Joyful Days
by Zel Dev
Game Details
- Version
- v0.5.2
- Developer
- Zel Dev
- Engine
- Ren'Py
- Status
- Ongoing
- Language
- English
- Censored
- No
- Updated
- 22 April 2026
About
The story isn't really yours to steer, you just watch it unfold while nudging the ribbon of fate. The game says as much upfront: if you're only here for the H scenes, you'll leave disappointed, because that part is treated as a bonus to the writing, not the point of it.
The setting is Yorobi, a world built to feel like the "simple old days," where nothing much ever goes wrong and life stays easy. You play someone already living that quiet, lucky life, dating your students, their mothers, and your co-workers as the twin-filled, joke-heavy cast drifts through school and home routines with no real conflict pushing them.
Day to day, it plays like a dating sim with light sandbox structure: you move between characters and locations, build affection, and work through character-specific events. A branching event has been added where your choice actually changes the outcome, so not every path loops back to the same scene.
Changelog
- Fixed Joy Event not displaying renders
- Optimized Code (Cut 6k lines of Code)
- Replaced the Main Menu Image.
- 14.6k Words added
- 1,127 Renders added
- 2 Custom Animations Added
- 10 Character Events
- First Branching Event (Depending on choice, you get a certain outcome)
- Some Music changes
- Event Tracker edited
- Fixed "adding affection" notworking properly (0.5.1)
- Fixed typos
- Fixed some text running off the text box off screen
- Fixed bug relating to a crash after seeing "Log347"
- Fixed Zellei generic where it shows Mizuki's generic
- Fixed Naomi's Generic, now it has an image to go along with it
- Fixed a bug relating to Naomi's Event
- Fixed Main Menu on Android devices
- 14 Events
- > 2 Main Events
- > 1 Naomi Event
- > 1 Shiori Event
- > 1 Sora Event
- > 4 Club Events (1 Anime, 1 Athletic, 1 Music, 1 Student Council)
- > 2 Zellei Events
- > 1 Phelia Event
- > 1 [ ] Event
- > 1 Bonus Event
- Main Menu changes
- More Music added
- Typos Fixed
- Fixed Looping Bug
- Fixed Hints not displaying correct hint descriptions
- MUST START A NEW SAVE
- 2 Main Events
- 13 Character Events
- 12 Generic Events
- UI Overhaul
- Event Tracker Updated (Events Replayable, Main Girls Info updated, Still WIP)
- Free Roam
- 18k Words
- 1231 Renders
- Small UI changes
- Event Tracker(?)
- Other stuff
- > Minor Quick Menu Tooltip Fix
- > 7 new events
- > 764 new renders
- > 11k words
- > few more UI tweaks
- > More UI changes
- > Mobile and Joiplay is now supported.
- > The quickmenu has been readded
- > a few UI elements have been replaced (dialogue box and tool menu)
- > 6 Main Events (7.6k Words, 578 Renders)
- So, the revival's here. But what separate's this from the old game?
- Here's a list:
- Story has been overhauled and now begins on the first day of school.
- A good portion of the classroom has been cut. (Don't worry, they'll still be around)
- The main cast no longer revolves around those in the classroom.
- Visuals (Renders, and UI)
- Some character looks have been updated and their personalities have been shifted around. They should stand out more and evolve over the course of time.
- Some new music
- >5 Main Events
- > 11.4k Words
- > 583 New Renders
- > 2 new tracks and more sound effects
- >Typos and Bug Fixes
- >New Event Tracker Notebook with hints (Only one hint added so far, will add more in the future)
- >Some parts of the phone are now locked so you won't receive crashes for opening unfinished portions of it
- > Correctly renamed the game version
- Bugfixes
- > 22k Words added
- > 847 Renders added
- > A lot of music and sound effects added
- > FreeRoam with Some Phone usability
- > 2 Main Events
- > 14 Character events and 13 Generic events
- > 10 events
- > 18k words
- > 800 new renders
- > Some menu changes and minor stuff relating to menus
- > A lot has been taken out so it will be redone in the future (updated renders with quality, story has been shifted, better dialogue, and more girls!?)
- > Redone, Overhauled, many events have been closed while I rework them.
- > Old saves won't work
- >10 Events
- > 18k Words added
- > 778 New Images
- > New Characters added
- > Warning to not use menus that involve the events/girls as I forgot to lock them for the transition to a new menu. Events won't be replayable until part 2 of the overhaul comes out.
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