This jam is now over. It ran from 2024-05-19 21:00:00 to 2024-06-30 21:00:00. View 48 entries

💊🤕visual novels about weird girlies🩸💊

Menhera (メンヘラ) is an abbreviation of “Mental Healther”, meaning “someone who does mental health”, and refers to a subculture centered around a certain style of vent art as well as fashion featuring it.

It is with great pleasure that we announce the results of the first Menhera VN Jam!

After prolonged deliberations, the panel of judges has at last selected the following VNs as the winners, listed in alphabetical order below:

Let it be known, however, that there are many other excellent VNs among the jam submissions outside of the aforementioned winners—so much so that it proved extremely difficult for us to select only five of them! We very strongly encourage you to read through them all~

Additionally, we'd like to extend a tremendous thank you to all of the amazingly talented artists, writers, musicians, developers, and other members of the community who participated in the jam, as well as for your patience during our extended deliberation period! We're all incredibly proud of the submissions to this jam, and we very much hope to see more works from you all in the future!



(The original jam description follows below.)

Hello, and thank you for your interest in the very first Menhera VN Jam! This is a jam for games about living and coming to terms (or not) with unseen burdens, whether they be mental, emotional, physical, psychological, or otherwise.
We will play through all the submissions and pick FIVE of our favorites which will receive a $250 paypal headpat. There will be no first place. There will just be 5 judge favorites. Due to payment reasons, all members of teams involved must be legal adults.
Please note that, in addition to the overall quality of the works—writing, art, music, etc.—one of the primary criteria in determining which entries will be granted an award is being on-topic.  In other words, while the individual elements of a work are important to their overall composition, a work with a conventionally "bad" component (e.g. very amateurish art) will not lose points on those grounds alone. Intention and sincerity are the most important parts of our judging criteria, so try and make something representative of your heart more than anything!


✍️❤️rules for stories:

  1. We want gay shit!! The entries must focus on queer characters with mental health problems. Stories don't have to be about mental health.
  2. We want to see stories about people navigating their life with mental health problems. This can involve people getting over their problems, dealing (or not dealing) with their problems, living life alongside the axis of their problems - whatever you wish! We are aware that stories can go to dark places, and that's ok. Your story can be happy or sad or whatever else. All we ask is that you tell a story that's meaningful to you, one that we hope will resonate with the reader.
  3. Be mindful of harmful stereotypes regarding mental illness; There are no specific topics that are off-limits, however we may disqualify entries based on our own judgement. (E.g., a game that treats suicide or self-harm as cheap shock value instead of telling something interesting with it.)
  4. While the stories themselves can have characters or interactions that are bigoted, we do not want entries that promote bigotry! BE NICE.



🖥️🤓technical rules:

  1. Ren'Py is HIGHLY PREFERRED, however any engine/framework which can create visual novels that are playable for all win, linux and mac are permitted.
  2. All members involved in a team have to be legal adults.
  3. This is an unranked game jam, however we will be picking five of our favorite entries and reward each with $250.
  4. Off-topic submissions will be disqualified, and thus should NOT be expected to win any prizes regardless of the caliber and quality of their content!
  5. There will be no ETA for when the judging will be complete. It will depend on how many entries we get.
  6. Any team size is permitted, the person who submits the game will be responsible for splitting the potential prize money.
  7. Free submissions are preferred, but if you submit a paid game you must send copies to the 5 judges.
  8. We accept entries with NSFW, heavy and uncomfortable themes, but they are meant to be tagged appropriately.
  9. While development should take place within the jam time frame, the usage of pre-existing free to use, public domain, creative commons, etc. resources is allowed and encouraged.
  10. The usage of generative AI for your submission is forbidden. If you personally don't think you're very good at a particular artistic endeavor (e.g., art, music, writing), we would still rather see your best and most sincere attempt than generated assets.


✨example games that we like. BECAUSE THEY'RE OURS.

we are the organizers and judges btw. hi.

 


Submissions(48)

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Browser playable (10)
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Windows (30)
macOS (28)
Linux (27)
Android (4)

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trancestual angel eroge
Visual Novel
playing favorites
Visual Novel
A killer's wake is crashed by a revenge fueled bender. Girls cry.
Visual Novel
I’m Just a Hikikomori With Psychic Powers Who Loves Anime, so Who Is This Pretty Girl Knocking on My Door?
Visual Novel
DEAD SISTERS CLING INSEPARABLY
Visual Novel
Play in browser
The party is over.
Visual Novel
You wished for the end of the world. That was the wrong wish.
Visual Novel
you are becoming a demon. don't worry about that
Visual Novel
Tgirls after the reverie
Visual Novel
Play in browser
lunafairy + the first testament
Visual Novel
A diary about the apocalypse of the personal
Visual Novel
Love under eternity's embrace
Visual Novel
a short vn about queer friendships and healing from trauma
Visual Novel
I'm addicted to you ˗ˋˏ ♡ ˎˊ˗
Visual Novel
Play in browser
aliens, a cyborg, truth and lies
Visual Novel
Play in browser
Do you remember being born?
Visual Novel
Play in browser
time to be mentally ill in the yakuza. also this catgirl gives me terminal idiot disease
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Talking about tokusatsu when it suddenly goes sour
Visual Novel
There is no magic. There is no god. There is only HUNGER in REALITY.
Visual Novel
a visitor has arrived
Visual Novel
Play in browser
A short menhera visual novel
Interactive Fiction
A visual novel about an alien being there for her mentally ill girlfriend
Visual Novel
Necromancers, mental instability, the cold.
Visual Novel
a subculture is its own unmaking
Visual Novel
metamorphosis for girls
Visual Novel
...bruh...
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
A jaded historian becomes obsessed with a 16th-century woman sacrificed to keep the world from ending.
Visual Novel
Play in browser
"All I know is that you suddenly make dying scary."
Visual Novel
Love and be loved
Visual Novel
Toxic poly yuri age gap women explosion. Despite swallowing the sea, Charybdis felt only emptiness.
Visual Novel
an unfinished story about unfinished stories.
Visual Novel
Chef meets waiter (and they kiss)
Visual Novel
apocalypse, drugs, and angel transformations
a girl meets a fr3ak at the CD shop
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
A short VN about parenthood, relationships, past traumas, and undiagnosed OCD.
Visual Novel
Short story about coming to terms with death and afterlife
Visual Novel
​Strong when you need to be. Weak when you want to be.​
Visual Novel
A game about a girl on a quest.
Visual Novel
A simple slice-of-death story at a carnival.
Visual Novel
A lengthy, unfinished dialogue with a witch. Will you humor her for its full length? Can you **** her?
Visual Novel
A game about queers and being watched.
Visual Novel
A witch tries to bring about the apocalypse. The apocalypse doesn't want to.
Visual Novel
Pre-Alpha build of a story about a girl working at a toxic workplace
Visual Novel
This is the INTRO only version of a 3h ~ planed story made for the 2024 Menhera Jam
Visual Novel
A short visual novel made for the menhera vn jam
Visual Novel
A story of a girl who can only say I am statements
Visual Novel