Locally produced, hand-crafted, small batch, non-GMO, organic (or maybe silicon-based?) foods are often touted as the pinnacle of health and nutrition. So, please enjoy this selection of small indie visual novel we're bringing you today, freshly delivered for your consumption. You simply will not find this level of toxic yuri, this high a concentration of charm and potency, or a mouthfeel anywhere near as satisfying in those visual novels you get at the big box grocery stores. They do sell them at grocery stores, right? This metaphor falls apart completely otherwise.

This month, Sara and Runa embark upon their fifth Indie Visual Novel Compilation Track episode! Every six months, our hosts select a heaping handful of Indie VNs that they've read and enjoyed to tell you, dear listener, about the joys and delights you can find in indie games. Many of our entries this time are also from very cool Game Jams, and looking through the catalog of a jam's entries can be a great way to find more games to satisfy your cravings.

In these Indie Game Compilation Track episodes we want to highlight some of the incredible indie VNs we've played recently and get people excited about the things happening in Indie Visual Novel development spaces. We want to not only showcase the amazing breadth of work coming from Indie developers but also talk about some of our favorite games, many of which touch on subjects, characters, and experiences we rarely get the chance to see in games from larger studios. You can find a list of each game we played below and we encourage you to play along with us, and go searching for other Indie visual novels as well!

Most of these games are free and if not, fairly cheap (though please tip the creators if you are able), and you can read most of them inside of an hour or two. In fact, we want YOU, dear listener, to pick at least one of these games to play after you listen, and then tell us about it! You can also check our Patreon, where listeners and patrons can submit either a short audio clip or a few sentences telling us about an Indie VN you've played and enjoyed recently! We may even include your submission on our next Indie VN Compilation Track episode (only if you want, that is).

Games discussed in this episode:

• Comme Tu Veux (00:06:23)
• Our Bad Ending (00:18:33)
• Spring in Her Step (00:22:41)
• Threads of Magic (00:28:18)
• her tears were my light (00:39:02)
• A Circle of Charity (00:43:13)
• Neurokino Retrograde (00:48:32)
• Märchen Line (01:01:14)
• A Date with Death (01:16:38)
• The Final Prize is Soup (01:26:25)
• Good Lord! Everyone at the Reunion for my Religious All-Girls School is a Trans Man... And they're Hot?! (01:40:11)

And also, these two Listeners submissions!

• Pinfeather - Submitted by Emrys (00:33:21)
• Murders on the Yangtze River - Submitted by Raven (00:58:57)