Three Japanese indie BL novel games appeared through the Premium Novel Game Development Day tag, showing how much of the BL game scene still lives in small creator spaces and in short-form visual novels.
While following the latest Premium Novel Game Development Day tag event, FujoWire found three Japanese indie BL novel games worth watching: a rain-soaked work-in-progress, a newly playable BL demo, and a short completed story about rumor, misfortune, and devotion.
Premium Novel Game Development Day, also known through the Japanese hashtags #プレミアムノベルゲ制デー and #プレノデー, is a recurring social media tag event where novel game creators share progress updates, new releases, older works, tools, materials, and other related announcements. For BL fans, it is also a useful window into the smaller indie side of the genre, where short free games and creator-driven projects often appear before larger sites or English-language spaces notice them.
One of the new posts came from Marewo, who shared an in-development free BL game that revolves around a rainy-season childhood-friend setup. The story begins on a rainy day when the protagonist’s childhood friend Ritsuki gets a girlfriend. What should be a simple change gradually shifts the relationship between the two boys, with the post describing a black-haired × brown-haired BL game planned with five endings.
Marewo’s account is already tied to Kimi ni Ai ni Iku, a short BL novel game about a man who turns to spiritualism after being unable to be with his lover at the end of his life. That earlier work, released through Novel Game Collection, used grief, memory, and the supernatural to frame a compact black-haired × blond BL story. The new rainy-season project looks like it may continue that interest in emotional distance, regret, and relationships that cannot simply go back to how they were.
Wadachi also promoted Samidare Drop Puchi, a newly released BL demo described as a “memory × rainy season” game. The game follows May rain, memory loss, and a protagonist who becomes forgotten by the people around him after the rainy season begins. Rather than being a pure kinetic novel, Samidare Drop Puchi mixes story scenes with status management, route selection, and three possible partners.
The demo is available as a Windows download through BOOTH and as a browser version through PLiCy. According to the creator’s release notes, the game includes three routes: Nemuro, a quiet coworker route with a stronger romantic-comedy tone; Pochi, a pet AI route with a buddy dynamic; and Sendagi, a suspicious paranormal detective route that leans into more unsettling territory. The “puchi” version has its own endings, while the planned full version is expected to carry the story through the end of the rainy season and dig further into the mystery behind the memory-erasing phenomenon.
Sakata Haruto’s Kami no Na o Musunde is already playable through Novel Game Collection. The short BL game centers on a boy rumored to be a “death god” who brings misfortune and another boy who refuses to stop standing beside him. Its official page lists a playtime of about 15 to 30 minutes, with no branching routes.
The game’s main appeal is its quiet, uneasy relationship rather than scale. The tagline asks whether what connects the two boys is prayer or a curse, which fits the darker emotional tone of the screenshots and the creator’s description of the game as an unsettling, emotional BL work. For players who like short, self-contained BL stories, Kami no Na o Musunde looks closer to a compact mood piece than a route-heavy romance game.
Together, the three posts show a different side of BL gaming from the commercial visual novel names many fans already know. These are small, personal projects, yet show how active Japanese indie BL game creators remain across X, BOOTH, PLiCy, and Novel Game Collection.
For English-speaking BL fans, tag events like Premium Novel Game Development Day are worth watching because they often surface projects that may never receive formal press releases. Some are short free games, some are demos, and some are early progress posts, but they help show what indie BL creators are making right now.
Samidare Drop Puchi and Kami no Na o Musunde are currently playable, while Marewo’s rainy childhood-friend BL project appears to be in development.