Hello, it's Chattercap!

It's been a little while since I released something new! "My Husband is a Stranger", my Otome Jam 2025 project, is officially out! It's a psychological/drama/romance visual novel about a sweet marriage that slowly rots into a nightmare. Try to navigate a rocky relationship with your husband and unravel the mysteries surrounding him over the course of seven days.

Your life should be perfect. The perfect career. The perfect family. The perfect husband. And bit by bit, that perfect life is cracking all around you.

As your life falls apart, you retreat to your family's estate on a remote island. But after a storm washes away your only means of escape, you find that you're trapped with your devoted, perfect husband... who might not be the man you married.

🌊 Customize your character with your own name, pronouns, skin color, and sexuality.

💍 One male love interest who you're already married to! No work required! (Although things could be going better for you two.)

🐟 3 days and 23k words in the demo (~2 hours playtime)

📖 Different font options to customize your reading experience.

🐙 A bittersweet, emotional story with darkness waiting for you under the surface.

🖥️ Playable on Windows, MacOS, Linux, Android, and browser.

Please note that this project is in active development. (The final game will contain 7 days, 50k+ words, and 8 endings.)

A little bit of rambling...

It's been a while since I released a game! It feels like I still haven't quite settled into the “groove” of making games, since I'm still doing and learning a lot of new things with every release. MHIAS was a bit of a learning curve; it was my first time collaborating with other artists (special thank you to my talented friend Elduator for being the very first artist I worked with), and it was also my first game developed in Ren'py! Still, even though there were some twists and turns, I'm really happy with how the game turned out.

I'm not really sure if “sentimental marriage drama” is what people necessarily expected from my next game! (Or maybe this sort of thing is exactly what people would expect from me? I'm not sure.) I don't think that this sort of story is for everyone, but it's a story that really grew on me the more I developed it, so I hope that there are still some people who will enjoy it.

Thank you to all of my game developer friends who have so kindly supported me throughout the development process. I really don't deserve all of their wonderful support. I'd like to give a special shout out to Butter Blanc; she really helped me to flesh out Morgan's character through our countless conversations together, bringing him to life in a way that he really wasn't in his initial drafts.

I have quite a lot to say about this game that I can't really touch on at the moment without spoiling the story, so I'll be rambling about it in a post-mortem after the full game releases! I hope you stick around until then!

The game currently contains 3 out of a total of 7 planned days. I plan to release the game episodically (although maybe I'll release it all in one big batch... still deciding). I don't have any specific release dates since I do like to keep games in the oven until I'm sure they're ready, but I plan to finish the game within a year (as long as someone can restrain me from adding more assets...) I won't spoil anything, but players can expect the final endings to be very bittersweet.

If you'd like updates, I post my monthly devlogs here on itch.io, so you'll see the updates in your feed if you follow me! I also plan to post more often on Bluesky, with weekly devlogs on my Patreon.

I hope you all enjoy the game if you decide to check it out! And please check out the other Otome Jam entries as well, I'm sure there are a lot of good ones! 😊

Until next time,

Chattercap