Apprehend; Girlfriend
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What the game is
Apprehend; Girlfriend is a yuri visual novel from Yume Creations, which its Nutaku page names as both publisher and developer. It tells a love story between two women who share a house in Tokyo, and it is played by reading and making choices that lead to different endings. The game is a paid download for Windows, Mac and Linux, sold through Nutaku. The store's genre line reads Action, Adventure, Visual Novel and Casual, and its breadcrumb files the game under Visual Novel and Casual.
The scale is small and personal. The premise centers on a pair of housemates, with a single home as its setting and one question at its center, which is whether a friendship between housemates becomes something more. The feature list is about how the story is presented and how it branches: art, music, choices, endings, achievements and a gallery. A reader who wants a romance told from a woman's point of view, with adult content and no systems to manage, is the reader the page speaks to.
How it plays
The summary on the page sets the story up in a few lines. Rikka lives in a share house in Tokyo and makes her living as a freelance artist. The third tenant has moved out, and the page calls that a good opportunity for her to get closer to her housemate Sena. The two start as normal friends, and with time passing they get closer and closer. Soon, the page says, there is no doubt left that Rikka and Sena feel more for each other than friendship. It closes on the question the game is built around: "Will Rikka fall in love with another woman, besides being a woman herself?!"
The player follows Rikka. She is the one whose home, work and feelings the summary describes, and the Female Protagonist tag confirms that the story is hers. Sena is the love interest, introduced first as a housemate and a friend. With the other tenant gone, the house holds only the two of them, and that change is what sets the story moving. Rikka's hesitation is part of the premise as well, since the closing question treats falling for another woman as something new to her.
The Key Features list names the parts that make this a game and not only a story. "Choices" and "Different Endings" appear as separate entries, so the player makes decisions along the way and those decisions change how things turn out between the two women. "Achievements" gives the player goals to collect on top of the plot. "CG Gallery" is a place to return to the artwork from the story once it has been seen. Together with the different endings, the achievements and the gallery give a reason to go back and choose differently after a first reading.
On presentation, the same list promises "1920x1080 HD Resolution", "Original Anime Art" and "Original Soundtrack". These are the developer's own descriptions. They tell a reader that the art and the music were made for this game and that the pictures are drawn for a full HD screen. English is the one language in the Game Information block. The page does not say how long a playthrough takes or how many endings there are.
Content and themes
The tags on the Nutaku page are Yuri, Romance, Hentai, Uncensored, Female Protagonist, College, Slice of Life and Anime. The feature list repeats the core of it in its own entries, "Yuri" and "Uncensored Hentai". In plain words, this is an adult game about a romance between two women, with sexual content that the developer describes as uncensored, drawn in an anime style.
Romance and Slice of Life describe the tone. The story stays with everyday life in a shared home, and the premise has no villain, no mystery and no fantasy element. What drives it is the slow change in how two friends see each other. The summary spends its length on that change, from normal friends to something closer, and gives none of it to conflict or danger.
Yuri is named as a tag, as a feature and in the premise itself, which makes the same-sex romance the subject of the game and not a side route. Rikka is a working adult in the premise, a freelance artist who pays her way in a Tokyo share house.
The Action and Adventure labels on the genre line are not echoed anywhere in the summary or the features, which describe a visual novel with choices. Casual fits better with what the page shows: a small download, low requirements and a story about daily life.
Platforms and where to get it
Apprehend; Girlfriend runs on Windows, Mac and Linux. Nutaku's Available On line reads Linux, Windows Desktop and Mac OSX, and the feature list ends with "Available for Windows, Mac and Linux". For a reader on Mac or Linux this is the point that matters most, because both systems are named in each of those places and each has its own requirements line.
Those requirements are brief. The Windows line asks for XP or later. The Mac line asks for OSX 10.6 or later. The Linux line reads Linux x86/x86_64. Each line names an operating system or architecture and stops there, so the demands on a computer are light, and the Game Information block gives the download size as 158.09 mb.
The official place to get the game, as its page shows it, is the Nutaku store page, where Yume Creations appears as its own publisher. Nutaku's purchase messages describe the game as available only on PC and tell the buyer to download it on a computer after buying. The page lists no Android or browser version.
Price and model
Apprehend; Girlfriend is bought once. The page shows a single BUY GAME button with one price, and that purchase covers the whole game on whichever of the listed systems the buyer uses. Nothing in the feature list is marked as an extra or a later purchase.
The price on the Nutaku page, read in October 2026, is $4.99.
Development state and version
Apprehend; Girlfriend is presented as a released game. As of October 2026 the Game Information block on the Nutaku page gives the version as 1 and the release date as August 07, 2020. The feature list describes the choices, endings, achievements and gallery as things the game has. The page does not publish update notes or plans for more content.
Who it suits
Apprehend; Girlfriend suits an adult who wants a yuri romance with a female lead, told quietly and set in everyday life. It suits a player on Mac or Linux as much as one on Windows, since all of them are named with their own requirements. It also fits someone who likes to replay a visual novel for its other endings, with achievements and a gallery to fill along the way.
The limits are plain. English is the only language listed. The page gives no play time, so the download size is the only hint of scale. A reader who picks the game for its Action or Adventure label should know that the features describe reading and choosing. For a reader who wants a small, gentle love story between two women, with uncensored adult content and a single purchase, the page describes that game.