Leaving DNA
A downloadable game for Windows, macOS, Linux, and Android
*Episode One is available as a free demo. Otherwise Leaving DNA is available to purchase as an early access title. Episodes One through Five are finished and buying the game now will grant you ownership of all eight episodes when they are finished.*
Assistant District Attorney Rockford is an idealistic, well-respected prosecutor dedicated to the principles of the American criminal justice system. But while enjoying tremendous professional success, the thing he wants more than anything has always been just out of his reach--a family. His mother died when he was very young and he never met his father, an elite special forces soldier. And his romantic entanglements, though plentiful, have always ended with his partner frustrated by his paradoxical aversion to intimacy.
But Rockford's life is about to be upended: a cryptic clue in a cold-case murder will set him on a search to discover his father's fate. And learning the truth will push the prosecutor to question his dedication to the rule of law and to reconsider the meaning of family.
Rockford's search will bring him closer to four beautiful women: a tenacious homicide detective with whom Rockford has a romantic past; a brilliant prosecutorial colleague and childhood friend; a steely ex-military combat instructor with her own notions about the justice system; and a sweetheart schoolteacher whose past and future will link up with Rockford's to change both their lives forever.
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Warning: LDNA contains graphic depictions of sex and violence, including murder and abuse, and dark themes of sadness and tragedy. It is absolutely not for anyone under the age of 18.
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Development log
- Leaving DNA: Special Render - Aghavni11 days ago
- Leaving DNA: Progress Update (June 2026)17 days ago
- Leaving DNA: Special Render - Muscle Girls24 days ago
- Leaving DNA: Special Render - Jessa29 days ago
- Leaving DNA: Progress Update (May 2026)44 days ago
- Leaving DNA: Special Render - Cassie55 days ago
- Leaving DNA: Episode Five BugFix (v5.1a)60 days ago
- Leaving DNA: Episode Five Released!61 days ago
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Ok....so there is a lot of mellodramatic stuff here, not sure about how lauded everything about it is getting... but I think for something which is clearly inspired by a bunch of other things... it is not done poorly.
The cases, murder, incest... the mystery of the serial killer.... the secret government programme... the drama of very mature themes like incestuous r*pe and such... it could all be REALLY badly done.
This does not do that, does not mishandle them so badly in strays in to the offensive. But it is not anything groundbreaking either. I found myself skipping the back end of a lot of conversations... and occasionally I needed scroll back.... but MOSTLY I did not because it went exactly as I suspected.
The twists were interesting... though the last one seems to be ... idk... tbh, I just do not vibe that has any significant meaning... OK.. so someone is someone else's offspring? Cool beans. That guy is the guy who knew the other guys, including thee guy who might be a bad guy, and those guys did bad things for what they though was good reasons for Uncle Sam... then went away.... but the offspring's father brought the programme back, and the offspring is his child... and ... Ok.. yeah.... so um... OK?
But even with all this drama... all this edgy epicness.... there seems to be a lot less sex than an AVN this long should have.
That is the MOST important part of an AVN, and in this instance, A... or ADULT... means ADULT CONTENT (not mature content or adult themes, I can list a dozen VN format games which deal with the same subject matter as this one, throw in Genocide and War Crimes and suicide and mental illness of all kinds too for that matter... which are NOT classed a Adult Media, because they have NO explicit sexual content... and the Adult bit in Adult Visual Novel means the same as in Adult Film, or Adult Bookstore.. not adult themes).
What there was was pretty well done. But there was NOT much this deep in to the game.
I get it is a Romance AVN...but if you want a man to buy a cow, you need to let him taste the milk... preferably MORE than ONCE.
Also... like.... if I am NOT in to Armenian chicks because I Kardashians wrecked them in my eyes.... what is a man meant to do for an LI in this one? The comment blow me nails it with this Jaime slapper.... that is dead end central.... and then there is the Offspring.... who turns out to be that..... and then there is the Blonde Pocket Rocket who SHOULD be calling you Daddy... but instead... well... let me not ruin anything.
Yet this feels like all I have then, is the Cop, who is not my type....I mean, most of them ARE NOT, like...Jaime would have been had she actually been ride or die instead of just chasing what cannot have until she catches it..then like a grey hound who catches the rabbit, is over it. But blondie was too.... pure... and ...something... I just go the vibe she'd be ... to self orientated and not the sort to be second fiddle a career man and rising star in the world of law... but that moot anyway.... Offspring seemed to be like she was, actually at heart, and demure and loving, tender, caring girl... who just had to harden up and be a boss girl.. who COULD have complimented the MC.... until she kicked him out her apartment. From then, she was nothing to me. But all three of them, were all more attractive than Cop lady.
I might have missed something but at no point did I see a path get with the Senators assistant... even though she was only in it later on... maybe she'd have been cool. Or Korean Woman... whatever her name is...I mean, I know she is married with kid.... but she might have been some fun, I would have been prepared to destroy that in a haze of lust. Even the DA, big boss lady, who forbids the MC contact with certain people... or the little dark skinned ringlet haired jjunior prosecutor he does the Murder case with.... she looked like fun.
But NOPE....none of them were on the menu...leaving only ONE of the four main LIs who is NOT, had not proven to be, WHOLLY incompatible with the MC.... and she is the least attractive of them all.
I mean, I seemed to have not had enough rizz to take home the girls at the bar... which sucks... there should be some clues for getting rizzy enough to ace that... I might have liked that, they were both cute... and it would be one more sex scene, which this game needs more of badly....but I was not allowed that one.
Nah... basically this feels like the Dev is foisting ONE choice on you. The only one that seemed .... normal.. and not going to complicate your life, and did not treat you like trash. I do not like that in a game.
2 Stars for the story.
Maybe like.. a solid 6 out of 10, for now at least, might try it again when done.
There is lot of room in the AVN tent and lots of different stories within it. Sorry it's not the epic brainless fuck fest you were looking for.
It was obvious from your comments months ago that you weren't going to enjoy it.
Hope you find something you would like.
Meh, fuckfests are the BEST AVNs for sure, and they DO NOT need to be Brainless.... such a term is always slung about with them, but the BEST games in the Genre are Harem/Poly fuckfests....yet also incredibly well written and conceived, just saying
...but even with a Romance/Monogamy AVN with limited sex, you need something to fall back on. My real problem is not only is there a limited roster of LI's... which CAN be a good thing, if they are impeccable goddesses which really force you to feel torn and unsure who the MC should choose (though there needs be enough sex that you know that part is golden no matter whom thy choose).... but evidently, three out of four are 'Bad' choices.
One is an IMPOSSIBLE choice... even when you try to not care (hey, I invited her on the Wine Tasting vacation, because she felt like it worth pretending things were not what they actually were, but she did not go for it)...so that was a dead end. One is a Dog that catches the car, and then does not know what to do with it, doesnt even pee on the tyre. One is basically untrustworthy and in cahoots with people who are way too dangerous to want anything to do with. That leaves ONE option.
Even with 'rich' story, what it all actually boils down to, is thus far, five chapters deep, there's only seemingly ONE love interest which is NOT problematic, and there is NO real side women (well you get a random encounter at a bar, but I had apparently not been cool enough to go with them), no plan Bs. If you could have a fling with Korean Girl, or Black Junior DA or like.. Anna was it? Or even the big boss lady..... until you accepted you had to choose the best of a bad bunch or something... well that'd be OK. But there is no options there.
That leaves this a Romance AVN which goes that pathway of extreme constraint and consequences, no poly or Harem moments even if then tightening to monogamy..... and they exist.... but, unlike the BEST which make that choice and play out that way (though yes, for me that is the worst way an AVN can go)... it also lacks the one thing which makes them passable, namely that one gorgeous, loyal, eager, willing, ride or die bitch, forever yours, fallback option. That BFF-FWB sidekick chick who even often facilitates the encounters with main LIs, who will do anything for the MC, even watch him fall in love with someone else...though she is in love with him more than anyone... because she loves him so much she wants him to have all he wants.
That is critical in a game like this, because the more complicated a slow burn the story, the more complicated, unique, individual and deep the LIs, the more chance that actually, none of them will be worth it, all of them could be problematic for any given player in their own way. Like for me in this. One puts her career equal to her love life, or more, in advance of it, or even of the MCs, one is unstable and full of BS..proven when she kicks out the MC in a given moment, one is not willing to sacrifice everything for love. proven by her NOT coming on that wine tasting vacation .... embrace the taboo bitch, or get lost I say.... and one seems to be a Kardashian homage... ewwwwwwwww. So a nice fallback, plan B, simple, monodimensional, but hot, and DTF BFF to focus on... even if a cliche and boring and not much depth to her, with little direct importance to the story....is essential in such games... because that leaves the player a participation award at least.
Nothing worse than playing this kind of AVN only to discover the entire batch of LI's are horrible choices with terrible personalities that the player themselves, finds unattractive, and so would not choose any of them. I mean, for me, choosing the one I chose, the one you can offer the wine tasting to... was basically me choosing the best of a bad bunch, and look at how that turns out even once you DO the pull the trigger. So if I am going to go down the story rich monogamy romance AVN path, and that one be one with very deep long blown out story, and very limited roster of LIs, and thus have very high potential for them to all be repulsive in some way... then having that one participation award chick, that can be a fallback choice, that gives players SOMETHING for the time spent on the game, is CRITICAL.
If this game had that, one 'cant go wrong' option, always hovering about in the wings, just in case all the main LIs are fucking useless.. and for me, they turned out to be.. it would be pretty good. Sadly it does not, so it just wasted my time even when I tried to give it a chance.
I do play harem games, but not exclusively - it is not something I care about. For me, the A is the least important thing in an AVN. The visuals and the story are more important - the A is just the cherry on top.
As I said, the AVN community is large, and there is something for everyone and not ever story works for everyone.
Over a year wait for a 30 minute long update, what a joke. And man the Jamie storyline was so retarded and forced. You ALREADY confessed to her and tried to kiss her in episode 4, and she rejected you. All that just to have this melodramatic, Rom-Com style scene of chasing her down after the restaurant. So all her talk of her staying if you asked is a load of bullshit. And now you have to quit your job and leave everyone important to you behind, including your sister, just for her dumb teaching job. Also, she's made basically ZERO effort to show her feelings for the MC. Throughout the entire game it's been the MC constantly reaching out to her, to set up dates etc. Would have been a bit better if the Dev showed she was actually willing to sacrifice something and stay with the MC . At the end of the day, she still chose a job over the MC. That's a fact no matter how u look at it. And she's still going to be away from you for a year till you move. Honestly her character is ruined for me, she went from being selfless and head over heels for the MC, to being selfish and somewhat cold. The Dev sacrificed the best LI's character, just for some cheap drama. Well at least that plot twist was good, and the lewd animations were great
Agreed.... idiotic.
Well maybe not, maybe that IS her character.... maybe she is the Grey Hound chasing the rabbit.... because it is there and she wants to conquer it, and be the one... then when she catches it... well... meh, done, over it.
But considering the revelations re two of the other three LIs... well, I guess that is also something in the nature of this game... they all have to be so mellodramatically ...something.
Sad, because in that case... when three out of four are just undoable choices that leave the MC in worse place....and even Offspring revelation... at the end... does do that by being that.....then I guess this comes down to actually just being a 'Date an Armenian Cop' sim. Though I guess she might also turn out not be ride or die either.
That is ESSENTIAL for ANY Romance AVN.. there must ALWAYS be that one, unshakeable, loyal to the end, always in your corner, true ride of die bitch as an option... just in case the other ones, the dev thought to make much more complex, turn out too be TOO complex...or just push away the player when more and more of that is revealed.
You need a fallback bae... and this one does not seem to have that one.
This was a pure pleasure catching up and then continuing on with Episode 5.
The ending? Left me swearing out loud.
And now I have to try to explain to my wife why!
Excellent work.
Jamie's storyline absolutely ruined this game for me. 4 fcking chapters building up with her, showing how obsessed she is with you. Then you finally go to kiss her in Chapter 4, and she rejects you and leaves town just like that. Seriously wtf was that. What a joke. I rejected all the other girls for Jamie, all for you to not even get a kiss from her. It makes zero sense, and really just left me in a bad mood. Honestly it feels like she's being cut out as a love interest, she doesn't really feel like one. And at this point, even if she ends up coming back for you, her character is already ruined for me. Ditching you after knowing your past right after you confess to her is too messed up.
I love it!
The most important thing to me is if the developer makes one care about the characters. If they do, they are already in the top 1% of avns to me. You, my guy, make us care a lot.
I can't wait for the next episode - Jamie's decision seems out of character to me. We need to understand her motivation better. It'll be pretty difficult to make it believable, and don't betray the character., but I'm confident you can do it based on what I've read so far.
For those looking for great amounts of mindless sex, keep looking. For those looking for a great story where sex feels meaningful and intimate, this is the one for you.
Jamie's decision made ZERO sense. Completely ruined the game for me. 4 chapters of build up, you finally try to kiss her and she rejects you. Man that shit really ruined my mood. It's forced drama and just bad writing. I was willing to put up with the slow burn for Jamie, but now that she's left, what..... we have to wait another 20 chapters to even get a kiss from her.... if we even get that?? Nah screw that, its too much.
Jamie doesn't have any "motivation". She chose her career over the MC. That's it
No poly, no harem? How much H content? I buy AVNs for the A bit.... just managed to find some of the paid AVN games on here (they do not show in search)... so keen to see if there is anything which I might like, but I do not play them for the story, I prefer a batshit crazy story that justifies epic amounts of adult content, so have to do my due diligence on these games these days (3 or 4 years ago, AVNs were brilliant, lots of A parts, loose AF on the VN part to allow the sex, today, they've gotten prettier, but more vanilla and less pornographic).
The fact that you refer to it as 'H' content says enough.
This AVN isn't for you.
Adult Content then? I mean, I was only asking.
Yes there is. But this is very much story first. You can get with a number of girls, but not all of them and not on the same run. So not a harem game.
Based on what you've said earlier "epic amounts of adult content" and "I don't play them for the story" this isn't the AVN for you.
Hi, please tell me what I need to do to choose this option.
No, it's for the Itch download only.
This is so good, i promise you that you will not regret purchasing it ! And the Dev is a very cool person, that i can tell you ! 🫡💯👍
One of the best stories I've come across in an AVN. Emmie's path left me in shambles on episode 4... Can't wait for the next one.
Me too!
Now, I don't know if I should replay it or just live with the consequences 😁
This one impressed me a lot. The storyline was great, and I really like the fact that the developer focus more on the plot than the lewd scenes. It's really rare to find an AVN game with such a great storyline. The characters developments and renders were great as well. I literally fell in love with that red head girl while playing this game. Good work!! Keep it up!! I hope you don't abandon this decent game like other developers did with theirs tho ✌
P.S: Please don't make it haram or add group lewd scenes. I'm really tired of playing AVN games where MC fell in love with every character in the game easily.
This is what I was looking for.
I would say definitely make it a Harem... but it is enough to know it is NOT one so I can skip out on this one.
Olá alguém poderia me dizer como eu faço para te a cena de sexo com a Marlene no episódio 2 lá no bar
I want to echo many of the comments already made. This is one of the best storylines I've seen in any game, AVN or not. Character development is also outstanding. You have a gift for storytelling and I'm looking forward to seeing where the story goes and your continuing growth as a developer.
One of the best AVNs I've played.
Thank you, glad you liked it!
Love the game you've created Impious keep going at it. The improvement in visual quality alone in the first few chapters has been great to see, the plot is 10/10.
Wishing you the best in future development and upcoming releases 🙏💚
Thank you!
привет можно сделать игру с модом и ещё эта игра ведь гарем?
can we add this to the game?
I am working on Episode 4. All future episodes are included with your purchase of the game.
I have a request that you can make it so that the player can determine for himself how old he is
No, that wouldn't work. The age of the characters is relevant to the timeline and the years when things happened.
hi, I want to say a huge thank you to the creators of the game for such a good interesting game
Thanks, glad you liked it.
I wonder there’s lesbian and muscle babes in game?
No.
In Episode 2, September 28th, in Courth with Judge Chen, you have the Judge ordering the Defendant out on September 2nd (26 days prior). Should this be October 2nd? Just something I caught. LOVE this game!
Thanks a lot, mate, I will take a look at that and I'm glad you're enjoying it!
pregnancy planned? multiple solo Li rotes/endings?
There are multiple solo LI routes. I don't do spoilers, however, so I can't comment on any content. I can only recommend Leaving DNA if you are playing for the story, not for any particular fetish.
What are two words mc noticed in apartment?
I don't know either it frustrates the hell out of me that the game doesn't give you any hints or context what so ever to work with. wtf
When the next version comes out it will have a stronger hint for those.
No art
Try bare walls
Wow! Armin's bear suit story just keeps going and going and going. I love that guy!
Thanks, I'm very glad you liked it! Hopefully Itch will get back to me soon so I can actually upload the new update here.
Thank you, Anonym42! I appreciate the support.
What are the tags in this one? What can I expect?
Hi LongJohnSilverr. Thanks for your interest. You will have the option to form either a romantic or platonic relationship with each of the four love interests. By the end of the game you will be able to choose one woman to be with no--no harems. Sex will be thematic and erotic, but relatively vanilla. No special tags. The emphasis of LDNA is plot supported by dialogue and character development. This will not be a fetish-focused game.
That's sounds great actually, not every game needs to be extreme so I'm looking forward to the romantic side of this game.
I hope you enjoy it! Just the demo is out right now but I'm hoping to have the full Part One released in the next five or six weeks.
I'm happy for you bro, I really hope this is a big hit.
Well colour me impressed. I actually wondered why the TV froze, and then I realized I was reading a visual novel. The facial expressions are outstanding. Really look forward to this visual novel going forward. Can't wait to see what happens with Jamie...
Glad you're enjoying it and thank you for the rating!
Lets go time to make this into a full series <3
Eight parts planned! Hoping to have the full Part One released within the next six to eight weeks (or earlier). Weekly updates available on my SubscribeStar or Patreon!
First of all, I would really like to say that you've made an amazing job! It looks like it is going to be VN with one of the best plots - it grabs the player really quickly and it's just impossible to put it down. Characters are unique and well written. Speaking about the visuals, I can describe them with only one word and that's - perfect.
Such an excellent beginning! Looking forward to the next update!
Hope everything will be alright and you'll be able to finish this masterpiece!
Thank you, really glad you liked it!
Oh man, I need so much more. Great demo, and I love the visuals and the story seems soooo good thus far. I normally don't get into thriller visual novels because the plots aren't usually well constructed, but this one so far has me really drawn in and looking for more. I can't wait to see whats next!
Also is there a discord server/twitter page to keep up to date with the game?
Hi Leelaverse, thank you and I'm glad you enjoyed it. I don't have a Discord at this time. I do have a new Twitter page where I will announce updates.
https://twitter.com/impiousmonk_avn
Awesome thank you! I'll gladly follow and keep up to date with this game, you have done a beautiful job so far and super excited for future updates.
Good renders with a lot of details in what seems to be a great story.
Believable characters in a real word setting.
dev calls it a demo, but it has 60+ minutes play time with 650+ renders.
Can't wait to see how this develops!
😁