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Player reviews
91% positive406 reviews
Steam Deck
Playable
Runs on
Windows
Price
US$17.49

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UsoNatsu cover

2023 · Adventure · Visual novel

UsoNatsu

Nintendo console exclusive

This is a story about finding love to overwrite the feelings for the one they held dearest. A girls love visual novel about summer, love and adolescence.

Released
3 November 2023
Platforms
Nintendo SwitchWindows
Genres
AdventureVisual novel
Developers
—
Publishers
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Modes
Single-player
Perspective
Text
Themes
Romance
Country
Japan
Age ratings
ESRB M
Languages
Chinese (Simplified), English, Japanese
Time to beat
13hmain story14hcompletionist

About

UsoNatsu ~The Summer Romance Bloomed From A Lie~ (Japanese: 嘘から始まる恋の夏, Hepburn: Uso kara Hajimaru Koi no Natsu) is a yuri visual novel developed by LYCORIS, that was released worldwide on November 3, 2023.

›Story

"Love can so easily turn people into liars."

On a hill overlooking the sea is Minatocho's Aoba Dai-ichi High School.

One night, 2nd year student, Tachibana Kaoru is completely heartbroken by her middle school homeroom teacher, Shimotsuki Mirei.

That scene is also seen by Minagi Shiori, a model student who is also in Kaoru's class.

In state of despondence, Kaoru opens up to Shiori about her past with Mirei.

After listening intently to Kaoru's story, Shiori, with a mysterious air about her, poses a question.

"Instead of forgetting someone you cared about... do you think it's possible to simply overwrite those memories with different ones?"

"I'm not sure if it's truly possible or not, but I might have to try something like that if I'm going to get over her."

With that, Shiori suddenly makes a surprising request to Kaoru:

"I need you to help me forget about my older brother."

It is a request to overwrite the memories of her older brother by going through a tour of her past memories.

Shiori has always wanted to live up to the standard of excellence that her older brother embodied,

but as she held a career counseling sheet in her hand, she realizes that she no longer made decisions for herself.

"Sure, okay. But how?"

Kaoru is enthusiastic about this "tour of memories" that she will go on with Shiori.

She too wants to forget about her teacher, who was her first crush.

Their relationship is then discovered by Inohara Riku, a fellow classmate who also harbors feelings for Shiori.

And so the curtain rises on this sometimes slapstick fun as well as poignant love story.

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Story

The story follows the developing relationship between Kaoru Tachibana and Shiori Minagi. The two connect with each other after Shiori finds Kaoru in tears, having been rejected by their teacher, Mirei Shimotsuki, with whom Kaoru had a particularly close relationship. Having listened to Kaoru's story about Mirei, Shiori asks Kaoru if she will help Shiori forget about her older brother, as she never feels like she can live up to the comparisons between them, by overwriting her memories of her brother with memories of Kaoru instead. Kaoru agrees in hopes that it will let her forget about her how painful memories with Mirei.

The producer Yasutaka Iida describes this as an indie visual novel that takes a serious approach to yuri as a form of romance.

Reception

Thomas Knight of NookGaming commented that the game was well worth reading thanks to its "well-paced and thoughtful story, great character dynamics, and high production values."

Releases by platformdates and regions as published

PlatformReleasedRegions
Windows13 August 2023Japan · Worldwide 3 November 2023
Nintendo Switch18 June 2026Worldwide

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