On March 1, 2017, YandereDev announced a partnership with tinyBuild that would help him with polishing, promoting and publishing the game. He has regularly released updates that add elements to the game, such as the ability to kidnap, torture, poison, electrocute, matchmake, and drown rivals, befriend other schoolgirls, small mini games, a town the player can earn and spend money in, and more. ĭevelopment for Yandere Simulator began in 2014, with YandereDev releasing test builds of the game for debugging purposes. Yandere Simulator is developed by 'YandereDev', a 32–33-year-old freelance game developer identified as Alex and based in Temecula, California.
Players control Ayano Aishi (nicknamed Yandere-chan), an apathetic Japanese high school girl who has developed a crush on a fellow student Taro Yamada, nicknamed ' Senpai'. Performing murder results in loss of sanity, making Yandere-chan look increasingly disturbed and unstable, with the game's graphics and background music also reflecting the change. Yandere-chan (Ayano Aishi) with high sanity (above) and low sanity (below).
