Yandere Simulator 'Are ya coding son?' Genre: Stealth Action Platforms: Microsoft Windows Release Date: TBA (originally 2019) Developer: Alexander Mahan (aka EvaXephon and YandereDev) Game Engine: Unity

Yandere Simulator is a work-in-progress stealth action game made by Alexander Mahan (also known as EvaXephon and YandereDev) in conjunction with volunteers for the game. Originally, the game was slated to be released in 2019, but there is currently no deadline as of 2020. It is currently not possible to win the game, as the rivals (the objective of the game) have not yet been implemented into the game as of now.

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Plot

The game revolves around a schoolgirl named Ayano Aishi (in the game just referred to as Yandere-chan), who has never felt emotions during her childhood and pretended to be a normal girl. During the first day of her second year at high school, she meets Taro Yamada, who she falls in love with after finally experiencing the feeling of true emotions. That same day, Ayano notices a girl hanging out with Taro and finds out that she was planning to confess her love towards him next Friday. At the risk of losing her 'Senpai', she has to eliminate ten 'Rivals', Taro's possible love interests and obstacles that will prevent him from getting into a relationship, over the course of ten weeks.

Bad Qualities

1. There is no way to win the game yet. This is because the main objective of the game (the rivals) have not been implemented at all, despite the game being built for nearly six years. Only one is in the game.
   • Worth noting that the rivals are just the base model for female students with wackier hairstyles.
2. The game was originally programmed in JavaScript. This caused numerous amounts of bugs and glitches, as well as extremely low framerates.
   • Now mostly fixed as of July 2017 - the code has been ported to C# and Unity 4 was updated to Unity 5, which is far cleaner and neater (though he didn't do it). However, the bugs and glitches remain mostly because of Bad Quality 6.
3. In general, the game doesn't know what it wants to be; sometimes a sandbox game and sometimes an actual stealth game.
   • Contrary to the typical stealth game with big areas to explore or locations built around one objective, the entire storyline of Yandere Simulator takes place in the school area, with the room acting as a sort of hub and the road to the school as a pointless bicycle minigame.
   • Combat only exists in the form of a quick time event and only against the delinquents or when defending against an apprehension from students.
   • The game lets you do tasks like wiping off the blood with a mop which can be considered mundane, especially in the context of a stealth game.
   • Instead of fleshed out linear paths for the player to take, there are half-baked elimination methods. Since they are all meant to be equally difficult there is no real benefit of choosing one over the other.
4. The steps required for a successful elimination are convoluted and/or extremely specific. Without looking up the YandereDev YouTube channel or the game's fan wiki, it's hard to guess the required steps.
   • One way to obtain such information in-game is by getting the instructions from Info-chan but it requires you to pay with panty shots.
5. Yandere-chan, the main character of the game, doesn't follow the definition of a 'yandere'. A 'yandere' is someone who appears sweet and caring on the outside yet cruel and menacing to whoever poses a threat to her and her love interest. Her official backstory states that she is empty, emotionless and did not appear to show compassion for others, which makes her closer to that of a 'kuudere'.
   • This has been in part addressed as the player can now shape Yandere-chan's character depending on the actions they take.
6. Yandere Simulator's performance is abysmal on many player's ends. This is due to the game's coding, which is riddled with beginner mistakes such as overuse of else ifs and using way too many code lines in Update, which is a method that updates every frame. This leads the FPS to drop from 60 to 20 just by turning on the shadows. It doesn't help that Yandev believes there is nothing wrong with it calling everyone who report this problem, 'children with a cheap laptop'.
7. Many things that could be considered rewarding because you did something smart keep getting removed because Yandev sees it as an exploit.
   • For example, YouTuber, Razzbowski, came up with the idea to kill Osana by filling a pan with gasoline and put it above a doorway to drop on Osana and then put a candle in front of her, which sets her on fire and kills her. Yandev saw this and 'fixed' it by having Osana smell gasoline and then open the door without going through, which ruins a part of the gameplay and doesn't make any sense.
8. Since 2019, Yandere Simulator qualifies as being in Development Hell. The game has been in development since 2014, and even was initially slated to be released in 2019, but this was later changed to be 'when it's ready'. One of the reasons for the game being in Development Hell is arguably its scale; with the scale increased on a constant basis, work on the game's first rival was halted. YandereDev intends on collecting the sufficient funds for the game only after Osana is completed. Without the money to hire professionals that create assets for the game, he currently has to rely on his volunteers.
   • Also, there's another factor that's preventing this game from completion and that is the fact that Yandev keeps adding in stuff that doesn't ultimately affect the game. A good example is the easter egg game Magical Girl Pretty Miyuki, which despite being an easter egg has its own plot and character arcs.
9. The overall fact that players must kill students at a school comes off as rather tasteless and taboo. Also, considering they're being underaged doesn't help it either. This is also one of the reasons why this game was banned on Twitch.
10. Some inaccuracies here and there. For instance, as of an August 2019 update, a new currency was added, but for some reason it uses US dollars despite the game taking place in Japan, which uses yen and how some of the names of characters are inaccurate like the Nurse, Nasu Kankoshi, which is spelled wrong. It should be spelled, Nāsu Kangoshi as Nasu means eggplant in Japanese.
11. According to a YouTuber named Kappa Kaiju, after looking through the game's code and confirmed that the game is only around 6-10% done not even in PRE-ALPHA.
12. The 'panty shot' mechanic is quite tasteless. Until mid-2019, it was the only way to get Info-chan to give you a favor.
    • Now averted with information bugs, which are more valuable.

Good Qualities

1. YandereDev releases frequent updates (every two weeks) to the debug builds and lets the fans try out the newest features right away.
   • YandereDev has stated that all of the builds will be free until the first build that contains the second rival.
2. The debug builds are fun to many players as they are sandbox and contain a number of easter eggs and exploits. The downside to this is the wrong impression many people got. The game won't stay as silly and free as it currently is.
   • Recent inclusions to the game, like the 'indestructible' rival, support YandereDev's ideas of giving players less freedom.
3. As of 2017, YandereDev mentioned that most of the placeholder graphics have been replaced. This includes the grass texture from Clayton. Though some of them still remain such as the student models.

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Trivia

• The game used to have a lot of asset flipping.
  • All character models appear to be MMD assets lazily mashed together.
  • YandereDev stole the grass textures and the protagonist's room from a person named Doug Clayton. According to Clayton, who asked him to remove it from the game in vain, he 'did a poor job at removing the watermark'.
  • From older builds of the game, the school models are used from the anime K-On! and Persona 4.

Reception

Despite the game's currently mixed reception, it has become one of the most anticipated indie games to this date.

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Several months later...

Looking back, this comment that I posted here didn't age very well as I lost interest in following the development of this game months after seeing little to no improvements at all. And because of that, I'm starting to lose hope of the game itself. It might come back if it does ever get released (depending on its quality) but still... Honestly, I don't really care about what YandereDev does anymore since he barely does anything major to get the game to be released. And I'm starting to think that his 'debunks' on the official website are basically just his terrible excuses for him to plead innocence for some of his actions even though some of them are unforgivable.

SpazJR61

Yanderedev is a lazy and incompetent developer.

I'm not surprised.

Kanna MTFK Kamui

You know what?

There's a bootleg of this game called 'Schoolgirl Simulator', yet it looks more polished than this one.

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I, EvaX, humbly submit a toast to Nicholas Alexander for successfully managing to pirate Warcraft III, so that he may play Defense of The Ancients. Congratulations, Nick. Enjoy your DOTA.

sips AHHH

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SpazJR61

I think it was deleted.

Most likely due to edit wars.

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Unity Anime Models: *exists*

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