Slow Damage

The game is set in the year 20XX and takes place in Shinkōmi (Japanese: 新神海), a fictional region in Japan that used to be once known as Tokyo Waterfront City, now run by the yakuza, the Takasato Group (Takasato Group (鷹郷組, Takasato-gumi), as the main casino resort following a massive decline in Japan, where crime is rampant and the land is exclusively controlled by the mafia as an entirely separate city. The main character, Towa, lives a careless, unhealthy lifestyle, frequently abusing alcohol and smoking cigarettes. He lives in a studio apartment above Murase Clinic and he usually gets fussed over by his friends, Taku and Rei, for his ways of living and his reckless behaviors, who tend to look after him. His sole hobby is painting and he goes by the artist name of “euphoria”.

To find new models to paint, he gets in exceedingly dangerous situations, often getting himself severely hurt during sessions and rescued by his friends. His goal is to paint the "deepest and darkest human desires" by letting the models loosen their restraints and purge their very desires on Towa himself. Towa also has the ability of seeing people’s “smokes”, which are an aura people have around them that can change color and shape based on emotions, each one having a unique color for every individual and model.

Slow Damage was announced in February 2016, with Kabura Fuchii as writer and Uiro Yamada as illustrator. A teaser site to promote the game went live in 2019, with a planned release date in 2020. A prequel manga, written by Sumimoto, was released in 2020 before the launch of the game.

Slow Damage released in Japan on February 25, 2021, for Windows PCs. On November 14, 2022, JAST USA released the game outside Japan.