an indie visual novel studio making queer romances with a focus on fantasy 💜
✨️Website: https://crystalgameworks.com/
✨️Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/developer/crystalgameworks
✨️itchio: https://crystalgameworks.itch.io/
Crimson Waves on the Emerald Sea: Amaranthine Moon is out now! ✨
Our Victorian vampire otome features:
🦇 ability to be a vampire or a human with consequences for each
💖 3 male love interests with 6 endings total
🔪 a murder mystery over 220k words
Play now: store.steampowered.com/app/3072470/...
Both of our boys love visual novels are on sale this week on Steam!
🎞️ Canvas Menagerie is a slice-of-life VN about a trans TV actor falling for his celebrity costar.
🔪 Asphodelium is a dark fantasy VN about cults, killing, and killing cults.
store.steampowered.com/developer/cr...
The extended demo for Harlequinade is also playable on itchio! You can play it on PC and in browsers.
✨customize your MC
🎭romance a Harlequin or Pierrot, with multiple endings for each
🔪escape a timelooping carnival that resets every time you die
crystalgameworks.itch.io/harlequinade
Happy Ace Week! Both Canvas Menagerie and Harlequinade are part of the Games That Ace It Steam Festival this week, which celebrates ace developers & games 💜✨
See the entire festival: store.steampowered.com/curator/4614...
Happy Ace Week! Both Canvas Menagerie and Harlequinade are part of the Games That Ace It Steam Festival this week, which celebrates ace developers & games 💜✨
See the entire festival: store.steampowered.com/curator/4614...
Steam Next Fest has just started, which means the Harlequinade demo update is now live! 🎉
🎭romance 2 male LIs, a Harlequin or a Pierrot
🔪escape a timelooping carnival that resets every time you die
💕customize your MC or play as a set female MC
Play the demo: store.steampowered.com/app/4833510/...
In the upcoming Harlequinade demo update, you'll be able to spend more time with the love interests in brand new scenes! Here's the Harlequin Lynn, looking remarkably...normal.
Wishlist: store.steampowered.com/app/4333920/...#screenshotsaturday
Giles has a new friend in the upcoming Harlequinade demo update—Tim, his pet mouse! You'll get to talk to both love interests even more in the demo update on October 19th ✨
Wishlist our timeloop otome game: store.steampowered.com/app/4333920/...
Here's a new look at the upcoming demo update for Harlequinade, our next otome game! You'll be able to meet 2 new side characters, the clowns Punchy and Brighella 💖
Wishlist on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/4333920/...
The next demo update for Harlequinade, our carnival horror otome game, will be out on October 19th, next Monday! It'll have new artwork, quality of life improvements, and even a bit more of the story with the love interests~
Wishlist it on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/4333920/...
Pierrots come in all shapes and sizes, from more classic monochrome to colorful modernity. This is a look at the concept art to final rendering for Giles, the Pierrot love interest in our horror romance visual novel Harlequinade!
Follow the KS: www.kickstarter.com/projects/cgw...
Trying to create a modern Harlequin design while still keeping the essence of older motifs was hard, but I think we nailed it 💖 This is Lynn, one of the love interests in our upcoming timeloop horror romance visual novel Harlequinade!
Follow the Kickstarter: www.kickstarter.com/projects/cgw...
Let me convince you to play my upcoming clown romance visual novel Harlequinade 💖
1. Customize your MC or play as a set female protag
2. Romance a confident Harlequin or a shy Pierrot
3. Find multiple endings per route, including dead ends
Try the demo: store.steampowered.com/app/4333920/...
The Steam Autumn Sale is wrapping up, but you can still get our Victorian vampire otome game on sale! It has 3 male love interests, a confident female protag, and the ability to be a vampire or human with multiple endings for your choice 💕
Get it on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3072470/...
It's fall which means the Steam Autumn Sale has started! Pick up our otome games & boys love visual novels on sale on Steam until October 8th 💖
store.steampowered.com/developer/cr...
✨ new merch ✨
Halloween is coming soon, so we're doing a small print drop only available until November 1st! Get a print of a watercolor illustration and a sticker featuring Lucie ready for the season 🦇
Get it here: ko-fi.com/s/ea9878553a
Happy Fall! We've been making a lot of progress on Harlequinade this month, which you can read in our monthly devlog ✨
Read it here: crystalgameworks.com/september-20...
Our September devlog is now up! Here's all the progress we've made on our next otome game, Harlequinade~
Read it here: crystalgameworks.com/september-20...
Our September devlog is now up! Here's all the progress we've made on our next otome game, Harlequinade~
Read it here: crystalgameworks.com/september-20...
We've been making scripting progress on our action fantasy visual novel Lost Lune! Here's a new screenshot of Klaus and Weiss ✨
Wishlist it: store.steampowered.com/app/3451990/...
We're back from a small break! Progress on Harlequinade is going smoothly—our sweet Pierrot Giles' route is almost completely written, and we now have some new artwork of him 💜
Artist: paradox064
Here's our new Harlequinade trailer for #FallinLoveFestival!
Find yourself in a never-ending carnival that repeats every time you die. Featuring:
🪻 customizable or set protagonist
💖 2 male love interests, the Harlequin & Pierrot
🔪 lots of ways to die
store.steampowered.com/app/4333920/...
Here's our new Harlequinade trailer for #FallinLoveFestival!
Find yourself in a never-ending carnival that repeats every time you die. Featuring:
🪻 customizable or set protagonist
💖 2 male love interests, the Harlequin & Pierrot
🔪 lots of ways to die
store.steampowered.com/app/4333920/...
You killed him once before. Will you make things go differently this time?
Asphodelium is our melancholic fantasy boys love visual novel about cults, killing, and killing cults. It's currently 25% off until September 9th!
Play it on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3139260/...
Day 4 of #FallInLoveFestival is here!
Today's schedule is as posted in the comments!
Streaming on Twitch, YouTube and Kick
#visualnovels#datingsim#romancenovels
🌊💕 FALL IN LOVE VN FESTIVAL DAY 2! 💕🌊
Today is Crimson Waves on the Emerald Sea: Amaranthine Moon by @crystalgameworks.com
My VA friends joined me for a 3hr fully voiced first look!
youtu.be/d1MPqT8Iajs#FallinLoveFestival#VisualNovel#VoiceActing#Otome
A vampiric Victorian otome about love and lost time...
Our latest otome game is on sale for the #FallinLoveFestival! Be a vampire or a human, romance 3 different love interests, and solve a murder mystery with over 200k words and multiple endings 💕
store.steampowered.com/app/3072470/...
Are you ready to Fall in Love over the next week? 💗 Here's my schedule for the #FallinLoveFestival over on Steam!
🔴 www.twitch.tv/withvel
20+ awesome game developers & studios have reached out so that we could feature their games on stream.
There will be love, mystery, comedy, drama... & you!
"Fall in Love Visual Novel Festival" presented by Studio Élan and Crystal Game Works is now live on Steam until September 9.
store.steampowered.com/curator/4624...
finally returning to crimson waves on the emerald sea: amaranthine moon! last we left off, cecil finally confessed something, and they had a fight, and now someone is dead (unrelated to the fight). rough time for lucy...
twitch.tv/freyafukunaga#vtuber#goinglive
Today, a really ~lovely~ Steam event starts: the Fall in Love Fest presented by @vnstudioelan.com and @crystalgameworks.com (Thank you so much to you both 💙)
Tomorrow, I'll be starting SEVEN DAY marathon into some of the games featured in the event 💌🎉
In the meantime, check out the event on Steam!
Our games are on sale this week for the Fall in Love Visual Novel Steam Festival, hosted by @vnstudioelan.com!
Whether you want murder mysteries, dark fantasies, or something comfy in your otome & boys love, we've got it~ ✨
See the entire festival: store.steampowered.com/curator/4624...
The Fall in Love Visual Novel Festival starts tomorrow on Steam and our games are part of it! You'll be able to get our released games on sale and try out our demos for upcoming visual novels~
#FallinLoveFestival
Let's Fall in Love together at this weeks #FallinLoveFestival hosted by @vnstudioelan.com
With many awesome games participating I'm looking forward to trying and sharing as many of them as possible with everyone this week🥰
I added the game titles and tagged the devs if possible below
Then more #FallinLoveFestival videos on Youtube!
Tues 1st 3PM EST Harlequinade @crystalgameworks.com
Thu 3rd 10AM EST Winter Heat @yurikissaten.com
Fri 4th 10AM EST Carmilla:Crimson Moon
Sat 5th 10AM EST Imperial Grace
Tues 8th 10AM EST Night Shift:1999 @gcoxmm.bsky.social
Our next visual novel Kickstarter will launch in September! Support the campaign for Harlequinade to get exclusive merch as well as in-game features 💜
Follow the KS: www.kickstarter.com/projects/cgw...
Our next visual novel Kickstarter will launch in September! Support the campaign for Harlequinade to get exclusive merch as well as in-game features 💜
Follow the KS: www.kickstarter.com/projects/cgw...