Coquette Dragoon: Volume One (Early Access)
A downloadable game for Windows, macOS, Linux, and Android
A slice of life story amidst the bloodiest war ever fought in space.
An interstellar conflict that once raged across solar systems has dwindled to the confines of a single planetary orbit, two space-faring nations now locked in a bitter stalemate side by side. Amid the debris fields of dead colonies and sunken ships, one weapon reigns supreme: the dragoon, a humanoid fighting weapon equipped with a neural interface training system capable of creating an ace pilot in an instant. With only one in ten thousand passing the compatibility test, ordinary civilians are thrust into the military overnight with a promise of wealth and prestige.
In the poverty-stricken fringes of the invading Lilac Fleet, the rabbit-eared Xio finds herself chosen to become a pilot. With no prospects, and no hope of ever escaping her circumstances, passing the compatibility test feels like winning the lottery.
Without even a moment to regret her decision, Xio begins her new life as a military officer aboard the fleet's glistening capital ship.
Sharing cigarettes and living each day like your last. The raw violation of neural connection. Being made into merchandise. Days spent at petting zoos. Late night conversations sharing the same bed.
The life of a pilot turns out to be nothing like Xio imagined…
Hidamari Sketch x Victory Gundam, and everything in between.
Drawing from longform space operas such as Legend of the Galactic Heroes, the satirical war fiction of Catch 22 and Martian Successor Nadesico, and cute-girls-doing-cute-things classics like Comic Girls and Yuru Yuri, Coquette Dragoon is a finely blended genre mashup focussing on the personal relationships and daily lives of characters among the absurd cruelty of war, along with a healthy dose of visual novel perversion.
Coquette Dragoon: Volume One is an entirely linear visual novel with no routes or player choices.
Early Access currently contains 4 of 5 planned chapters. 100k+ words. Purchases in early access will grant all future updates and the final release.
Purchase
In order to download this game you must purchase it at or above the minimum price of $15 USD. You will get access to the following files:
Development log
- Chapter 5 Part 1 Now Available!!! (Version 4.1)85 days ago
- Small update.Jul 24, 2025
- 4.0 PreliminaryFeb 12, 2025
- Early Access Update 3! (Version 3.2)Dec 27, 2023
- Early Access Update! (Version 3.11)Nov 23, 2023
- Early Access Update 2! (Version 2.928)Jun 09, 2023
- Early Access Update! (Version 2.924)Dec 10, 2022
- Patch LogsJul 20, 2022
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this is making my top three toys of 2026 list. yay!
Hello! I am trying to play on android. My phone (pixel 7a) forced a software update last night (Android 16 QPR1 I believe) and now whenever I try to open the app it almost immediately closes again. I've tried reinstalling and restarting my device, but that hasn't fixed it. I tested with another renpy game I played just last week, and the same thing is happening, so it might be a comparability issue with renpy's android builds. Not sure if this is just a Pixel issue or not as this is the only device I have to test.
I'll look into it, it sounds like an incompatibility with Ren'py... In any case, I update to the latest version of Ren'py with each patch so hopefully it should be fixed soon.
Appreciated!! I'll submit a bug report to renpy too
This is something very special. During a very difficult time in my life I remember reading about what these characters were going through while I was coming down off of crying panic attacks, seeing reflections of such powerful feeling, such vulnerability and honestly being kind of in awe.
And all of that while still being a work in progress! It's also the only piece of media with Xio Rosales in it.
ive read through this like 5 times over the past year and a half or so, and each time i read it with someone new it changes their life. if i could buy this game 15 more times i would. genuinely one of the best VNs ive ever read. i always feel so so seen in ways i dont think any written work has ever done. thank you. thank you so so much.
Xio deeply spoke to me as a character 10/10 god I LOVE COQUETTE DRAGOON
made me more of a pervert. it's such a good game!!
It's extremely rare for me to cry or laugh (besides a simple snort from the nose) while reading or watching something, but this game had me multiple times laughing out loud and SOBBING. Its characters are so well written, tridimensional and nuanced, they make it extremely easy to connect to deeply connect to them. Not only that, the characters take full advantage of the setting in which they exist to tell stories that are so unique and could only exist in the world of Coquette Dragoon.
The world is so inspired and creative too. What started out as something I expected to just be standard sci-fi fare slowly but surely revealed to me so many intricacies in its worldbuilding that were just out of sight and gave so much context about why things are the way they are and of truly how dystopic these two societies are.
I have to particularly commend the writing on Xio, she portrays so many feelings that I feel are rarely, if ever, showed in media and she tugged at my heartstrings more than any other character in this game or in recent memory
Absolute 10/10 experience that I'm shilling to all my friends. I cannot wait for the next chapters, I finished it yesterday and yet I'm already suffering imagining how many years it'll be until the full story is unfurled. I can't wait to see more of your writing and world.
Equal parts charming and poignant. Has Bell in it.
10/10
this game is one of my newest hyperfixiations and i love it so much.
xio's reactions to trauma really hits really close to home and makes me feel seen (especially with some of her.. issues >w>)
Leaving this here too
This game has been one of the most poignant VNs and mecha stories that i have played so far. I genuinely adore the cast, their designs are adorable and their personalities are intriguing to watch, and watching their struggles, especially Xio and Bell's, really resonated with me personally. The OST is also genuinely so cute and charming that I keep going back just to listen to it.
Coquette Dragoon is a beautiful game and I would recommend everyone I can to read it.
this vn turned me into a little and i am much happier for it, looking forward to the full release of volume 1!
mr. gorbachev, make wibble burger real
A shot straight through the heart. Ivy's writing is incredibly touching, insightful, and exciting. She can flip the switch from heart-racing action sequence to some of the most intimate encounters I've ever read, real or fiction. The brutal, brutal, beautiful honesty of the conversations these characters have will ring true to any little girl out there who's ever been stuck inside her own head. I'm so happy to have found this work and I cannot wait to read more of it <3
absolutely loving this vn so far, some of the topics I absolutely can relate and for them to be covered so respectfully like this is just so nice
I can’t wait to see the rest of chapter 4 and what comes beyond
ivy do you have an steam release planned?
i do, the page will be up after the next update
This is the second visual novel I've started after getting hooked on them recently. I love the characters, and I am excited for more <3
Hey there, I've got an urgent inquiry, as I'm currently working on a review of the game:
For some reason, it suddenly ends after chapter one (with your text explaining the history of the project and a "to be continued", after which I'm being redirected to the main menu) and I cannot access the other chapters. Could this be a bug or am I just missing something?
(I bought the game as part of the 2023 Queer Games Bundle, so I initially suspected that the build might be outdated, but the build number is identical to the one on the store page.)
Possibly a bug, I'll look into it but haven't heard it reported before... In the meantime you should be able to press the unlock button on the main menu to add all the scenes/chapters to the main menu.
I’m having this issue as well with 4.01 on Android, even after clearing the storage.
I just updated the game to version 4.02 on itch, since it failed to automatically upload using butler for some reason. Try performing a fresh reinstall with that version!
I actually figured it out. I didn’t realize I had to go to the main menu, select Start, and select chapter 2 in order to advance - I thought it would just start chapter 2 automatically. A message at the end of chapter one would help!
Testing on my own device with a fresh install of version 3.22 and after deleting all the persistent data (found in CoquetteDragoon-3.22-pc\game\saves and C:\Users\[your username]\AppData\Roaming\RenPy\CoquetteDragoon-1597701435 ) the next chapter was unlocked at the end of chapter one, and also was able to read by using the unlock function... I'm not sure what's causing the issue on your device, I've made sure it saves the persistent data after changing the variable for unlocking the next chapter. In any case, try deleting everything at these two locations, opening the game and pressing unlock and the chapters should be readable.
Thank you very much for your swift response! Pressing "unlock" indeed solved the problem and I can now access the remaining chapters.
that was so fucking good we played this 2 days ago and can’t stop thinking about it. you made a game that targets us so hard in aesthetics, plot, themes, worldbuilding, and characters. we love the horrors and weird cute pervert girls
This is incredible and I can't wait for more! Awesome work 💙
Before I get into this is how debilitating growing up without gravity would be raised at all ? Like bones and muscles would be incredibly weak. If this is a major struggle then I'd definitely be interested in reading this.
It isn’t really hard sci-fi in that way, it’s mentioned as a problem in the settings past but the humans of the present in the setting are engineered to be acclimated to space on a biological level, life in zero-g comes up more as a logistical/societal issue.
Honestly, and i mean it, this is the best thing ever
i cried. :D
This game is so incredible... I cried like three times during chapter two simply because the writing was just that good. The amount of love and earnest poured into every character just absolutely floors me. This game grabbed me by the shoulders and shook me around until I understood that yes, it's ok to just make whatever self-indulgent perverted shit I want to forever. I haven't felt this inspired by something in a long time!!
It has been a very long time since something has so targeted-ly reached out and grabbed me by the soul. Truly amazing work.
Finally got around to reading this and ive seen the light now
i am in love with coquette dragoon. oh my god these girls are so fucking real. anyway, if you're on the fence, i recommend this visual novel heavily.
xio is delightfully normal all the time and its a treat.
is this a static story or are there splits? thanks in advance
static story, its a kinetic novel format
I've finished what's currently available and I'm thrilled with what I have read. This is going to be one of those visual novels that permanently alters my brain chemistry, I know it. I'm looking forward to more.
Sincere, great visuals and characters that are delightfully enjoyable and flawed - a really great little read, thank you!!
Been meaning to write something here for a while, so here we go!
Coquette is one of the most genuinely refreshing and stylistically juicy things I have ever read. It's so uncompromisingly itself in how it both doesn't pull its punches, and that the things that it cares about are so proudly worn on its sleeve.
The writing really really grabs me. I love the way it captures the messy existence that is being human and how it manifests in all of these different characters that are existing in this all-encompassing and soul-crushing war.
It's a project that is so unafraid of being itself that I can only stare at it and be wowed; filled with the will to create whatever insane things I want to make, every session rekindling a fire within myself.
Coquette is incredibly exciting and I am so glad that it exists. I love the cast to pieces (Xio is my pick for my scrunkle), I love the setting, I love its perversion, I love seeing a girl get put into a situation, and I love Wibbleburger. Fillie's design makes me insane (in a good way).
I don't think I could ever really fully articulate how great of a project I think this is and how captivated I am by it, but thank you so much for making this!!! I'm looking forward to Xio losing her mind more and for potentially more kinks to get dropped like Smash character announcements.
I love Bell! :3333
i like coquette, she's pink
already, Coquette Dragoon has made itself a sterling example of everything the independent visual novel scene can achieve. a beautiful and stylish flourish, holistic in its excitement, that should be looked to for inspiration by anyone who might set out to make something of their own.
it reinvigorated my own enthusiasm to make cool queer art.
I think Bell is really neat!
COQUETTE DRAGOON!!!!
adhd makes it really hard for me to engage with VNs usually, but I just spent all day reading this and it's so good, thank you so much for your work, I'm in love with all the characters.
thank you!
Coquette Dragoon is genuinely incredible.
I love how fucked up and endearing all the characters are. There are some great moments of just existing in a character's head and being with them while they think through some stuff that works really well.
I love how thoughtfully it is engaging with all the sci-fi/mecha stuff with a clear vision for what it wants to get out of that. The stuff in the chapter 3 preview especially is very exciting to me to see how it continues.
I love how many clever flourishes and moments of good craft are present. Cutting in the dishes being eaten in the cafeteria scene or Ayane and Bell's animated character sprites are both so good. The music is consistently good.The 3D animations are great too.
I am looking forward to the full release of chapter 3.
thank you so much!! the feeling of being able to exist inside of someones head is really important to me...
I really loved reading this. Thank you for making it, and I'm so excited to see where you take this story!
Thank you for reading it! <3
This is incredible! I haven't been this interested in a story since my first playthrough of Fate as a teenager years and years ago...
I worked a night shift at Amazon—and a lot of other factory/warehouse/hard-labour jobs for that matter—for quite a long time. At first glance, I'm physically the furthest thing from Xio. But the way she describes that "previous chapter" in her life... I felt that fluorescent lighting beating down on my neck.
To have that feeling, while just reading a story... I've had that before, but never anything to do with work. In a space where it couldn't actually hurt me, it felt like those moments coming off of a really cool scare in a horror movie. My sincere thanks for writing so powerfully on a topic most stories barely think to approach. I'm sure things will end great for Xio!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bell and Honey were delightful. At the start, I thought Bell might have some relation to Emil, but I was completely blindsided by her actual situation. I was right there with Honey, retroactively wanting something better for Bell. I'm really rooting for the both of them.
Apologies for the tangent! You've got a sharp hold on a great story so far, I can't wait to see where it goes. Keep writing with your heart!!!
Thank you so much! I actually wondered whether Bell would be read as a relative of Emil's, she isn't, but their palettes are pretty similar...
I will keep doing my best!!!!
Damn, you really went full Tim Rogers on this one.
Bell Goated....
Just finished the first chapter and holy shit is this good. I think i see some of the inspirations but i'll hold my tongue for now until i have more to say than just "it feels like this!" can't wait to read chapter 2 and wait for 3 with baited breath!
you have something really insightful and emotional and horradorable here
themes of how the military promises power that perverts you (not in the good way!) ,how that perversion is still there even if they arent strict or let u have an idealized and cute form ,how the military apparatus uses our passion and our desire to escape destitution to make recruitment that much more seductive... are all really intense and hit with a clarity that something in this style could only provide
thank you for making this. glad it doesnt just live inside your head anymore
-Drizzlebyte
thank you so much!!