Desire (video game)

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Desire
NEC PC-98 cover
Developer(s)	C's Ware [ja], El Dia (remake)
Publisher(s)	C's Ware, El Dia (remake)
Designer(s)	Hiroyuki Kanno
Composer(s)	Ryu Umemoto
Platform(s)	NEC PC-9801, FM Towns, Sega Saturn, Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 2, PlayStation Vita, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch
Release	1994 NEC PC-9801 JP: 1994 FM Towns JP: 1994 Sega Saturn JP: 1997 Microsoft Windows JP: 1998 WW: 1999 PlayStation 2 JP: 2004 PlayStation Vita JP: April 2017 Nintendo Switch JP: 27 December 2019
Genre(s)	Adventure game, visual novel

Desire (Japanese title: DESIRE 背徳の螺旋) is a 1994 visual novel adventure game. It was developed and published by C's Ware [ja] first as an eroge for the PC-98, and then ported and remade for various platforms, sometimes without the sexual content. It was the first collaboration between Hiroyuki Kanno and Ryu Umemoto, with Kanno writing the narrative and Umemoto composing the music.^[1]

The story takes place on a remote island named Desire, on which a mysterious scientific research project is conducted that even the employees know little about. The player can choose which character's perspective of the events to follow, chief engineer Makoto Izumi's or her reporter boyfriend Albert Macdgul's.

Desire was released on consoles and overseas thanks to its popularity, atypical for eroge.^[1]

A remake by El Dia was released in Japan first on PlayStation Vita and PC in April 2017 and on Nintendo Switch in December 2019.^[2] Its graphics are based on the artwork of the Sega Saturn version.^[3]

Saturn Fan scored the game 7.2;^[4] Sega Saturn Magazine 7/10, 9/10 and 8/10;^[5] and Famitsu 7/10, 7/10, 6/10 and 6/10.^[6]

• Desire at Mobygames
• Desire at The Visual Novel Database