Hello everyone!
The last recap feels like it just happened yesterday, but guess what? It's time for a new recap! We also used to be surrounded by the cold of winter, but now we’re welcoming the warmth of spring in an instant! It’s also the 11th anniversary of Yandere Simulator! Time goes by fast!
Get ready to dive deep into a captivating recap of March 2025, recalling the months that unfolded with a tapestry of vibrant events and unforgettable moments. This post is brimming with detailed narratives and special acknowledgments, ensuring you won’t miss a single highlight. So, find your favorite cozy nook, settle in with a warm drink, and prepare to immerse yourself in this thorough summary of all the remarkable happenings that shaped the months!
Credits: Mulberry
To start this post, let’s discuss the game and new updates written by Slimytent12! :D
So, what do we have in the game, and what’s its progress? (Simply “Game Recap”)
As you can recall, the developer originally envisioned dedicating January to meticulously refining the custom mode, paving the way for the highly anticipated Amai week. However, unexpected circumstances required a change in plans. The plans were altered partly because some crucial volunteers became available, one of whom is working on new character models. In addition, California has been grappling with frequent and extended power outages due to severe weather conditions, further complicating progress.However, since January 15th, 2025, several significant updates have been made, including:
The possibility to write the dialogue that the custom rivals will speak during their confession cutscene, the dialogue that club leaders will speak, and change the backdrop of student portraits in Custom Mode.
Two new elimination methods: Freezing and Smothering.
Switching the game from Unity 2020 to the Unity 6 engine: after the update, performance and frame rate have been improved.
New advertisements that appear throughout the school to promote Amai’s bake sale and a unique “introducing the next rival” cutscene during Amai’s week.
Chigusa and Ryoba now have new “gravure photo shoot” animations.
Identified and optimized files that were not being compressed correctly to further reduce the game archive size from 3.27 GB to 2.64 GB.
Additionally, new characters are added on the official website:
Kataba Aishi, Ryoba’s grandmother.
Sureibu Aishi, Ryoba’s father.
Ui Tunesu.
Progress on implementing improved character models
Several years ago, improved character models were created for the game. However, before implementing them in the game, they had to be optimized. For several years, the developer could not find a specialist capable of handling this task, but recently, such a person was finally found.
As of March 16th, the developer has yet not decided when exactly he is going to add them in the actual game, as he has some other things in priority; the volunteer is still available though.
Port to Android
In 2025, the developer planned to explore the possibility of porting the game to Android. After numerous trials and errors, it became clear that porting the game to a mobile device was too difficult a task and generally not the best idea.
There are several reasons for this:
To make changes to the game, every single asset must be ported, which would take at least four hours.
APK File Size: Most mobile devices have a 4GB limit, while Yandere Simulator weighs 6 GB.
Compressing files to reduce the game's size takes too much time, and it is unknown whether the game will be smaller than 4 gigabytes after this process.
Alternative methods to get the game running on Android either take too long to implement or simply don't work.
Ultimately, it was decided that the game would not be ported to mobile devices.
However, two weeks later, he reported that he had successfully exported a playable build, but he has to solve a couple of technical issues before it’s ready for release. When he does finally make a Yandere Simulator APK that is on par with the PC version, he’ll record a video of it and upload it to his Yandere Archive channel.
Thoughts on 11th Anniversary
Mind a little intrusion from Shenya?
Too many people never bother to read the actual blog and source their information from the wiki and YT/TikTok or something even worse, so I can't help but make a small note here... Ideally, just read the blogpost yourself - it's not that long, really.
But I guess I'll retell you the most important part: the plans, as you may have probably guessed, are still the same - improve custom moves, improve second week, add voice acting and unique animation to the second week, return to making YouTube videos - and start working on Kizana. And by the way, I think I have to note that while he's not working on Kizana directly, he's still collecting necessary assets.
However, February and March were not particularly productive - and frankly, not just for him... but we'll get to that later. I know people hate unpredictability and when things don't go as they planned - it's just how our brain works... but unfortunately, life is, indeed, often quite unpredictable.
Oh, and speaking about productivity and all..
Design Refresh and the Wiki Plans
As you probably noticed already, the wiki got a new background! Do you like it? I made it myself :D That is far from the only change made, though.
The design was first updated after the many years around early 2023 - it was a completely different time for both the wiki and me, and I had completely different skills and goals in mind at the time.
The wiki had pretty much no design prior to that year - and I had to make something quick, in one go to avoid long and tedious voting processes on every change (well, I thought I had, that is). As time went on, new templates, articles and updates were piling up... Resulting in a lot of outdated, bugged or inconsistent elements.
I won't list everything I had updated or fix, but here're the most important changes:
The word "wiki" in logo now uses the same font as the game's logo itself.
Background patterns now use original graphics and were created and adjusted manually, as opposed to the previous background patterns that were basically 2x2 grid of squares and 2 icons in them.
Background patterns subtly fade out at the top for better text and logo readability. If you noticed it being bugged - please, contact me on my message wall or Discord. Thanks!
The main page now uses a different heading design, and a few blocks were slightly adjusted. It also got a new block - "Download", as apparently too many people don't realize the game is still updated regularly.
Quote template got a new design more consistent with the rest of the templates.
Page background and so-called "secondary background" (used in the right column, many templates and so on - particularly on desktop skin) in light theme are now a bit brighter and less grayish.
The little notification in the corner now also displays the latest version. Updated manually, but still! In the future, I'd also like to link the interactive map of the school there, but we'll see about that.
Many, many bug fixes. I don't think anyone is really that interested, but thought I should still mention it...
Oh, yeah, and the topic of the plans!
While the overall quality of the wiki had improved tremendously lately, there're still plenty of things to write, update, revise and add. If you're interested, join our Discord server - we welcome everyone there, including complete newbies, and we have a proper to-do list there!
Now, onto the next section written by Tuxedoshlyukha! :D
Contributors' Shout-Outs (last updated: 30/03/25)
@Aidorusas/MegamiIsAss5555 - Updated 1980s photography club portraits, rollbacked unwarranted or vandalism edits, added Kataba Aishi’s new and current description, provided a Mediafire link to a game made by a YandereDev volunteer, corrected minor spelling/grammar mistakes, added a few pieces of trivia, and added a few images of portraits.
@Amasoumapandinha - Corrected links on pages, added new images, textures, and information on pages, added overdue audio from characters (even merging and adding them to their proper pages), and added audio, sound effects, and missing quotes.
@Crying Jenna2912 - Added the GalleryTabs template to pages when deemed appropriate, added a new character in the page “Minor Characters,” uploaded new, updated photos for various pages, completed some articles and turned them from outdated to fully updated articles, added Crush Crush and DDLC to the Game Collaborations page, made a couple of subpages for a character’s page and moved content from the original page to these subpages, used the {{Delete}} template to nominate some files for deletion, created the Smothering page and supplied information, and created and supplied information to Pebbles and Smothering.
@EddieWinters172 - Added email trivia about the 202X rivals, figured out how to add a reference, and added one to the Muja Kina page, moved page information around to adhere to the recently adapted MOS guide.
@Fellow neighborhood cat - Updated images for Saikou Corp, Stalker’s House, multiple individual persona pages, miscellaneous images regarding elimination methods and their procedure, added new and updated GIFs regarding old animations and game mechanics (eg: splashing students with gasoline, saber animations), and added some missing, valuable files to pages.
@Flafiku - Adjusted the template in the Aishi Family page by using the {{Card}} template, fixed trivia about Ajia Ashitomi, added new trivia about Aishi Family members, rewrote the two protagonists’ relationships with their Senpai, and slightly changed wording on Kataba Aishi.
@G8mf2fh - Corrected grammar, spelling, and word structure on many pages.
@Jackboog21 - Added the “Easter Egg” Navbox to all pages with the “easter eggs” category.
@Jarle Ikkeland - Added the camera locations for the Security Systems page.
@Miilanders2690 - Corrected minor mistakes and uploaded new portraits, added trivia about 1980s rivals and characters whose accessories/hair could still be accessed in-game, added new quotes from rivals when the protagonist interrupted their morning event, corrected some minor misinformation or new changes from recent builds, added small but important trivia, replaced topic images with new ones, added new information to the Kidnapping page.
@Ministério Étrom - Removed bloated and repeated information in the Classroom Infobox.
@NineteenNeil - Added trivia to many characters’ pages and provided citations to said trivia.
@PoppyStardew - Archived many references that used links and referenced some missing citations on the Saisho Saikou page.
@Ppanconchocolateee - Added the “Outdated” template to pages missing the picture of an NPC’s reputation, fixed grammar/spelling/capitalization on pages, added old or missing portraits (from old builds) and images from the Russian Wiki (mostly routine and profile-based alongside images from YandereDev’s YouTube channel), added and moved around trivia to proper places, corrected changed reputation numbers on student pages, adjusted or rectified the dates and timeline on uploaded/already existing portraits, updated all of the Floors pages with newer images,
@Ŝenezala - Moved the article “Security Systems” to a proper page and rewrote half of the article for clarity, created more than 10 pages of the Update History and Bug Fixes, did a massive overhaul on the Reputation, Phone, Money, SNAP, Notes, Stats, Corpses, Yandere Vision, Game Over, Weapons, Personas, Osoro Shidesu, Shiromi Torayoshi, and Minor Characters pages, created and supplied information to the “Strength” page, moved more than 150+ portraits of NPCs with a clear naming system to make it easier to update their portraits, and merged the Dismemberment article with the stub Corpses page. And still trying to fix Special:BrokenRedirects with a bot... god damn the cache mechanics.
@Slimytent12 - Archived old pages about the Wiki, rewrote and expanded the “Phone” article, updated all of the 1980s Week pages (with images as well), corrected spelling/grammar/punctuation/capitalization on more than a dozen pages, cleaned up the Panties page, added categories, created subpages for the Oka Ruto page, created: Kataba Aishi, Amai Challenge, Sureibu Aishi and supplied information, supplied trivia to the Aishi Family page, added interwiki links to the Italian YanSim Wiki, and fixed references.
@STYSAR20101829 - Added new trivia about Aoi Ryugoku and fixed a small error on the Shiromi Toriyoshi page.
@Yumut - Created the “Heartender” (now “Heartrender”) page, moved around trivia from the same sector to different parts of the page to remove the “Long trivia” template, adjusted the Weapons navbox and over a dozen weapon pages and their infoboxes, added trivia, and corrected some structure on The Hairdresser.
A warm welcome or an appreciative thanks to everyone below who edited once, including:
@Aeramida, @Alexthebookboi, @Alinarabbit, @Anastasia666849292, @Black squad team, @Celimimi, @Chakrii-metal, @ChipzRTB, @Chloesakuramoon, @Coffeeliza89, @Coreytheorange, @Dankaccino, @Dio010, @Enayy, @Enmu'sLeftThigh, @Ezrzr , @GanonTheDemonKing, @Hayanari, @Han45680, @Ilovekittiesandmyself, @JennyKat, @KarlosMush, @KokoroYujo04, @LacunaEclipsed, @LavishlyNeo, @Laura.giner.9, @Leann12, @Leoni Breezeforest, @LiLith67909, @Lovegyaru, @MayhemNyalafannumberone, @Michael Delaughter, @Nagami Iko, @OnekaKirisou, @Plumeriapixiex, @PreppyGorlZafs, @PrincessOfIndia12, @ProkoWhisky, @Rendy Ferdinand 123, @Rmio-Rebe 4627, @SailorTweety, @Satanist1001, @SigmaAngeloAsteria, @SirRobowisan11, @SisterLemon7, @StKG, @STRANGER-OMORI, @Strigoi-kyuuketsukii, @Tsumugi20, @Umeji kun, @Unmastered, @WWEJayGaming, @Xx.yazh.xx, @Yyxyyves, @Zzzzsjsissn, @.cname, @.stxrz!22, and @**hyieu**!
We apologize if we missed anyone or anything while putting together this list. The Recent Changes page was reviewed, and everything was recorded by hand. If you did something or someone we've overlooked, feel free to share or shout out someone in the comments!
Last but not least…
Wiki Recap - written by Slimytent12 and Tuxedoshlyukha.
Jackboog21 has been demoted due to inactivity.
A new discussion category, "Sharing Trivia," has been added, while the "Staff" category has been removed since it was previously used for COTP meetings, which were abolished in November. If you plan to share trivia and would like it added on the same day, ping Tuxedoshlyukha.
Two new templates, "Card" and "Subpages," have been introduced, and two templates, "Quoteslink" and "GalleryTabs," have been removed.
You may have noticed that Wiki now has over a thousand pages compared to around 700-750. This is because the remaining pages of that current number are subpages.
The manual of style has been updated with new information. If you have 15 minutes to spare, consider reviewing it and contacting an admin with any questions or concerns.
A new bot came to the Wiki “DalerMurodVasiriov” on February 20th of this year. The bot is owned by Tuxedoshlyukha, who already uses it to do mass file deletions and uploads, repair double or broken redirects, add categories to pages in bulk, or correct simple spelling errors. Since the bot owner is not good at coding, Shenethala will do all complicated tasks (replacing complex keywords, adding or replacing Navbox templates, etc.).
The Voiced Characters category is complete!
New Wiki pages include the Hall of Fame and FAQ. The Hall of Fame page thanks our biggest editors/contributors and details their major accomplishments. The FAQ page is a frequently asked questions page on our Wiki for anyone to look at.
Bonus: 13th March is the 10th anniversary of our wiki!
As always, if you are confused by these changes or have questions you would like to ask, feel free to ask in this thread or a staff member’s message wall.
Closing Sentence
That's all for now! Thank you to everyone who contributed to the wiki over the early cold and warm months of 2025. Until the next one in the piping hot summer of July!! ;)
Sincerely, the Yandere Simulator Wiki Staff.
