To Kill Eros (BL Visual Novel) [Demo 2.0]

To Kill Eros flips the romantic visual novel formula on its head. Rather than swooning over a love interest, protagonist Melrose Figueroa is convinced that Eros himself—the classical god of love—has cursed him, and the solution is murder. It's a premise that works precisely because DOKIRAKII commits to the absurdity while grounding it in genuine emotional stakes about connection, rejection, and what we're willing to sacrifice for love.

The narrative unfolds across four distinct love interests (three in the current demo), each route offering different flavors of relationship dynamics and thematic exploration. Your choices carry weight—the game tracks them explicitly, branching into harmony endings, chaos endings, and failure states that feel consequential rather than arbitrary. This choice-driven structure means replaying routes actually reveals new story beats rather than recycling dialogue. The writing leans into drama and dark comedy, using strong language and mature themes without relying on graphic depiction to establish tone.

DOKIRAKII handles both the writing and CG art, which gives the visual novel a cohesive aesthetic. The demo contains roughly 25,000 words with an estimated 1-2 hours of gameplay, though the full release promises 140,000+ words across 6-9 hours with all romance routes and endings included. Built in Ren'Py and playable on Windows and macOS, the technical foundation is solid. Content warnings include violence, blood, sexual themes (presented non-explicitly), strong language, and depictions of alcohol and tobacco use—all integral to the game's mature, slightly cynical worldview about love and fate.