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MY HERO, MY IDOL is a work of fiction for adults. It contains sexually explicit content, strong language, and adult themes.

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Take me out

Episode 1 is out now — free, forever

An adult romance visual novel

My Hero, My Idol

Popularity is power

You manage the worst-ranked idol agency in Lumen City — five clients with enormous talent and almost no followers. In this world, followers are the superpower. Make the world love them, and they become gods.

Free, complete, and it ends on a cliffhanger we're not sorry about.

  • Five idols, five routes
  • Free, forever
  • Everyone's 21+
  • Fame is the superpower

Your in-game agency

Meet the roster.

In the game, you're the new manager at Second Star Entertainment — five women with enormous talent and zero fans. Your job is to fix the second half of that sentence.

Speed22Yae — full-body character art
YAE

Rookie. Runs fast. Tries harder than anyone in the building.

Flame25Chisa — full-body character art
CHISA

The leader who never asked to lead. Carries it anyway.

Stolen seconds24Riri — full-body character art
RIRI

Luxury vocabulary, working-class hours. Boosts the accounts nobody traces back to her.

Shadow23Aina — full-body character art
AINA

Four percent battery by day. The real one shows up after midnight.

Storm30Hyun — full-body character art
HYUN

Ten years in. Still the best in the room, and the calmest.

The world

The city has people in it.

Second Star's five aren't the whole cast. Dimside is full of women with their own routes, their own shops, their own nights — four of them just moved in, drawn and written.

Cinder Gym35Maki — full-body character art
MAKI

Fight-night physio. Nineteen years on the corner — her table fixes what the ring takes.

Café Comet25Sana — full-body character art
SANA

Closing-shift barista. Runs the place in everything but title — your cup's poured before you sit down.

Page & Parallel22Iori — full-body character art
IORI

Back-room archivist. Inherited the shop, the cardigan, and six years of quiet.

Lumen Clinic28Ganyu — full-body character art
GANYU

Night medic. Patches up unsponsored heroes for free — and has already decided which part of you is broken.

New in the build Anvil Range — combat training Lumen Field — mobility training Lumen Clinic — free patch-ups Bluemoon Mart — the shop The Pantry — an app for the groceries Manager abilities — learn from the girls Choices on a clock New seven-track soundtrack

No mockups

Straight out of the build.

Real gameplay frames from the current build — the same pixels the free download installs. No trailers, no renders made for marketing. Click the big one for the full frame.

Yae in the office, mid-dialogue: 'Okay okay — first, hi, I'm Yae. I'm the fast one. You'll see.' A live choice menu over Yae's line 'GUYS! GUYS. The listing WORKED—': I haven't said yes yet / Is something burning? / Nice cat. The city board — Lumen City from above: Yae and Chisa on shift, Riri's lot pulsing gold as the HOT JOB, the bench and roster live Chisa in the kitchen, mid-dialogue: 'It's BLACKENED. That's a technique. Fancy restaurants do it on PURPOSE—' Riri at Second Thread, mid-dialogue: 'Riri. Yes, THE Riri. You may have seen the— you haven't seen anything. Good.' Hyun at Cinder Gym, mid-dialogue: 'We don't say that word out loud, rookie.' Sana, Café Comet's closing-shift barista, a cup already poured at the counter
Yae — Episode 1, verbatim

The game

Run the agency. Win the city.

A management sim wrapped around a romance — every week is a puzzle of time, money, and whose heart needs you.

The weekly planner

Seven days, five idols, one bank account. Book the gigs, schedule the training, and keep the landlord off the door — every slot you fill costs another you can't.

Plan · book · survive rent day

The city board

Drag your girls across a living map of Lumen City — street sets, mall shows, sketchy late-night gigs. Each district pays in cash, fame, or trouble.

Dispatch · earn · get recognised

Hearts and fame

Persona-style stats, affection routes, and a fame track that feeds their powers. Dates, gifts, late-night texts — the romance is the management.

Date · gift · fall in love

The phone

An in-game phone that never shuts up — group chats, camera-roll photos, fan DMs and 2am confessions. The story finds you between the planning.

Text · scroll · get attached

The system

StarRank — the class ladder.

Followers aren't a number. They're literal power. Climb the ladder and your idols stop doing party tricks and start changing the weather.

Your agency in the game: Second Star Entertainment · rank STREET · rent due in 9 days
STREET Party tricks and street-corner sets. Where your five begin — and where the rent is very real. < 1K
◀ You are here
C A local name. Someone recognises you at the konbini. 1K
B Real power. Rain-dance stage effects. Booked on merit, not mercy. 10K
A Sonic booms on stage. Cities argue about who gets the date. 100K
S Weather-changing. Nation-defining. Nobody is truly #1 — the world doesn't work that way. 1M+

The promise

A city that runs on attention.

One idea holds the whole game together: in Lumen City, being loved is the power source. Everything you manage — the schedule, the rankings, the five women at the bottom of the ladder — sits inside it.

A world with rules

Followers aren't a vanity number here — they're the fuel a hero runs on, and StarRank is the ladder the whole city climbs. Your clients have enormous talent and nobody watching. That gap is the game.

Free, forever

The whole story goes public — nothing in the game is ever locked behind a paywall. Support just buys you early, and keeps the lights on.

Adults, written like it

Everyone's 21 or older, and it shows. Consent is spoken, on-screen, and freely given — every time. No coercion, ever. That's a promise, not a warning label.

Out now

Episode 1 is out.

The whole game is free, forever — every episode goes public eventually, and nothing in the story is ever locked behind a paywall. Episode 1 is the full first episode, not a slice, and it's on itch.io right now.

Play free on itch.io

Follow along on Bluesky for what comes next.

Keep the lights on

Support the studio.

The game's free. Patrons just play it first — and fund the next one. Cancel anytime; you keep every build you've downloaded.

How far ahead of the free public release →

$5
Rookie
Work-in-progress art, the dev log, polls on what we build next, and the patron Discord.
at public launch
$10
Staff
Everything above, plus the full-resolution art from each episode.
7 days early
★ Best value
$20
Producer
Everything above, plus the rough cut before anyone else — you see each update first and help shape it — and a monthly art pack: wallpapers and process sketches.
14 days early
$50
Executive
Everything above, plus your name in the credits and a vote on the next episode's side scene.
21 days early
$125
Founding Partner · 25 seats
A permanent numbered credit in every future release, top Discord rank, and once a year we mail you something from the studio — a signed print and a sticker set.
26 days early