Month: October 2025

Sips and Sonnets Playthrough

A promo image featuring the logo and some character art for Sips and Sonnets. Text reads "Sips and Sonnets" A tiny chibi art of Stine is in the bottom right.
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Let’s Play Sips and Sonnets!

Hello, Cozy Gang!

I edited and uploaded my full playthrough of Sips and Sonnets VODs to my Youtube channel! This video is the combination of two streams of this delightful game.

In this visual novel, we take the role of the sweet, retired journalist named Ms. Meadows who runs a tea shop out of her house in a small English town. Many lovely patrons come to visit and share their stories as they sip the freshly made tea. At night we try to chat with the quiet nurse and write some stanzas of our poem. Pay special attention to what everyone is saying to you as you are expected to make choices based on your friends’ tales! There are some heavy themes about memory loss, getting older, and the sight of medical needles in this game so consider that if you pick up the game for yourself. The game is available on Steam so you can check it out for yourself!

A game promo image featuring Ms Meadows smiling and holding a chipped teacup on the left and the logo for Sips and Sonnets on the right.

Download Sips and Sonnets on Steam

Game Synopsis

Run a tea shop in the British countryside and enkindle your love for poetry in this heartfelt visual novel. Play as Ms Meadows, retired journalist and tea enthusiast, as she prepares for her best friend’s long-awaited visit. Listen to customers’ stories, brew tea, and craft wholehearted poems.

The Spell Candle Demo Playthrough

A promo image featuring the logo and some character art for Spell Candle. Text reads "Meeting the guys in the Spell Candle Demo" A tiny chibi art of Stine is in the bottom right.
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Let’s Play the Spell Candle Demo

Hello, Cozy Gang!

I edited and uploaded my full playthrough of the Spell Candle Demo VOD to my Youtube channel! This video is from one of my Fall In Love Visual Novel Festival streams!

Dealing with grief can be difficult but also having to juggle four beguiling hotties while doing so can be fun! In Spell Candle, the player finds themself traveling to the Dread Festival with Latimor, the moody cutie general of their nation’s army. At the Festival they meet three Elven aspects: the jovial Terra, flirtatious Aqua, and the reserved Mors Mortis. The Festival is soon rocked by an explosion that leaves them as the lead investigator!

In this demo, the otome game introduces us to the city of Omnis and to the four main love interests. We get a good glimpse into the personality of each of them and to the politic environment. We even get to experience some of the interrogation scenes with each character as well. I feel like this is a good and thorough taste of what the game has to offer and I am intrigued. The art, music, and writing all weave an enticing tale that has the potential to captivate me for the ride! If you are interested, I highly recommend checking out the demo and the kickstarter for yourself!

A screenshot from the game featuring all four of the main love interests in the game Spell Candle. The gorgeous men are standing in front of a city courtyard. The logo for the game is in the bottom left corner and the logo for Bottled Monster Ink is in the bottom right corner.

Get the Spell Candle Demo on Steam
Support the game on Kickstarter

Game Synopsis

Spell Candle is your grief coping mechanism in a 2D romance visual novel. Take on the role of a foreign correspondent turned investigator of magical crimes to uncover the culprit behind the mysterious disappearance of a sleeping God.