Don't Ask is an adult visual novel by Velab Studio, built with Ren'Py and presented with 2D CG artwork. You play a male courier who spent eleven years working missing-persons cases before taking a ministry job that seems ordinary but hides a search for couriers who vanish on routes. The story moves through separate episodes set in places such as a provincial hotel, the capital ministry, and a far station, introducing anthro heroines with human faces. Gameplay includes full-screen images, animated scenes with sound, and an attention counter where noticing details changes endings and conversations.
Development is ongoing. Version v0.3.1 was released on October 26, 2026 for Windows, Linux, and Android, in English and Russian, without censorship. The update adds Episode Three, Part Two, The Night Shift, with eleven new scenes, seventeen CGs, two backgrounds, two animated scenes with sound, new music, and five sound effects. It also introduces a night watch and platform phone interaction, a Fortune Night Halloween event, a new menu layout, and fixes for first-launch saving and save compatibility. The main story is fully open, while optional Recordings are paid.
Developer's description
DON'T ASK is an adult visual novel from Velab Studio.
For eleven years you worked in missing persons, finding people everyone else had stopped looking for. Six months ago the ministry hired you as a courier. The cases are just for show: your real job is to find out where the couriers go. On your routes they leave and don't come back.
Every episode is a new place and new people: a provincial hotel, the ministry in the capital, a station at the end of the line, and the women you meet along the way.
Spoiler
• Anthro heroines with human faces
• Full-screen CGs and animated scenes with sound
• An attention counter: what you notice decides how scenes end and how people talk to you afterwards
New parts come out every two weeks: first for subscribers, then for everyone two weeks later. The main story is fully open. Only the Recordings are paid: optional side stories outside the main plot.
v0.3.1
(26.10.2026)
- Episode Three, Part Two, The Night Shift: picks up right where Part One ends. Eleven new scenes, one night at the station with Zoya, the night dispatcher.
- 17 new CGs, two new backgrounds, two animated scenes with sound, a new music track and five new sound effects.
- New things to do: the night watch at the dispatcher's desk and the phone on the platform. Who calls and what comes through depends on your choices in Episode Two.
- Fortune Night, our Halloween event: the open part, the beginning of each of the five cards. The rest of the night is free on November 9. Halloween main menu until November 9.
- New in-game menu and main menu: episodes and parts are under START.
- Fixes: saving right after the very first launch no longer crashes; a save from a part your build doesn't have opens with a short notice instead of an error; on phones with a big screen, text and the quick menu are phone-sized; the sound of an animated scene no longer carries on after it ends.
v0.3.0
(2026-10-12)
- Episode Three begins: Part One, The Platform. A local bus, a junction station at the end of the line and a stationmaster who's about to hand over his shift. Ten new scenes.
- 14 new CGs, 13 comic panels, nine new backgrounds and two new music tracks.
- For the first time you can do things with your own hands: look around a frame, climb a staircase, read a schedule behind the glass, check your pocket.
- The attention counter now shows what you've noticed.
- Fixes: saving right after the very first launch no longer crashes; names with accented letters show properly; a save from a different build opens with a notice instead of an error; Android Back button and touch fixes.
v0.2.1
(2026-09-28)
- Episode Two is free for everyone.
- Android version (test port). If something looks off, tell us your phone model.
- New end-of-episode screen with links to Patreon, SubscribeStar and Boosty.
- Proofreading across Episode One and Episode Two, English polished in both.
- The game files are now called DontAsk (they used to be NeSprashivay). Saves carry over.
- Fixes.
v0.2.0
(2026-09-14, subscribers)
- Episode Two: five new scenes in the capital and four new characters: Nastya, Lena, Margarita and Gennady.
- 38 CGs, 14 new backgrounds, four comic pages, five animated scenes with sound, three new music tracks.
- EPISODE TWO button in the main menu picks up from your Episode One ending.
- Footnotes for unusual words; the scene behind the door is open for everyone.
- New Recordings section: optional side stories (subscribers).
v0.1.2
(2026-09-07)
- Language persists between launches and defaults to the system language.
- New main menu and ending card.
- Sound fixes: night ambience no longer carries into the morning.
- American English pass.
v0.1.0
(2026-09-05)
- Episode One: nine scenes, two routes, English version.
