The Fall In Love Fest on Steam concluded last month, but our team has two more demos for you to enjoy, by our crack Yuri VN team of Eleanor and Ashley.

Eleanor

Irene, The Window is an interesting take on reconnecting with an old college friend. Irene suddenly contacts you after many years of absence and you become close again while she’s in the hospital for some unknown condition. The main thing I liked about this game is that in between each “day” the game encourages you to go offline for a couple of minutes and do something like make a cup of tea. There’s also plenty of dialogue options to choose from so there’s many ways the story can go. 

Given that this is only a demo, the scenery doesn’t change much but the art is perfectly pleasant to look at, the background music is fine and there’s enough of a mystery around Irene that I want to know what her full story is. The dialogue is good apart from a couple of small typos. 

Ashley

The demo for Lock & Key: A Magical Girl Mystery has been available since 2022 but on the thirtieth of September 2025 the full game is now out and part of the Fall in Love Fest so now is a great time to see if this magical girl mystery is interesting to you.

Lock & Key is narrated by Sherri Cohen, a former magical girl now a private eye. In this world magical girls lose their powers when they turn thirty and Sherri only has one more year to take advantage of her clairvoyance to help people in need as a detective.

Sherri is not helping people alone though she has her amazing wife Kealey helping her. Kealey has adapted to post magical girl life even better than Sherri. Kealey uses her shapeshifting ability to steal the valuables of the rich and terrible. As Sherri is the narrator for the entire demo it is fantastic to be in her head while Kealey is around and be treated to a constant barrage of a woman’s admiration for her wife. It’s easily what I want to read more of in the full game.

But that’s not everything that Sherri and Kealey are going to be dealing with. In a demo that takes under an hour we have about four separate plot threads dropped on us.

Sherri and Kealey are trying to make the best of their last year with magical abilities both for themselves and the world at large. For Sherri this includes hunting down a serial killer terrorising Chicago.

But our married duo also have their former teammate Nina arriving for a month looking to catch up and remember a lost mutual teammate.

But that’s not all! Sherri and Kealey stumble on brand new magical girl Ruby “Nightshade” Thompson. Ruby’s powerful but she clearly has a thing or two to learn about teamwork and community. Perhaps the two veteran magical girls can show her the benefit of learning from others?

The Lock & Key demo is an impressive example of an advertisement. A swift introduction to a novel that now, three years later, I am interested in reading the continuation of. Married, magical, PI. yuri is an underserved genre.