Butterfly Soup is a visual novel developed by Brianna Lei and published in September 2017 for Windows, macOS, and Linux. The game has the player follow the perspectives of four LGBT Asian-American girls in Fremont, California, alternating between their first year of high school in 2008 and when they were young children. The coming-of-age story shows them as they join a baseball club and centers on the romance between the main character, Diya, and her friend Min. Wikipedia
Research exclusive to this game
Salter, Anastasia, Bridget Blodgett, and Anne Sullivan. “” Just because it’s gay?” transgressive design in queer coming of age visual novels.” In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games, pp. 1-9. 2018.
Research that includes this game in its sample
Patterson, Christopher B. “Making Queer Asiatic Worlds: Performance and Racial Interaction in North American Visual Novels.” American Literature 94, no. 1 (2022): 17-47.