About the Game
Your kamioshi's stream abruptly ends one day & his silence creates rampant rumors. Avoiding the online toxicity, you join a degenerate group chat where VTuber fans chat about their oshis freely. But you start noticing strange coincidences - is your kamioshi in this chat?
In this dating chatsim, who's real & who's pretending in chat?
lovebyte.exe : inspired by Mystic Messenger, VTubers, and internet spam
Game Features
🎙️ Unlock voice-acted scenes from real VTubers such as Roy Chiato, Banzoin Hakka, RiiKami, Kaine Knight, Bluebell, and rachie.
📸 Unlock delulu & parasocial content and CGs across different channels, including streams and discord chats
🎨 Customize your in-game Discord profile & desktop
🔎 Sift through fake surveys, sketchy internet downloads, and sus emails in minigames to avoid scams and earn money to support your kamioshi
🔁 Reveal romanceable characters' irl-selves and explore multiple endings as answer choices matter!
Romanceable Characters
Piece together the identities of 6 romanceable characters:
MINK!! Mochaberry
Solo Lightracer
WizardPit
Dolphin Daddy
Pochima
Forever 🐸 Frog
Game Features
Sift through fake surveys, sketchy internet downloads, and sus emails in minigames that blur the line between truth and scam. Can you tell what is real?
Unlockable CGs, discord voice calls, DMs, and more
Customizable MC
Unlockable Achievements
Multiple Endings
Screenshots
6 images
Version Information
Steam Patch Notes
Official update history
We hope everyone is excited for this major Early Access update v0.9.7 with lots of new content, features, and fixes! We really appreciate everyone's support for the game and helpful feedback as we read through every single post/ticket on discord, conversations in the Steam Discussion board, Reviews, Stream commentaries, and more. Thank you for continuing to support lovebyte.exe as it means so much to our tiny indie team of four as we're self-funding and self-publishing this game 🫶
Before we get into all of the meaty updates for Early Access, we want to share that lovebyte.exe was accepted into the GDoC Expo, which is now LIVE! We're so incredibly honored that our parasocial VTuber Dating Chatsim was chosen to be in the festival out of a record number of games. Please check out the festival for amazing games from numerous, brilliant dev teams!
And we're also so excited to announce that the "Zeta Version" of the lovebyte.exe "Pretty Little Liar" theme song, performed by Zeta's Voice Actor Banzoin Hakka, can be viewed on YouTube here. We hope you enjoy his phenomenal performance and the MV we put together!
【Known Issue】
Some Mac users have reported issues with opening the game on OS27 - we do not have a fix for this yet. Macs on an OS before 27 will be able to open the game with no issue.
【New Features】
Added 3 in-game days to every route - with the exception of one particular route due to the specific narrative, resulting in four game days. Because of the way content is shown differently in his route, we have partnered with the route's Voice Actor Banzoin Hakka to showcase spoilers of future biscord calls and route content, which you can watch here — please note that biscord voice call and DM content vary depending on the character’s intended story; some voice calls are unvoiced at the moment. We anticipate all voice lines will be in the game early next week. Tip: once the calls have been unlocked, as long as you save, you can replay the call when the voice lines have been added via the “Library” screen → “Calls” section
Added Zeta and Calais shimejis
Added VTuber Card Collectibles minigame (base feature only with only one available deck at this time and only bulk selling will be available)
Added official Ichigo artwork (work-in-progress)
DM Speed Optimization
【Fixes】
Fixed one of Pochima call placements due to feedback
Fixed bug where the Biscord profile popup was not working properly with your input username/info
Fixed a specific case where the mini Biscord distraction popups changed VTubers too early, spoiling who you were talking to
Fixed other small bugs
In the meantime, we’d like to share some features that will be added in the next update and our overall Early Access roadmap based on all of the feedback we’ve received:
【Small Patch Update plans - next week or two】
Improve DM system
Adding QoL to the “Next Day” transition screen: Person most talked too notification (this already exists in the save screen but it’ll be more prominent to help with knowing who’s potential route you’re on)
【Next Major Patch Update plans - Oct 22】
Adding “Romance Easy Mode” where players can opt-in to get heart notification for “correct” answer choices
Adding online card selling feature to VTuber Card Collectibles minigame
Adding Ichigo pop-up distractions
Adding Ichigo emotes/stickers
Adding one new collectible card pack
Improve readability of stream chats
Please note: no new route content this month as we need time to edit, mix, polish voice lines for upcoming biscord voice calls as well as VTuber stream scenes; all scenes have been recorded, there’s just a lot of content so we need the development time
【November Update plans - Date TBD】
Adding mouth animations for all characters in their stream scenes
Adding 3 in-game days to every route
Adding Ichigo shimeji
Adding Cloud Save
【December Update plans - Date TBD】
Adding ability to upload personal profile picture from your PC
Adding new collectible card pack
Adding 2 in-game days to every route
【January Update plans - Date TBD】
Spruce up the Wiki feature
Adding new collectible card pack
Adding remaining in-game days right up to “before unlocked Ending” moment
【February Update plans - Date TBD】
Settings for changing text size
Adding all Ending scenes with voiced content
【Last Update before Version 1.0】
Steam Deck Optimization
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【New】
Added a new Wiki feature in the “Web” app, with a glossary of general internet terms and also a separate glossary for Aquasphere-related terms (e.g., gens, VTubers, corpo events) - we hope you enjoy some of the lore drop in the Aquasphere Wiki!
Added a to-do list “completed” animation
【Fixes】
Some other minor fixes
In the meantime, we’d like to re-share from our original EA update calendar the features we've got planned for the "big update":
【New Features for Sept 25th EA Update】
Adding Zeta and Calais shimejis
Adding VTuber Card Collectibles minigame - one pack will be available on Sept 25th, other packs to come in future updates
Adding the next Route DM content for each of the LI routes: this includes progression up to the next DM from the LI (includes group chats with new stream clips -- please note that biscord voice calls vary as it depends on the DM narrative)
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We released hotfix v0.8.17 about 6 hours ago with the following:
【Fixes】
- Fixed one of the “Betas for Zeta” group chats where the chat stopped at one of the answer choices
- Fixed photos, clips, and calls not opening in the Library screen (FYI: For the new call replay feature to work, unfortunately, you do have to replay the game to trigger the system to see that you’ve “unlocked” the call. From then on, you’ll be able to replay the calls)
In the meantime, we’d like to share that we plan for another update to go out next week with the following new features:
【New Features for Next Week】
- Adding a new Wiki feature in the “Web” app, with a glossary of general internet terms and also a separate glossary for Aquasphere-related terms (e.g., gens, VTubers, corpo events)
- Adding a to-do list “completed” animation
Many thanks to our players who have made all of the helpful reports in the lovebyte discord server!
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【New】
Added 9 more save file slots
Added a new feature where you can now replay biscord voice calls in the "Photos" app - the app will be renamed to "Library" in the next update
Added a "choose me!" group distraction pop-up
【Fixes】
Fixed group chat loading issue - now "unread" group chats will correctly load in new replays to better "pull" new group chats before cycling back to read group chats. (Note: loading up a save file with an existing to-do list does not pull a new group chat as it will load up the prior saved group chat. To receive a new group chat, it requires having fully read the prior group chat and saving over it before starting a true replay - aka another game run and loading into that particular in-game day with a new to-do list - to be served a new group chat) ***Reference: at the launch of Early Access on Aug 24th, 49 group chats were available in game but not all of them were accessible, this fix addresses that
Fixed the selected vs unselected inbox UI visuals in biscord
... and some other minor fixes
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【Content Update】
8 new achievements added
【Fixes】
Fixed missing voice line in a Solo Lightracer voice call
Fixed YewTube access after watching a stream
Fixed stream clips showing up as unlocked in YewTube at first visit
... and some other minor fixes
【Fixes】
Fixed achievements issue where they were not being correctly unlocked after condition had been met. FYI: unfortunately, this does require another playthrough to unlock the achievements
Fixed a loading issue with devices running on Turkish
Since we had to build a hotfix on the achievements, we'd like to share that the below has also made it into the build since lovebyte.exe launched yesterday:
【Content Update】
Various stream chat clips have been updated with more chat comments across the board
Pochima voice call added in later content post voice-reveal
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Current Release
Build 25639537
Uploaded Oct 03, 2026
System Requirements
How to Install
lovebyte.exe to play
Troubleshooting tips
• Run Redist/_CommonRedist installers if game won't start
• Add folder to Windows Defender exclusions
• Run as administrator
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