Yearning: A Gay Story

Grounded storytelling, great character, wide range of routes to pick. Very recommended!

What an unexpectedly enjoyable game. I started this game after trying Coming Out on Top and expected it to be a carbon copy, but surprisingly not. While not graphic depictions of sex, the game actually does better with its narrative and story and fleshes out their characters really well, with me having doing the Carlos route first and so far, he might genuinely be my favorite character from any of these types of Visual Novels. His arc genuinely feels natural, touches on the struggles of being closeted, the dangers of homophobia between family and friends and it's just overall a great and surprisingly well-done and respectful touch on subject matter like this. The artstyle is also very nice. Every character is pretty charming and has their own visual aesthetic that you can pick up fairly quickly and it's executed phenomenally well by the developer. The choices in this game, while similarly functioning to Coming Out on Top, have much more weight and dynamic effects behind them, truly making it so your choices absolutely do matter to the very end, whether it's something you say that may make a character break up with you, cause them to distance themselves from you, change their per…

Amazing game

played for 30 minutes only saw 1 ♥♥♥♥ L game.

I've only been playing the game for two hours, but I wanted to give a quick review. First of all I can't believe that this is a FREE GAME! I've paid for LGBTQ+ games that aren't even half as polished as this one. The only minor complaint I can think of at this time is the inability to cancel decisions that you regret. You basically have to go back to the last save point. My advice right now is to save frequently. I will comment again when I've finished the game! Great game so far with great dialog! Update after finishing first playthrough, and earning the new mode. Excellent game. I will definitely be checking out the sequel after this next playthrough.

No. Not even for free. I tried to play & record this for a vid in June 2025 for pride month but I got 40 mins in & I was so freakin bored with it, I knew it would not be worth finishing, editing & releasing to my viewers. I'm cleaning out old recordings (Dec 2025) & came across this one where, on the start of Aug 28th in the game, my last words of the 40 min recording were "I dunno, this is kinda borin'. I dont' think I like it." End recording LOL. It's basically reading text on a handful of boring, non animated backgrounds. The story has no depth nor eludes that it will pick up at any time. The character art was nice but this game did not jazz me up in any sort of way. As a connoisseur of Free to Play games, I think this was probably my least favorite so far.