Her Love, Like Poison

Her Love, Like Poison

Released Jul 2025

A dark lesbian horror/romance story so toxic it's emitting spores. Ethel, a shy university student, ventures into the wintry woods late at night, where she meets an enchanting femme fatale — but all is not as it seems.

96% positive · 288 reviews
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Steam $6.99
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Evaluation

Her Love, Like Poison launched on July 28, 2025 as a self-contained visual novel. The store description explicitly describes it as a linear story with only one ending — a design that signals a complete, finished product with no branching content or expansion built into its structure. The developer issued one post-launch bug fix on August 19, 2025 to address a Steam Deck crash, which is standard maintenance for a shipped product. No DLC has been listed, no future content has been announced, and no roadmap exists for this title. The developer's subsequent news posts are all about entirely separate games (Out of the Ocean and The Demon Queen's Dire Dilemma), with no mention of returning to Her Love, Like Poison. This is a complete, standalone release.
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Her Love, Like Poison released on July 28, 2025 as a standalone yuri horror/romance visual novel priced at $6.99.
news post · Jul 28, 2025 source content shipped
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Store description explicitly states the game is a linear story with only one ending, indicating it was designed and shipped as a complete, self-contained experience.
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Details

Developer
Publisher
ebi-hime
Achievements
8
Platform
Windows, macOS, Linux
Controller
—
Steam Deck
Verified
Players
Single-player

About this game

Ethel Briggs is a shy, self-conscious girl in her final year of university. Though she should be working on her thesis about Romantic poetry, her well of inspiration has run dry. After a nasty break-up with her former girlfriend, Clementine, Ethel is feeling very blue — and it certainly doesn't help that she's spending the winter holidays in the depressingly drab village of Oxbury, while her family are off holidaying in sunny Australia.


Left to her own devices, Ethel struggles to finish her thesis while the cold, wintry wind blows outside and the days continue to get shorter and darker.

Staying inside proves to be unbearable, however, and Ethel escapes the confines of her family's home for a breath of fresh air. Going for a walk in the woods should be enough to invigorate her, and fill her with newfound passion for Romanticism.

That was Ethel's plan, at least — but she wasn't counting on meeting a mysterious, dark-haired beauty in the woods, who is much more than she seems.

- 50,000 words of text (approx 2-4 hours of reading)
- A linear story with only one ending
- Original character and background art
- An original soundtrack
- A dark lesbian romance
- Mild body horror elements
- A creepy, unsettling atmosphere

Last evaluated Jun 18, 2026
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