What is Polyjamorous?

Polyjamorous is a 4-month-long jam -running from November 1st 2025 to February 14th 2026 (Valentine's Day)- dedicated to romantic depictions of polyamorous relationships.

Polyamory Resources

Must be a romantic depiction of polyamory, meaning both the relationship is romantic in nature and portrayed in a positive light, even if the romance themes itself are dark. These can be yandere to slice of life cutesy stories. As long as your story doesn't break the rules below.

Polyamory sources: 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyamory

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/polyamory

Rules

-Dating Sims/or games with multiple love interests will work just fine, as long as long as as the love interests aren’t separated into monogamous stories, like a traditional dating sim.

-Primarily narrative-focused games, with a heavy focus on romance, is the ideal for this jam. Whether that be a platformer, a souls-like, or a visual novel. As long as a polyamorous romance story is the focus of your game.

-NSFW must be tagged appropriately.

-No commercial Fan projects

-You may work on your projects before the jam starts.

-Since finding Polyamorous games in the indie visual novel space inspired this jam in the first place, feel more than free to resubmit an older project that applies to this jam for visibility!

-Incomplete entries (such as demos, updates, etc...) are very much accepted.

-Make sure to credit on the game page itself all team members, assets, etc...

-No AI- any use of AI will automatically disqualify you. Whether that be in the writing, art, etc...

-All characters involved in said polyamory must be of age (18+), your characters must also look 18+. No shota con/lolicon or anything adjacent will be allowed.

-Any entries that portray any sort of discrimination (LGBTQ+-phobia, racism, sexism etc. in a good light will be removed.

Important note:

The project must be romantic in nature, and ideally healthy. Unhealthy depictions of romance are allowed, as long as the unhealthy aspects aren’t tied to themes that harm polyamory, such as jealousy, cheating, or being greedy etc… These themes can be presented if you intend to break them within the narrative, but it’s imperative that polyamory itself isn’t what makes the relationship unhealthy.

Yanderes, possessive love, horror romance, and the like are accepted, but will be checked to see if they are harmful to the message the jam intends to protect. If you do happen to make a darker romance game, please tag your content warnings effectively.

If any entry fails to respect the rules, your project will be removed.

Examples of visual novels with polyamory in it. What Remains of Us, Seaside Inn, When The Night Comes, Yuki’s Palpitating, Passionate, Phenomenal, and quite frankly proficient quest for a (hot) girlfriend !!! (as well as its sequel!), Deliver Us From Evil just to name a few!

Any inquiries, please reach out to @flowersfourjoy on Twitter or  flowersforjoy on Discord.

Make sure to check out other cool jams on Devtalk as well as recruit for a team! https://discord.gg/devtalk