A downloadable game for Windows, macOS, Linux, and Android

Attend the prestigious Miranda's All Girls' University, hidden away in Romania. Choose to pursue the Arts, to follow your academic career, or to slack off with your friends. Along the way, face challenges, solve mysteries, and try to stay alive, as it becomes apparent that there is more to this school than meets the eye. Perhaps even find love in the chaos?  

  • A sapphic, modern rendition of Resident Evil Village
  • LIs: Alcina, Bela, Cassandra, and Daniela Dimitrescu, Donna and Angie Beneviento, and Miranda
  • Length: 215.000 words
  • Twenty-one endings total
  • Available for Windows, Mac, Linux, Chrome OS, and Android
  • Warning: This game contains scenes of horror and strobe lighting

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Meet the unfairly attractive cast of Resident Lover! From charming art professors to golden retriever skater girls, this university has lovers suited to anyone's tastes.  

  • Alcina Dimitrescu: The Resident Heartthrob, join her art class for purely academic purposes and dare to head into the mouth of the lion...
  • Bela Dimitrescu: The Resident Workaholic, try to keep up with her work ethic, join her on the student council, and maybe discover what lies beneath the stone-cold exterior.
  • Cassandra Dimitrescu: The Resident Diva, take part in this term's play of Romeo and Juliet and find out if undying love can only exist on the stage.
  • Daniela Dimitrescu: The Resident Romantic, get tangled up in her family's mess and see if this hopeless romantic may yet find some hope.
  • Donna Beneviento: The Resident Recluse, take a dare and get emotionally tangled with a florist, and see if love really is enough.
  • Angie Beneviento: The Resident Party Animal, skip out on classes and go on an adventure your liver wont thank you for! And maybe, just maybe, find out she's not as one-dimensional as she might seem.
  • President Miranda: The Resident Headmistress, get blackmailed into becoming an assistant and slowly but surely earn the trust of an apex predator and maybe even grow fond of them.


Team Avia

Arlanorr: Coding & Sound Design
Dead Finches: Art & Concept
CinderSpots: Writing
Bee-Nutauthor: Writing
Vizzi: Promotional Design & Writing


Controls for Desktop:

  • Left Click / Enter - Interact
  • Right Click / ESC - Close menus; Open the Save Screen during dialogue
  • Mouse Wheel / Page Up & Page Down - Scroll back and forth through dialogue you have already played
  • Space - Advance dialogue
  • Ctrl - Skip dialogue
  • Tab - Toggle atomatic dialogue skipping
  • Arrow Keys - Navigate
  • H / Middle Mouse Button - Hide and show UI
  • S - Take a screenshot
  • F - Toggle fullscreen
  • DLT (when hovering over used save slots) - Delete save games
  • V - Toggle assistive voicing for the visually impaired
  • Shift + A - Open accessibility menu

Controls for Android:

  • Home - Closes the game
  • Back - Scroll back through dialogue you have already played

Technical Info & Known Issues:

  • Save files from the demo should largely be compatible with the full release, but minor bugs may arise. The save files need to be transfered manually. They can be found in the directory "game\saves" within the Resident Lover folder. The save files from the demo may visually appear too large in the save and load menus. This is just a visual issue and will be fixed when overwritten.
  • Recording or streaming the game in fullscreen may result in the video output freezing. Record and stream from window mode if this happens.
StatusReleased
PlatformsWindows, macOS, Linux, Android
Rating
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(183 total ratings)
Authorteamavia
GenreVisual Novel
TagsDating Sim, Fangame, Female Protagonist, Horror, Indie, Lesbian, LGBTQIA, Ren'Py, Romance

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Resident_Lover-1.1-linux.tar.bz2 440 MB
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Resident_Lover-1.1-mac.zip 433 MB
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Resident_Lover-1.1-win.zip 450 MB
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com.teamavia.residentlover-release.apk 454 MB

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I WANT KARL NOW !!! ( ps game was really good want karl in there tough <3)

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I've only done Miranda's route so far (warnings be damned), but I'm really loving this. I do wonder if I'm missing out on anything by not knowing anything about RE Village, though. Also, "I have a death wish and a weakness for women" is the best description I've ever seen for how I play dating sims.

Why does the download always fail?

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totally loved it, i just did the cassandra route and i'm doing the bela one!! can't wait for you guys to release more content! (please get voice actors tho :( that would be awesome!!) <3

There’s actually someone making a fan-dub for the game :D!

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I downloaded this game last night at around 8:00PM and then I played the entire game in a single 13 hour session. it is now 9:00AM. I have not slept, I have not eaten, and I've had some water. but considering how good the writing was and how uniquely charismatic each bachelorette was I didn't drink enough water to quench my thirst. of course my favorite route is the Miranda route, but I think that putting the Miranda route aside Donna's story was one of my favorites. I would recommend this game to all depraved single lesbians out there. 10/10

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I feel this post this is literally me right now

I’m OBSESSED with the Miranda route. I just finished playing it and OMG?!!! I’ve never even played any resident evil games before but I still think this is a FANTASTIC game!!!

Will there be a translation into Portuguese? Please say yes, I'm looking forward to playing this game, it's been a year and I don't know English.  I'm using the translator

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every month or so i replay this game because it's just so so amazing. i think the miranda route actually changed something in my brain. i now understand the mother miranda vision. thank you.

The Miranda route was something I never knew I needed

THANK U SM TEAM I ENJOYED PLAYING THIS GAME ANDDD IT'S FUN AND THE STORY LINE IS SO CHEF'S KISS I HOPE YOU'LL MAKE ANOTHER GAME

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Are there any novels similar to this?We really need such games!!(the main character is a woman and a large selection of sapphire branches)

HELLO MAY I KNOW HOW I'LL PLAY BELA'S ROUTE?!?!

Nvm i already done it😎

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so is the protagonist a guy or a girl...? or we can choose which gender our protagonist is ?

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>All girls University 

>Sapphic (Lesbian) story driven game 

🙏🏽 hope that helps

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I actually need more of this game 😭 finished the game too soon... Honestly can’t wait for the new game

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I've played the game a thousand and one times and I have the gallery full, the only problem is that I feel like I'm missing endings, can someone tell me how many endings there are for each character?

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There is a total of 21 endings. There are 3 endings for each character a neutral, good, and bad endings. Most of the endings are based on the final choice at the end of each route, only 2 routes ending are based on a point system from choices through their route.

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Thanks bro

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Hey, I was wondering if it'd be possible for me to offer to translate the game to spanish? It'd be of course for free, it's just that I have a few spanish speaking sapphic buddies who want to play the game, and it would be no big deal, really. Sorry if this is in any way invasive or offensive! Have a wonderful day

Necesito esto urgentemente. Mi inglés es un asco y realmente quiero jugar esto...

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I LOVE BELA!!!!!!!!!

same 😭

I came back after several months to play different routes besides Bela's (i'm so in love with her) and WOW. I never realised just how much lore is packed in here! Still not done with all the routes yet but my favs are Bela, Donna and Cassandra <3 

SPOILERS-ish? I'm also very in love with how unnerving cass' cult/bad end was... it was so unsettling i will be thinking about it for a few days (kudos to finch for the scary art)

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i'm losing my mind over miranda... save me mother miranda... save me

REAL LMAO

SAME HERE LMAOO

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i blame you for my emotional state rn /j

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how do i complete the gallery? i don't understad why the las 2 pages are just not appearing

My girl Dani and I are gonna get lost in the popcorn sauce (butter)

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Lore is IMMACULATE idk how i got so invested! Loved Miranda's route, she's just sooooo UGHHH i'd die for her!! Mc and her are just so cute (shhh no one's perfect, leave my problematic girlboss). Already followed on your tumblr, cannot wait for your next project, ty for all of your work on Resident Lover <33

I love this game sm especially Bela's, Alcina's, and Miranda's routes 😭💗

I tried playing but im using mobile and nothing really worked at all since im saying this i am hoping u can make it a little better for mobile users but it does seem like a cool game

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i'm cassandra's n1 fan and wife

does anyone know what collecting all the secrets does?

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done every route now found most secrets - i need more of this, everything about it is incredible i love the art style and your style of storytelling. if anyone has any recommendations of similar games id love to hear them but what id love even more is to see more games by avia whether theyre in the same universe as this or not

Came for Alcina, stayed for Miranda of all people?? Very well done!

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this brought back my donna crush from like 4 years ago excellent work her route is so sweet 

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REAL

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amazing game! I love it. Just wish there was a route to date Mia. Yes, I really mean it.

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Absolutely love it. Excited for more content in the future 👀

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one of the best visual novels I played. I wish I could play it again for the first time (loved the lore and artstyle<33)

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Kudos to the team!

for some reason it cant download?

我需要中文。

我同意

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Can add Chinese subtitles?

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