![Katawa Shoujo](https://img.itch.zone/aW1nLzE1OTI2MzI5LnBuZw==/original/lh1dK3.png)
Katawa Shoujo
A downloadable game for Windows, macOS, and Linux
About Katawa Shoujo
Katawa Shoujo is a bishoujo-style visual novel set in the fictional Yamaku High School for disabled children, located somewhere in modern Japan. Hisao Nakai, a normal boy living a normal life, has his life turned upside down when a congenital heart defect forces him to move to a new school after a long hospitalization. Despite his difficulties, Hisao is able to find friends—and perhaps love, if he plays his cards right. There are five main paths corresponding to the 5 main female characters, each path following the storyline pertaining to that character.
The story is told through the perspective of the main character, using a first person narrative. The game uses a traditional text and sprite-based visual novel model with an ADV text box.
Katawa Shoujo contains adult material, and was created using the Ren'Py scripting system. It is the product of an international team of amateur developers, and is available free of charge.
Characters
![](https://img.itch.zone/aW1nLzE1OTI1NzQ2LnBuZw==/original/bA1C3E.png)
![](https://img.itch.zone/aW1nLzE3MDUxODUyLnBuZw==/original/AgVDAT.png)
![](https://img.itch.zone/aW1nLzE3MDg3MjM0LnBuZw==/original/s9MkK%2F.png)
![](https://img.itch.zone/aW1nLzE2NjU0MDI4LnBuZw==/original/cJtDhO.png)
About Four Leaf Studios
The New Year of 2007 was bound to be business as usual for the /a/ board of 4chan until on 4th of January, Anonymous posted an omake page from the doujin Schuppen Harnische by RAITA of doujin circle Zettai Shoujo, detailing character art for a dating sim he dubbed “Katawa Shoujo.” For reasons we will never know, someone's genius idea of actually realizing RAITA's idea of the game caught on like wildfire and soon suggestions ranging from tender love stories to depraved sex fantasies were running amok in the thread. The insane idea of creating an actual original game, based on nothing but a single picture and the sparse ideas RAITA had written in the margins titillated the imaginations of Anonymous so much that people became truly serious about the fledgling project.
Soon, there were development forums and for the next months, ideas and suggestions were flying around, with people trying to flesh out their ideas, drawing sample art, writing sample text, trying to control the chaos of dozens of people arguing and bickering about the direction of the game. From there, the most active people began the actual game development as a working group named Four Leaf Studios and the project truly took off in the summer '07.
The final chapter comes in the year 2012. For five long years Four Leaf Studios toiled on the project, with the eventual release sometimes seeming like it would never come. By the end of 2011, though, the end was in sight and the final push to complete the game began.
On January the 4th, 2012, Katawa Shoujo was released.
R18 Steam Patch
![](https://img.itch.zone/aW1nLzE1OTI1NzQ2LnBuZw==/original/bA1C3E.png)
The Steam version of Katawa Shoujo has no adult content. To re-add this to the game, the R18 patch on this page must be used.
Instructions:
1. Download the R18 patch below.
2. Navigate to your Steam folder and copy the downloaded file "r18.rpa" to the folder "Katawa Shoujo/game/".
Thanks to Avonder for R18 Patch engineering.
Updated | 20 days ago |
Status | Released |
Platforms | Windows, macOS, Linux |
Rating | Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars (99 total ratings) |
Author | 4leafstudios |
Genre | Visual Novel, Interactive Fiction |
Tags | 2D, Eroge, Hand-drawn, Indie, Narrative, Slice Of Life, Story Rich |
Average session | A few seconds |
Links | Steam, Homepage |
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Goated game.
Sayori best girl💜
I have found two different versions of this file. One from the official site and one from here.
Does anybody know what the differences are? Is one newer?
r18.rpa (from 4leafstudios.itch.io) E0241ED5 (29,232,631 bytes)
r18.rpa (from www.katawa-shoujo.com) 0DB465A4 (29,049,537 bytes)
ZEUS! GIVE ME AN ANDROID PORT OF KATAWA SHOUJO, AND MY LIFE IS YOURS![](https://img.itch.zone/aW1nLzE3MzcyMDE4LmpwZw==/original/vHyCcL.jpg)
https://www.fhs.sh/projects
https://github.com/gcammisa/KatawaShoujo-RenPy8/releases
rin tezuka
It's peak
Shit so peak![](https://img.itch.zone/aW1nLzE3MzUzMTY0LmpwZWc=/original/9TSpyE.jpeg)
Kenji best girl
This game literally changed my life.
Don't forget: crapawa shitjo is not a game
Yeah cuz it's a visual novel. Also aren't you a lil bit rude
People here won’t get this 4chan meme.
The OGs will, and that's all that matters.
hanako is best girl
trust everyone in this comment section, the game is as good as we make it sound.
Lilly best girl.
The greatest visual novel of all TIME
PEAK
honestly at the beginning im not going to lie i almost dropped this as i inadvertently got locked into emis route initially but i read all the reviews from multiple sites on this game and decided to just go back and give it a chance and looked up a walkthrough on where i went wrong. and oh boy do i not regret it 100% my favorite VN hands down. truly a masterpiece in my opinion the storytelling and ability to convey emotions is absolutely what has pinned this securely at the top of my list. i want to say thank you from the bottom of my heart to everyone who had a hand in the creation of this. amazing work truly well done <3
oh and Hanako best girl lol
is there any discord server or community for katawa shoujo?
https://discord.gg/eugXNNpZ
Absolute peak.
Also Hanako best girl
so glad the best visual novel ever made is having a huge resurgence from this. cant wait to replay this
Rin is out of the bin!
Shizune is going to Australia!
Emi will finally be poplar!
I skipped Hanako's meme on purpose.
I forgot Lilly's meme.
Excuse me but where exactly do i find that patch?
It's not out yet. Both itch and steam versions are coming out on august 16th or something. I would assume the patch will be a download here.
You can go to the katawa shoujo website and download it there now though.
https://www.katawa-shoujo.com/
kino
LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, WE ARE SO BACK!!!
Let's goooo, we're back~
I am very happy because I known this game since its was released but I never played it, and now I have an excuse with its release on Steam.
android port refresh when?
Please to everyone reading this Dont let Katawa Shoujo Die Please.
We're so back
Let's fucking gooooo
Well dang, time to replay this
YOOO
LETS GOOO BOYS THIS IS INSANE
LETS GOOOOOOO BLESS 4LS
YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW ELATED I AM RIGHT NOW.