Axe Maiden Vana is a 2D fantasy adventure made with the RPGM engine by MaidenSoft. You play Vana, whose childhood friend and adventuring partner Lain is struck by deadly withering magic while protecting her, leaving him in a coma-like state. To save him, Vana must win a nearby fighting tournament filled with powerful warriors from across the country. She teams up with newly met companions Mira and Elicia, taking on the tournament’s quests and foes while trying to do whatever is needed for victory. The game uses animated 2D art and features monster girl content.
The current build is v1.70, released March 9, 2025 for Windows in English, and it is uncensored. The changelog for v1.69p.4 notes added prostitution scenes, with multiple animated variations for the characters.
Developer's description
While out on a routine mission Vana's childhood friend and adventuring partner Lain,
is stricken with deadly withering magic while protecting Vana causing him to go into a coma-like state shortly after.
Now the only way Vana can save her friend is by winning a nearby fighting tournament that is attended by the strongest warriors from around the country, With the help of her two newly acquainted friends Mira and Elicia they will band together and take on the strongest foes and quest this tournament throws at them.
They're willing to do whatever it takes for a chance at victory.
v1.70
N/A
v1.69p.4
For starters, I am an idiot. I originally planned for the game to have prostitution available but felt limited in implementing it due to time constraints. Now, I can happily say that we have weaved prostitution into the game as perfectly as intended. Now, for the part about me being an idiot, when I planned out and drew the scenes up, I really didn't give it that much thought while drawing. Each girl has a couple of different scenes with a couple of different partners. It was simple for me, yes....but it wasn't until our lovely animator returned the files that I realized I had her animate 36 new scenes! Since she had to animate each variation for each girl...
Yeah, I didn't really account for the variations sending the files off to her, but they are done and completed now.
Reworked H Status
Redrawn Character Portraits
Add Small Emotion Boxes for the Girls In A lot more scenes
Add New H-Scenes For Dancer Scenes (Encores)
Lain Now Actively Prevents Vana from doing H-Scenes
Melis Plays a More Active Role to Stop Vana
Lain has ALOT more playtime
Reworked Shop's UI and added new Music and Shopkeeper
Reworked/Rewritten Deontae Scenes (Added New H- Scenes)
Addition of a new character "Teon" (Has H-scenes with all three girls)
v1.50b
And once again sorry about the delays!
We were bug-fixing a lot of last-second issues in 1.5
(This was meant to come out on the 2nd.)
We have been hard at work on the H-Events and adding more unique H-Events involving girls besides the main three girls. We have a pretty big change log for EP1 Changes and Fixes and also fixing bugs that we discovered while building out EP1.5 and EP2
Our focus this time was on adding a ton of dynamic and interesting CGs for the main girls and adding a variety of H-Events for the side characters, While for gameplay we focused on adding more stakes for fights and manic magic encounters and a roster of new faces and returning enemies foes alike!
Minor-Sub Characters such as Melesandra (Mira's Master), and Helen (New ShopKeeper) Have fully animated scenes in EP2, and more relevant/Special Sub Characters Have 2 or More Scenes such as Ayumi (Idol/Announcer), Leydale (New Fighter), Setsuko (Sword Maiden), Reena (Bow Maiden) and even more.
That's not to say we skimped out on the main girls on the contrary we added more scenes for them that were even in EP1!
All these scenes have been animated by our talented animator!
Now onto the Main Event the Private Beta Release of v1.50b!
First up the changelog for changes to EP1
Fixed random Loot chests have been added to all missions (For some reason those did not make it into the ENG version but did in the JP version, sorry about that.
Fixed Minor Graphic Errors in face boxes with some battlers
Fixef Item Prices for Items gathered in missions have been updated to match the JP versions as well.
Fixed "Lovely Stimulant" Crash Bug
Fixed Cascade Mission, Can now be Completed
Fixed bug If you quit in the Cascade Boss Fight, the game acts as if you won. This has been fixed
Fixed Mobs not disappearing after some Quest
Fixed Quest Icons (Somewhere wrong)
Fixed All Missions Items now are removed after doing the quest (Not including extra loot drops and items from the chest!)
Fixed All qualifiers decks will be removed from inventory after winning the MM semifinals
Fixed Face portraits in some scenes have been fixed to either be on the correct side or adjusted to fit better in a scene
Fixed Patreona dialogue
Fixed Melis at night not showing up when
Updated Vana Masturbation Background.
Now onto v1.50b Changes/Additions
Chapter 2 Intro
Lect Introduction
Lain Blackmain Introduction
Elicia Forced Promotion
Elicia & Vana Promotion
1st Adventurer's Guild Quest For All Girls!
Animated Loss CG For Each Girl's Quest
Three new shopkeepers
New "Toy" Shopkeeper (Night Only Shop)
7+ New Daily Tournament Fighters
4+ New Manic Magic Encounters for each girl
2 New Dancing Songs for Vana & Elicia
And a few more things!
(1 or 2 of the scenes in 1.5 may have not been touched up by the animator yet and the difference in quality is visible (The past animators work and the new ones are night and day.)
The save move function is still being worked on until then we opted into including pre-done saves (with all skills and items already obtained to pre-set times in the game before 1.5 starts)
v1.25
This is the Offical English version of the JP Release of the game with all the updates and tweaks applied to that one as well, this version of the game should also be save compatible with the upcoming v1.50 too! We're already hard at work getting the CGs done for v1.50! And the fights and minigames are already complete 90% complete!
v1.06
Hello Again!
This is an update that will mainly address running on lower hardware!
We greatly reduced the strain on lower hardware making the H-Animations now playable on lower hardware. The animations may not speed up as intended, but crashes shouldn't occur that often (if at all) thanks to this update. For those that still continue to encounter crashes though, H-Animations can also now be turned OFF entirely.
v1.05 Pre-Release
Hello & Thank you for waiting this took longer than expected but we're happy to release this Public Build & The Pre-Release Build Here are some things added to this build
ALL Monster Defeat CGs Have been redone
New H Events added to the base game
Easy Mode has (Buffed Vana's stats are Maxed and start with 10,000G)
No Panties events added for each girl
Anal Inspection Scenes for each girl
Guard Prostitutions Scenes for each girl
Redid Rondo Loss H-Event
Dancer Prostitutions Scenes for Dancer Vana are now available on some Nights
Vana can unlock masturbation after completing a certain H-Event
Buff Vana and Other Overall Stats
Removed a lot of Bugs and Bad UNI Text
1 New Unlockable Mission for Elicia after a Certain Day
Leads to 2 Possible H-Scenes for Elicia!
1 New Unlockable Secret Skill For Elicia!
Wall Brothel Prostitution Scene for Vana
Wall Positution Scene for Mira
1 New Prostitution Scene for Mira
Added a Recollection Room For Each Girl
First NTR Event for Vana
Manic Magic Qualifiers Tournament On The 9th Added
Introduction & Meeting with Sho's Sister (+Start of an H Scene)
Manic Magic Prosistution Events for Elicia & Mira (Happens on Loss)
New Minimum Recommended Specs
Recommended Minimum Specification of RAM: 8GB, and a GPU NVIDIA 2060 series or equivalent GPU, starting with this update!
v1.0.1b
Misc fixes
v1.0.1a
v1.0.1
Length extended to Day 6
3 Mission for Each Girl For a Total Basse 9 Playable Missions (Each has animated CGs)
First Boss Encounter!
Sho Introduced to Story
First Hidden Boss Encounter! with Rondo (Also Animated Fail CG on loss)
Added Natural Integration of Dancing Mini-Game (At Noble Lounge at night)
Frist Lain Night (Minigame/Fight)
And finally "Manic Magic" has been added to the game starting on day two players will be introduced to the fast-paced card game manic magic! (Inspired by Puyo Puyo)
(Controls for Manic Magic: Down arrow to drop cards faster & Z and X to Rotate them)
Minor bugs have been fixed a patched as well!
(Also The Quality of the audio and Image Files in this build is not representative of the final build, these are due to compression issues to size constraints! )
*Note Please Delete All Saves in this build they are developers' saves that will corrupt your data, please be advised!
v1.00 Public
Hello and thank you for waiting, this took longer than expected, but we're excited to release this Public Build & The Pre-Release Build!
-ALL Monster Defeat CGs Have been redone
-Access All the Base Missions
-New H Events added to the base game
-Easy Mode has (Buffed Vana's stats are Maxed and start with 10,000G)
-No Panties events added for each girl
-Anal Inspection Scenes for each girl
-Guard Prostitutions Scenes for each girl
-Redid Rondo Loss H-Event
-Dancer Prostitutions Scenes for Dancer Vana are now available on some Nights (Dancer Mira is currently being reanimated and will be added back in the full release)
-Vana can unlock masturbation after completing a certain H-Event
-Buffed Vana and Other Overall Stats
-Removed a lot of Bugs and Bad UNI Text
New Minimum Recommended Specs
Recommended Minimum Specification of RAM: 8GB, and a GPU NVIDIA 2060 series or equivalent GPU, starting with this update!
- For Those on Non-Recommended GPU Please Try Running as Administrator To Alleviate Some Issues!
If you are interested in
A LOT
more AMV content, consider the
v1.05 Pre-Release
-More H Scenes
-More Story
-First NTR Event
-Wall Brothel Events
-Recollection Room For Each Girl
-Play up to the Preliminary Ceremony and find out if Vana and the gang can move on to the next division
-And more...
v0.99b
v0.99
v0.80
Public Release
Player reviews
Player rating2.5 / 5 · 14 ratings
Written reviews14 · avg 2.5★
Positive (4–5★)14%
Latest review2025-06-25
What players say
Mixed reviews praise animated art and adult content, but many players criticize bugs, poor mechanics, tedious minigames, and performance issues.
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Players like
Animated art and character designs are praised
Some players enjoy the management-style gameplay mechanics
Adult scenes are described as fine or appealing
Common complaints
Bugs, crashes, and poor mechanics frustrate many players
Minigames and combat are tedious, hard, or unresponsive
Performance, file size, and VRAM demands are criticized
Best for players who value animated art and adult content more than polished gameplay.
Summarised from 14 written player reviews.
Scud742025-06-25★★★★★
I really wanted to like this game because the art is lovely and it's rare to see an RPG Maker game with so many animations, but the game is buggy has hell, and the mini games are tedious and not…
Satori62023-10-02★★★★★
The lewd events are fine, but the game and combat mechanics are terrible, and in the end the bad outweighs the good: it's not worth it going through the hassle of dealing with such poorly implemented mechanics just to see…
Rastafoo2023-07-23★★★★★
My review is of the Official English Release from Dlsite. I bought the game due to its promising visuals and because it appears when you search for NTR. The NTR in this game is pretty much a side note, that…