Save the Villainess: An Otome Isekai Roleplaying Game News

Dear Villains and Villainesses:

This is Tanya and Emily, the developers of Save the Villainess. We have so much fun news to share this month of March 2024! We might even tease an upcoming surprise… or two… or three…

We also want to remind you that our monthly company newsletter is going to go out on Friday. It will contain a chance to get fun and revealing character cards from our cast members that tell you more about the influential women in their lives. Please sign up to our mailing list for these post-cards!





First, we want to thank all our players for helping us reach 5,000 wishlists on Save the Villainess’ Steam page in 2 months. We could not have hit this major milestone without you!

To mark this milestone, we created a little video-skit featuring our villainess bantering with the Duke of the North. Please check it out on youtube!



Once again, we want to thank the amazing participants in our beta demo process for sharing their wonderful feedback with us.

Right now, we are working towards our public demo release, updating some of our assets and creating new sections on the demo for parts like Credits. We are also developing fun easter eggs based on tester feedback. The choices our beta testers made will affect the dialogue you get in the final version of the game!

Finally, we are planning to tie our public demo to some very exciting news we will share in April. We cannot wait to reveal more soon…



Our wonderful friend Dokiizutea recently created gorgeous Save the Villainess art. Take a look at a video of it here.



Hmmm, doesn’t it look as though it could be the cover of a novel? More on that to come…





March 8, 2024, was International Women’s Day and since we love women in general – and villainesses in particular – we tried to celebrate in style. You can see for yourself in this Youtube video.

If you sign up to our newsletter today, you can request cards from the Save the Villainess casts that tell you more about the most influential women in their lives. Our characters may even reveal a little more information than they mean to…



We hope you have a wonderful end to your March and a delightful beginning to your April. We will have much more news to share once April hits so please be on the look-out for those updates. They will be worth the wait!

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Hello Fellow Villainesses and Villains!

This is Tanya and Emily, the co-developers of Save the Villainess. We wanted to give you our monthly update - as well as important news about our beta demo test!

We also want to remind you that our monthly company newsletter is going to go out on Thursday. It will contain Valentine’s treats such as a chance to vote on our game’s summary and the opportunity to receive a special Valentine’s Day present from your favorite Save the Villainess character. Please sign up to our mailing list for these goodies!





Firstly, we want to update you on the results of our beta demo test, which we held at the end of January. We had an incredible number of people play the beta demo – sometimes multiple times – and then give us some amazing feedback.

We are delighted by the feedback we have received, especially from playtesters who were willing to play our demo multiple times to unlock so many secrets of our game. On our beta-tester-only discord, some of our amazing beta-testers even did let’s-plays of our demo and created a community-based google document to track clues and secrets from the demo and from marketing materials. You can also read our beta-tester Dulcito’s lovely tumblr post about her experiences with our demo.

We’re thrilled to know that our players are working hard to solve the mysteries of our game… though we promise that there are many more secrets, surprises, and mysteries to come.

(Our villainess promise is that all the major mysteries of the demo will be solved by the end of the game. Want to know why apples seem to be the only available food in our murderous manor… or how all of Jane’s would-be suitors found her so quickly… or even why a certain fellow in a top-hat seems to follow Jane around? All will be revealed in due time!)

Ultimately, Save the Villainess is the story of one woman’s struggle to survive and smile in the face of dread and danger… and without your support, it would be impossible to tell this story in a fully animated world that contains dozens of secrets, mysteries, twists, and endings. Thanks to your help, we’re finding new ways to optimize our game and make it an unforgettable experience.

Please keep following us for more information and fun surprises to come!



We also wanted to take this time to wish you all a happy Valentine’s day - one complete with cards from all the characters of Save the Villainess. To see our characters’ video messages and cards, please take a look at this Youtube video compilation!



If you are on our mailing list, you will get the chance to request an extra special Valentine’s day message from your favorite character… so if you haven’t joined already, please do so today to receive our monthly newsletter on Thursday, 2/29! All our potential murderers and one confused villainess are waiting to share their Valentine’s wishes with you!

Thanks again for your support, dear friends on Steam / Itch.io. We truly appreciate your help in making Save the Villainess a game that you can lose yourself – and perhaps even your villainess’ life! – in. We look forward to sharing more news with you next month!



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Hello fellow villains and villainesses!

We are excited to announce that Save the Villainess has been accepted into the 2024 Storyteller’s Festival hosted by Two and Half Studios. The festival is going on NOW so please check it out and support us and our fellow developers!

In honor of this festival, we are EXTENDING the time period in which people can join to test Save the Villainess’ 3 to 5 hour beta demo. If you view the festival, you can now sign up to test the beta demo with us until February 4, 2024.

We have already sent out the beta demo to older testers but will enroll new testers into the demo on a rolling basis.

We thank Two and a Half Studios for allowing us to enter the festival at a later date, as well as our players for supporting us. Thank you all for making this possible - and we hope to see you step inside a villainess’ life in our beta demo!

Hello fellow villainesses and villains!

This is Tanya and Emily from Best Laid Plans Productions, Inc. We thank you for following the development of our upcoming otome isekai roleplaying game, Save the Villainess, and have an important announcement below.



Friday, 1/26/24, is the final day that we are accepting testers for our game’s upcoming beta demo! So if you are interested in getting a special sneak peek of our game and shaping its future development, please sign up through our mailing list!

Once you sign up through our mailing list, you will get a confirmation email within 24 hours. Please check your spam folders or (if you are using gmail) your socials / promotions / other folders if you do not see the email. Confirm your subscription and you will receive an email shortly that will allow you to sign up for the beta demo.

The beta-demo process will be easy and simple. Once we confirm that you are a part of the beta test, we will send you an email in the week of 1/29/24 with a link to and password for a private Itch.io page containing the demo. You can then download the demo, play it (typical play-time is 3 to 5 hours), then fill out a short Google forms survey (10 - 15 minutes) asking you about your experiences on the demo.

Feel free to reach out to us at contact @ bestlaidplans . net (no spaces) if you need any help or have questions. We can always manually add you to the mailing list if you want us to.

Thanks again for your support! After all, if you don’t Save the Villainess, who will?



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