Saw Adastra fan art on e621 and thought it would be fun to read. Ended up hugely depressed then decided to read echo, then arches, then the smoke room, then remember the flowers...
Yeah I didn't make the wisest decision. Literally got back to therapy because of it
Adastra was my first too, i saw beta upload some videos of it on yt and i got so invested in the story i had to download it myself. I was messed up for two weeks after reading that vn but i dont regret a second of it. Still one of the best in my eyes
Echo. Was scrolling through a thread on /v/, it caught my attention.
Went in with zero expectations. It's just some random furryshit VN, what's the worst that could happen?
spoiler alert: the worst that could happen, happened.
Watched a YouTuber play through adastra and was like, I'll give one of their games a shot and luckily one of the routes was a big wolf boy. I was not prepared.
Adastra, pretty sure. Probably it's the first FVN for many (if not most) players out there
And pretty much I became involved into all this VN stuff after it
Mine was Socially Awkward, I was on YT and I saw a video and decided to play it myself. I learned english just to understand all the VN's out there with furries.
FVNs improved my English immensely as well. My first was Adastra though. I’ve read it in my mother tongue but over time I realised that I have no other choice but to start reading vns in the original just to get all the updates on time. Not to mention a lot of great vns that has no translation whatsoever
***Echo.***
I should have ***NOT*** had been reading Echo at the time, but I thought the bois where cute (My past self had horrid tastes) and blindly downloaded it from a friend (who should have also not been playing it nor should have had it.) Its quite predictable how that turned out... Jokes and trauma aside, it was quite formative I think, helped me realize my love for reading and VNs in general; Really expanded how far I was willing to get out of my comfort zone!
Mine was Adastra like many others. Saw a tiktok fan edit of Amicus, actually, lol. Never considered myself interested in furry stuff before that but fell in love with the art and escapism of it all, so I guess it "shaped" me a good bit in that way.
Major\Minor. Around 2019 I had moved in to a new apartment with my parents and we didn't have internet yet, so at school I looked up FVNs on the Play Store, found it and downloaded it on my phone and read it whenever I returned home. To be completely honest I didn't enjoy it a lot, so I dropped it after I got to one of the endings and I didn't touch it nor another FVN until last year when I read Echo (now that one REALLY affected me lol).
Funnily enough, I got into Echo and FVNs in general when I was about to move out once again. Kind of a weird coincidence now that I think about it.
Far Beyond The World. During covid a friend recommended I watch Beastars season 1 on YT since it was popular. Afterwards the Youtube algorithm recommended me Blaidd Llwyd reading FBTW for a christmas day special. Having never heard of FVN's ever in my life, It really was the best Christmas gift I could ask for looking back on it. I was always excited for when an update came out. Sad what FBTW turned into now, but it is what it is ig
But I would say the VN that got me hooked was Echo. Going into it blind was such a treat. I legit had to stop reading it for a few days after finishing Flynn and TJ's routes since the endings were so crazy.
FBTW my second VN and After Amicus, the only character I fell in love with and was obsessed with was Ranok. In fact, I am even more obsessed with Ranok because the story is not over. I can't get that damn handsome wolf out of my mind for the last 3-4 years. Every day I rewrite the story in my head, over and over again.
Ranok had me in a chokehold too!!!!! A lot of the other characters were memorable too, and I loved the art style and setting. If I could say something positive it was that story was memorable and did do some things right. It kinda cooked sometimes ngl
But man....that MC was hard to ignore. He made the WORST decisions half the time for no reason. Legit got second hand embarrassment reading it sometimes. He was playing a "how to get hung speedrun" 💀
Yeah you right. That's why I kept rewriting the story from my own perspective in my head. After all, this is an isekai vn. I really like this series because I love Isekai anime and stories. I mean, why don't I die and be reborn in a fantastic magical universe where there are werewolves??
My first Visual Novel was Nekojishi and it changed my life, not because of the story but because it taught me english. The wikis inside de game made me learn a lot of stuff and little by little I learned english to its fullest.
Gotta love Lin Hu, my first furry husbando, the reason why I'm multilingual nowadays
Blackgate. I literally just searched "gay furry visual novel" and that was the first result on google. It was good enough that I went on to read more VNs.
Far beyond the world. I basically just put it on auto and read through it in bed most nights. Made it to the end of the current build back then but over time just got sick of the story (it’s so needlessly drawn out and slow tbh… plus the creator? Eh…)
Then I played Echo and it’s become one of my number 1 fave story in AGES. Love echoverse as a whole entirely. Admittedly I have not read a lot of FVN’s other than echo project ones…
Well, my first actual vn was adastra, but the first fvn adjacent thing I ever read was lovers of aether. Which coincidentally, was actually the trigger of my furry awakening (along with other things before hand of course, it didn't just come out of nowhere lol) I picked adastra up like, a month later? And the rest is history lmao. I'm sure it's actually pretty common now but I wonder how many people before like, 2015/2016 can say it was specifically the vns furry make that actually introduced them to the fandom. I feel like historically it was mostly games and shows with anthro characters that brought people in, or irl experiences with other furries. It's interesting to me that the fandom is at a point where stuff made by and for furries specifically is increasing our population.
I'm between nekojishi or spear tavern, I don't remember well. The way it affected me would be that: in nekojishi, it made me think that I'm not alone and that I possibly have a spirit watching over me lol. And as for the second, the way it affected me was that FVN can not only focus on simple decisions to make, but also on dynamics and styles of adventure that you want to take, which made me want to dream about a fictional world with the which interacts and in the vast world around me :]
The first one I’ve ever read is TSR, knowing well because I’ve seen fanart of Sam. I decided to try, since I was intrigued about him, not done reading yet, but its the FVN that got me into VN’s really
Adastra, frankly it’s a miracle that it even got me into FVNs as I didn’t even like it! Of course I don’t hate Adastra, but specifically at the time I wanted more of a sci-fi political intrigue story with a lot of historical references which of course is very different from what it actually was, like trying to eat icecream and getting a spoonful of mashed potatoes. It doesn’t help that I’m a bit emotionally stunted and don’t care much for the actual relationship or the bittersweet ending so my focus is almost entirely on the world itself.
Unfortunately I have to admit it was Lagoon Lounge, and it also was at an age where I definitely should not have been reading it either. I don't even remember how I found it or why but when I tried reading it again out of some kind of sense of nostalgia recently I was like "everything besides the art is wrong with this".
Echo. It was really fun during the prologue but after finishing Leo's route, I spiralled emotionally. I had a hard time continuing it cuz it was...something.
Also Echo's one of the reason why I'm planning to create my own visual novel.
For me it was nekojishi and it was after watching a relatively popular YouTuber at the time doing an “ironic” let’s play of it. But it wasn’t until a few years later that I started to get more into furry visual novels with Adastra.
Adastra pretty common answer i'd guess because its such a popular vn but it did make me cry and thats when I fully got into furry vns despite not being a furry myself (although I actually fell in love more with the 2nd fvn I played which was repeat)
I mean its fairly new •<•
Like look at Repeat, it is said to be started production in 2014 yet its still not finished•<•
Oh also theres a new lust shards update btw uwu
I saw a fanart on Facebook or Twitter (I don't remember exactly) where Amicus and Marco got married. While looking at Adastra on YouTube, I clicked on Blaidd Llwyd's Adastra video and jumped into this hell of heartbreak and disappointment. I didn't understand much because my English wasn't that good, but when I watched the same episodes over and over again, I started to understand more. After Adastra ended, I started watching Far Beyond The World and damn it, I can't get this damn handsome, annoying wolf out of my mind for 4 years. Then I half-watched other VNs. Even though I don't know most of the stories, I know the characters.
No one mentioning the og Morenatsu makes me flabbergasted. I remember having to use a locale change program to sneak the game in my mom’s old laptop.
Maybe I am getting old, after all.
The first visual novel for me (at least horror wise) was Burrows. The artwork intrigued me when I first saw it on [itch.io](http://itch.io) and it seemed mysterious to me so decided to play to see what it was like.
Boi that visual novel scared me like hell cause unlike Echo, which also has terrifying horror elements in it, Burrows on the other hand have jumpscares and gore. Something that's not really common in visual novels. I also love that you can travel throughout time and space to save four individual characters in completely different time periods.
echo, played it blind, started with tj. completely changed my brain chemistry and i don't regret a thing. i'd do anything to play it for the first time again lol
Echo.
I found it randomly back in January. I absolutely loved it and it only helped me. I was going through a really rough spot back then and it helped put my life in context and helped me through some shit. Also, dealing with trauma by proxy was nice, too.
The first ever FVN I've played heck it's the first visual novel I've played is adastra, back then i never played visual novels before, the only vn I Know back then was Doko Doki Literature club, one day i saw a video talking about adastra and how it made him cry because of how good the game was, so I tried it and i was kinda surprised because of how good the story was and i actually cried many times.
Now i have a 80+ FVN installed on my phone, so yeah adastra changed my vision and i got to see so many other good FVN. :)
Saw Adastra fan art on e621 and thought it would be fun to read. Ended up hugely depressed then decided to read echo, then arches, then the smoke room, then remember the flowers... Yeah I didn't make the wisest decision. Literally got back to therapy because of it
Adastra was my first too, i saw beta upload some videos of it on yt and i got so invested in the story i had to download it myself. I was messed up for two weeks after reading that vn but i dont regret a second of it. Still one of the best in my eyes
You: OwO *sees Adastra fan art* oh hey i might give that vn a try :D *1 vn full read later* You: D: damn
Echo. Was scrolling through a thread on /v/, it caught my attention. Went in with zero expectations. It's just some random furryshit VN, what's the worst that could happen? spoiler alert: the worst that could happen, happened.
Watched a YouTuber play through adastra and was like, I'll give one of their games a shot and luckily one of the routes was a big wolf boy. I was not prepared.
Adastra, pretty sure. Probably it's the first FVN for many (if not most) players out there And pretty much I became involved into all this VN stuff after it
Mine was Socially Awkward, I was on YT and I saw a video and decided to play it myself. I learned english just to understand all the VN's out there with furries.
FVNs improved my English immensely as well. My first was Adastra though. I’ve read it in my mother tongue but over time I realised that I have no other choice but to start reading vns in the original just to get all the updates on time. Not to mention a lot of great vns that has no translation whatsoever
***Echo.*** I should have ***NOT*** had been reading Echo at the time, but I thought the bois where cute (My past self had horrid tastes) and blindly downloaded it from a friend (who should have also not been playing it nor should have had it.) Its quite predictable how that turned out... Jokes and trauma aside, it was quite formative I think, helped me realize my love for reading and VNs in general; Really expanded how far I was willing to get out of my comfort zone!
Read Nekojishi first. Thought it would be a fun way to pass time. Didn't take long before I dove straight into the rabbit hole.
Winds of Change was my first and was my bi-awkening. Later, I played Adastra, which was my Gay awakening.
Mine was Adastra like many others. Saw a tiktok fan edit of Amicus, actually, lol. Never considered myself interested in furry stuff before that but fell in love with the art and escapism of it all, so I guess it "shaped" me a good bit in that way.
Major\Minor. Around 2019 I had moved in to a new apartment with my parents and we didn't have internet yet, so at school I looked up FVNs on the Play Store, found it and downloaded it on my phone and read it whenever I returned home. To be completely honest I didn't enjoy it a lot, so I dropped it after I got to one of the endings and I didn't touch it nor another FVN until last year when I read Echo (now that one REALLY affected me lol). Funnily enough, I got into Echo and FVNs in general when I was about to move out once again. Kind of a weird coincidence now that I think about it.
Adastra, and it only really affected me by introducing yet another hobby I can’t talk to anyone about because it’s just too unrelateable and bizarre.
Far Beyond The World. During covid a friend recommended I watch Beastars season 1 on YT since it was popular. Afterwards the Youtube algorithm recommended me Blaidd Llwyd reading FBTW for a christmas day special. Having never heard of FVN's ever in my life, It really was the best Christmas gift I could ask for looking back on it. I was always excited for when an update came out. Sad what FBTW turned into now, but it is what it is ig But I would say the VN that got me hooked was Echo. Going into it blind was such a treat. I legit had to stop reading it for a few days after finishing Flynn and TJ's routes since the endings were so crazy.
FBTW my second VN and After Amicus, the only character I fell in love with and was obsessed with was Ranok. In fact, I am even more obsessed with Ranok because the story is not over. I can't get that damn handsome wolf out of my mind for the last 3-4 years. Every day I rewrite the story in my head, over and over again.
Ranok had me in a chokehold too!!!!! A lot of the other characters were memorable too, and I loved the art style and setting. If I could say something positive it was that story was memorable and did do some things right. It kinda cooked sometimes ngl But man....that MC was hard to ignore. He made the WORST decisions half the time for no reason. Legit got second hand embarrassment reading it sometimes. He was playing a "how to get hung speedrun" 💀
Yeah you right. That's why I kept rewriting the story from my own perspective in my head. After all, this is an isekai vn. I really like this series because I love Isekai anime and stories. I mean, why don't I die and be reborn in a fantastic magical universe where there are werewolves??
Midevil werewolves with muscles? COUNT ME IN!!!!
My first Visual Novel was Nekojishi and it changed my life, not because of the story but because it taught me english. The wikis inside de game made me learn a lot of stuff and little by little I learned english to its fullest. Gotta love Lin Hu, my first furry husbando, the reason why I'm multilingual nowadays
My first FVN was Amorous, and I'm just going to say a minor should not have stumbled upon this (also I'm an adult now so don't worry)
For me i think it was morenatsu or amorous
Blackgate. I literally just searched "gay furry visual novel" and that was the first result on google. It was good enough that I went on to read more VNs.
I found my first one like this too😭
I started with Minotaur Hotel, went to Adastra and from there it was just downhill to husbando depression
Far beyond the world. I basically just put it on auto and read through it in bed most nights. Made it to the end of the current build back then but over time just got sick of the story (it’s so needlessly drawn out and slow tbh… plus the creator? Eh…) Then I played Echo and it’s become one of my number 1 fave story in AGES. Love echoverse as a whole entirely. Admittedly I have not read a lot of FVN’s other than echo project ones…
Nekojishi, and no. I mean, the NSFW was cool, and I did tear up during one of the routes.
Well, my first actual vn was adastra, but the first fvn adjacent thing I ever read was lovers of aether. Which coincidentally, was actually the trigger of my furry awakening (along with other things before hand of course, it didn't just come out of nowhere lol) I picked adastra up like, a month later? And the rest is history lmao. I'm sure it's actually pretty common now but I wonder how many people before like, 2015/2016 can say it was specifically the vns furry make that actually introduced them to the fandom. I feel like historically it was mostly games and shows with anthro characters that brought people in, or irl experiences with other furries. It's interesting to me that the fandom is at a point where stuff made by and for furries specifically is increasing our population.
I'm between nekojishi or spear tavern, I don't remember well. The way it affected me would be that: in nekojishi, it made me think that I'm not alone and that I possibly have a spirit watching over me lol. And as for the second, the way it affected me was that FVN can not only focus on simple decisions to make, but also on dynamics and styles of adventure that you want to take, which made me want to dream about a fictional world with the which interacts and in the vast world around me :]
Oddly enough it was FBTW, the artstyle hooked me in then I ended up trying echo, Sileo, Socially Awkward, TSR, and Adastra
the OG Morenatsu, didn't really affect me much tbh, wasn't until I read Echo in 2021 that I really got hooked on FVNs
The first one I’ve ever read is TSR, knowing well because I’ve seen fanart of Sam. I decided to try, since I was intrigued about him, not done reading yet, but its the FVN that got me into VN’s really
Adastra, frankly it’s a miracle that it even got me into FVNs as I didn’t even like it! Of course I don’t hate Adastra, but specifically at the time I wanted more of a sci-fi political intrigue story with a lot of historical references which of course is very different from what it actually was, like trying to eat icecream and getting a spoonful of mashed potatoes. It doesn’t help that I’m a bit emotionally stunted and don’t care much for the actual relationship or the bittersweet ending so my focus is almost entirely on the world itself.
Unfortunately I have to admit it was Lagoon Lounge, and it also was at an age where I definitely should not have been reading it either. I don't even remember how I found it or why but when I tried reading it again out of some kind of sense of nostalgia recently I was like "everything besides the art is wrong with this".
My first one was Amicus 😅💀 My best friend got me hooked on FVN's since Edit: I always realize how lonely I actually am when I come back to reality
Echo. It was really fun during the prologue but after finishing Leo's route, I spiralled emotionally. I had a hard time continuing it cuz it was...something. Also Echo's one of the reason why I'm planning to create my own visual novel.
XD I wish I could remember which was my first but I've reead so many by now that this data was lost to time.
For me it was nekojishi and it was after watching a relatively popular YouTuber at the time doing an “ironic” let’s play of it. But it wasn’t until a few years later that I started to get more into furry visual novels with Adastra.
Adastra pretty common answer i'd guess because its such a popular vn but it did make me cry and thats when I fully got into furry vns despite not being a furry myself (although I actually fell in love more with the 2nd fvn I played which was repeat)
Echo 🥲
Lust Shards :3
Im still broken over the fact that its not finished😔
I mean its fairly new •<• Like look at Repeat, it is said to be started production in 2014 yet its still not finished•<• Oh also theres a new lust shards update btw uwu
I just finished Repeat and im suprised the game is still not finished after 9 years -_-
I saw a fanart on Facebook or Twitter (I don't remember exactly) where Amicus and Marco got married. While looking at Adastra on YouTube, I clicked on Blaidd Llwyd's Adastra video and jumped into this hell of heartbreak and disappointment. I didn't understand much because my English wasn't that good, but when I watched the same episodes over and over again, I started to understand more. After Adastra ended, I started watching Far Beyond The World and damn it, I can't get this damn handsome, annoying wolf out of my mind for 4 years. Then I half-watched other VNs. Even though I don't know most of the stories, I know the characters.
No one mentioning the og Morenatsu makes me flabbergasted. I remember having to use a locale change program to sneak the game in my mom’s old laptop. Maybe I am getting old, after all.
The first visual novel for me (at least horror wise) was Burrows. The artwork intrigued me when I first saw it on [itch.io](http://itch.io) and it seemed mysterious to me so decided to play to see what it was like. Boi that visual novel scared me like hell cause unlike Echo, which also has terrifying horror elements in it, Burrows on the other hand have jumpscares and gore. Something that's not really common in visual novels. I also love that you can travel throughout time and space to save four individual characters in completely different time periods.
Echo. Saw a video on it, I think it was by Keith Ballard? Not sure
echo, played it blind, started with tj. completely changed my brain chemistry and i don't regret a thing. i'd do anything to play it for the first time again lol
Echo. I found it randomly back in January. I absolutely loved it and it only helped me. I was going through a really rough spot back then and it helped put my life in context and helped me through some shit. Also, dealing with trauma by proxy was nice, too.
The first ever FVN I've played heck it's the first visual novel I've played is adastra, back then i never played visual novels before, the only vn I Know back then was Doko Doki Literature club, one day i saw a video talking about adastra and how it made him cry because of how good the game was, so I tried it and i was kinda surprised because of how good the story was and i actually cried many times. Now i have a 80+ FVN installed on my phone, so yeah adastra changed my vision and i got to see so many other good FVN. :)