2025 April Fools’ Joke

Praise the lord, for I have seen the light, and my soul is saved!

After avoiding it for 7 years, I finally decided to try out that “Fortnite” game that all the kids have been talking about – and it’s the best game I’ve ever played! I’m officially addicted!

I think I figured out what Fortnite’s “secret sauce” is: it’s the Daily Quests. That’s what Yandere Simulator has been missing this entire time. Rivals? Pssh, forget that shit! What Yandere Simulator REALLY needs are quests that give you EXP so you can level up! What do you get for leveling up? Fucking nothing! But seeing number go up is good! So, that’s the most recent addition that I’ve added to the game!

Giggle? Get EXP! Stand near Senpai? Get EXP! Use Yandere Vision? Get EXP!

Walk? There’s a quest for that! Kill a student? There’s a quest for that? Mop up a puddle of blood? You bet your ass there’s a quest for that!

What the hell are you waiting for? Download the latest build now and start leveling up before all of the other players surpass you! You don’t want to be the only kid at the lunch table who is only level 10 while everyone else is level 250, do you? Get crackin’!!

Oh, yeah, and, there’s like, a new weapon, or whatever. Like a chainsaw or some shit who cares. Totally irrelevant. DAILY QUESTS! EXP! LEVELING UP!

Scroll down past this drawing of a cute chibi Megami by Howawo0703 to read the list of all the new stuff added to the latest build!

Daily Quests

Hey, you know what button was doing absolutely nothing? The right trigger on the controller! It had no functionality, so now it has a purpose: Holding down that trigger will now open up a window that pops out of the left side of the screen and shows you a list of quests you can do for EXP!

What? you think it’s weird that the right trigger summons a window from the left side of the screen? Well, too bad! I’m the game developer here! I know best! Not you! So shut up!

Oh, what’s that? You’re a dirty filthy keyboard+mouse peasant, instead of being a member of the Controller Master Race? Well, I’m sorry you’re so inferior and disgusting, but you can always use the left mouse button to summon the quest window.

The quests listed in that window are “Repeatable,” which means that once you complete them, you get to do them all over again for even more EXP! Awesome, right?!

…huh? What? That means they’re not “Daily” quests? Grrrrr!! You are REALLY testing my patience!! Shut up and play the game already!!

A variety of other actions also give you EXP, but I can’t be assed to type them all out here, so you’ll just have to discover on your own while playing the game. Good luck!

New Weapon

Months ago, I gave the player the ability to purchase a chainsaw from the hardware store in town – however, I didn’t have animations or sound effects for it, so it wasn’t functional…until today!

At long last, I finally acquired animations and sound effects for the chainsaw! It is now possible for the player to buy a chainsaw from the hardware store, find it in the gardening shed outside of Ayano’s house, bring it to school in the duffel bag, and kill people with it!

It’s possible to use the chainsaw to dismember corpses, just like the circular saw. (The sound effect that plays during this is a placeholder; it will be replaced in a future build.) However, aside from that, the chainsaw doesn’t have any sort of special or unique functionality; using it to kill is the same as using the baseball bat to kill.

With that said, I do have several ideas for how it might be useful in the future. For example, what if it makes you immune to takedowns from Heroic students or faculty members, because it’s just so big that it’s impossible for anyone to grab you without risking their limbs? I’m open to suggestions!

Improvements

• Previously, if the player played the game at a 16:10 aspect ratio, parts of the UI would go off-screen. The game is now using a workaround to prevent the UI from going off-screen during school gameplay. (This is a test/temporary fix, and proper aspect ratio support should come later.)
• A bottle of bleach has been added to the pump room for the school pool. This means that there is now a bucket+mop+bleach in close proximity to one another in the pool area, which may effect some players’ strategies for cleaning up murder evidence in that area.
• The “Quick Start” option is now available after customizing your Senpai’s appearance / after choosing your characters’ school uniforms, instead of only being available on the very first screen of the Senpai Customization screen.
• The “Togo warns Ryoba about approaching delinquents” cutscene now has actual animation, instead of just text on a black screen!
• Kenko now has hair physics.
• Maka now has hair physics.

Fixes

• If a student spotted a corpse, then ran to their classroom and performed the “looking left and right for a murderer” animation, and the player concealed that corpse, the student would psychically become aware that the player was concealing the corpse on the other side of the map, and the player would be apprehended. This bug has been fixed.
• The Photography Club members are close friends. So, if the player tried to gossip about a member of the Photography Club to another member of the Photography Club, they were supposed to reject the gossip. However, due to a bug, this was not happening. That bug has been fixed.
• If the player began to spill water out of a bucket and then walked up to a sink and re-filled the bucket with water while simultaneously spilling water out of it, the bucket’s button prompt would bug out. This bug has been fixed.
• If the player was in the middle of a smothering animation while receiving a game over, the protagonist would continue to perform the smothering animation at the game over screen. This bug has been fixed.
• In Custom Mode, if the player gave male Sports Club students a non-default skin color, their skin texture would appear stretched once they changed into their swimming trunks. This bug has been fixed.
• If the player was in the middle of a mopping animation while receiving a game over, the protagonist would continue to perform the mopping animation at the game over screen. This bug has been fixed.
• If the player tried to matchmake Chigusa, she would get stuck inside of the shower building when she was supposed to leave a note inside of her suitor’s locker. This bug has been fixed.
• When trying to pathfind out of the Occult Club room, characters could get stuck on the curved table at the back of the room. This bug has been fixed.
• If the player killed any student with the “Freeze to Death” method, the game would count the rival as frozen to death. This bug has been fixed.
• In Custom Mode, the “Invert Hair” feature was not working properly when students’ portraits were being generated. This bug has been fixed.
• If the player turned Amai into a mind-broken slave and brought her to school, her eyebrows would stretch out. This bug has been fixed.
• If the player kidnapped Honami, her glasses would clip through her blindfold in the player’s basement. This bug has been fixed.
• When Amai put her bento down to go investigate a suspicious noise, her bento would float in midair. This bug has been fixed.
• After the Unity 6 update, the textures for some of Ayano’s accessories broke. Those textures should be fixed now.
• Sakyu’s eyebrows disappeared in the Sakyu+Inkyu visual novel cutscene. This bug has been fixed.
• Fixed bug that caused part of Kenko’s hair to clip through his headwear.
• Fixed typo in list of “forced canon eliminations.”
• If the player typed “oogadee boogadee” at school, they would unlock all 10 rivals in 202X, which was a hidden debug command that wasn’t meant to be included in release builds of the game. This oversight has been corrected.