Game · Adventure & point-and-click
Katawa Shoujo: Re-Engineered
A modern version of classic bishoujo-style visual novel.
- Completely free
- Linux and Android
- Open source
Overview
Katawa Shoujo: Re-Engineered is an interactive fiction, available on Linux and Android.
Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.
At a glance
Katawa Shoujo: Re-Engineered is completely free: it is open source software, and every feature is available without paying or subscribing.
Its licence (MPL-2.0) is a copyleft open source licence: you may use, study, modify and redistribute it, including commercially; modified versions must keep the same licence.
Strengths
- Open source code
- No advertising
- Commercial use allowed
Weaknesses
- Flagged by F-Droid: non-free assets (images, sounds)
About
Katawa Shoujo is a bishoujo-style visual novel set in the fictional Yamaku High School for disabled children, located somewhere in modern Japan. Hisao Nakai, a normal boy living a normal life, has his life turned upside down when a congenital heart defect forces him to move to a new school after a long hospitalization. Despite his difficulties, Hisao is able to find friends—and perhaps love, if he plays his cards right. There are five main paths corresponding to the 5 main female characters, each path following the storyline pertaining to that character. The story is told through the perspective of the main character, using a first person narrative. The game uses a traditional text and sprite-based visual novel model with an ADV text box. This is fanmade modernized version of classic visual novel. It is ported by Fleeting Heartbeat Studios to Ren'Py 8, open sourced and de-obfuscated. It contains accessibility features, unavailable at the time of initial game release, Russian, French and Spanish localization out of the box, has useful function to enrich gaming experience.
Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)
Sources and checks
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- Last technical check: 7 November 2026
- Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)
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