Katawa Shoujo

Katawa Shoujo

Developers
	Four Leaf Studios
Engines
	Ren'Py 6
Release dates
Windows	January 4, 2012
macOS (OS X)	January 4, 2012
Linux	January 4, 2012
Taxonomy
Monetization	Freeware
Pacing	Relaxed
Controls	Point and select
Genres	Visual novel
Art styles	Anime
Themes	Contemporary, Adult

Katawa Shoujo is a freeware visual novel.

General information

Official website

Dev blog

Official forums

Unofficial Katawa Shoujo Wikia

Visual Novel Database entry

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Official website

Essential improvements

Katawa Shoujo HD Patch

Letow's unofficial HD Patch allows the game to run at 1080p widescreen resolution.

Some files use AI upscaling to improve the resolution.

Includes the Russian and German fan patches.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	%APPDATA%\Renpy\katawashoujo_actual\persistent %APPDATA%\Renpy\katawashoujo_actual_*\persistent
macOS (OS X)
Linux

It's unknown whether this game follows the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux. Please fill in this information.

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	%APPDATA%\Renpy\katawashoujo_actual\*.save\%APPDATA%\Renpy\katawashoujo_actual_*\*.save
macOS (OS X)	~/Library/RenPy/katawashoujo_actual
Linux	~/.renpy/katawashoujo_actual

Depending on the version of the game, the subfolder may be either simply katawashoujo_actual or it may include the game's version number, such as katawashoujo_actual_1.3.

Video

In-game options menu.

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution		Use the HD Patch for 1080p widescreen. 800x600 only without.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)

Input

Keyboard and mouse, touch	State	Notes
Remapping		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion		Mouse used for traditional cursor only.
Touchscreen optimised
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support
Controller remapping
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion

Controller types

XInput-compatible controllers

PlayStation controllers

Generic/other controllers

Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback
Digital movement supported
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

Audio

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		Music and sound effects.
Surround sound
Subtitles		All speech is text-based.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
Traditional Chinese				Act 1 only
Simplified Chinese				Act 1 only
French
German				Act 1 only, Use the HD Patch or Hikari Translations' German Patch for full game
Italian				Act 1 only, Use Patch Italiano for full game
Japanese
Korean				Use the Korean Patch
Polish				Use the Polish Patch
Brazilian Portuguese				Use the Katawa+ Patch
Russian				Act 1 only, Use the HD Patch for full game
Spanish
Hungarian				Act 1 only

Other information

API

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	ARM	Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux				64-bit and ARM versions were previously offered by distro packages, but were phased out due to the game using old versions of Python 2 and RenPy. FlatHub still offer them ordinarily.

System requirements

Windows

macOS (OS X)

Linux

Windows
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)
Processor (CPU)
System memory (RAM)
Hard disk drive (HDD)

macOS (OS X)
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)
Processor (CPU)
System memory (RAM)
Hard disk drive (HDD)

Linux
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)
Processor (CPU)
System memory (RAM)
Hard disk drive (HDD)