Don’t Die Digging - A Yuri/Shonen Visual Novel


How much of myself am I willing to give up in the name of love? was a question Enid found herself asking more and more as the confrontation between her and her ex grew nearer. A useless question to ask at this point, but one she couldn't seem to get out of her head regardless.

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Don’t Die Digging is a visual novel about the pains of personhood, about coming back from the dead wrong, and about how painful love can be when you give too much of yourself in its name before being ready for it.

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Itch.io page: https://inyssa.itch.io/dont-die-digging

This game was made in under two months for Yuri Game Jam 2023, written, programmed and drawn by me, with music from Nihilore and Alice Walker.

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attending my first wedding since I was a kid today. besides being a good excuse to visit home, it’s also the first time I’ll be wearing a suit which is very exciting. gray blazer, red shirt, different shades of brown for everything else, as has become my color palette over the years.

funny that transitioning didn’t change my wardrobe preferences in the slightest, it just made me more comfortable in them. I still dress like someone who’s confident in their jacket’s ability to fully block a stabbing attempt.

wizardarchetypes
wizardarchetypes

your email found me at the grocery store irl. that's crazy that you gave it little legs and everything. it walked right up to me. everyone was so scared one person screamed when i picked it up. i said it's okay you just do this kind of thing sometimes. while i was reading, its little legs were just sort of dangling in the air. someone asked me if it's alive and if holding it like that made it uncomfortable. i told them idk i just get the emails i don't send them.

Don’t Die Digging ver. 1.1 now live!

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Seeing as Don’t Die digging has been included in the Power of Pride 2026 bundle, I figured now might be a good time to give the game a look-over and polish the script a little, as well as tweak some art and add a few more CGs, so that’s exactly what I spent the week doing.

Welcome to version 1.1 of Don’t Die Digging! Grammar errors were fixed, some other stuff was tweaked and some new art has been included in-game!

Please let me know if you get any kind of error with the new versions of any of the downloadable files. Thank you!

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callali1y

me: it's just like really weird and upsetting when someone is trying to find out my deadname, yknow?

chill af short dude i met weaving gold on his badass loom: oh yeah no i understand completely. do you want that baby or can i have it

me: oh yeah for sure man

worst part of having long hair for the first time is trying to find good advice on how to take care of it without someone trying to sell you something.