It's 2026! That's another year of yuri! Happy new yuri! It's time for us to look back on what happened with milk+ visual in 2025, then look forward to 2026!

Retrospective

2025 was both a challenging and promising year for us. Despite various setbacks, we were able to achieve wonderful little victories. Most notably, we released Soundless on Steam and finally completed its long-awaited anniversary artbook. We also launched a merch store, released the 2024 Patreon collection pack, and even redesigned the website!

And while we didn't get as far with 7388.loving(Grace)'s development as we would have liked, we still managed to close out the year by finishing up Merope's sprite. To make "room" (so to speak) for this New Year's post, a final visual of this progress will be shared on Sunday with the usual 7388 monthly report. If you're a Patron (or a Subscriber), you already have access to the report!

What's Next?

2026 is going to be all 7388, all the time. We don't have a release date set for 7388 yet (it's way too early), but we would like to be in a position to provide a release date sometime this year. The sort of report card that we're looking for to be able to do this looks a little something like this:

When the report cards start looking closer to this, this is about when you can start expecting bigger news, like a Steam page or a release date.

Our main goals for 2026 are as follows:

1. Complete the writing

2. Complete all sprites

3. Complete the basic user interface

4. Budget for hiring artists for needed contract work (music, backgrounds) and any stock asset purchases if necessary

As 7388.loving(Grace) will be our first ever commercial title, we are closely focusing on ensuring things are polished and presentable. This development speed should allow us to achieve a reasonable amount of polish for the team's size.

Additionally, with the completion of Merope's sprite, we will be moving on to streams that focus on certain key artwork, as well as CGs that are not as spoilery. When Yulia and Diana's sprites are done, our Patron-only streams will focus on the creation of the user interface and any CGs that are deemed a little too risky for public view. Please note that as we dig deeper into development, the amount of development we can stream and share publicly will decrease!

Thanks for sticking around with us for yet another year. We look forward to creating more works that everyone who has been following our journey can enjoy!