Yearning: A Gay Story

3.9
968 reviews
50K+
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Content rating
PEGI 16
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About this game

Yearning: A Gay Story (YAGS for short) is a coming-out-focused character-driven slice-of-life visual novel with dating sim elements (phew) where you play as a gay man starting his freshman year of college at a generic university somewhere in the midwestern United States.

You will interact with a cast of characters, each with their own personality and stories, as you navigate college life, develop friendships, play board games, and come out. With luck, you might even find a boyfriend.

Features:
- A world where you can befriend people and see events from different perspectives, depending on your decisions
- 4 dateable guys* with their own distinct stories, with good and bad endings for each guy (9 endings in all*)
- 230,000+ words and meaningful choices
- Collectibles system to track and reward your decisions
- Achievements, for completionists
- Unlockable in-game character profiles
- An original soundtrack featuring "Yearning", the YAGS theme

* Or are there?
Updated on
Sep 4, 2024

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Ratings and reviews

3.9
892 reviews
Vinci Fricska (Vin)
June 27, 2024
i have been playing this game since i found it in 2020 on multiple different accounts and devices, i absolutely love it and highly recommend it there are many intreasting endings and such amazing visual story telling, i hope at some point there will be another game like this or even a second chapter that uses the same character but during work life, maybe with the addition of following specific endings. well done Bob!
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J Bailey
October 29, 2020
I absolutely adore this game. It's 100% what a visual novel is supposed to be like. The only issue is I wish the options (skip, menu, etc) were further apart to stop accidental taps. This FREE-to-play game is better than most if not all pay-to-play games. I'm so tired of gems, crystals, diamonds or whatever to choose different options. Plus even if you bought diamonds on other games you STILL end up doing whatever they want you to do. Your 'choices' don't matter. YOUR CHOICES MATTER HERE!
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James
February 7, 2021
Fantastic game. Like a good book, couldn't put it down. Really well written and executed. Only down side is that it feels disloyal to play through for a different ending and for the collection items now! (Despite having had to try a few times to get the ending I wanted). Would be nice to be able to skip back as well as forward to more easily try out different response options. --- Update: Okay the replay value leaves someone to be desired. Lots of samey sameness...
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What’s new

Fixed error with sprites not displaying properly.