The biggest update to Eldritch Academy is now live! This release brings us to the end (at least for now) of the long journey that started in 2013 (pre-production) and 2019 (v1 release).

For those who have not been following the project on Twitter and other sites, Eldritch Academy v3 (internally known as EA-R, or the “Eldritch Academy Revision”) is a major update to all aspects of Eldritch Academy. The highlights are:

Redone character and event art

New, custom music

Reworked UI

Script revisions, including a few new scenes and the removal of “filler” scenes

A proper (non-experimental) Android version

I hope that this version of the game allows both new and returning players to really enjoy discovering the secrets of Solana Academy and befriending Yue’s classmates. If you don’t already own the game, maybe now is the time to check it out!

Aside from support for any remaining bugs, this will likely be the last major update to Eldritch Academy. However, the story doesn’t have to end with this game, as many new stories in the Nightshade universe have been announced or released since 2019. For instance:

If you liked the story of Eldritch Academy and want to see the continuation, you can roll right into its sequel, “Eldritch University”.

If you want to see more of the main characters of Eldritch Academy, the upcoming game “Life as Designed” will focus on Cho, Akomi, Kagami, and Yue as they adapt to their adult lives, ten years after Eldritch Academy.

If you want to see more romance between women in the Nightshade universe, you can play the spin-off games “Blooming Nightshade” and “Flowering Nightshade”, both of them expanded versions of games initially created for the “Yuri Game Jam” (2017~2018/2019~2020).

If you enjoy the Nightshade universe and its themes of a mundane world crossed with elements of the supernatural, there are a number of ebooks set in the same universe. In particular, “Shireishi” and “Those That Linger: GhostSense” have similar themes to Eldritch Academy, featuring students coming up against supernatural threats.

Thank you for your interest in this nearly decade-long journey to create Eldritch Academy and Eldritch University, and I hope you enjoyed it! I hope that I can continue to share more stories in the Nightshade universe, so be sure to keep an eye out for those future stories!

February 2022 Progress Update

Just to make sure people who don’t check Twitter and the other sites where I drip-feed information can stay at least somewhat up-to-date, here’s some progress on what I’ve been working on since August:

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