Fact Sheet

Release Date: 📆 September 16 2017 Platforms: PC, Mac, Linux, and Android: itch.io iPad: App Store

Price: Pay-what-you-want ****

Developer: Brianna Lei Location: California, USA Publisher: Self published

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📧 Contacts: General: [email protected]

About the Game

Butterfly Soup is a romantic sports visual novel about four LGBT+ Asian-American teens playing baseball and falling in love.

With California’s 2008 Proposition 8 debate as a backdrop, the story switches through the perspectives of Diya, Noelle, Akarsha, and Min-seo as they navigate high school life in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Butterfly Soup is available on PC, Mac, Linux, Android, and iPad.

The game has been translated into Japanese, Tranditional Chinese, Korean, Brazilian Portuguese, Czech, Indonesian, Polish, and Farsi.

Features:

harold they're lesbians*
3-4 hours long
memes

*except not really, one of them is bi

A sequel, Butterfly Soup 2, was released in 2022.

Recognition & Press

IGN Japan Best Indie Game of 2019
IGF Excellence in Narrative Finalist 2018
PC Gamer Best Visual Novel 2017
Exhibited at RAINBOW ARCADE, Schwules Museum Berlin (December 2018 – May 2019)

About the Developer

Butterfly Soup was developed by Brianna Lei, a solo indie dev from the San Francisco Bay Area. She now lives in Connecticut with her spouse and pet cat.

She is also known for developing Pom Gets Wi-Fi (2013).