Yandere Simulator

Yandere Simulator
Developer(s)Alex Mahan (YandereDev)
Composer(s)CameronF305 (2019–2023)[1]
EngineUnity[2]
Platform(s)Windows
ReleaseTBA
Genre(s)Stealth, action
Mode(s)Single-player

Yandere Simulator is an upcoming stealth action video game for PC developed independently by Alex Mahan (YandereDev).[3][4] The game centers upon an obsessively lovesick schoolgirl named Ayano Aishi, nicknamed "Yandere-chan", who has taken it upon herself to eliminate anyone she believes is attracting her "senpai's" attention.[5]

Beginning development in 2014, Yandere Simulator achieved a considerable amount of attention online the following year, leading to millions of downloads of pre-release versions of the game.[6] The game has also endured a lengthy development and been subject to several controversies.[6]

Plot and gameplay

Yandere-chan (Ayano Aishi) with high sanity (above) and low sanity (below). Performing murder results in loss of sanity, making Yandere-chan look increasingly disturbed and unstable, with the game's graphics and background music also reflecting the changes.

The player controls Ayano Aishi (nicknamed Yandere-chan), an apathetic Japanese high school girl who has developed a crush on Taro Yamada, a fellow student only ever referred to in game as "Senpai".[7] Over the course of ten weeks, a different girl will fall in love with Taro, becoming a target for Ayano to eliminate. The player has the ability to kidnap, torture, poison, electrocute, matchmake, befriend, betray, and drown rivals, befriend other schoolgirls, play small mini games, access a street where the player can earn money by playing a maid café minigame, spend money at shops to buy different types of items, and more.[8][9][10]

1980s Mode

1980s Mode centers upon Ryoba, a teenage girl who has become obsessed with a popular male student named Jokichi and the future mother of Ayano. Ten rivals stand in her way and a journalist is watching her every move, aware of her homicidal tendencies. In order to prevent detection, Ryoba must plan her moves out carefully. If she acts suspiciously or does not clean up after her murders properly she will gain a "guilty" point. She can counteract these by befriending fellow students and maintaining a good reputation. Ryoba is eventually brought to trial after eliminating her rivals; if she has collected more guilty points than innocent ones she will be found guilty and imprisoned. If found innocent she will kidnap Jokichi and keep him in her basement until he agrees to enter into a relationship with her.

Development

Yandere Simulator is developed by YandereDev, a freelance game developer identified as Alex Mahan[11][12] and based in Temecula, California.[2][13] He first pitched the idea on 4chan around 2014, and after receiving positive feedback, decided to begin development.[14] Mahan has stated that the series Mirai Nikki and School Days were inspirations for the game. In order to work on the game full-time, Mahan opened a Patreon account in 2016; he has stated that prior to this he worked as a freelance programmer.[15]

On March 1, 2017, YandereDev announced a partnership with tinyBuild that would help him polish, promote, and publish the game.[16][17] On June 10, 2018, YandereDev confirmed that the partnership with the company had ended in December 2017 due to tinyBuild's programmer and Mahan's code conflicting.[18]

Demo

On August 31, 2020, the game's first demo was released along with Ayano's first rival, Osana Najimi.[19][20]

1980s Mode

A prequel mode named "1980s Mode" was released on October 10, 2021.[1] This mode is a story mode that follows Ayano Aishi's mother, Ryoba Aishi, and follows the same storyline as the main story. The developer has stated that this mode was created to test the game's various systems. 1980s Mode features VHS effects and a new soundtrack in order to differentiate it from the main story.[1]

Critical responses

Content and themes

The game has received criticism over its content and themes, with the most common criticism centering upon the presence of sexuality and murder.[21] In their 2022 doctoral dissertation, Kristian A. Bjørkelo noted that some hearing about or playing the game found it transgressive due to the themes of sexuality and murder, while others took more exception to an update that would allow players to kill cats as a way of avoiding police detection. They further noted that Yandere Simulator was an example of a game that conflicted with "the idea that play is harmless fun, something that can be considered for children, a notion that can be referred to as the idealization of play... or the fallacy of play".[21]: 11 

Cecilia D'Anastasio, writing for Kotaku, covered the debug version in a 2017 article; she commented that the game had received criticism for "glamorizing suicide, bullying and Bipolar Disorder—allegations that I strongly agree with, despite the game's merits as simulator for sociopathy."[15] D'Anastasio went on to interview Mahan in the same article, who stated that the game "pivots on the archetype of an obsessed, violent stalker, rather than female stereotypes."[15]

Yandere Simulator Twitch ban

In 2016, Yandere Simulator was added to the list of banned games by Twitch for violating the streaming service's policies on extreme content. Mahan was a vocal critic of the ban, claiming that Twitch never explained what prompted its addition to the list and that he would have been willing to "modify minor, innocuous things that were never meant to be the focus of the game, but I would not be willing to remove gameplay mechanics, remove core features, or change the focus of the game."[7] He further criticized the ban as a result of "self-righteous ideologies".[22]

Progress

Fans have voiced concerns over how long development of the game has taken. Mahan initially responded to these concerns with an announcement in March 2017 that he would be partnering with TinyBuild; this partnership ended in December of the same year.[16][18]

Grooming allegations against Alex Mahan

In September 2023, allegations were brought against Mahan by a 16-year-old girl claiming that he had been grooming her and released several recordings and transcripts of his actions.[23] After the evidence surfaced several of the game's developers and voice actors, including Ayano's voice actress Michaela Laws, left the project.[11] Mahan later confirmed that "inappropriate" conversations had occurred, but denied that he had deliberately attempted to groom the minor. Following this, the game's development has been on a partial hiatus.[11][24] In October 2023, Mahan was banned from Twitch in response to the allegations.[23]

References

  1. ^ a b c "What To Play Now: Yandere Simulator: 1980's Mode!". Verge Magazine. April 8, 2022. Archived from the original on April 30, 2022. Retrieved April 9, 2022.
  2. ^ a b Maiberg, Emanuel (December 14, 2015). "What the Hell Is Up with This Homicidal Japanese Schoolgirl Simulator?". Vice Magazine. Archived from the original on December 10, 2021. Retrieved May 5, 2020.
  3. ^ Vincent, Brittany (March 15, 2015). "VIDEO: "Yandere Simulator" Puts The Crazy In Your Hands". Crunchyroll. Archived from the original on March 3, 2016. Retrieved January 10, 2016.
  4. ^ Makedonski, Brett (April 1, 2015). "YouTube bans Yandere Simulator anime panty shots, commenters are pissed". Destructoid. ModernMethod. Archived from the original on April 20, 2016. Retrieved January 10, 2016.
  5. ^ Ashcraft, Brian (March 30, 2015). "The Schoolgirl Sim In Which You Kill People". Kotaku. Gizmodo Media Group. Archived from the original on January 21, 2016. Retrieved January 10, 2016.
  6. ^ a b Enndimurel (May 8, 2023). "Ce jeu vidéo qui a fait des millions de vues sur YouTube cache une sombre réalité !". Jeuxvideo.com.
  7. ^ a b "Yandere Simulator Dev Says Twitch Hasn't Told Him Why His Game Was Banned". Kotaku. January 22, 2016. Archived from the original on August 9, 2020. Retrieved July 16, 2020.
  8. ^ Priestman, Chris (March 13, 2015). "Learn How To Get Away With Murder In Yandere Simulator". Siliconera. Curse, Inc. Archived from the original on January 3, 2016. Retrieved January 10, 2016.
  9. ^ Priestman, Chris (May 21, 2015). "How To Make A Murder Look Like Suicide In Yandere Simulator". Siliconera. Curse, Inc. Archived from the original on March 13, 2016. Retrieved January 10, 2016.
  10. ^ Hansen, Steven (June 5, 2015). "Yandere Simulator lets you poison Japanese schoolgirls". Destructoid. ModernMethod. Archived from the original on January 25, 2016. Retrieved January 10, 2016.
  11. ^ a b c Bevan, Rhiannon (September 29, 2023). "Yandere Simulator Devs And Voice Actors Quit Following Grooming Allegations Against Creator". TheGamer. Retrieved September 29, 2023.
  12. ^ Esguerra, Vanessa (September 28, 2023). "'Yandere Simulator' Fans Pull Support as Dev Responds to Disturbing Grooming Allegations". The Mary Sue. Retrieved September 29, 2023.
  13. ^ Yin-Poole, Wesley (January 22, 2016). "What is Yandere Simulator, and why has Twitch banned it?". Eurogamer. Archived from the original on June 15, 2018. Retrieved May 5, 2020.
  14. ^ YandereDev (June 11, 2018). "What's been going on for the past few days?". Yandere Simulator Development Blog. Retrieved November 12, 2023.
  15. ^ a b c "The Secretive Creator Of Yandere Simulator, A Game About Murdering High School Girls". Kotaku. June 28, 2016. Retrieved October 3, 2023.
  16. ^ a b Yin-Poole, Wesley (March 2, 2017). "Yandere Simulator picks up publisher, developer guarantees completion". Eurogamer. Gamer Network. Archived from the original on March 3, 2017. Retrieved March 3, 2017.
  17. ^ Shive, Chris (March 1, 2017). "tinyBuild Teams Up with YandereDev for Yandere Simulator". Hardcore Gamer. Archived from the original on March 4, 2017. Retrieved March 3, 2017.
  18. ^ a b "Hey, whatever happened with that whole tinyBuild thing?". Yandere Simulator Development Blog. June 11, 2018. Retrieved January 7, 2022.
  19. ^ "「Yandere Simulator」の正式デモ版がリリース。先輩への病んだ恋心が止まらない少女が恋敵を次々に消していくステルスアクション". www.4gamer.net (in Japanese). September 1, 2020. Archived from the original on November 2, 2021. Retrieved November 2, 2021.
  20. ^ Yandere Dev (August 31, 2020). Osana Is Complete And Yandere Simulator's Official Demo Is Now Available. Retrieved July 18, 2024 – via YouTube.
  21. ^ a b Bjørkelo, Kristian A. (April 8, 2022). Playing With Boundaries : Empirical Studies of Transgressions and Gaming Culture (Doctoral thesis thesis). The University of Bergen.
  22. ^ "A Year Later, Yandere Simulator's Dev Says Twitch Still Hasn't Explained Ban". Kotaku. January 23, 2017. Archived from the original on September 8, 2020. Retrieved July 16, 2020.
  23. ^ a b "Yandere Dev banned from Twitch after grooming allegations". Dexerto. October 31, 2023. Retrieved July 20, 2024.
  24. ^ Bevan, Rhiannon (January 2, 2024). "Yandere Dev Admits To "Inappropriate" Conversations With A Minor". TheGamer. Retrieved February 24, 2024.

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