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| Community | Please Be Happy - Official Chinese Release Postponement Dear players, Thank you for your ongoing support for the Official Chinese of Please Be Happy . Our team has been working hard on localization, polishing in-game texts and fixing text bugs. However, we discovered unresolved wording issues and system glitches during final inspection. To bring you a better experience, we decide to delay the launch: New time: 11:00, June 26, 2026 (UTC+8) We sincere… | — | |
| Community | Please Be Happy – Chinese Version Launches June 10 with 50% Launch Discount! Thank you all for your continued support and interest in Please Be Happy. We’re excited to announce that following extensive localization work, the official Chinese version will launch on June 10, 2026, at 11:00 (UTC+8) . To celebrate the release, the Chinese version will feature a 50% launch discount, marking its alltime lowest price. Alongside this, a bundle pairing Please Be Happy with Upwar… | — | |
| Esports | Our next yuri visual novel is out now! Our next yuri visual novel, Our Home, My Keeper, is now released! After a successful series of children's books, Paige Crowley runs into a bout of burnout and leaves for the English countryside for a change of pace. But, she gets more than she bargained for when she discovers her lovely new home already has an occupant. A brownie called Faye lives there, and she has been watching over the home… | — | |
| Community | Please Be Happy — Merch Campaign Announcement (China) Thank you all for your enduring love and support for Please Be Happy . We are thrilled to announce that the Chinese version of the game will be launching very soon! To celebrate this milestone, we have launched a special crowdfunding campaign in China. This campaign features a variety of limited and CN-exclusive merchandise inspired by the characters and their heartfelt stories. Please Note reg… | — | |
| Community | Yuri Healing Journey “Please Be Happy” –Official Chinese Version in Development Studio Élan proudly presents Please Be Happy, a fantasy Yuri healing game following Miho, a nine-tailed fox, on her long journey to find the person who once helped her. Along the way, she will meet Juliet, a charming vampire, and Aspen, a human literature girl, forming unforgettable bonds. Through laughter, tears, and adventures, Miho discovers the true meaning of friendship and love, exploring… | — | |
| Sale | Valentine's Sale! Please Be Happy is currently on sale on Steam alongside its DLC! The base game and all of its DLC, such as the soundtrack and the artbook, are 30% off. You can also pick up our modern fairytale yuri visual novel Heart of the Woods on sale~ | — | |
| In-game event | Please Be Happy 2.0.1 — Unity security patch, and various other bugfixes 【※日本語は英語の下に掲載しています。Japanese version can be found below.】 Hello, everyone! Please Be Happy 2.0.1 has just been released, which fixes the Unity Runtime ( UnityPlayer ) CVE-2025-59489 security vulnerability, as well as a few minor issues in the game that were either reported by the community, or were found in testing. As always, thank you for continuing to support Studio Élan! Changelog for 2.0.1:… | 20300948 | |
| Esports | Our magical girl yuri visual novel is now released! Fight crime, be gay—do things the magical girl way! Lock & Key: A Magical Girl Mystery is out now! After several years of development, you can finally follow the married pair of magical girls Sherri and Kealey on one last adventure before their powers fade away for good. Sherri and Kealey Cohen, now a married couple in their late 20s, left the title of magical girls behind them over a decade ag… | — | |
| Sale | Fall in Love Visual Novel Festival has started! The first Fall in Love Visual Novel festival has started! Enjoy 200+ romance-themed visual novels from over 100 visual novel developers, hosted by us! Please Be Happy and its DLC are on sale for the festival~ Our other yuri games are also in the festival, with some being on sale! Lock & Key: A Magical Girl Mystery, our very next yuri visual novel, releases on September 30th and has a demo you c… | — | |
| Esports | Our next yuri visual novel is out now! Find unexpected love in the depths of grief... Our next yuri visual novel, A Tithe in Blood, is out now on Steam ! As a reserved and unassuming university student in snow-bitten Hokkaido, the personal tragedy which visited Honoka Asakawa leads her to experimenting in a magical art thought long-lost — blood magic. Unexpectedly able to visit the sealed world of Meiji-era Sapporo, Honoka's quickly… | — | |
| Major update | Please Be Happy 2.0 — Major update! Hello, everyone! Thank you everyone so much for the love and support for our game over the years. We're so happy to announce that there are now Simplified Chinese, Japanese and Korean translations for the demo of Please Be Happy — that's the entirety of the first chapter! We are looking into options to bring the full game into these languages as well, but due to various circumstances, there are… | 18088138 | |
| Community | The Storyteller's Festival The Storyteller's Festival is happening now! This is a week-long Steam festival focused on visual novels and other story-driven games. There's over 400 games in the event—including a few of ours! Here's a few of our other LGBT+ yuri titles that are in the festival—give them a wishlist or check out their demos if you'd like to support us! Summer at the Edge of the Universe is an LGBT+ yuri solar… | — | |
| Community | Please Be Happy 2nd Anniversary Today, 2 years ago, we welcomed everyone to our fantasy version of Wellington, New Zealand. It's hard to believe it's already been 2 whole years since then, but here we are! First off, here's a new illustration of Aspen by adirosa, to fit with the Miho she drew last year! As previously announced, Please Be Happy is coming to consoles! The console ports are going well, with a few having recently… | — | |
| Community | Happy Birthday Miho + Wholesome Games Celebration! Today, August 15th, is Miho's birthday! To celebrate, here's a new artwork of her by adirosa. The higher resolution version of this artwork is available here . Please Be Happy is taking part in the Wholesome Games Steam Celebration, a festival for comfy and wholesome games here on Steam. It's currently on sale for the event. Our other games Twofold and our upcoming title Summer at the Edge of t… | — | |
| In-game event | Please Be Happy 1.2 Hello, everyone! Please Be Happy 1.2 has just been released, which fixes a few issues and makes various user experience and performance improvements. Not too much has changed on the surface, but the game has undergone significant technical changes internally in 1.2 for a better experience now and into the future. As always, thank you for continuing to support Studio Élan! 〜 Karen/あけみ (akemin_da… | 14198475 | |
| In-game event | Please Be Happy 1.1.2 — Improved performance, Steam Cloud support, and more! Hello, everyone! Please Be Happy 1.1.2 has just been released, which vastly improves performance and load times, adds Steam Cloud support, and more! It also fixes a few minor issues that were either reported, or were found in testing. As always, thank you for continuing to support Studio Élan! 〜 Karen/あけみ (akemin_dayo) and adirosa Changelog for 1.1.2: On PC, it targets Unity SDK version 2021.3.… | 13505669 | |
| Community | Please Be Happy 1st Anniversary 💖 One year ago today, we released Please Be Happy after several years of development. We're so glad so many people have played the game so far and traveled with Miho to Wellington! Since the game launched... · The music video for the ending theme, Someone Someday , has passed 100k views on YouTube. · The game has over 200 positive reviews on Steam, giving it a Very Positive rating. · We got a lot… | — | |
| Community | 5k Copies + Almost 1 Year Anniversary! As announced earlier today at the Élan Festival , Please Be Happy has passed over 5,000 copies sold! We're also super close to 200 Steam reviews (with a 99% positive score) which is amazing!! Thank you so much to everyone who has ventured out on this journey with Miho. Next month is the 1 year anniversary (birthday?) for Please Be Happy—1 year since Miho traveled to Wellington. To celebrate, we… | — | |
| In-game event | Please Be Happy 1.1.1 — A bugfix release! Hello, everyone! We've just released Please Be Happy 1.1.1, which is mostly a bugfix release that fixes many issues that were found since 1.1! (※ This is the same build as what can be found on the physical release.) Additionally, just in case you missed it, we're running a Makeship campaign to make plushies of Miho! Thanks to everyone's support, we've already funded production — but if you want… | 11877040 | |
| Esports | Miho Plushie is here!! Meemo is here!! For the next 21 days, you can pre-order the limited edition Miho plushie from Makeship ! She costs $29.99 + shipping and is expected to start production in August... if we can hit the goal. The way Makeship works is that we have to hit at least 200 pre-orders before production starts. If we don't hit 200, then Miho won't go into production and everyone will be refunded. If she d… | — | |
| Esports | Kickstarter Campaign for Physical Copies of our Visual Novels! We just launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund disc-based physical copies of our first three visual novels, "Highway Blossoms;" "Heart of the Woods;" and "Please Be Happy." We're also printing the artbook and soundtrack too! The game copies are disc-based and compatible with PC/Mac/Linux. The games are available in two versions: the Webstore Editions and Classic Editions. The Classic editions… | — | |
| Game update | Dec 5 Update - Build 1.1 Hello everyone! Thank you so much for your bug reports and I hope you've been enjoying the game! With this new update, we have: - Added Linux builds - Added OpenDyslexic as a font - Added tooltips to settings to help clarify what some of these things do - Made 100%-ing the game actually possible - as we've fixed some typos, those will count as 'new lines' and will need to be read again for the… | 10077383 | |
| Game update | Artbook Update Minor typos have been fixed in the artbook. | 10007698 | |
| Game update | Nov 23 Update - Build 1.03 Hello everyone! Thank you all for the bug and typo reports. · We've fixed achievements not appearing - for the achievements you may have missed, please skip to the end of the first scene and any achievements you should have received should be added to your Steam account. · We've fixed some more voice line errors and typos. | 9998007 | |
| Game update | Nov 21 Hotfix Hello! Thank you for all the support. · We've fixed an error in Chapter 4 which caused some scenes to be skipped in Chapter Four if you are on Lena's friendship story. · We've fixed a few voice line errors. We are still compiling edits for more voice line errors and typos, and will try to have another patch as soon as possible. | 9988648 | |
| News | Please Be Happy Is Now Available! After over 3 years of development, we're so excited to finally bring you Please Be Happy - our latest wlw visual novel, from several of the creators behind Heart of the Woods and a few new faces. Born as a fox in the forest of Korea, Miho carries with her the memory of a traveler who showed her kindness and spoke of home. Now more human than fox, Miho has spent a long, long time searching for h… | — | |
| Announcement | Please Be Happy Releasing on November 21, 2022! We're super excited to announce that after three years of development, Please Be Happy will be releasing in just a couple weeks, on November 21, 2022! PBH is a comfy visual novel about the fox spirit Miho learning how to be a person, and finding love along the way. PBH has 2 different romantic routes with 2 happy endings each. We can't wait for everyone to play it! | — |
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