Love by the Water

Love by the Water Leave home for a new university in Love by the Water. Meet diverse love interests, shape relationships with choices, and enjoy optional adult H-scenes with branching story paths.

Love by the Water

In Love by the Water, you leave your hometown to start classes at a new and unfamiliar university. Along the way, you’ll meet new friends, spend time with classmates, and cross paths with a lineup of women who each bring their own personality to everyday moments.

As you progress, you’ll face choices that affect how relationships develop. Use your wit and charm to win hearts, and gradually unlock the matching H-scenes—leading to the kind of tension and thrill this story is built around. The game keeps improving too, with ongoing updates that add more standout characters and their corresponding scenes.

Key Features

• 25 Possible Love Interests: Ranging from Frankie, a lively trans woman who’s an optional romance, to darker characters like Desmond, and lighter, playful options like Lily and Sasha. Each one includes its own story path. You can also build friendships without pursuing romance.
• Choice-Driven Story: Your decisions shape relationships and reveal plot threads. Will you focus on the horror mystery, or keep things more relaxed and day-to-day?



• Optional Adult Content: H-scenes are intense but fully avoidable. There’s no NTR (netorare) included, so the mood stays focused on consent, empowerment, and fun.
• Cross-Platform Compatibility: The Android experience is available through an APK, with touchscreen controls designed to feel natural. Save transfers are straightforward when you switch devices.



• Accessibility Support: Includes subtitles, one-tap navigation, and adjustable text playback speed—helpful for longer sessions.

On Android, the APK build runs smoothly, offering strong performance on mobile. The port was created by a community member (special thanks to Blackeye). Expect a few hours of build time per update, while the branching structure keeps replay value feeling fresh.

Why Players Like It

Custom Home and Character Progress

Your home isn’t just scenery—it reflects who you’re becoming. You can decorate your living space to match your emotional growth, from the furniture you choose to the wall colors you bring to life. Each design choice feels meaningful, like a quiet marker of healing and identity. As the protagonist learns to open up, the room grows warmer, brighter, and more alive—less about luxury, more about belonging and seeing personal growth take visible form in a world that used to feel far away.

Emotion-First Storytelling

The game doesn’t rely on forced lines—it earns its feelings. Every conversation, every pause, every nuance in the voice acting pulls you closer to the characters. Choices matter, steering you toward moments of joy, heartbreak, or heartfelt closure that feels genuinely human. The writing avoids cheap clichés; it’s calm, sincere, and grounded—exploring love, regret, and connection in ways that feel real. Even the quiet gaps and unanswered thoughts add weight.

Strong Visuals and Sound (Ren’Py Engine)

Built on the Ren’Py engine, the presentation stays smooth and cinematic. Each frame is crafted with care—thousands of detailed scenes come to life with subtle animation and original music that adds emotional texture to every moment. Voice performances feel personal, like the characters are speaking directly to you. Even on more modest Android devices, the experience holds up, proving that great storytelling doesn’t require high-end hardware—just precision and heart.

Changelog (Update Details)

• Words: 80,000~ → 98,764
• HD Renders: 8,512 → 9,494



• Animations: 242 → 288
• Lines of Code: 30,466 → 34,544
• Voiced Lines: 201
• Music: 93
• SFX: 467

This update covers the events of the night of Day 3. At the end of Chapter 4, Wake receives a call from Frankie, inviting him to look into a case—this chapter is what follows from that moment.

Compared to other updates, this chapter is especially contained and focused, unfolding mostly in real time. It’s also heavily Frankie-centered, while still introducing some of the first major exchanges between Wake and supporting characters like April, Billie, and Liam. It’s more horror-forward than previous updates too. Happy Halloween—and enjoy the new chapter!

Player Feedback

• “The game is great—animations are insane (and genuinely funny), and the characters are charming. The voice lines are extremely well done. The love interest designs feel varied, not like reused templates. Definitely worth your time, and it’s not a slow burn either—you can reach your first H-scenes very early after a really charming introduction. Highly recommended!”
• “I was hooked from the start. After the rework, it’s even better. The main character is delightful—he’s ‘cool’ without acting like a jerk. He’s sweet and kind, and the way the LIs gather around him (whether it’s supernatural or not) feels natural. How could you not like someone who’s intelligent, considerate, and kind?”
• “The characters are unique and interesting, and I genuinely want to get to know them better. The comedy hits the right balance—silly, meaningful, and well-intentioned. This could easily work as an amazing novel. The visuals make the already strong writing even better. The story keeps you engaged, asking questions while also answering some, and it pulls you in without leaving you totally in the dark.”