Another year and another anniversary for Katawa Shoujo in early January. The community for this VN is very passionate and never fails to deliver on celebrating and putting out new content (regardless weather its sanctioned by the developers or not). Re-Engineered First and foremost, Fleeting heartbeat Studios, the team behind 2022’s Re-Engineered version of Katawa […]
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