DESIRIUM is a Ren'Py dating sim by ElCharlo with 3D CG and animated scenes. You play a male protagonist, a foreign student who spends a gap year with the Hayes family in Summit Bay. He wants a fresh start, but school drama, forbidden romance, parties, and an otherworldly influence make the town feel unfamiliar. The game follows romantic and increasingly sexual relationships with several women, each with personal secrets and desires, while the player tries to avoid becoming the most wanted man in the city.
The current build is 0.13.2a, released September 25, 2026, and development continues. It is uncensored and runs on Windows, Linux, Mac, and Android, with English plus ten official translations: Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, and Spanish. The update adds 96,000 words, 3,500 new 4K renders, and 185 60 FPS animations with voice-acted sound effects, along with new music and sound effects. It also revises the prologue, improves dialogue and ambient audio, and adds post-processing, Quick Menu scaling and auto-hide, and text box customization.
Developer's description
When a foreign student arrives in the coastal town of Summit Bay for a gap year with the Hayes family, he’s looking for more than just a good time — he needs a clean slate to rediscover who he is and what he wants from life. But between school drama, forbidden romance, wild parties, and the growing influence of a seductive, otherworldly force... he soon realizes this new world is anything but ordinary.
In
DESIRIUM
, you will develop romantic and increasingly sexual relationships with a number of attractive women, each with her own personality, secrets, and desires — but expect trouble when you try to be the city's most wanted man…
Spoiler:
0.13 Teaser Videos
v0.13.2a
96,000
new words
3,500
new 4K renders
185
new 60 FPS animations, including voice-acted SFX
Tons of new music/SFX
Official translations into 10 languages
Chinese (SC/TC), French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (BR), Russian, and Spanish
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Full overhaul of the Prologue
Reviewed/improved every dialogue line, and changed some parts. Changed renders placement, added SFX, fixed broken music loops, better ambient sounds, (e.g. audio gets muffled when stepping inside), etc.
Added post-processing options
Temperature, Saturation, Gamma, Sharpness, Film Grain.
Added auto-hiding and UI scaling options for the Quick Menu (configurable in the Text & UI screen)
Added text box customization
Adjusted every image with different compression method
Locked choices are now clearly
locked
when using the Walkthrough
Fixed invisible centered text in Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Russian
Fixed typos
Added more Patron & SubscribeStar supporters in the Credits section!
v0.12.1
Completed last scene (massage) with:
11 new renders
2 new animations
500+ new words
Added autosave
v0.12.0 Beta
442 new renders
35 new animations
~9500 new words
New music/sfx
New content with Riley, Kayla, Chloe, Emma, Anna, ???...
Updated UI for Android version
v0.11:
441 new renders
3 new animations
~7500 new words
Added 2 Love Interests
New content with Kayla, Riley, Ashley, Chloe, ???, ???
Reworked Ms. Reed scene to make her more friendly and not embarrass you, and the possibility to get the right answers
Added option to disable custom save names
MC's face is now seen less often
Reworked some of the dialogues in 0.10
Added patron names in the credits
v0.10:
Initial Public Release
12 000+ words of dialogue
839 renders in 4K
12 animations (7 NSFW + Sound!)
A replay gallery, with a relationship level for each character
"Walkthrough" for optimal choices
ASMR style female narrator
Player reviews
Player rating4.0 / 5 · 20 ratings
Written reviews20 · avg 3.8★
Positive (4–5★)65%
Latest review2026-04-04
What players say
Most players praise the visuals and animations, but several criticize the weak story, limited content, and unlikeable protagonist.
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Players like
Beautiful character renders and polished visual presentation
Smooth animations and strong erotic scene presentation
Good ambience and atmospheric presentation
Some find the story promising or interesting
Common complaints
Weak story and awkward dialogue
Very limited content and few scenes
Unlikeable protagonist and poor kidnapping handling
Best for players who prioritize attractive renders and animations over deep story or content.
Summarised from 20 written player reviews.
dexterousgecko2026-04-04★★★★★
EDIT: The dev has reached out regarding these concerns - they've said the 0.13 will rework a lot of the issues with the MC and the party/kidnapping. Whether or not that arrives soon or not, unknown. I'll revisit this when…
MyLifeBeLike672025-12-24★★★★★
At first I was surprised because the renders are really nice. But in the end it all was a nothing burger. Emma, Chloe, Kayla all have the same face. Ms. Reed the teacher also has the same face but with…
sexyclausewitz2025-11-30★★★★★
NO SEX SCENES Basically you only have one girl solo scene... and that's it. I don't know why ratings are so high. Sure, the game is very beautiful and animations are clean, but choices have zero impacts and game is…
★★★★★(20)
