A downloadable game for Windows, macOS, and Linux

A few months ago, the war ended, and with it, the world. Eris is a burnt out mech handler and Luna is her overeager responsibility. It's up to Eris to help guide Luna, pointing her where she's supposed to go, but when you're stuck looking back, it's hard to move forward.

~33k words, 4 endings.

Made for the the TOXIC YURI VN JAM 2025.

Content WarningsPotential eye strain, explicit sex scenes, dubious consent, physical and verbal abuse, manipulation and gaslighting, smoking and cigarette violence, and needles.


Blush Hazard Collective:

  • Sprite/CG Artist: yumkandie (any)
  • Background Artist & CG Effects: holidaygirl1224 (she/doe/it)
  • Music: Stella (she/her)
  • Coding: chris (he/him)
  • Writing: Echo Rowan (she/it)

Special Thanks:

StatusReleased
PlatformsWindows, macOS, Linux
Rating
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(14 total ratings)
AuthorsBlush Hazard, EchoCrowan, lightningwing92
GenreVisual Novel
Made withRen'Py
TagsAdult, Eroge, Erotic, Horror, Lesbian, LGBT, mechsploitation, Sci-fi, Yuri
Average sessionA few hours
LanguagesEnglish
InputsMouse

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Mechacyte-1.0-pc.zip 199 MB
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Mechacyte-1.0-linux.tar.bz2 180 MB
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Mechacyte-1.0-mac.zip 195 MB
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Mechacyte Choice Guide.pdf 90 kB

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jesus, I played around with the mean options in the first couple of days, and then the slow dread of the shitty abuse of it all sank in.  Got ending D and it killed me.
Really well done, thanks for making.

this was SO damn good. ending C or whichever the DOLL one was was my fav man that was some good toxic yuri action

i cried

over and over

it was so hard to be mean, but i had to see all the endings

amazing game yall

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I love love looooove this game. Eris is so me and I feel bad about it. Also, me want a gallery so I can look at the ending cgs or whatever they're called without having to replay the whole game.

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The game has killer robots and lots of renegade choices with brutal consequences. I cried when the army girls found the happy home. I needed that Pickle Rick joke because Eris got me. Eris has so many devastating moments both suffering and inflicting suffering on others. The scifi is cool with lots of “hell yeah” moments. I liked how the game focused on the characters' pain, with breadcrumbs of lore. My favorite route was ending c. I appreciated the choice guide. Thank you for sharing this.

I loved the art in this VN, both the portraits and the backgrounds!  All of the character sprites are so distinct and expressive, making great use of changes in body language as well as facial expressions~  I also very much enjoyed the music and sound design; they harmonized quite nicely in keeping me immersed throughout the story, heheheh~

Of course, for as much as I enjoyed watching all of the different ways the interactions between Eris and Luna could play out, I was never quite able to understand why Luna needed a "handler" in the first place.  To be sure, Luna's carefree, cavalier attitude is clearly a liability in the post-apocalyptic hellscape our girls find themselves in, and thus her partnering with someone more grounded like Eris certainly helps to keep them both alive—but that's more the logic of a traditional buddy system than anything else, heh.  Thus it was curious to me that Luna was assigned a "handler" very soon after she'd enlisted, even before the Disconnect, while she was still by all suggestions and implications a normal, independent girl who wouldn't need to be handled as such, you know?  Though, I'll admit I don't have much prior exposure to this genre, so perhaps that's just me.

I was also surprised to see Luna being so very quick to cozy up to Theia, and to such an extent that Eris physically had to keep Luna away from Theia in order for her to stay loyal, even in routes where Eris hadn't been overtly abusive or negligent towards her.  Her excitement to meet someone new makes perfect sense, naturally, considering her and Eris's isolation; but even with how rocky things could be between Eris and Luna, I was struck by how willing Luna was to leave Eris all by herself in favor of literally snugging up with a stranger—and one who'd shot her scarcely a day earlier, no less, even if it was an accident.  Then again, Luna DOES have very strong "attention starved puppy" energy to her, so it's not as though it's altogether out of character for her, heheh.

All of that aside, great work on this VN!  Here's hoping Eris manages to let go of her past someday, and comes to appreciate what she has now despite everything else~

great story and visuals, really enjoyed the music as well! I liked the snippets of the pre-war life that the characters had as well as the mentions of previous interactions between them

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loved it loved it loved it! made me sad and gave me 3 entirely separate new gender goals. recommend to anyone who likes being sad and having gender.