Upcoming Visual Novel

Apocalyptic Dream

Apocalyptic Dream is a dual-MC, horror-themed otome game that takes place during a zombie outbreak in the 21st century. Follow Mikuru and Toshiro Aikyo, twins who had the misfortune of knowing what was coming.

Navigate friendships, relationships, and learn who to trust...all while trying to survive.

Can you make it through alive?

The campaign

PREORDER STORE IS OPEN!

Be one of the first to reserve your copy of this horror otome game being made for Steam, Itch.io, and Switch. The Kickstarter is over, but there's still time to snag a copy with the OST included!
The preorder store is currently set to close on New Years Day 2024.

Time Until Preorder Store Closes:

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    UPDATED DEMO WIP!

    New itch.io demo with custom GUI launches ASAP!

    Experience a spoiler-free scenario in Mikuru or Toshiro's POV - or play through both. Be careful not to die.The updated demo on Unity (through Naninovel) is currently being worked on. The previous demo and its host website vanished.

    What's the status right now?

    Current Game Progress

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    Coding: ●●●●●●●○○○    Last updated February.01.2024Goalpost for writing has been updated to 450k+ words, currently ~160k+ are finished, so the % has moved. Programmer has been hired and is doing great with base GUI. OST is complete!

    The Plan - Take 2

    1. After the 2021 Kickstarter, the game has been substantially funded. However, the art and VA budgets in particular cannot be self-funded the rest of the way. A programmer has also been hired due to health issues Midnight Springs faces.

    1. By spring 2024 the OST was finished, nearly all CGs are complete; by the 2nd campaign nearly 1/2-2/3 of the main character sprites will be finalized, and the new Naninovel demo published to itch.io will have been live for a bit. The remaining VA lines for voiced CGs, custom backgrounds, the last few CGs, the programmer's wages, and the remaining sprites are the most notable pieces left to fund.

    1. The animated PV will be finished before 2nd campaign launch, so that we have solid marketing material besides the new demo. The new crowdfunding campaign will be launced in early 2025 to cover the rest of that budget as best as possible, in order to get the game 100% complete and published by late 2025. That goal post may unfortunately change, but it seems realistic so far.

    1. Any physical rewards from the 2nd campaign (which will be on Backerkit) are sent out to backers swiftly. Any DLC or new main game content funded through the second campaign will be expedited. All backers and preorder store customers will receive any game (including DLC) content unlocked through either ApoYume campaign for free, including the 20-track OST.

    1. Submission for approval to Nintendo Switch eShop, Steam, and itch.io.

    1. Digital keys sent out to all backers. Game is listed in eShop, Steam, and itch.io libraries. eShop listing may take up to 12 months later than itch and Steam to be approved and distributed.

    Toshiro Aikyo

    Mikuru Aikyo

    About Midnight Springs

    Midnight Springs is ran solely by one person, Elena. With the sheer scope of this sort of project, there are a lot of others involved: illustrators, voice actors, composers, sound engineers, editors, and more - but Elena is the sole person doing script writing, storyboarding, and delegating for all other tasks. Thankfully, as of 2023, a programmer has been hired to help speed things up.
    She is the only one with a consistently-dedicated work schedule to ApoYume, which is why the estimate for completion is not easy to pin down. Due to unsteady finances, anime and gaming conventions across the country are currently the bulk of income for Midnight Springs, which skews the available ApoYume work timeline further.    A small business since 2015, Midnight Springs has gone through several art mediums and even a name change, before Elena returned to her first passion: writing. Arthritis and carpal tunnel issues developing young forced her hand in choosing artistic direction, but the passion behind her stories has never waned all this time.Despite being a bit rusty still, she hopes her writing can bring justice to Apocalyptic Dream (and a couple of other planned Visual Novels!) within the decade. ApoYume is only the start to hopefully a library of horror titles under Midnight Springs' name. Unfortunately, due to a long list of chronic health issues, this project is taking much longer than anticipated to reach completion. We hope that your experience playing the new demo will convince you it will be worth the wait.

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    Thank you

    Be sure to follow on socials to keep updated on game progress. Kickstarter backers will have access to the project Discord after the campaign is funded.