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

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Cryptid Crush is a TTRPG inspired  Monster Visual Novel with eldritch elements!


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Haunted. Cursed. Single.

You arrive in the seaside town of Longhope surrounded by monsters of urban myth- including your Mothman best friend, Atlas, and Jamie, the wingless Jersey Devil. Test your luck in love and life as you form bonds with the denizens (living, dead, and demonic) of Longhope.

Cryptid Crush will feature at least FIVE monster singles, and will receive updates with new content every few months!


Major thanks to our playtesters, friends and folk heroes like you!

StatusIn development
PlatformsWindows, macOS, Linux, Android
Release date Nov 20, 2020
Rating
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(787 total ratings)
AuthorDrowsy Drake Studios
GenreVisual Novel, Interactive Fiction, Role Playing
Made withRen'Py
Tagscryptid, Dating Sim, Furry, LGBT, Monsters, Narrative, Ren'Py, Singleplayer
Average sessionAbout an hour
LanguagesEnglish
InputsKeyboard, Mouse, Touchscreen
LinksPatreon, Twitter/X, Website, YouTube

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Cryptid Crush Mac 500 MB
Cryptid Crush PC/Linux 514 MB
Cryptid Crush Android 536 MB
Cryptid Crush Artpack.zip 204 MB
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I've played chapter 0 and it's amazing. I'm planning on waiting for the game to fully release. This game is so underrated and not known so I hope in the future it will have a bigger fanbase! This game deserves it! :D

I found it somewhat interesting. I like the characters, the art, and the soundtrack. The design is very charming.

From what I've gathered from one blind playthrough and two fast-forwarded playthroughs where I chose different options, Cryptid Crush is a kinetic novel with just a faint fragrance of dating elements. You're given choices, but as far as I've seen, there isn't anything that has a significant impact on the story. Choosing a different option maybe gets you a new crumb of world building, but ultimately just leads to the same places.

In the existing content, character interaction also feels very heavily skewed towards Madhouse and August. Madhouse is attached to your phone so he's in almost every scene chiming in, and there's quite a lot of 1 on 1 scenes with him even if you completely ignore every interaction with him. August is the only one that you're given the explicit option to flirt with, and similarly, if you ignore every interaction with him you'll still get shoved into the same 1 on 1 scenes with him regardless. Neither really goes anywhere in the existing content.

For everyone else there's a few scenes of either meetings or friendly hangouts that are quick and shallow. One such meeting in Chapter 1 with Jamie at their day job just has a rough line-art placeholder still despite chapter 2 being released and chapter 1 having been out for almost three years. After the first run it's very apparent that attention has not been equally distributed between the characters.

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Based on the past release frequency, unless the next two chapters really go hard on the dating elements it's probably going to be another 3-4 years minimum before there's any substance to this game as a dating sim.

HI! I finished the game today. My favorite has to be Madhouse in this game. Is it still in development? I would love to help out if anyone knows! This great game should proceed in greatness. ^w^

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The game is still in development, yes!

Yay! So excited to see it come out!

If you need help or anything, let me know! I know some of my friends are very excited to see it

Is the game still on development or it has been abandoned I checked patreon but it hasn't been updated since 2024 and here it says in development

i've finished the whole game last year during winter i love it 1000/1000 1000 stars

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this is so cool

No words. Flawed me. As the first actual visual novel I've played? Its just perfect. Everything. Had to reply twice to see the content i missed dice rolls for.

لعبة جميله

This is my favourite visual novel ever. I loved it so much I tried making a cosplay

I LOVE THIS, ITS BEEN HALF A YEAR SINCE I PLAYED EVERYTHING IN THE GAME HUHU. I really need more🙏 the art, story, and love interests just hooks you in!

prolly one of my favorite visual novel!! I can't wait for the next chapters!!! <33

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played through chapter 0 and like half of chapter 1, gotta say im really loving this so far! i always liked ttrpgs and stuff and combining this with my lastest interest visual novels i am so excited to see where this is going

Edit: just finished everything so far and i love it. hoping the next update comes out soon!

yo i am eating

Oooooooooh

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DROWSYDRAKE!!!
UPDATE THE GAME, AND MY LIFE- IS YOURS...

They're working on it i think so i'm hype af

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Love this game so much! The characters are so much fun

My only problem is the fact that the mobile version is kinda unplayable (had to switch to pc halfway through) it kept crashing and some save flies straight up wouldn't work 

I would recommend a toggle button for effects maybe? But other than that great game! I recommend people play the windows/Mac version other than the mobile version for the best experience 

i just played through this whole thing it's so good

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Oh dear creator please return ee yearn for the update

Please update it🙏

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i want the full vers so bad

pretty fire

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Guys. Im weird... why would i want to do this and use it as my wallpaper?  

(Sorry if i did this [Nobody will care anyway... i think])

is this vn finished?

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is it possible to kiss any of the characters besides August..? (Me and my friend have been playing for like an hour struggling to figure this out.)

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YOU CAN KISS AUGUST????

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This game is so cutee💗

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oz my love I miss you T^T

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I LOVE this game, but I'm confused on the character creation bit =^= is there only one skin color allowed or am I missing something?

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i LOVED THIS, i want to just bundel all the charchters up in one hand and squeeze them all, keep up the amazing work!

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It'd be a better and more immersive experience if there was more to the character customization or the option to have a lack of a character representation all together like a typical visual novel type game.

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ATLAS MY BELOVED

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august my beloved :D

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bro I’m so invested in this I love my furry babies (atlas, August and Oz) but I especially love our quirky radio ghost he’s so grumpy yet sweet at times i especially love his little tennis ball form it’s so cute and especially (spoilers ahead!) 











that scene where the MC cuddles him after that long boss battle 

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If the story goes on, and they add a Route where one day August would bite the MC, Like from the kissing part of the game. Because i would go nuts and crazy

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Love the game, only wished that I kissed the mothman instead of the werewolf :{ but either way, I'll take it

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Has this game been abandoned I haven't seen anything from the creator in a while?

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We're still developing the game!

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YESSSS IM SO HAPPY I MISS MADHOUSE MIKE SMMMM

YESHHHHH MY HEART ALIGHT 🔥🔥🔥

I am loving it so far! I just got it

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every day i wait for a new update...💔

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sigma shit yo

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hope they come back to finish the game, sad to not hear from the makers for a yea

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The game is still very much in development! they are more active on the discord

I'm currently having an issue trying to save my current file. Does anybody know how to fix this? (running on the mac version btw)

It says "Exception: not saved - no valid save locations" I tried looking at the related files but I'm not all that well-versed in troubleshooting in any coding language...

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