PERIHELION
A downloadable game for Windows, macOS, and Linux
Perihelion is a visual novel about identity and coming of age. As a human living in a world of dragons, you must navigate new and old relationships alike during your last autumn as a high school student and prepare for your life to change forever.
The first of 5 unique character routes is now available! This route contains three CGs and three possible endings, including both a romantic and platonic option.
This version is not backwards compatible with previous versions of the game! You will encounter issues if you try to load a save from the earlier demo versions, so please make sure to start a new save file.
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Development log
- Update v0.4.492 days ago
- Update v0.4.3Jun 29, 2023
- Update v0.4.2 - Lark route release!May 31, 2023
- Update v0.3.3May 22, 2022
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I can't seem to figure out how to run this game after downloading it and I couldn't find anything telling me what to do. Please help
All you have to do is unzip the folder you downloaded and then run PERIHELION.exe which is in the very first folder you click into. Hope that helps, let me know if you run into any more issues
dispite only having one route completed. this VN has become, and will continue. to be one of my absloute favorites, I Can’t wait for whats to come!
Да я так ради интереса
Могу ли я перевести игру на русский язык ?
Can I translate the game into Russian?
The game is still a work in progress and the content may change at any time, so we are holding off on any official translations until the full game is complete. Thanks for your interest.
The character designs are super cute and they all have such fun personalities. Can't wait to see more of the worldbuilding and such in future updates
This is a great visual novel. Incredible work and amazing art. I thoroughly enjoyed the story so much that I wanted more. But My only complaint is on the romantic ending, you don't even get to have a kiss. Let us kiss the dragon.
I enjoyed whats available so far, Lark's story definitely had me tearing up.
There is one thing I didn't like however. If you ignore the art, it's basically impossible to tell the characters are dragons based on the writing. Very little mention is given to their nonhuman features and it kind of makes it hard to remember it's a story about humans and dragons, not just humans.
I'm not sure if I got the romantic ending or not. There wasn't a lot of fluff at the end. Is it the romantic ending if the Draconid night is considered your first date?
yes, if you go to the Draconid festival with Lark then you got the romantic ending!
Thanks! Fantastic so far. Had so many feels and really felt integrated into the world!
This is really enjoyable already even with just the Lark route, and has jumped up to one of the full game releases I'm looking forward to the most. Lark's story hit hard, and the dragon designs have so much variety to them and all look amazing.
Also Nami is hilarious. "Going for a smoke break" - you're made entirely out of bones??
Drawing a dick in the cookie event is Funny bro😂
it makes me laugh even more because because they said quick shove it in your mouth and easy there don't choke on it😂💀
Definitely wanna see more of Solit too! I'm very curious to see if he's practically an immortal or not. He's also very cute!
I absolutely love and adore Nami. I hope we can get more interactions with her! Maybe even a whole route? I don't know what y'all have planned, but you're doing great! Thanks for making this dragon game! I hope this gets more attention as you guys progress! Dragon games are super underrated!
Thank you! We do have a very short "route" planned for Nami that will be included in a future update, so please stay tuned!
Awesome! I can't wait! Thank you!
does this game have LGBTQ?
the protag/player character is nonbinary and you have the option to date dragons of all genders!
awesome, will this game be nsfw?
no, the game will be sfw throughout
Will this have romance in it?
Yes, this will have romance! I'll update the description to be more clear
Thank you so much! I will share this with my friends and others! I am so excited to see another dragon romance game! I really look forward to seeing how it progresses! Good luck!
Hmmm.... There's gotta be an option where you boop the snoots.
Hello! Will there be an android version?
An android version is not currently in development; however if there's significant interest after launch we'll definitely consider making a port!
Good art!
But why do dragons live the way humans do? And why do I live in a world of dragons? I want to know what's going to happen next.
Anyway, I am looking forward to this game! 👍🏻
Bug #1 there is no down load for windows....
Apologies, I was re-uploading the zips to patch out a bug. The download for pc should be up now!
nope still nothing there to dl =
To clarify, are you seeing no download options at all or just no download for windows specifically? If it's the latter, then that's intended- the PC download will work for both windows and linux.
when i select the orange Download button labeled PERIHELION_DEMO-0.3.2-pc.zip it brings up the download pop up window but there is no file to choose. Hitting the red Install button on the itch app does the same thing. ie there is no file to dl = / just checked and there is nothing under the mac button either
Hmm you shouldn't need to choose a file since each option (mac/pc) only contains one zip file... can you post a screenshot of the download pop up window that you're getting? No one else has reported this issue so far and I've tested that the download works on firefox, chrome, and edge, so it might be something to do with your browser on your end. Sorry you've been having issues with this, if I can't get the itch.io download to work I might be able to send you a github download link to play the game.
There shouldn't be a file to choose as the download is supposed to start automatically. In my case there's also a pop-up and no file to choose but the download starts immediately, so something blocks your download, actually that window even tells about checking pop-up blocker if the download doesn't start.
I'm getting the same issue when trying to download from the itch.io app on Windows. There is nothing to select and when you click install nothing happens. If you try to install again I get an error.
Sorry about that, it turns out the error is exclusive to the itch.io app and was caused by me forgetting to mark each download with which OS it's for. Please try again and let me know if you run into any more issues!