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.

Lei tried to develop a game that she would have wanted when she was in high school, with elements of her own upbringing as an Asian-American child and an open perspective on sexuality.

It was named the "best visual novel" of 2017 by PC Gamer and was nominated for the Excellence in Narrative award at the 2018 Independent Games Festival.

Unlike many visual novels, Butterfly Soup does not feature a branching narrative; the player's choices can impact the wording of individual scenes but do not change the overall story.

The game's plot alternates its focus between four major protagonists, with the player taking the role of the four different viewpoint characters from a first-person perspective.

It follows four LGBT Asian-American girls as they attend their first year of high school and bond as members of a baseball club.

In Noelle's section, the narrative shows her relationship with Diya and Min in third grade, and her discontent with her academically demanding parents.

At the date, after realizing that the pair have followed them to the store and are also advising the nervous Diya, Min kisses her, and the group returns to school.

She felt that the "mundane" settings caused the stories to rely on the personalities and characterization of the protagonists, and wanted to make a game with a similar style.

[4] The first draft of game, with the working title "Queen of Diamonds", was intended to be much longer than the final result, covering the characters' entire freshman year.

[7] Lei found that development took over a year longer than she had planned; she has said that she eventually had to force herself to stop writing new scenes instead of finishing artwork in order to actually release the game.

[4] Butterfly Soup was named the "best visual novel" of 2017 by PC Gamer and was nominated for the Excellence in Narrative award at the 2018 Independent Games Festival.

[1] Brittany Vincent of PC Gamer similarly praised the writing, and said that the game's "frank treatment of sexuality", and the way it integrated the character's feelings into their characterization without relying on tropes, made it special.

[3] Allegra Frank of Polygon focused their review on the writing as well, and called it "one of the most moving, memorable stories I've experienced all year".