🩸THIS GAME IS CURRENTLY IN DEVELOPMENT 🩸

  • Day 1.5 (Chapter 1.5/3) is out!! It has 15k+ words, choices, point and click minigames, and around 1 hour of gameplay!
  • Please download the game for the best experience.
  • This game page will constantly be updated.

Next Update (PLANNED): somewhere in July

Your friend / daughter / friend's daughter is on her period!

Care for her during her painful first three days; buy her menstrual products, make her healthy food and drinks, listen to her struggles, and just be there for her.


"Her Time of The Month!" is a semi-educational Visual Novel where you play as three guys who try to support a girl you care about during her menstruation.

🩸Estimated 30k+ words

🩸2 Endings (subject to change)

🩸Original illustrations and GUI

🩸Informative art!

🩸Changing character POVs

🩸Point and Click minigames

🩸Educational parts written in red!

🩸A shy childhood friend, a doting yet nosy dad, and a critical cool uncle.

🩸Slight magic stuff bc there's this blood-centered fantasy genre but they never talk abt periods...

(PLEASE READ)

🩸This game contains discussions and descriptions of menstruation, including blood, reproductive organs, and various physical and mental bodily processes.
The author tries their best to naturally present the topic in an EDUCATIONAL way.

🩸Everything in this game is mostly based on the experience, knowledge, and observations of THE AUTHOR and OTHERS AROUND THEM.

🩸It is crucial to note that the experiences, views, and boundaries about menstruation are EXTREMELY DIVERSE. It DIFFERS GREATLY by person, culture, social class, environment, country, and various other factors.

🩸The author ASKS the players to only treat this game as simply ONE OF the guides or references to menstruation and NOT to overgeneralize. The author HIGHLY RECOMMENDS the players to do their own research, and most importantly, kindly ask any nearby period-haver that you trust and trusts you, if they're comfortable.


OTHER CONTENT WARNINGS (Click to open)- Mentions of acne-picking, blood (the usual one), blood donation, drug dependence, PTSD, mental health, misogyny, real world issues, mild swearing

- Light jumpscare (comedic), screen shakes, loud noise


REGARDING THE GENRE/TARGET AUDIENCE (Click to open)- This game is a relationship sim, which, depends on who you play as, you try to pursue a good romantic-platonic (friend), platonic-familial (uncle), and familial (father) relationship with the girl. With the three guys and varying types of love, I try to represent different physical and emotional boundaries as well as social roles.

- Narrative-wise, since it is about how to properly treat a female character, this game is targeted at a female audience (hence submission to WGF and Josei Jam). However, education-wise, it is targeted at everyone. 


REGARDING THE TITLE (Click to open) - Just to be clear, I am extremely against period euphenisms. While the title of this game is based on the "that time of the month" euphenism, it aims to sort of reclaim and repurpose the phrase to mean that it's HER (the MC's) time. Her time to shine. Her time to be supported, celebrated, uplifted. Similar usage when it's someone's birthday/graduation, and it is "their time".
- I understand that the first reason is quite niche, so unfortunately, I also considered this title because it will make it more "accessible". It will be more "proper", unfortunately, to be put in general public spaces, unfortunately. But I clearly put "period" in the tagline and the game will explain why period euphenisms are bad, so I hope you can forgive me.


Writing, Story, Character Sprites, Programming, Extra Illustrations - maho_anpu

Background, GUI, Illustrations, Art Editor, Graphic Designer - Nath/Salt

Cafe Background - Itsu

Music - Bryan Teoh, Rafael Krux, Jason Shaw, Komiku, imataku, Kamaboko Sachiko, Matsuura Yosuke, Fablefly Music

SFX - Enterbrain

Font - Kimberly Geswein

-- Special Thanks - -

Peeps at SNORKMI Studios, peeps at Kindred Horizons, my mom, my oomfies, Ben


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THIS GAME IS MADE FOR...

🩸Menstrual Hygiene Day! (May 28)

🩸International Women's Day on March 8 and Women's History Month on March, hence WOMEN's GAME FEST 2025 and Josei Jam 2025.

🩸Sher's 47th Birthday and 10yrs Anniv of the creation of the two dads (my babygirls), hence OSSAN JAM 2025.

🩸NaNoRenO 2025! Because come on, it's Nanoreno.

🩸Fxxx Capitalism Jam 2025 bc wdym we have to PAY for a biological process we have no control of  :/

🩸All of the characters' birthdays: Sher on March 29, Hon (and myself!) on May 2, Dra on May 22, and Hiro on June 23. 

🩸Every struggling period-havers out there trying to survive in this society and system. Good luck to us!

🩸Myself. I didn't chose to have this pain and discomfort every month so everybody needs to know about it!!!1!1!! /lh


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As this game aims to destigmatize and break ignorance surrounding periods, the author will greatly appreciate any ideas, opinions, and feedback.


Thank you!

Updated 12 days ago
StatusIn development
PlatformsHTML5, Windows, macOS, Linux
Rating
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(11 total ratings)
Authormaho_anpu
GenreVisual Novel, Educational, Interactive Fiction
Made withRen'Py
TagsAmare, Casual, Cozy, Cute, josei, Point & Click, relationship, Slice Of Life
Average sessionAbout an hour
LanguagesEnglish
InputsKeyboard, Touchscreen

Download

Download
HerTimeoftheMonthDAY1.5-pc.zip 209 MB
Download
HerTimeoftheMonthDAY1.5-mac.zip 204 MB

Install instructions

Extract zip files, open folders, execute "HerTimeoftheMonth.exe"

Development log

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this is so cutee, cant wait for the next day! i think i kinda bad at this hwhw, its helps me undertands period bcs of this!! btw i see there are some lore hidden, i want to know more, is it on your other game? is there any order to play it so i can understand the lore :DD?

Thank you for playing and please look forward to the next chapters!! <3

Yes, most of my games are connected, but they're just pieces of the story with hidden pieces in them that you would have to piece again ;;

They work completely fine as standalone games, so you can play them in any order!

Thank you so much for your interest!!

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day 1 was great, super informational!!! your characters' interactions are fun and sweet, and the hints of their lore, relationships, and the magic system really intrigued me! 👀👀 the /ref and memes made me laugh too LOL

Thank you for the comment!!! This genuinely relieves me because I was quite worried that giving hints of their lore and having many character interactions would seem to deviate from the period theme and make people less invested! 🥲

I'm *super* happy that you're intrigued by the magic part too! Because again it's a realistic educational game so I was afraid people might get weirded out by the "random" fantasy elements 😭 It's not that I decided to randomly put fantasy here, but I've had these characters for 10+ years and it is simply part of their lore :")

So I'm really glad you enjoyed it!! Thank you!!

my OCs always end up gathering dust RIP, so i seriously admire people who are dedicated to developing their characters!!! amazing work! :^D

Yes hello i am that lucky afab person that never experienced severe period pain or have any trouble with it other than occasional mini tantrums hehee- My personal experience differs (very) wildly than Hon, but it's always fun learning things from different perspectives! Personally I never made periods a big deal but looks like it's a very big deal to Hon, good thing that she has so many people caring for her <3


The art is so lovely, I really like the pad-shaped textbox, i think it's clever! The dialogue feels lively, and of course it's not a maho anpu game without senggol senggol kapitalisme eyy-- I suck at the minigames tho, already making mental note to pay attention on the next part :D looking forward to it!

Thank you so much Kiro for always being so quick to try out my games and give a comment!!! 😭 I genuinely don't know how to show my appreciation but I genuinely really appreciate it and I genuinely hope you can feel how much I appreciate it🥹

And thank you for sharing your experience!! I hope I also gave enough disclaimer/explained it enough in the game that many periods are light too!! Thank you for commenting as others may see it and see how diverse the period experience is :D