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Hello everyone, and Happy 4 Year Anniversary of Hazelnut Latte!

On October 19th, 2022, we uploaded the very first build of Hazelnut Latte! Over the past 4 years, the game has taken many twists and turns. What started as a short, horny game blossomed into a full development effort to create an ambitious visual novel dating sim.

We learned a lot in this time, and this new public demo is the culmination of those experiences. For those who don't know, back in March 2025 we decided to switch game engines, from the visual novel game engine Ren'Py to the more versatile Unity engine. Then, in September 2025, we announced that this big move to Unity would mean restarting development, including the story.

Much of the game's early development was us making things up as we went along and figuring it out in real time. Now, with more experience under our belt and a better understanding of how to make a game and tell the story we want, we present the new, improved, and expanded Episode 1!

Our original Episode 1 was 7,678 words, whereas the new Episode 1 is 37,800 words. This is a massive change not only to the story, but also to how we present the game! This isn't a simple copy-paste from the old Ren'Py builds, but a true restart.

To reflect the massive changes to the game and the story, we are releasing a new free, public demo on our 4 Year Anniversary!

This demo will receive occasional updates as we improve features, but no new content. This demo will always be Episode 1, but it's a beefy episode with 2.5 hours of content to enjoy across different routes! We also want to keep this demo updated so you can safely transfer your saves from the demo to the latest paid build.

For now, the demo will include 18+ content, but in the future we will remove it and include it in a free patch. This is because Steam has been giving us trouble, so we will eventually release the game as an SFW game. You can read all about it here.

We hope everyone who has been waiting to see what we have been cooking enjoys the demo and considers supporting the game's development! It's a big game, and we need all the help we can get. We release a new playable build every month, so please consider supporting the game!

You can play the demo now on Itch!

Link to our Itch Page

If you don't want to use Itch, we also have it on:

Google Drive

Google Drive Folder Link with PC, Linux, Mac, and Android

Mega Upload

Mega Upload link with PC, Linux, Mac, and Android

Thanks so much for your support, and please spread the word about this new free demo!

Stay Rad!

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Goodcat

Happy Birthday to the best femboy game around :) Decided to catch up on part of episode 2 and changes you made to the animation to clean up the jaggedness is soooooooo good now omg it was like the only issue I was having with the new animation style and now it's phenomenal I see the vision you guys are cooking!

Zone1234

Happy anniversary 🎉🎉👍🏻.And another thing, does that mean we should wait another 4 years until this game reboot reaches where it left off in the previous version, which would be v.0.15, or will it take a different storyline?

RadLord Studios

Thank you! So the game is not going to play out the same way. I posted a cool graph in the post above, but it shows how much more content is in this episode 1 vs the old episode 1. We're already past how much content here was in the original first 3 eps and were only in the beginning of our new episode 2. So yes, it will be very different. This is not a simple copy paste reboot.

Zone1234

I just finished playing the demo, I thought it was a 9/10, but it was incredible for a start, I can't wait for chapter 2 to come out.

Zone1234

A tip for those playing the demo: turn off your Wi-Fi or mobile data to avoid lag, and always save your game during moments when you need to make a decision.

RadLord Studios

Does being connected to the internet affect the game? Even though it's completely offline?

RadLord Studios

Glad you liked it! Gotta see what I can do to get it to 10/10 ;)

DatsLotus

Do you have some sort of cloud save enabled, by chance?? I've not added any online-connecting components to the game, except the links to our website, discord, and feedback forms on the main menu... -Lotus

Zone1234

I honestly don't know, but that's what happened to me. I could only play the demo properly once I turned off the Wi-Fi. By the way, are you still going to update the previous version? I just saw that you released it.

Zone1234

Up to what version 0.16 of the game are you going to leave it, or are you just going to spend time on the reboot?

RadLord Studios

If you want the full list of future v0.16+ updates, we released a schedule detailing everything: https://www.patreon.com/radlord/posts/episode-2-dates-161806841 As for the restart, yeah, we are fully committed to it. It wouldn't make sense to produce two versions of the same game. We stopped updating the Ren'Py builds with v0.14.2 a year ago. We restarted with v0.15.0 earlier this year, in February.