Silly question, but does rejecting any intimate scene like Lilian's still add them to the gallery? Or is it like a story-path choice where it could have long term consequences?
I ask because sometimes I won't be able to watch the scene in the moment (say, if I want to play in public, or if I were interested in streaming/recording a gameplay) but I'd like to check it out later in private. I can make a save of course, just wanted to know if it was still necessary to do so.
Is there any place where we can suggest words to take into consideration? I just tried two different words with a similar intent that did nothing, then the third one gave me the result I expected for the first two. Would be nice if us players can help grow the game by suggesting synonyms or similary associated concepts that are already in the game.
Can't play this. I download on PC using the Itch app and every time I try to open, it crashes and opens traceback log.
"I'm sorry, but an uncaught exception occurred.
While running game code:
File "game/scripts/core/Fight/enemies/Rebel1.rpy", line 36, in <module>
File "game/scripts/core/Fight/enemies/Rebel1.rpy", line 87, in Rebel1
File "game/scripts/core/Fight/Ability.rpy", line 41, in __init__
IOError: [Errno 9] Bad file descriptor
-- Full Traceback ------------------------------------------------------------
Full traceback:
File "renpy/bootstrap.py", line 275, in bootstrap
renpy.main.main()
File "renpy/main.py", line 564, in main
renpy.game.context().run(node)
File "scripts/core/Fight/enemies/Rebel1.rpyc", line 35, in script
File "scripts/core/Fight/enemies/Rebel1.rpyc", line 35, in script
File "renpy/ast.py", line 1138, in execute
renpy.python.py_exec_bytecode(self.code.bytecode, self.hide, store=self.store)
File "renpy/python.py", line 1122, in py_exec_bytecode
exec(bytecode, globals, locals)
File "game/scripts/core/Fight/enemies/Rebel1.rpy", line 36, in <module>
File "game/scripts/core/Fight/enemies/Rebel1.rpy", line 87, in Rebel1
File "game/scripts/core/Fight/Ability.rpy", line 41, in __init__
File "renpy/minstore.py", line 74, in print
_print(*args, **kwargs)
File "renpy/log.py", line 250, in write
self.real_file.flush()
IOError: [Errno 9] Bad file descriptor
Windows-10-10.0.26100 AMD64
Ren'Py 7.6.3.23091805
WitchHunter 0.24
Fri Oct 3 22:27:50 2025"
The launcher says there's a JSON conflict or something. I have Java updated. What the hell is wrong with this update? I was able to play earlier version long ago.
I remember playing this back in the day when Noriko's routes were released for free, and feel disappointed in the seemingly lack of proper ending to the maledom route. Literally felt anticlimactic as the final sex scene is playing and it just ends abruptly without any sort of climax CG or even text. Compared to the other girls' sex scenes at the time, it felt incomplete. Has that been fixed already? I might pick the game back if it has.
I heard somewhere that Steam is considering passing a stricter ToS against games with +18 external patches. I hope this doesn't come to be, but lately I've hoped for many things that unfortunately have happened anyway.
Which is why I get a little apprehensive when I see creators, specially smaller ones, fold under this oppression and censorship. IMO we should be fighting more to keep our freedom, both of speech/creation and consumption, rather than accepting things like these as they come and try to mold around them. And I get it, I get the "but what can someone alone do for a change?" feeling. It's safer to adapt than to stand one's ground. Still doesn't mean it feels less shitty that the power/control-hungry corps are getting the win, you know?
I'm not gonna lie, the whole reason I got interested in the game in the first place was the NSFW approach. The premise offered something new and original in the market of +18 games. Seeing that part go would heavily drop my interest, and I'm guessing some others as well.
When buying something, the consumer asks himself: where would I get the best experience for my particular interest with this amount of money? Games follow the same logic, as does porn. It sells, and the proof is all the unrest that stems from all this BS censorship happening lately.
Now, what kind of experience offers the game in a SFW environment? Dating sim/management you say. The former genre already oversaturated, and the latter not exactly popular. Adding the +18 content wouldn't make things much different usually, but the premise of the game being "monster creatures" adds a little spice that makes the whole combo of genres unique in itself. Remove one of the parts, and the rest will struggle to hold on, I think.
So what I'm trying to say is, if you envision this project from a selling standpoint, I believe you're considering the wrong approach. And if you wanted to make a game because you're passionate about it and the ideas that drove you to do it, then you shouldn't sacrifice any of those ideas.
My suggestion would be to keep the game as is, then offering a free "Demo" (like up to a certain update patch, or a certain story point, maybe have it be just a full loop of the first monster) on Itch, like a lot of other creators are doing. And using that to promote your Patreon where you would sell the full updated version with everything included.
Win win for all.
Thank you. At least someone here has a basic reading comprehension and common sense, instead of displaying the same mentality of someone that walked in a McDonalds and complained that the salads suck because they shouldn't be in a burger shop. It's not so hard to realize that maybe if you like burgers you should just stick to the burgers, and let people that like salads have their salads in peace. And yet, somehow, the OP failed TWICE to understand this very simple point LOL
Well, I understand where this is coming from, but it is a little disappointing, yet not for the reasons you may think. Let me try to explain.
An AVN is defined by two things mainly. The +18 and the story. Good AVNs have a good balance of both, it's not about shifting from one to the other. Sex is a natural part of our lives, sexuality shouldn't be avoided or treated as taboo, we shouldn't feel ashamed for it. Romance feels more realistic when there's a healthy sexual aspect of communication between the partners after all.
So it's disappointing that you decided to completely shirk away from writing erotica just because you didn't want to be considered "smut". It may look like they're the same, but the context and understanding of the work is very different. You could very well aspire to write something like 50 SOG, or become a novelist like Nora Roberts who often included one or a couple of sex scenes in her books, yet they never got called "smut reading" because that wasn't the focus. It was always complementary. They help normalize sex and sexuality, so hearing you're following the opposite path is disheartening, because you're falling prey of the same fallacy that's causing so much harm to the AVN industry lately.
Still, if this is what you really want to do, I wish you luck. I don't think I'll be reading your book, since I prefer interactive stories (hence why I'm interested in VNs to begin with), but I really hope you achieve your dreams. Godspeed
Took my time but I finally played this update, and boy oh boy, I think we reached PEAK WRITING. The H scenes with Gloria are some of the best ones along with Violet's, I really REALLY enjoy reading that their relationship with MC is vastly different than how he "feeds" from mind controlled dolls. I know it sounds weird being an H game where we're essentially playing as the demon of Lust, but the vanilla romantic scenes really stand out the best here. THAT'S CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT BABYYY WOOOO--
That being said, the quest itself is also amazingly written. I didn't get at first who "Anne" or "Alexandra" were, I just thought they were random NPCs like the townspeople from MCs flashbacks. But when I finally realized later, I had to reload a save to re-read the scenes again with the new perspective. And that got me thinking about how much detail actually goes into this story, it's amazing. It's always been good, but when it comes to the world building aspects of the group it just reaches another level. I'm constantly wondering about their past experiences, relationships, unique abilities, quirkiness, and every time the story delivers answers to exactly that... I end up gushing more than with the H scenes themselves NGL.
This particular update has gotten me thinking now about their names. Like, they seem to follow a certain convention or patterns. Always using the same first letter, could that be because of their original names? (since I think it's implied they weren't always like this, they were humans at one point before). But Hikari goes against that, it doesn't start with A not even in the translated form. Also she's the only one with a Japanese kind of name, huh? And what about "Gramps"? Are we ever going to know his actual name? Does he even have one or has he disregarded the notion completely for some reason? And why were Gloria and MC the only ones in the flashback that didn't change their names? Or was it that they were the first ones to do it before the others? SO MANY QUESTIONS! And I love it!
Anyway, sorry for the rant. I just wanted to point out some of the things I've been feeling since I started following this game long ago. Thank you very much for sharing it for free, and f*ck those bank bastards that try to censor masterpieces likes this one.
PD: there seems to be a bug in which, after choosing any option with Gloria wearing her uniform, after the scene ends it changes immediately to her in underwear. Have to change back to her uniform manually every time, which is a little annoying.
Dude, it's nice that you're committed, but don't die in the process! I'm speaking from experience here, you think you're doing good by trying to keep up with expectations, but that's not healthy and it impacts the efficiency of anything you do. With regular rest, you'd probably have finished by tomorrow, just a day or two later, and with much better quality from the get-go. And most important of all, it'd ensure you keep being motivated about this passion project (and anything else, really). Overloading your brain by skipping rest will lead up to burn out, demotivation, feeling drained and weak, in the worst case you can develop or aggravate a depression. So you better take care of yourself, you hear me? Besides, people don't mind waiting times as much as radio silence. You could spend years working to release a full game and it'd be cool for the silent minority (there's always detractors), but what the gaming community loves from a Dev is to keep being communicated news and progresses, even if they're mostly irrelevant or if it's just to say "this was a bad week/month, stuff happened IRL and release will be delayed".
TL;DR: fix your sleep schedule, don't stress so much about waiting, keep comms open. You'll have smooth sailing from there.
It's amazing how far this game has come since the first release. I remember having high expectations after Raven's Quest was finished, and feeling a little disappointed in the short amount of content in comparison, but seeing the pacing of updates I had faith it would grow not only in quantity but also in quality.
Now we're here, at the REAL starting line, and there's no doubt in my mind that if you keep up the effort and passion put into each update, WTE will end up being even more amazing than it's predecessor(s).
BTW I just noticed that all of the girls so far have been sourced from videogames, was there ever the thought of including someone from anime/manga?
I can see the potential and inspirations for this game. Unfortunately I tried to play the browser version on Android and got stuck in the "History" menu. I also noticed there are a couple of text errors, for example I gave a custom name to the ex-GF but the game semi-crashed into the store page, and after I restored it the Narrator called her by her original name anyways.
Obviously these are somewhat expected happenings for a solo project that just released, with polish it could become a great demo.
It's a shame you had to go through such a crisis. I know you said it's all over now, but I just wanted to tell you that, whatever you may think about your life choices, your making an excellent job with this game. I believe that in time this could become one of the top games in the H category of this platform. Just the gameplay alone is already worth it, but the story and character interactions also are organic and well developed. The H events are the cherry on top. Don't get discouraged, having and fixing bugs is a normal part of developing any game, as is having to take unexpected breaks in order to deal with other stuff.
I had hoped that this update fixed it, but it seems the game still has an issue on Android version, where a lot of texts go on beyond the screen limits or overlap one another (for example, in the quest log). Some icons (like inside the inventory) also seem a little displaced. My guess is that this is caused by the difference in resolution or aspect ratio between PC and Mobile, and the game assets not being designed for the latter.
Having gameplay before you reach the lewd content is what separates games from just a picture gallery search, I think it's important to keep at least some semblance of puzzles in the game. That being said, I'd much prefer the "one turn to checkmate" ones over the "two turns" ones, because the first is fun and accessible for everyone but the second requires either annoying trial and error or a more chess-savvy orientation.
Also, the sandbox is cool and I'd love to see more content, but it does feel a bit grindy having to check every single room at every single time of every single day just to check if there's anything different. Perhaps adding something like a character map, or an event list with hints, or something to better and easily know if there's anything new to do at all in that specific weekday, would alleviate the experience and make it more streamlined like some of the pure sandbox games out there.
I really like HSDXD and I think this game has potential to be the best lewd tribute to it, so I'm really rooting for you. Keep doing mostly what you've been doing so far and it's going to be great.
Welp, finally got some downtime available to check out the update, and it was going mostly well but I encountered a Game-breaking bug, not sure what exactly is causing it. What I did was the following:
After trying out the new bandits event at night in the alleys, I wanted to test more combat with a full party, so I went to the Brigand Camp since I had a couple of quests there anyway. My team is the basic MC+Aqua+Darkness+Megumin, everyone using the alternate skins (The blue one for Darkness, this might be relevant). Seems like it's going all well and dandy until I use Bolster Ranks with Darkness and the enemies attack. An array of seemingly infinite exception errors then ensue (ignore button doesn't help and rollback just sends me back to the map selection), apparently the engine unable to find some assets for what I can only guess is some special effect or something.
Darkness is equipped with the Thorns armor, Bolster Ranks is using the self-marking ability, resistance to de buffs and the Riposte buff. I have confirmed that other characters can be safely attacked without errors, but when Darkness is marked she taunts, and when she receives the next attack my guess is that the game doesn't expect her to apply Thorns and Riposte at the same time that she's Marked, or the issue might lie on the attack from a bandit causing a special debuff that doesn't mesh well with the buffs previously applied.
I'd like to spend some time testing further for a more accurate assessment, but unfortunately I don't have the time for such luxury right now, so I wanted to report what I found so far. I'm playing on the latest free version on Android by the way. If you tell me how to do it, I could reproduce the bug and send you the error log, although as I said there are seemingly infinite of them, as when I keep pressing "ignore", new ones keep replacing it (actually, it seems to be the same log but varying some numbers which I guess are code addresses)
Makes sense then. For normal enemies, usually a well built character will kill them with a few hits anyway, so it's easy to see why 30% might seem not appreciable enough.
I do see as well your concern over the cheesing. I saw you added a lot of new status effects that might tip the balance in the player's favor, although I assumed they'd count as "debuffs" and thus rendered useless by the bosses' resistance anyway. What I fear is that boss fights could get reduced to just a matter of having big damage numbers (and some way of surviving/reviving, which we get a lot of in this update as well), instead of a tactical puzzle of figuring out combinations of buffs and debuffs. I also fear that builds centered around DoTs would be discouraged, which I think would be a wasted opportunity to diversify the game's experience for players.
At the end of the day though, I also understand that the focus of this game isn't solely the combat system, and even without that feature it'd still be very great. Taking time to "perfectly" balance the game would be in detriment of further developing new content and polishing the existing one, specially for a single dev such as you. I don't wish my ideas and feedback to add pressure for anyone, specially when I still haven't even played the version myself, I'm just speaking out of the experience of having played a lot of games myself, which might prove to make for an insufficient insight. Thank you for taking your time to read me nonetheless, I feel quite passionate about your game and wish it nothing but success.
Aqua is now useful? This game is no longer canon friendly /j
Jokes aside, I'm very excited by the upgrade. Not only a lot of new content for the story, but also tons of updates for the combat system, which is one major attraction for this game.
That being said, even without testing I can already tell, 50% hp execution is way too high. Usually in other games the threshold is 30 or 20%, otherwise it's too strong against bosses and minibosses.
But also, I fear that giving resistance for bosses against debuffs and DoTs will make their battles harder and at the same time, simpler. The combat is enjoyable precisely because it requires some strategy, and removing tools from the formula makes the strategies available be more straightforward. I do understand however that some strategies may be too effective as well, causing the exact same problem of being used repeatedly regardless of the situation, and that's hard to balance. I'll be able to tell better how this change affects the enjoyment of boss battles when it comes out to the public, for now I hope it's not full immunity for all bosses, and instead just that some bosses have different resistances to different de buffs.
The reason is very simple actually. Patreon doesn't allow for creators to develop games with incest in them, so they have to hide it. I'm not sure if Steam also has issues with that, but usually the situation is that a Dev can only rely on Patreon or Subscribestar (or similars) for stable income so they need to go out of their way to comply with their unreasonable requests
Well, a Threesome is, at its base, just an accord to have sex between three people, but how kinky it gets depends solely on the implicated parts. It could just be that they take turns, or it could imply doing it the three at the same time (without contact between the same-sex partners), or it could also be about them all having a small orgy together (implying bisexuality and incest in this case, which I agree would be kinky but I'm not sure if "too kinky" considering what other stuff there already is in the game). You can even go the extra length and have a Threesome combined with BDSM elements, the level of kinkiness is very variable and I'm sure the devs could find one that they feel comfortable with.
That being said, I also agree that, while the idea of a Threesome is very appealing for a majority of people, it could very well not lead to it and instead just lead to a hook up, a "lending" so to speak (or "sharing", if the former word sounds too kinky), something which we already have in the game so it wouldn't be too unrealistic.
BUT, just to be clear about something, I don't think this devs are planning to keep game purely vanilla forever. In their message, it seemed more like they were open and interested in knowing what our kinks are, so don't lose hope my friend.
Some very interesting ideas here. If you'd let me, I'd like to elaborate further upon those. Keep in mind, these are the barebones ideas and specific dialogues or reasons as to why MC happens to listen to them could differ depending on previous choices and routes taken (Love vs Corruption).
So, picture this. Since Noriko knows MC is doing Yasuka, but she's been shown to be a bit envious of this (in Yasuka's love route), we can infer it to make sense if Noriko could be the first one to suggest having a Threesome, as a way to try and spend more time with MC even if it is shared. Asami could also get winded up in Noriko's "Harem plan" (if you know the reference) and start having Threesomes with Noriko and MC as well, and maybe by accident discover a Noriko+Yasuka+MC situation. THEN, Asami starts wondering if it doesn't feel weird to have the mother involved, and asks upfront Noriko about it. To not let the plan fall apart, Noriko tries to convince Asami that it's normal for mothers to help their daughters with sex education or something, and that makes the seed of doubt sprout in Asami.
At a parallel story arc, Sayuri and Yasuka also know each other and could even be on good terms (since this is a small town-city, makes sense that all the mothers meet often-ish, perhaps while buying groceries). This devolves into Sayuri asking Yasuka for help regarding one or both issues: a) how to deal with the loneliness since she takes care of Asami by herself nowadays; b) advice on making sure her daughter doesn't make mistakes with her new boyfriend/sexfriend (MC). This further devolves into Yasuka, after experiencing the Threesomes, suggesting/convincing Sayuri to try it as well, of course after talking with Asami first to see if she'd be cool with that. Since the relationship between Asami and Sayuri doesn't seem to be bad, and Asami already has the curiosity awoken in her (and also could believe that maybe this way her mother would stop trying to act all prim and proper and meddlesome), this can develop to the Asami+Sayuri+MC situation.
Of course, player agency is also important so his choices matter. When he hears about this development, he can either decide that this is not his thing, or follow two different paths, the Asami Top Sayuri Bottom Path (or DaughterDom Path) or the inverse (MotherDom Path). In DaughterDom, Asami takes the initiative to drag Sayuri into their relationship to see if that way she'd stop nagging her or if she can use this chance to establish a better power dynamic with her mother (maybe influenced by Noriko's advice). In MotherDom, Sayuri is the one that "accidentally" (or more directly) interferes in her daughter's eloping and manages to push the boundaries and take initiative, under the pretense of "teaching" or supervising that Asami and MC are doing it properly.
You can basically play around the scenes that cause the game to detect that desire goes down. When the girls ask you to have sex you can deny them without consequences, if you avoid peeking through the hole they won't masturbate at school, and if you end the day any way other than sleeping (for example, having a late night sexual encounter) you won't get the video where they masturbate at home. This way you can effectively hold all girls at max desire indefinitely
