Sapporo Lilies

Sapporo Lilies (Japanese: Sapporo no Yuri) is a visual novel developed by Ryan Nurse and Animatron Studios, currently in the planning stages. It uniquely combines aspects of football management simulators, dating sims, and eroge. The game tasks the player with managing a Japanese women's football team, the eponymous Sapporo Lilies, and leading them to the league championship while optionally romancing one of the club's players.

First announced in October 2013, Sapporo Lilies gained significant attention due to its unique premise, prompting Nurse to begin developing a prototype match engine. The prototype was still incomplete when, in September 2015, it was lost after Nurse's hard drive failed.

Gameplay
In Sapporo Lilies, the player guides the titular women's football team through a single league season. The game uses a simplified version of the real-life Japanese Nadeshiko League Division 1, with ten teams including the Lilies, and 18 matches. The league does not split into two at the end of the regular season, as it does in real life, nor are cup competitions featured. The player's aim is to finish in the top half of the table; failure to do so will result in the player being sacked at the end of the season. Finishing in last place will relegate the team, while finishing as champions will unlock the best ending.

Prior to each of the 18 matches, the player selects the starting line-up and several tactical options, such as whether to focus on attack or defence, whether or not to counter-attack, and whether to use an offside trap. Some squad members may sometimes be unavailable due to injury or suspension. The match itself plays out within the visual novel interface. Match events are affected by the current score, the chosen line-up and tactics, and the squad's morale, and ultimately decided by a random number generator.

In between matches, the player can interact with some of the nineteen squad members during training, getting to know them, assisting them with problems, and generally improving their morale. Some choices, however, may lower a player's morale, or improve one player's morale while lowering another's. Story events will also occur that can affect the squad's morale.

Some of the girls can be romanced, and will make an advance should the player get close enough to them. The player can choose to either turn them down, or to accept and begin dating the girl in question. In the uncensored version of the game, the player will be able to have sexual intercourse with their chosen love interest.