Clannad - Will be released on Steam

Rejoice, visual novel player. An English-language Steam release has been announced for the heart-wrenching visual novel that is Clannad, – and just in time for its 10th anniversary.

The game inspired an anime movie and two television anime series. The series follows delinquent high school student Tomoya Okazaki, who one day meets a strange girl named Nagisa Furukawa who is a year older, but is repeating her last year of high school due to illness. Tomoya becomes involved with Nagisa and her hopes of restarting the school drama club.

The news comes by way of Sekai Project’s panel at Japan Expo USA, though not much else has so far been revealed about the game’s precise content other than that it will be the fully-voiced version. The game will be released in September 2014 in Steam.

Time to buy some tissue guys, because manly tears will be shed.