Speed21
A hand-drawn adult visual novel
Popularity is power
You manage the worst-ranked idol agency in Lumen City — five clients with enormous talent and almost no followers. In this world, followers are the superpower. Make the world love them, and they become gods.
- 100% hand-drawn
- Free, forever
- Everyone's 21+
- No AI, no asset packs
Your agency in the game: Second Star Entertainment · rank STREET · rent due in 9 days
Your in-game agency
Meet the roster.
In the game, you're the new manager at Second Star Entertainment — five women with enormous talent and zero fans. Your job is to fix the second half of that sentence.
Flame21
Stolen seconds21
Shadow21
Storm30
The game
Run the agency. Win the city.
A management sim wrapped around a romance — every week is a puzzle of time, money, and whose heart needs you.
The weekly planner
Seven days, five idols, one bank account. Book the gigs, schedule the training, and keep the landlord off the door — every slot you fill costs another you can't.
Plan · book · survive rent dayThe city board
Drag your girls across a living map of Lumen City — street sets, mall shows, sketchy late-night gigs. Each district pays in cash, fame, or trouble.
Dispatch · earn · get recognisedHearts and fame
Persona-style stats, affection routes, and a fame track that feeds their powers. Dates, gifts, late-night texts — the romance is the management.
Date · gift · fall in loveThe phone
An in-game phone that never shuts up — group chats, camera-roll photos, fan DMs and 2am confessions. The story finds you between the planning.
Text · scroll · get attachedThe system
StarRank — the class ladder.
Followers aren't a number. They're literal power. Climb the ladder and your idols stop doing party tricks and start changing the weather.
STREET
Party tricks and street-corner sets. Where your five begin — and where the rent is very real.
< 1K
◀ You are here
C
A local name. Someone recognises you at the konbini.
1K
B
Real power. Rain-dance stage effects. Booked on merit, not mercy.
10K
A
Sonic booms on stage. Cities argue about who gets the date.
100K
S
Weather-changing. Nation-defining. Nobody is truly #1 — the world doesn't work that way.
1M+
The promise
Not another asset-flip.
One person. One pen. A full romance-management game where every stat, every follower, and every line is hand-made.
100% hand-drawn
No AI, no asset packs, no shortcuts. Every character, every scene, every UI plate is drawn by one illustrator. In this niche, that's the whole point.
Free, forever
The whole story goes public — nothing in the game is ever locked behind a paywall. Support just buys you early, and keeps the lights on.
Adults, written like it
Everyone's 21 or older, and it shows. Consent is spoken, on-screen, and freely given — every time. No coercion, ever. That's a promise, not a warning label.
Launch date
Episode 1 drops August 15.
The whole game is free, forever — every episode goes public eventually, and nothing in the story is ever locked behind a paywall. Leave your email and I'll send one message the day it's live. No schedule, no spam, no reselling your address.
One email the day it drops — nothing else. Or follow along on Bluesky.
Keep the lights on
Support the studio.
The game's free. Patrons just play it first — and fund the next one. Cancel anytime; you keep every build you've downloaded.
How far ahead of the free public release →
$5
at public launch
Rookie
Work-in-progress art, the dev log, polls on what I build next, and the patron Discord.
$10
7 days early
Staff
Everything above, plus the full-resolution art from each episode.
★ Best value
$20
14 days early
Producer
Everything above, plus the rough cut before anyone else — you see each update first and help shape it — and a monthly art pack: wallpapers and process sketches.
$50
21 days early
Executive
Everything above, plus your name in the credits and a vote on the next episode's side scene.
$125
26 days early
Founding Partner · 25 seats
A permanent numbered credit in every future release, top Discord rank, and once a year I mail you something I drew — a signed print and a sticker set.