heavensent
A downloadable game for Windows and macOS
The year is 1930. After a traumatic incident, Odette has been sent away to a Catholic boarding school for young ladies. However, there's one secret she has to keep hidden: she's a recently-turned vampyre. Determined to continue life as a normal human, Odette tries her best to navigate the changes within her body and appetite. Luckily, she doesn't have to do it alone. Her roommate, Auriame, is by her side, but is withholding her own secrets. Together, will their friendship blossom into something beautiful, or become something all-consuming?
heavensent is about 20,000 words long over the course of 6 chapters + 1 small epilogue.
Made for the Toxic Yuri VN Jam 2025.
Writing/Art/Programming/Sound Design by me: elise (@imcoffeecats)
Sounds + Music, sourced here: TK'S FREE SOUND FX, dova-syndrome.jp, Freesound, and specific links can be found in README.txt.
Warnings:
- Animal Death
- Depictions of violence
- Implied attempted sexual assault
- Sexual themes*
*Please take note: the main characters are minors, but this work is intended for adults. I have tried to be as responsible as possible while also remaining true to the characters and themes I wanted to tackle. There are no sex scenes or erotic CGs, but trauma-related intrusive thoughts are voiced explicitly (albeit briefly). If this makes you uncomfortable, please do not read it. Again, this work is intended for those 18+.
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as an ex-catholic, who daydreams constantly about catholic all-girls boarding school yuri, this was an absolute treat. love your stuff! very excited for more from you! :D
Private school yuri is always fun to me because of historical interest in the genre, and I was looking forward to this VN since seeing your early dev screenshots. The art is so beautiful, and there's so Much of it. The description of the school growing over time with the newer and ancient parts is perfect.
The backgrounds are beautiful, and the bullying of Auriame was very painful and her reactions to it. She really is a sweetheart. Also, Theo's second letter describing this situation is perfection to me (though he sucks really bad).
The entire VN was extremely well made!! I really loved reading it!!!
A really beautiful story that resonated alot with my wife and I. Highly recommend this one!!
lovely art style! i really appreciated how flawed and human the characters felt, also. bad actions really don’t often lead to consequences…
This was wonderful. The illustrations are gorgeous!
From the art style alone I knew I was in for a good time, but holy hell this story was amazing. My heart was pounding all the way through and I cried like never before. 10/10.
This whole game filled me with a rising sense of tension, it felt like the world was getting smaller and smaller as the story went on and all of the lies began to stack up. The characters felt very real and even though I could see the writing on the wall, I found myself hoping it would turn out differently than I expected right up until the end.
Heavensent" is a hauntingly tender visual novel with gorgeous art, evocative writing, and emotionally complex characters. Odette and Auriame’s story lingers long after the credits — a beautifully bittersweet debut that hits hard and stays soft.
Waited patiently for this one to release and the payoff was worth it!
Other commenters have covered much of what I loved here, but one thing that really struck me was the realistic dynamics between characters, especially early in the story. The way Odette went along with Zoe's group just because they shared the most class time together... School forces people into close contact with people they might never otherwise brush shoulders with, and your depiction of that was spot on.
The general level of detail and polish is also commendable. Undertaking a large project like this (alone!) while still caring for the small things that contribute to general effect is a real achievement.
thank you so much!! also yeah… idk why I decided my first vn should be 20k words when I worked on it alone, but thankfully I finished it in the end (coding took way longer than I expected LOL)
i really enjoyed this! i love the art, it's so soft and pretty! the writing is great too, it's very evocative.
auriame is so cute i love her... she's so soft...
thank you for making this!!!
Thank you for reading!! 👼
I read this a little bit ago but I really, REALLY loved it and had such a good time reading through this :,3 I'm deeply attached to these two gals and will think of them forever
thank u!! it means a lot waaaaah ;;w;;
me when religious trauma
I enjoyed this one so much! I really liked your take on vampyres and how slow transition is, it’s such a great way to have a steady build up of tension throughout the story. The descriptions of Odie’s perception of Auriame whenever she’s hungry is so so good. Loved it. All of the art is so well made, the whole presentation is top notch, I’m shocked that this is your first visual novel, it’s just amazing. I’m so excited to see what you make next and into the future!
thank you so much!!! I’m also excited to make more :)
Really incredible stuff! From the first art you posted I had been patiently waiting to read this and it did not disappoint!
I won't go into spoiler territory but I loved the way this game was divided into concise chapters, it really made it feel like I was reading a Grimm's fairytale book of sorts.
If this is your first game then you've got an incredible future ahead of you!
whaaa thank you!! i really like your jam entry, so i feel so honored~ i'm glad it felt fairytale-esque, i think i'm really inspired by that kind of vibe so it's a cool thing to hear >w<
also yes, this is my first game!! ;v; i was nervous af to post it but everyone is so kind and now i really want to make more!!
heavensent playing experience:
what does this mean 🫵👁️👁️
IT MEANS I LOVED IT AND IT WENT HARD🔥🔥🔥
OHHH THANK YOUUU~ 🫶🫶
This is great, really felt for the characters and really felt their struggles throughout the story
A real 10/10 toxic yuri VN, hope to see more from you in the future!!!
thank you so much!! i also hope to make more stories and post them :)
god, god, god.
everything about this novel was so beautiful and perfect. im absolutely a huge sucker for religious trauma, and you captured it so perfectly here. so many moments were tugging at my heart, leaving me almost breathless at times. i tried to tell myself that i didnt know what was coming, but i did. and it left such an impact on me. you wrote this so, so well.
i also really appreciated your little ending notes, its inspired me even further to want to create something. thank you for taking the time in your life to create something so gorgeously done.
omggg thank you so much for this high praise 💕 hahaha I’m glad to have left such an impact :)
Avoiding to read the tags of Itch.io's visual novels is the best worst mistake of my life. Oh woe is me! No guardian angel could have prepared me for that gut-wrenching ending. The angst that reading through every new chapter gave me was priceless.
Will I gush about this story to my friends? Abso-bloody-lutely!
thank you so much :) !! I’m glad you enjoyed it~ it means a lot!!
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