and edited save for one ending out of a possible five. https://clan.fastly.steamstatic.com/images/33024327/2bb30964d550ad45f8e1dd656c7c2f74b2e54d35.png I'm still waiting on one art asset and the finalised trailer, but other than that, the VN is done. I'm hoping I'll be able to release it some time in December, but as we're nearing the end of the year and the winter sales will soon be upon us, I'm not sure if I'll need to push back the estimated release date until January 2026. I did upload a shiny new demo of the visual novel to Steam, however, which is a little longer than the older demo. In addition to have a few extra scenes, the new demo is a little more polished in terms of visual effects and music placement, and there's an early 'bad ending' you can unlock if you make certain choices. https://clan.fastly.steamstatic.com/images/33024327/0b3018c6468c6a8fa3d2b9144c20503ddb1ae336.png I hope you enjoy the new demo, and I hope you're looking forward to the final release! I'll keep working hard to make the visual novel as polished as it can be! If you're interested, you can check out the demo (and wislist the VN) on Steam here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3616970/Out_of_the_Ocean As always, thank you all for your support! It's appreciated! - ebi x

Hi everyone! I'm just making a quick post to let you know that my spooky yuri visual novel, Her Love, Like Poison, has been released! https://clan.fastly.steamstatic.com/images/33024327/468de97559b15a5487765facaaccdfa38150a8b6.png If you've read any of my other yuri VNs, then Her Love, Like Poison might look familiar. The character art is by the same artist of my previously released yandere yuri visual novel, It gets so lonely here, and the UI is in a similar style. I wrote Her Love, Like Poison pretty soon after finishing up Lonely (I must have been in the mood for more toxic yuri set in the woods), so while the two stories are unrelated, they might be a little bit similar tone-wise. https://clan.fastly.steamstatic.com/images/33024327/46466091d3d03b8df4af805527fbf3963269452b.png In any case, I hope you enjoy the story if you do check it out! It's quite a short game, so it's priced accordingly (it's $6.99 with a 10% launch discount). You can pick it up here if you're interested: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3412620/ As always, thank you for your support over the years! It's very much appreciated! - ebi x

Hello everyone! I'm writing a quick announcement to let you know that my newest VN, Cage of Roses, has finally been released! https://clan.fastly.steamstatic.com/images/33024327/341617e79554b0ba094ae0721a5f69a1dae11db3.png I say 'finally' because I wrote the script for this VN all the way back in early 2021. It took about 4 years for me to get this project pieced together, but I'm very glad that I stuck with it until the bitter end! I think the art by Rock CR and the music by Sarah Mancuso is especially lovely, and it really adds to the overall atmosphere of the story. They really went all-in on the pretty visuals and the ominous, eerie music, and I think it all comes together really nicely! It's been a dream of mine to write a spooky vampire story for over a decade, and I'm very happy I was finally able to do that. I hope I did the idea justice! https://clan.fastly.steamstatic.com/images/33024327/e1337ddc7798b6b2474b10fa665becf331e0c2dd.png You can check out the VN here if you're interested: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2993720 Please let me know if you run into any bugs or typos, and I'll do my best to fix them within a reasonable timeframe. Thank you, as always, for your support over the years. It's very much appreciated, and I hope you'll all enjoy my newest yuri story! - ebi x

Hi everyone! \o/ I'm just making a quick announcement to let you know I'm working on a couple of shiny new yuri VNs (when am I ever not working on yuri VNs tbh haha...) https://clan.fastly.steamstatic.com/images/33024327/9a51e465b0860b14817b915b9055718aada6b25d.png The first on the list is Her Love, Like Poison! It's a dour little VN set in the English countryside during the winter, so it'll be very bleak and cold and miserable! It's a story about a university student, Ethel, who's struggling to muster up the enthusiasm to work on her thesis while girlrotting in her parents' home in a teeny-tiny village. Stuck for inspiration, she goes for a wander in the woods late at night, and has an encounter with a mysterious girl who might be more than she seems. This is a spooky VN with some sexual themes and body horror elements. It goes some rather dark places, but I don't think it's too unpleasantly awful. The character art was also done by the artist of It gets so lonely here! You can wishlist it here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3412620 https://clan.fastly.steamstatic.com/images/33024327/21c7a110772231d437f9e96fbd777c3035db5f1d.png And the second on the list is Bittersweet Blossoms. It's a historical yuri VN that takes place in England in 1919, a little after WWI. Follow Dot, a young girl who lost both her father and her older brother in the war, as she starts working in the stately home of Bly as a maid. At Bly, Dot meets her sadistic young mistress, Patience, and the two begin an uneasy relationship. This VN is a sequel of sorts to Blackberry Honey, though it takes place about 60 years after the events of BH. It might be an interesting read if you want to see what became of Bly over the years! You can wishlist it here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3429340/Bittersweet_Blossoms/ And that's about eveything. Please look forward to these VNs; I'll try to release them both later this year! - ebi x

Hi everyone! I'm writing a quick post to let you know that my cute yuri VN, Clear Skye Thinking, has been released! https://clan.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/images/33024327/013daa826c12b65f11f7d1fc415d1c41202fe8de.png It's a wholesome slice of life story set on the Scottish Isle of Skye, which follows a lolita protagonist called Alice as she meets and falls in love with the cheerful tomboy Piper. You can check it out here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2939470 The story takes place in Skye and shows off various tourist locations on the island (such as Dunscaith Castle and Neist Point lighthouse), while also developing the relationship between Alice and Piper. It's a sweet, fairly short story which can probably be completed in around 3 hours by a fast reader. There's no mature content, and it's all quite light and fluffy. Tonally, I think it's rather similar to All the Words She Wrote or The Fairy's Song, if you want a reference point. I hope you enjoy it if you do choose to check it out! ❤️

Hello everyone! \o/ I’m writing a quick announcement to let you know that the Steam store page for my upcoming slice of life yuri VN, Clear Skye Thinking, is now up! https://clan.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/images/33024327/c64872ffebb7dc091ca77ca751bf9c0ab7a0f923.png Clear Skye Thinking is a cute all ages story about a young girl, Alice, who goes on holiday to the Scottish Isle of Skye with her father during the summer holidays. While in Skye Alice meets the cheerful tomboy Piper, and they both go around the island examining the various tourist spots, from the ruins of Dunscaith Castle to the lush gardens at Armdale. It’s a sweet, slow-paced story about exploration and adventure, and (with some luck) I’ll be able to release it within the next couple of months. You can wishlist it here if that sounds like your sort of thing: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2939470/Clear_Skye_Thinking/ - ebi x

Hello everybody! \o/ I'm writing a post to let you know that I've released a shiny new yuri VN on Steam, Fragile Feelings! https://clan.akamai.steamstatic.com/images/33024327/a40cc7d58aa58e0ea60faba7ae19446517bb4650.png Fragile Feelings is a romance story about a shy young teacher and a gothic school nurse. It’s set in an isolated all-girls’ boarding school in the Japanese countryside and it has a relaxing, soothing atmosphere. The story does contain some serious moments, but it's generally positive in tone. Out of all of my previously released yuri VNs, it's probably the most similar to Blackberry Honey, even if the setting is pretty different. Ann and Kohaku have more than a few things in common with Lorina and Taohua, haha ;; https://clan.akamai.steamstatic.com/images/33024327/1055509ae59f22bab243044589036b2f4a7ce550.png If you want to read something sweet and sapphic, please consider checking it out! https://store.steampowered.com/app/2025700 Thank you for all of your support over the years! It's appreciated! - ebi x

Hi everyone! \o/ I’m writing this announcement to let you know that I've recently released a sequel to my cute yuri VN The Fairy’s Song called The Fairy’s Secret! The Fairy’s Secret is a linear visual novel set in modern day England which centres around the relationship between a grumpy goth and her medieval knight girlfriend. The story is of a similar length to the original Fairy’s Song and it has a similar tone. It’s quite a light-hearted story, for the most part, though there are some fantasy elements and a few moments of intrigue and mystery. The VN is available in both English and Simplified Chinese, and a German translation might happen in the future if the sales are strong enough to support it. https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/33024327/2d2be389c8805ea7eae85f289589a7ba49a68bfe.png If you enjoyed The Fairy’s Song and wanted to read more about Marnie’s adventures, then you should enjoy The Fairy’s Secret! You can buy it on Steam here, if you’re interested: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1994760/The_Fairys_Secret And I’ve also put The Fairy’s Song on sale on Steam to celebrate the occasion, along with a few of my other cute yuri VNs. You can check out my bundle of yuri VNs here: https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/26031/EbiHime_Yuri_Bundle/ Alternatively,, you can buy The Fairy’s Song and The Fairy’s Secret bundled together for an even deeper discount than you’d get buying them individually here: https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/30485/The_Fairys_Bundle/ I hope you’ll enjoy reading more about Marnie’s time in Fenchapel with her cute knight girlfriend! - ebi x

Hi, everyone! I'm writing a post to let you know that my newest yuri VN, Dreamy Planet, has been released on Steam! https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/33024327/1ba1a165e3cf69ff835d6d7765b82766941edf6f.png Dreamy Planet follows a troubled young woman called Haruka, who feels trapped in a loveless relationship with a man her parents introduced to her. Haruka is determined to make this relationship work for her parents’ sake, who are desperate for grandchildren, even if it kills her. Secretly, however, Haruka harbours feelings towards her childhood friend, Shiina, whom she hasn’t seen in several years. Eventually, Shiina gets back into contact with Haruka, and suggests that the pair catch up at one of their favourite childhood haunts: the theme park Dreamy Planet, which has since closed down and fallen into ruin. Will Shiina and Haruka’s relationship meet a similar fate, or will old feelings between them be rekindled? Dreamy Planet is quite sombre in tone, but it's not all doom and gloom. It presents the possibility of a happy ending, and the leads are afforded a degree of hope. https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/33024327/2e9370bfde11f1da59c5b530987673faa9efd75f.png It's a quiet, ambient sort of experience, which some people might find relaxing. I hope you enjoy it, if you do decide to check it out! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1792890/Dreamy_Planet/?curator_clanid=33024327 - ebi x

Hi everyone! I’m just writing a post to let you know that my newest yuri visual novel, Salome’s Kiss, has been released on Steam. Salome is a visual novel that shares a few similarities with Blackberry Honey, given it’s set in the Victorian era, and it also includes a couple of cute maids in the cast. Salome also stars a somewhat shy, self-conscious lead, who might be somewhat reminiscent of Lorina, who gets courted by a mischievous, devious woman who is much more confident than she is. Unlike Blackberry, however, Salome is fairly grim. It touches on some dark subject matter (such as sexual abuse and abortion), and the ending isn’t particularly cheerful. If you like sweet, light yuri stories, you might want to give Salome a miss. If you want a more unsettling yuri story, however, it might be to your liking! The story is available in both English and Simplified Chinese, and you can pick it up here! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1779960/Salomes_Kiss/ I hope you enjoy it, if you choose to check it out! - ebi x

Hi everyone! \o/ I'm just writing a post to let you know that my newest yuri visual novel, All the Words She Wrote, has been released on Steam. Words is a very cute, light yuri VN which doesn't feature too much in the way of melodrama, which takes place in modern day Japan. The story is about a grumpy light novel author and her obsessive fangirl, who winds up falling for her. Think Stephen King's Misery, but moe (I know I've written some grim stories in the past, but nobody gets their legs broken or their thumbs amputated in Words: I promise!). I hope you enjoy it, if you do decide to check it out! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1898670/All_the_Words_She_Wrote/

Hi everybody, Just to let you know, I recently uploaded a new build of BH to Steam which fixes a few misc typos in the English script - and, more importantly, includes a full German translation, courtesy of Saryana. The all ages version of Blackberry Honey is freely available in German on Steam. If you want to download the adult patch (which is available on Steam, but I believe it is inaccessible in Germany), you can grab it off-site here. To apply it, drop it into Blackberry Honey's game folder and overwrite the existing adult.rpa. As I said in the Japanese language update, the Japanese language is not supported with the uncensored adult patch. If you want to play the VN in Japanese with the adult content, you'll still need to download a censored version of the patch off-site, which pixellates certain elements of the art, here. This patch will censor all the adult scenes in every supported language. You can find the same info here, translated into Japanese. As always, please let me know if this update has introduced any bugs into the game, if you see any spelling/grammar errors, or if you're having issues with the achievements. I'll try to fix everything (in a reasonable time frame). Thank you everybody for supporting Blackberry Honey, and thank you to the translators who've worked so hard to make this VN available in so many languages! I appreciate it a lot! - ebi x

My newest yuri visual novel, The Fairy's Song, has been released. It's a fantasy story set in England that follows a teenage goth girl, Marnie. Whilst staying at her grandmother's home in the countryside, Marnie meets a sleeping female knight deep in the forest. The knight introduces herself as Leofe, and claims to have been sleeping in the forest for hundreds of years. Marnie and Leofe soon discover that the forest is cursed, and together they work to break the enchantment, while falling in love. It's a sweet love story, and I hope you enjoy it, if you decide to check it out! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1244260/The_Fairys_Song/

Hi everybody, Just to let you know, I recently uploaded a new build of BH to Steam which includes a full Japanese translation, courtesy of SvntnFls! The all ages base game is available in Japanese via Steam. However, owing to Japanese censorship laws, the fully uncensored adult patch available on Steam is not in Japanese: downloading the Steam adult patch will remove the Japanese language option from the game altogether. If you want to read the VN in Japanese and read the adult content, you need to download a censored patch off-site here. This patch is functionally the same as the existing Steam adult patch, it just pixellates certain elements in the H scenes so as to comply with Japanese laws. The off-site patch will censor all the adult scenes in every supported language. If you're not interested in reading the game in Japanese, you don't need to worry about the off-site patch, and you can continue using the fully uncensored adult patch available on Steam. You can find the same info here, translated into Japanese. I'm sorry if this causes any complications! As always, please let me know if this update has introduced any bugs into the game, if you see any spelling/grammatical errors, or if the achievements are failing to trigger. I'll do my best to fix everything (within a reasonable time frame). Thank you to everybody who has supported Blackberry Honey until now, and thank you to all the translators who have dedicated so much time and energy to this story. It's very much appreciated! - ebi x

Hi everyone, Just letting you know, I uploaded a new build of BH. It doesn't change anything, apart from (hopefully) fixing a couple of errors with the text display in the Russian translation. If this update has done anything strange to the game (such as breaking achievements or interfering with save files), please let me know. It would be appreciated. I had to rebuild the whole VN on a newer version of Ren'py, and I'm unsure if that will have any negative consequences. And in other (unrelated) news, I recently published a new yuri VN on Steam. It's called Rituals in the Dark, and it's a romance story with some spooky elements. If you're interested, check it out! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1118880/Rituals_in_the_Dark Thank you! - ebi x

Hi everyone, Just letting you know, I uploaded a new build of this VN that includes a full Russian translation! I hope more people can now enjoy this story! As always, if you find any errors, typos, or anything that looks amiss in the story, please don't hesitate to tell me! - ebi x

Hi everyone, I recently updated Blackberry Honey to fix a handful of typos in the English script, as well as a few errors in the Chinese script. These are very minor changes, but I think the edits to the English script were long overdue. Thank you for supporting this visual novel! I appreciate it a lot! If you find any more spelling mistakes, or anything that looks strange, please feel free to point it out! Thank you! - ebi x

Hi everybody, Just letting you know, I've recently added BH's adult patch to Steam as free DLC. You can download it here, if you want: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1075720/Blackberry_Honey_Adult_Patch/ Downloading this DLC will automatically patch the game for you, letting you access the adult scenes. Please note: you should be 18 or older to download this content. Hopefully, this makes accessing the extra scenes easier for those who are interested! - ebi x

Hi everybody, Just letting you know, the story has now been fully translated into Simplified Chinese! Extra details about the game can be found on BH's itch.io page here: https://ebihime.itch.io/blackberry-honey If this patch happens to break anything in the game (particularly the achievements), please let me know! I'm also aware that there are a few lingering typos in the current build. I have a list of things I'd like to fix in the English script, but a Russian translation is currently in progress. Editing the English script now will make integrating the TL harder, so I'll hold off on changing the English script until the Russian TL is done. Nevertheless, if you find any typos in the story, please let me know, and I'll make a note to fix them when I can! - ebi

Hi everyone, As the title says, I've updated the game. This update fixes a few spelling error fixes here and there (thank you to everybody for pointing them out for me!), and edits to a few of the CGs so the character designs remain consistent throughout the story. This update should also fix the achievement problem some people might have been having, where the game wouldn't trigger certain achievements. However, it will only fix the achievement problem for people who haven't read through the VN yet. If you have read through the VN already and the achievements did not all work, please check the pinned typos/bugs post which gives you advice on how to solve this problem! Also, every time I update the game via Steam, it will reset all your rpa files to the 'Steam' version. This might annoy people who don't want their rpa files 'reset', so I'll try not to update the Steam build very often so it doesn't inconvenience anybody. For more information about this, please look at Blackberry Honey's page on my itch.io account, ebi-hime. Thank you! ❤︎

Hi everyone, As the title says, I've updated the game. This update fixes a few spelling error fixes here and there (thank you to everybody for pointing them out for me!), and edits to a few of the CGs so the character designs remain consistent throughout the story. This update should also fix the achievement problem some people might have been having, where the game wouldn't trigger certain achievements. However, it will only fix the achievement problem for people who haven't read through the VN yet. If you have read through the VN already and the achievements did not all work, please check the pinned typos/bugs post which gives you advice on how to solve this problem! Also, every time I update the game via Steam, it will reset all your rpa files to the 'Steam' version. This might annoy people who don't want their rpa files 'reset', so I'll try not to update the Steam build very often so it doesn't inconvenience anybody. For more information about this, please look at Blackberry Honey's page on my itch.io account, ebi-hime. Thank you! ❤︎