Olga Doesn't Die
A downloadable game for Windows, macOS, and Linux
Please be advised that this game contains sensitive content such as: violence, blood, gore, death, age gap, revolution, cannibalism, imprisonment
Story
The imperial family's advisor is a witch, a hag, the devil in disguise.
At the turn of the 20th century, unrest stirs in the far-north Empire of Muscovy over bread and war, taxation and tyranny. The shadows whisper about the imperial family and about an immortal witch.
They whisper, "The imperial family's advisor is a witch. An old hag with a head full of white hairs. She knows magic like demons. The devil in disguise, tricking the emperor with her dark arts."
As the "witch" is violently exiled from the capital, the gears of revolution continue to turn toward blood.
—A historical drama yuri visual novel.
Features
- 32k words (2-3 hours)
- 4 major endings; 2 love interests
- 6 CGs
- 9 original tracks
- Extras gallery (art, music, developer notes)
Credits
Team
- shino - director, scenario writer, logo artist, character designer
- Justinn - cinematography programmer
- z04 - UI programmer, cut-in artist
- Selenn - composer
- liquid_flouride - CG artist
- bird king - CG artist
- sabimaki - sprite artist
- NerdyBitch - background artist
- Specter - GUI design
3rd Party Assets
- Minikle, BGSpot, background material shop, gg-creation891 - background art
- FREETIME - silhouettes
- Sound Effect Lab, Jellyfish Mechanic, Sound Effect Dictionary, OtoLogic - sfx
- PeriTune - additional soundtrack
- Lezalith + Feniks - textbox preview code
- Theo - accessibility tooling code
- BadMustard_AVN - scrolling credits code
Download
Development log
- Patch 1.1.0 - New ending CG!51 days ago
- 100% Completion Guide58 days ago
Comments
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I finally finished!!! I'm so upset about it!!! I hate that I'm done!! ARGH!!! NOOOOO. I cried a little at one ending which is so rare for me. I loved it so much I'm incoherent about it.
Really charming and short read. Olga is truly lovely. So are Katusha and Niko in their own ways haha. I'll definitely check out your other VNs too!!
I loved Niko's theme the most, but I found the soundtrack so memorable as a whole; each of the ending themes were perfect for their respective scenes and the other tracks captured the setting pretty well.
The art is really nice overall, but wow, that post-credits CG in "You Are My Love", that one was so incredibly gorgeous!
Oh and I must mention that stomach sound effect was so funny lololol it's great
This was really engrossing to read! I found myself thoroughly engaged by the tense political climate, and thought its emotional moments packed quite a punch!
Really excellent work!
Gave me the chills. 10/10. Congrats on coming first for SWAK.
Engrossing, dark read. Kudos! :D
Absolutely goated vn, good mix of story, character dynamics, romance, body horror (in a sense), politics, and to top it all of, absolutely amazing art!!!!!
peak
Wow Holy [REDACTED] what in the actual [heck] wow, wow WOAAAHH but whyy my poor olga............. AAAAAAAAAAAAA holy [mackerel] This is [baloney]
Well, now that I got that off my nerve, bear with me:
The year is 2003. A chatlog remains in two computer screens, connecting a witch and a... For now, an acquaintance:
Natalwa03: Heeey, Olya... Are you gay~?
JustOlga: Yes, it is quite a jolly year to be gay.
I have made several of these jokes. I love how language gets warped through time. This is a treasure trove of joke prompts.
I love that Olga never calls that shitpiece Sasha afterwards.
her immortality depends on like, feeling of wholeness. a finger heals pretty quick cuz everyone notices the unwholeness. So, her being NUMBED when the worse Val did her thingy just makes so much sense.
All troughout I keep looking at the main title screen tryna think wherre the heck it owudl appear. Never did, it was worse. Holy.
Omg thank you for catching all these typo/capitalization fixes! (absdfkjbasdf my shift key was clearly struggling when I was writing some of these parts) I shall patch these quickly tonight.
And, yay, I'm happy to hear you enjoyed!
Art is cute and the story was intriguing. Definitely worth a read.
What a great game! The writing and plot was very strong and emotional, and punches way above its weight. The amount the plot drew me in and made me invested makes it feels like a game twice its size. Royal family drama, political conflicts, bloody revolution, assassinations, emotional struggles, there was everything.
4noki is really good at historical settings and would love to see more!