Homecoming ~Morenatsu Revisited~
A downloadable visual novel for Windows, macOS, Linux, and Android
"It's been five years since I've seen my hometown. What if they don't remember me? What if everyone's moved on?"
In Homecoming, you take on the role of a young Japanese snow fox (or human, if you're so inclined) named Hiroyuki Nishimura. After moving away from your hometown Minasato to Osaka five years ago, you receive an unexpected letter from an old friend inviting you back for one last summer vacation before completing your senior year of high school. What complicates things is how you've neglected to contact any of your friends over the years. Although nervous, you accept the invitation.
What awaits you back in Minasato? Will you be welcomed with open arms, or has it been so long that everyone has forgotten about you? Will this be yet another wasted summer, or will you finally have the chance to experience what makes life worth living?
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Homecoming is a visual novel about nostalgia, romance, living life to the fullest, reconnecting with old friends, and learning to face your demons, all wrapped up in the cute Japanese kemono aesthetic. The game Homecoming is based on, Morenatsu, is considered to be one of the classic entries in furry culture. Although it was cancelled in 2015, dedicated fans have continued to keep its legacy alive through fanworks such as this. While rough around the edges, the original game captured many hearts, including the members of the Stormsinger Studios development team. We aim to create the best visual novel we can make, doing justice to the source material that has inspired so many like us.
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NSFW Warning!
The game is intended for mature audiences! Explicit scenes and images featuring same-sex romances can be found throughout the game. Please do not download if you are under the age of 18!
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Our Public Discord Channel!
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Disclaimers!
Stormsinger Studios is not affiliated with Morenatsu Team. This is a fan reimagining and is not meant to be seen as a replacement for the original game. If you are interested in seeing the original, consider checking out the Revival team's Ren'py port.
Homecoming is a work in progress. All content within is subject to change and is not necessarily representative of the final product.
Some updates may require starting a new game to avoid game crashing bugs. Please understand this is a part of the development process and is something you agree to deal with when playing an early access product.
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The Stormsinger Studios Team
Official Team Page:
DzahnDragon - Studio Lead/co-Project Director
Devilizer - Art Director/co-Project Director
FA Twitter
Lesli-Chu!? - Composer/Writer
Soundcloud YouTube
Frostclaw - Assistant Director/Programmer/Writer
FA Website Twitter
Tealfox - Writer
Homecoming is being developed using the Ren'Py engine.
Project Development Status
Homecoming is a work in progress. Since we're a team of volunteers, work proceeds when we have the available time to spare. Because of this, it is unwise to commit to a rigid schedule. We will try to release an update at least once every two months, though with our rough schedules the periods can vary wildly. We thank you for your patience while we develop Homecoming!
You can check the progress of the routes on this spreadsheet, that way you know ahead of time how far along your favorite character is in terms of development:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1XEauCEKAuuzjbp2C3RSwzJKrkcCYmi-Elvu6qYbe...
We hope you enjoy your stay in Minasato!
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Development log
- Homecoming Build 13.0.1 Now Available!6 days ago
- Build 13 Bugfix10 days ago
- Homecoming Build 13 Now Available!11 days ago
- Homecoming Build 12.0.1 Now Available (Bugfix for Mobile)Aug 22, 2023
- Homecoming Build 12 Now Available!Aug 20, 2023
- Homecoming Build 11.0.1 Now AvailableDec 24, 2022
- Homecoming Build 11 Now Available!Dec 20, 2022
- Homecoming Project Update (August 2022)Aug 20, 2022
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Question, the censorship setting cannot be dissabled on the phone version?
Tap on the "These settings cannot be disabled" or whatever it says under censorship settings
The screen will flash and take you back to the title menu and nsfw contents will be enabled
Oh ty
**Potential spoilers in review**
I finished Kyouji route the other day and omg when I tell you my face was hurting from grinning 🤭. Like when Yuki spent the night at his house?! I was giggled! My first full play through to the end was bad. I was confused at first because I thought I met all the prerequisites but my mistake was spending time with grandma instead of helping Mr. Akagi (I think that’s his name. I mean in my defense I couldn't do that to grandma I didn't know but it must be done.) I missed an event with kyouji thus not getting the happy ending. You will know if you get the happy ending when the bon festival comes around When you play as kyouji in his perspective after yuki was “ditched” by tora and kouya then you’re on the path to a happy ending. But if you don’t get kyouji perspective prepare for a bad ending. Of course for the story you can read the bad ending just to get a sense of his background. Well more for curiosity if anything. You’ll learn about him more either way but the good ending?! Wooooooooo let me tell you I was screaming. I mean when he said “say it.” I screamed “DADDY!!!!” And yuki goes “I love you” I’m like “Oh…” 🤭🤣🤣 I mean come on he already gives dad vibes ok?! Like man is fine then to see him bare had me on the floor!! The good ending had me crying too. He’s the best boyfriend. When yuki got on that bus and kyouji was in tears and then the credits rolled I was clapping in tears. Maybe in the future we'll get a winter break or a "few months later." ending like juuichi? Maybe he tells yuki him and tauro made up or he tells yuki what university he's going to? I dont know but this was well worth the wait. Kyouji is one of my favs and he did not disappoint. From one author to another that was very well written both the good and bad ending. Well done.
Do you remember what choices you made? I helped the old boar but still got the bad ending
Yup. You should have unlocked the route guide but here are the choices **SPOILERS**:
Day 1: -Kyouji & Soutarou, cheese.
Day 2: Explore minasato more, I’m on soccer team/im with friends (either or), train with kyouji
Day 3: talk to kyouji
Day4: keep walking
Day 5: Do grandmas errands, candy shop, cheese
Day 6: kyouji
Day 7: kyouji
Day 9: join them
Day 10: I can’t do that, take long path, continue jog.
Day 11: I don’t want to let mr. Akagane down, I can still do physical stuff/okay I’ll work inside (either one is fine), Get kyouji opinion.
Day 13: help grandma with dishes, get the ticket to chiyo’s piano recital. (In the park where you find Kyouji sleeping hang with the kids at first then when he wakes up and they want to play on the swing stay and talk to him. Enjoy cute moment that happens.)
Day 15: play soccer with kyouji and soutarou, join Kyouji team, pass the ball to kyouji/take the shot (mini game. I personally passed it to kyouji. Guaranteed relationship gain.)
Day 23: ask about his father.
Everything after that: swoon and cry happy tears 🥹
Thanks! I finished it with the bad end but sadly the route guide remained empty
Kyouji's route is actually quite strict in that you need to have a perfect score in order to get his good ending.
Since you got an ending, you can actually check the route guide by going to the Gallery and selecting the Route Guides option.
Hehe, glad that you liked it. Lesli (our main musician) wrote most of it, with some adjustments made by myself and Dzahn, but all in all, we're quite proud of this update.
The little epilogues are meant to just provide a small taste of what happens after, but ultimately, we want to leave it up to the minds of the players.
Ooohh ok well you all did a great job. I haven’t been that emotional in a while haha.
Any NSFW in the game?
The routes have nsfw but the CGs are not in the game yet, however starting next update they will begin putting them in the game
Kouya's route isn't finished?
Not yet. They have a spreadsheet showing what’s currently in the game.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1XEauCEKAuuzjbp2C3RSwzJKrkcCYmi-Elvu6qYbeRug/edit?gid=0#gid=0
I see, hope Kouya's next :)
Kouya's route is indeed up next
yay, then I'll just wait for it, I hope it doesn't take too much long for it :D
What happened to the website for this?
Before this update Juuichi's route was my favourite, but now I think Kyouji's is my new favourite. Still love Juuichi though.
Read the new update the day it came out, but forgot to post. I am so glad this VN got updated!!! Kyouji's route was so well written!!! The VN being updated now has me even more excited to hopefully see Soutarou's update coming out hopefully soon!
I loved Kyouji’s route, definitely my favorite so far. Absolutely worth the wait y’all did a great job.
Tfw hiroyuki is defaulted as a furry for some reason. It feels weird because him being a human was one of the few things that made him unique in the real morenatsu
is the ten route still available or is i no longer a route?
To unlock Ten's route you need to get Juuichi's bad ending.
Hey, I need a little help, when will the route guide pop up? I'm on Kyouji's route right now.
(There's a little spoiler on the index image in the load menu, so be careful)
The route guide will appear if you get the bad ending. It should have also appeared when getting the good ending, but due to a coding error, it doesn't. It will be fixed in a future build.
hi! I just went to download the game from the App Store but it doesn’t have the most recent version. Is this a problem on my end? Is it not available for apple products? Sorry to bother you about it but i love Morenatsu, i had actually completed Shins route in the past before deleting the app for storage space. If someone could help with this it’d be greatly appreciated
From what I saw on their Twitter, the update is currently pending approval from the App Store. I, unfortunately, do not know how long the App Store takes to look over apps.
Build 13 is now out on the App Store. Thank you for your patience.
Thank you!
any way to get shuns route? somehow got torahikos after trying to get shuns route :P
Shun's route is not finished at the moment.
Right now the finished routes in the game are Juuichi, Tatsuki, Shin, Kounosuke and now Kyouji
Up next is Kouya but Shun is coming eventually
yeah i know that much, but it was just confusing cause it said that i got to the end of torahikos route, and not shuns...
It's possible that you triggered more events that related to Tora in that instance rather than Shun
omg your art is so COOLLL AND YOU HAVE ALL OF MY FAVS :0
Hehe, love it.
wait I'm confuse why do I have two morenatsu?
MY PROGRESS NUUUUU
There is no save function on android, home icon there is only load option and no return to game option
That's a bug I think, it was fixed with closing and re-starting the app for me.
Kyouji route released on my birthday.. Very excited to play through it, always felt like he was written the best.
If it will be, when may the newest version be released on the mobile app?
I need a guide for Kyouji’s route cuz I can’t get the second ending
You should have unlocked Kyouji's route guide. Check Gallery > Route Guides and then Kyouji.
I didn’t know that there was an option like that thanks
I need guide for tora route
toras route isnt in the game yet
hmm I playing torahiko route and route only have days15 I need more
Since this project was born from the need of the people who never could have his and Soutarou's routes back in the 2000's, Both Souratou and Torahiko routes will be the last to be released.
I'm pretty sure their schedule will be to release all routes that already exists on the original with their original text, then leave us without updates for one or two years until they have Tora and Sourarou routes completed WITH the artworks and sex scenes too. Which means, we will only experience the full Tora route by version 1.0 of this project.
And I'm fine with it. Creating a game takes a huge ton of time and this project is free. I'll patiently wait for it.
So it's not that the new one is no longer uploaded, but we have to wait for the new one thanks for saying I thought tora route gonna be never end thank for saying this
They have updated now, and they have an ENTIRE route that did not exist originally here
Why Soutarou's and Toarhiko's routes will be the last, when they're the only ones that don't have a route on the original?
I don't know but I really want to watch Tora route
it's because the others that would remain (Kouya and Shun) already have a base to work with and it'd be better to end things on a bang
i saw that Torahiko's route need history's plot of the others route, so I think they need all the routes before releasing Torahiko's route, for Soutaro idk
Is there a guide? I thought I took most of the options for Kouya but instead was hit with this is the end of the demo for Torahiko? Other than that confusion, this was a great game and story!!
I think Kouya is one of the unfinished routes so far. There are some finished ones so far. I recall there being a google sheets showing which ones were finished and which ones weren't.
This is actually getting an update coming in a few weeks theres a new thing up on patreon
Why my game don't show to me the CG's even if I'm playing in PC?
The CGs aren't in the game yet. The art is being added in later on
I loaded version12.0.1 for Android and it says censorship settings cannot be changed. Have clicked on it, the screen goes blank, then theres a bell, then it returns to the main menu. Is this permenant on the mobile platforms
ye, same here, i hope they'll fix it someday, bc my pc cannot run this vn for more than 10 minutes, it crashes and returns me to homescreen:(
when will there be more stuff added to this visual novel? I want to do more stuff with then all! ASAP
Potentially November but I wouldn't be surprised if it takes until December or later
I hope it will be soon and I hope it will be more stuff to do with Kouya I just love him and want to do more of his rout asap!
They decided to make his the last route as sort of a bookends situation. His route will apparently need triggers from the other routes
I think it's smarter too, because everyone who's here, wants a Torahiko route, since his route never existed in the original.
Which means once they finish his route, it's probably the end of the project, the interest it gone. They can't monetize with Morenatsu but no one wants to work on a project that people lost interest. And that interest is lost as soon as Torahiko's route is done.
i think the afterword could be what's next after the routes, or else i dont have any idea of what it will do.
Is the project still going?
Yes, there is just a lot that we're updating. We don't have a confirmed time for when the next build is coming out, but I'm hoping it's sometime soon.
Cool. I'm just beggining the read. Could you tell me how many routes are unfinished or haven't begun?
I'm losing my mind but i'm still standing, don't worry, at some point his route will be implemented, sadly it will be the last one, but I'm sure the wait it will worth it (i hope or else im gonna kms)🙂
fr lmao
Checking every single day until the new update because most of the VNs I play are on a break
Can anyone tell me where I can find the old version with these sprites?
This looks like a mod, an older version or an alplha build.
I don't think it's an older version because they only swapped models twice, and the older models were awful compared to the ones in the image, so either this is a mod, or is a build that was never released. Sorry mate I doubt you'll find it here tho.
I played this version a long time ago, if my hard drive hadn't burned up it would still be there. But yeah, I don't think I can find it anywhere, damn.
It's a very early version of Homecoming. However, I don't think any of us have access to these builds anymore.
I might actually. I can check my computer.
I do not. Sorry.
Did you try in the Morenatsu Archive Project? I think it have older builds of Homecoming
Thanks a lot! You are a life saver. (Homecoming-Morenatsu-Revisited-Release_2) - It still has Kouya's sprites, and the archive itself has the Shun sprites I was looking for. Thanks again.
Update for everyone from the Discord: they've finished the QA for everything and are just needing to do a little additional programming. I believe they're eyeing a release for the next version later this month.
is it still being released?
They are still working on it a bit. Frostclaw is still actively discussing progress on the Discord, and he apologized at the start of the month that they weren't ready to go yet on either of their projects. They just had some unforseen complications, but I don't think it's anything that is putting the project as a whole at risk.
It's been a year without updates, I'm getting old lol.
They should give us an update soon, follow them on their discord server.
Yeah I know, but still now I'm hyped for the update witht he things they said lol
We all are, don't worry xD
I see this was updated about a day ago, but what was updated? Looking forward to more content. :)
They might have fixed a typo in the page here or added new info. We'll find out if they add a new update or something eventually
As of 3am on 8/20 on the Discord, they said to expect an update very soon.
And it has now been about 60 days since the last update.
We're about 20 days away from being a year since the previous update. I really hope this one comes out soon. Going off of the update doc, next is probably Kyouji's Homecoming exclusive route
Just wait, I prefer them taking their time to give me free updates of a game I don't need to pay to play, rather than keep making them work for free and give me updates as if they need to release builds every X months or so. In the end, if they do it out of their own free time with care, we will have something cool and fun and very well done. I prefer that, rather than having this game repeating the same things the original did and never reading through the rest of the routes :D
The closer they get to the finish line, the harder it is to release faster though.
How to get shun route Qoq
is there even a guide route in this game ಥ_ಥ
I really hope that there gonna be more sequel about Hiroyuki and the others in the future I still can't accept that it's already over（┬┬＿┬┬）
There are guides in-game. But you need to finish the route, and you'll get the password to unlock the full guide for that route.
THANKSSS :D
At the party on the first day, sit down next to Shun, or whatever character whose route you want to be on.
Tytytyt
I enjoy this labor of love you guys are working on. I look forward to revising Minasato soon.
Really hope we'll see some sort of an update soon!
man i really wish torahiko route was finished
Think like a Developer:
You're remaking a visual novel that everyone who's 25+ loves. That lots of people tried to re-do but none did to the end. You was able to fetch attention to the Remake, and the routes everyone wants the most are Kouya, Kyouji and Soutarou and Torahiko, the last three never had their routes finished.
Torahiko is also the "main route" of the game.
If his route is finished, there's a huge change most people would lose interest in the game. So it will obviously be the last one. I believe Torahiko itself will be the last route to be added and will also only be added once all artworks for his route is complete, because once his route is done, the game is also done. But I may be wrong.
dayum i didnt expect someone to write whole paragraph and im definetly not saying that developers do smth wrong or not i just say it would be wonderfull if torahiko route was finished cuz of how good it is and i mean yeah youre prob right but im also sure it makes me and lot of other players sad that his route is heavily unfinished despite being main route beacuse lets take your logic
Think like a Developer:
if torahiko is main route shouldnt he be finished first? if main route in game isnt finished then its just weird and im well aware that in oryginal he wasnt finished either so yeah thats all i wanted to say
p.s. dont take offense pls
I think it can be for having the hype up, or something with other routes that had to be added first in order to make Torahiko's route worth, like a history plot or whatever that it needs, I guess its the second one.
yeah i kinda get it but at this point it wont get anymore popularity by making us wait for tora route honestly rn amount of players decrease if i am not wrong
I read it a year ago the devs said something about Torahiko will be the last route to be developed since his story requires other character routes to be finished first.
idk why but im having trouble with tatsuki route I cant seem to get a good ending to it. no matter what I do!! it always ends bad
When you complete a route you get a password that unlocks the guides I’ll tell you the password and how to use it in the spoilers.
Spoilers
In the options page there will be a blue button that says “Enter password” click it then write “Sakura” with a capital S once you’re done go to the gallery click guides then click the picture of whoever’s guide you want to see.
what's the password for the affection points
We're getting close to the 1 year mark since the last update. How are things going in development?
Is the tiger's route finished?
Nope, it seems to be the last route to completed.
Oh, that's a shame. Thanks for the reply!
Will Ten Kodori get his own route?
he has his own mini-route but you have to get Juuichi's bad ending to access it
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