A downloadable Tragicomedy for Windows, macOS, and Linux

Lovesick Girls Crave Pressure

~15k words, or around an hour, in length.

Lovingly assembled for the Toxic Yuri Visual Novel Jam 2025

! CONTENT WARNINGS !

F&P is a story about loneliness and abandonment. It contains potentially triggering material such as Gore, Casual Transphobia, and Painful Straggot Flirting.

It also contains flashing imagery, which may or may not trigger photosensitive epilepsy.

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i loved this. deeply personal, funny and affecting. thank you for sharing

Thank you for the kinds words ^^

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"but doctor, if i'm pagliacci, and you're a stress hallucination, then who's flying this trash compactor????"

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this is played-this-at-3am speak for "banger stuff, hell yeah" just to be clear

that's exactly as I took it HELL yeah thank you for playing!!

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This was absolutely incredible!! The presentation, the art, the sound design; it all was so great I loved it! Itske is such a fun character, and its dialogue was so fun to read. The pacing for the text is so well done and written so well I couldn't stop reading. 

yay yay thank you!!!!!!!!!!!

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Wow! The presentation on this one is really incredible! I loved the cool little animated portraits, and the little blips when characters talk was neat! The game is VERY funny as well; the date scene had me dying of laughter with each missed swing! But there's a darkness to it all as well, a loneliness and anxiety that's very familiar. The final scene is gonna stick with me... all in all, that was great!
 

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Thank you for the kind words!

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This was unbelievable. I was laughing and crying at the same time. There are so many iconic lines, and the ending is just … perfect.

I wish the text was a bit bigger, but other than that, this was awesome.

Tysm! Got some similar feedback from IRLs, so some accessibility improvements r underway :)

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easily one of the games i looked forward to the most whenever i'd pop into the yuri server and it did not disappoint!! loved everything about it. loved itske who i think would have a Conversation with mr harry du bois of disco elysium fame. loved the art (the muppet style sprites were what i saw the most in the server and i thought they were so cool). loved the music too and how lively and fun it is. Mostly i loved the writing for this game, it was funny and sweet and sad and made me feel so much for a girl that only wants to be a trash cube. peak cinema

This is extremely sweet to hear, thank you so much for the kind words!

I really like the muppet interpretation of the character designs, unintentional but I guess you quickly arrive at it when you're aiming for cute n silly-looking ^^

Harry is definitely Itske's estranged dad, I should draw them together sometime... eheheh...

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giwtwm/10

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Just finished the vn and I thought it was great and itske is so so cute. I love them so much. The sound design is my favorite part of the vn with the text and the crunchiness of sound of the trash compactor. I reminded me a lot of disco elysium which is great.

Thanks for playing! I'm glad the bell pepper crunchies r appreciated hehe

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okay uhhhhhhhhhhh what can i say about this

okay first i love your writing. detailed, but still easy to read, very fun! i look at the text on the screen and there is Some Kind of Enjoyment taking place, perhaps even a Considerable Amount of Enjoyment

love the use of shaky chromatic aberration and the chapter breaks, your presentation sets the atmosphere really nicely. love itske's design (which i assume is pronounced the same way as mitski), i wanted to play this one right away just because the design was so cute, probably would've been the first if the page was published sooner; i thought the expression work in particular was perfect, 10/10 no notes (and would also like to give it a big old hug (NOT THAT KIND OF BIG OLD HUG))

definitely some things in here that i connected to that i did not expect, so that was kind of interesting; specifically the back and forth about how being sex-avoidant affected our relationships

really enjoyed this one a lot a lot (sic),  you are a great writer, great artist, and a great dev! hope to see more of your work in the future!! be strong!!!

All of this is incredibly lovely to hear, thank you!

And in case you're interested, Itske is pronounced "it's-kuh" if I had to try and translate it to English phonetics.

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Cute work! Very stunning. I do love the pop-up feel of the visuals. Your web-page design here is stunning, as well.

Thank you!