Yearning: A Gay Story
Come out in college! Meet people, make friends, and maybe find a boyfriend? Yearning: A Gay Story (YAGS for short) is a coming-out-focused character-driven slice-of-life visual novel with dating sim elements…
Yearning: A Gay Story is a simulator developed by Bob C Games, released 19 January 2019 on Android, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Yearning: A Gay Story is
Yearning: A Gay Story is a simulator game developed by Bob C Games and released in 2019. It is available on Android, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Ren'Py Visual Novel Engine.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Come out in college! Meet people, make friends, and maybe find a boyfriend? Yearning: A Gay Story (YAGS for short) is a coming-out-focused character-driven slice-of-life visual novel with dating sim elements (phew) where you play as a gay man starting his freshman year of college at a generic university somewhere in the midwestern United States. You will interact with a cast of characters, each with their own personality and stories, as you navigate college life, develop friendships, play board games, and come out. With luck, you might even find a boyfriend.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are comedy and romance. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
What it launched against
Yearning: A Gay Story launched on 19 January 2019, within three weeks of Resident Evil 2, Kingdom Hearts III, Slay the Spire and Apex Legends.
Released around the same time: Resident Evil 2, Kingdom Hearts III, Slay the Spire, Apex Legends.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
Screenshots
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