Yandere Simulator



"''"After all, at its core, Yandere Simulator is a horror game. Where you are the monster...""

- YandereDev

A game in which you are a Yandere and must eliminate rivals for senpai's affection. Created by YandereDev as a Stealth Based Game, the goal is to eliminate all rivals for the affection of a boy your character likes while keeping everyone ignorant of it.

It is still in development, with a planned crowd-funding effort in the making. Old builds, which are not representative of the final game, can be downloaded on this archive blog.

The game is currently PC only, though Mac and Linux builds are possibilities for the future.

Final Game
"...if you love someone, you shouldn't kidnap them and tie them to a chair!"
 * A Date with Rosie Palms: One of the ways to regain sanity is to use a picture of senpai. I wonder what she's doing with that picture...
 * Adults Are Useless: Averted. Teachers and the police are remarkably competent. In the case of teachers, they can easily overpower Yandere-chan should she try to kill them. Unless of course, you gain the right skills or take them out less conspicuously.
 * And That's Terrible:

""Yandere-chan will confess her love to Senpai when the time is right, once all of her rivals are eliminated. Until then... Don't. Let Senpai. Notice you.""
 * The Bad Guy Wins: If you win. Also in the lore.
 * Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: It's possible for Yandere-chan to mercilessly wipe out her targets without anyone suspecting that someone as innocent or normal as her could have done it.
 * Badass Bystander: In addition to the teachers, certain students with the "Heroic" personality can be this. As they'll not only try to stop Yandere-chan or fight back if she attacks them, but can also defeat her if she's not careful or prepared.
 * Bloodless Carnage: Averted. Killing people will likely result in a good deal of blood splatter, even on Yandere-chan. Which makes it all the more necessary to not only clean up the bloody mess, but also change clothes if need be before anyone notices.
 * Bullying a Dragon:
 * Gossiping about Yandere-chan is a very bad idea.
 * The game won't let you gossip about Info-chan.
 * Bi the Way: Senpai can be a female.
 * Cassandra Truth: Actually somewhat averted, at first, with However it doesn't last. Also if you move a body the teacher won't believe the student about a murder and rebukes them for 'playing a prank'. In the final version the teacher might not even believe a student saying that the student found a body or saw a murder if you moved the body the last time with this student too.
 * Cassette Craze: The disgraced reporter used cassettes for his journal entries. Justified, as the events described happened in The Eighties.
 * Censor Steam: When someone is naked, the stream covers only their private parts.
 * Compensated Dating: Some of the girls are involved in this activity. Yandere-chan can use the info to ruin their reputation.
 * Covert Pervert: Implied for some of the guys (and girls) in the school. Info-chan's panty-shot photos are popular for a reason.
 * Creepy Monotone: Yandere-chan's completely tortured victims will speak in this manner.
 * Dark Reprise: The lower the overall atmosphere, the grimmer and more distorted the soundtrack becomes.
 * Daylight Horror: Yandere-chan can do all sorts of horrible crimes on a normal school day.
 * Dirty Business: A Hero Antagonist of the lore does this.
 * Dies Wide Open: Students who are poisoned, electrocuted or killed in a struggle.
 * Deconstructive Parody: The game is this to the classic High School Dating Sim set-up in addition to being an affectionate homage to Yanderes.
 * Driven to Suicide: You can bully a student so hard that he or she kills him- or herself.
 * The Eighties: The school's faculty are particularly concerned with making sure that a horrid series of murders that happened back in the 1980s doesn't happen again.
 * Emotionless Girl: Yandere-chan's backstory implies that she was this, until she saw Senpai.
 * Evil Laugh: If you commit a murder you lose sanity. Giving a evil laugh calms you down.
 * First-Name Basis: Ryoba's darling starts calling her by her first name shortly after they start talking for the first time. Isn't that romantic?
 * Generation Xerox: Ryoba Aishi, Yandere-chan's mother, is not only stated to look like an adult Yandere-chan, according to Word of God.
 * Genre Shift: The game's overall tone and even the atmosphere surrounding the school can change considerably depending on your actions. Playing as a particularly violent Yandere-chan is an easy way to turn said atmosphere from "classic High School drama" to "suspense thriller" very quickly.
 * Henpecked Husband: Yandere-chan's father is this. Given that his spouse is Ryoba Aishi, there's a very good reason for that.
 * It Was Here, I Swear: You can move the body between when it is spotted and when a teacher shows up. The teacher scolds the student for "playing a prank", even if the you didn't mop up the blood. In the future a student who's been accused of "playing a prank" the first time around might not even be given another chance to convince the teacher.
 * It's a Wonderful Failure: Just as there are several ways for Yandere-chan to deal with her prey, there are also several ways for her to lose. Whether it's being caught by police or losing the affection of Senpai.
 * Japanese Delinquents: One rival will display this type of behaviour and appearance.
 * Karma Houdini: You, if you win. Also in the lore.
 * Leave No Witnesses: If people see you kill someone and you get away with it, they will lower your reputation every day until you get rid of them. If your reputation is to low, Senpai won't accept your confession.
 * Make It Look Like an Accident: If you poison someone's food, it is assumed that the person choked on his or her food, as long as you don't try to dispose of the body.
 * Manipulative Bitch: You can play various people like pawns without them ever really noticing your machinations.
 * Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: The Phantom Girl, the restless spirit of a student who died in the 1980s who supposedly lurks about the school.
 * The school also has a club dedicated to the occult. Whether there's actually any supernatural goings-on there is left open.
 * Mood Dissonance: Having a high-atmosphere school (and keeping it that way) even while Yandere-chan does her sinister deeds can come across as this.
 * Murder the Hypotenuse: It wouldn't be complete without this. Perhaps surprisingly, you don't need to kill your rivals to eliminate them. Also in the lore.
 * OOC Is Serious Business: The photography club members like to goof around and have fun, and in-fact joined the club for that reason. But when the atmosphere is low, they don't feel like having fun and get more serious. And when the atmosphere is very low, they actively look for evidence.
 * Pacifist Run: It's perfectly doable for Yandere-chan in the final game to remove her targets without actually killing any of them. Even if that involves torturing, lying and manipulating her way through.
 * Parental Abandonment: Yandere-chan's parents are nowhere to be found. It's temporary (story wise) because they're on business in America. In practice they are going to be gone for pretty much if not flat out the entire game.
 * Police Are Useless: Subverted. The police would suspect and arrest Yandere-chan if there's too much evidence implicating her out in the open.
 * Reality Ensues: Trying kill a teacher without the proper method or the right skills is a guaranteed way for Yandere-chan to have her ass apprehended. Likewise, simply going about murdering everyone on sight won't just send your sanity down rock-bottom, but would also make the game a lot more difficult.
 * A low-atmosphere school would not only look suitably grim and cloudy, but would also behave as one would expect from having several visible deaths happen in the same place. Students and teachers alike would be a lot more frightened, serious and worried, all but erasing any High School hijinks. And if Yandere-chan has low-reputation, it becomes significantly harder for her to escape suspicion as well.
 * The setting itself is rife with this. The default-atmosphere school may look straight out of a classic Dating Sim or any High School drama anime, but some of the students' backgrounds are anything but perky or cliched.
 * The Rival: Yandere-chan sees many rivals standing between her and Senpai.
 * Romance Sidequest: Averted. That's not the point of the game, according to Word of God.


 * Sanity Slippage: If you let your sanity go too low, Yandere-chan begins to visibly twitch and lunge about like a deranged killer.
 * Scary Shiny Glasses: Info-chan.
 * Screw This, I'm Outta Here: The lore reveals
 * Stalker with a Crush: Yandere-chan has a rather deep obsession with Senpai, to the point of having a full-fledged shrine on her bedside dedicated to him. Whether she can be blatant about that or mask it as much as possible is up to you.
 * Torture Cellar: The best way to describe the basement of Yandere-chan's house, as this is where she can drag her live captive and do whatever she wants with said prisoner.
 * Villain Protagonist: Technically, Yandere-chan. It is possible however for her to channel her sociopathic tendencies towards non-lethal, albeit insidious approaches.
 * Villain with Good Publicity: . Also, Yandere-chan, potentially.
 * What You Are in the Dark: Part of the challenge for Yandere-chan is how long she could keep it in the dark.
 * Yamato Nadeshiko: Ryoba Aishi, Yandere-chan's working mother, has the facade of a modern-day one.
 * Yandere: Duh.

Builds, Development Videos, and Explicit Possibilities
""Gee, you're right, green-haired girl. It's time for me to get back to what I'm good at... murdering schoolgirls in horrific ways.""
 * April Fools: YandereDev has a habit of doing a special video every April 4.
 * Blinding Bangs: The temporary club leaders.
 * Christmas Special: It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Murder~
 * Department of Redundancy: YandereDev was concerned that Yandere Simulator would be considered a joke game because of the title. Yandere Simulator was initially intended as a description and working title but has gained name recognition so it might stick around. As such, he is considering renaming the game to LoveSick : the Yandere Simulator. Which of course still contains "Yandere Simulator".
 * Dissonant Serenity: YandereDev talks about the gruesome and disturbing features of the game in a soothing voice.
 * During his first e-mail-related video:

""As you can see, our prisoner is no longer watching us as we move around the room, and she's no longer twitching either. This is because we have completely destroyed her mind. There are no traces of a human left inside of her. She's permanently broken, forever. ...Let's bring her to school!""
 * On his October 17th 2015 update video:

"(While eerie music is playing) "They exist purely so that you can test a gameplay feature. There is no more meaning to their existence. (Music stops) Oh, and by the way, [...]""
 * Hiatus: YandereDev occasionally takes breaks from developing the game, partly to find some needed rest and partly so he could play games like Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain.
 * Japanese Delinquents: "Bancho Mode", part of the Easter Eggs, gives Yandere-chan a Commissar Cap and arm-wrappings, what sukeban typically wear.
 * Nothing Is Scarier: The SNAP option in every game over screen. At this point it remains a placeholder, but what that could entail is best left to the imagination.
 * Obvious Beta: The game is still very much a work-in-progress and YandereDev makes it clear with each update that there are several features and improvements yet to be implemented. Probably the most obvious examples are the club leader's that are just place holders, introduced in the Febuary 1st 2016 update. YandereDev out right stated that "these vacant, empty, hollow husks" are place holders and won't react to murders that happen right in front of them. Furthermore they are all identical and are completely devoid of any personality. All they do is let you join their respective club.


 * One Man Party: Not quite this, but YandereDev is pretty much making the game by himself. Albeit with the help of friends and amateur voice actors.
 * Shout Out: There are quite a few over the various builds.
 * One easter egg turns Yandere-chan into a female Big Boss, based on his appearance in Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain. Complete with a mechanical red arm and Mike Oldfield's Nuclear in the background.
 * Another turns almost every other NPC into Titans.
 * In more recent builds, an easter egg turning Yandere-chan into the homicidal protagonist of Hatred has been added.
 * For Halloween 2015, YandereDev introduced Yanvania: Senpai of the Night as a playable minigame. As an added touch, it's a rather faithful homage to Castlevania to boot.
 * Also found in recent builds is a mode that turns Yandere-chan into a Magical Girl, which adds even more Mood Dissonance as she magically kills everyone around her.
 * Sincerest Form of Flattery: YandereDev is frank about how he gained inspiration for various elements, gameplay features from Japanese visual novels, Dating Sims, and even Metal Gear. The latter can be found particularly in the emphasis on stealth.
 * Soundtrack Dissonance: Used in this promo concept (meant to be fully produced) where Yandere-chan kills a girl, then Senpai and then herself, synced to the Japanese folk song "Tsubasa o Kudasai."
 * Yandere-chan even syncs her stabs to the song.
 * Suspiciously Specific Denial: Yandere-chan is not well versed in murder.

Yandere Clicker

 * Serial Numbers Filed Off: of Cookie Clicker

Yanvania: Senpai of the Night

 * Affectionate Parody: of Castlevania: Symphony of the Night.
 * Shout-Out: One famous cutscene from the game is recreated, with "Senpai" replacing "man".