A major update to the free demo is now out for the Steam VN Festival. The artist and I are both really excited to showcase what we've been working on since the last public release.
The first thing you'll notice is the improved artwork. New scenes have been added, and other scenes have been redrawn. The animated sex scenes have been completely overhauled in the game, and for the new demo we went back into the prologue to update some of the early artwork that no longer fit. The intro sex scene is now full animated with 6 different camera angles. The accompanying writing has also been improved. Lucine's first sex scene has also been completely replaced, and again with multiple camera angles as the scene progresses. More improvements will be coming as we progress.
The next thing you'll notice are the changes and additions to the main story. Remi's role in the main plot has been expanded on, and the end of the prologue is now much clearer and flows better. Dialogue and narration have been improved throughout the story, and new game systems have been added.
In day 1 you'll see an early version of the new overhauled choice system, something that will be expanded on soon. Choices now feel more impactful, and now characters track their overall opinions of the player character through a more nuanced points system. The romance routes now center around identifying a character's fundamental wants and needs as you move forward in the story, and making choices that form their opinion of you.
Overall there's still a ton of work do do but this is a massive upgrade. More polish and refinement will be coming out soon, so stay tuned. Check out our Discord for the most up to date progress.

This was originally posted 1/30/2024 - I'm bringing all of last year's devlogs here to Steam this month to get everything up to date across all of our platforms.
Version 0.15 which is our first update focusing on the romance paths is in the hands of play testers. The script is now up to 24,741 words with a good chunk of new gameplay added to Eryn's romance path. This time around we really tried to work on building the relationship between the MC and Eryn by touching up the dialogue in their earlier scenes, as well as giving them their first animated h-scene in the second act. We also touched up some of the early game art that didn't quite look like the characters following the sprite revision way back in version 0.10 beta and playable demo. The new art came out great, it looks way better in general and has a lot more expression in the face animations.
0.15 Changelog: - Script increased to 24,741 words with additions to the Eryn romance path - Added new Eryn scene (chatting in bed, 5 eyes, 9 mouths) - Added new Eryn scene (sleeping together, 2 mouths) - Added new Eryn scene (changing bandage) - Added new Eryn scene (sleeping in the mill, 4 poses) - Added new Eryn scene (Eryn pushing MC onto bed) - Added new Eryn animated h-scene (temple bedroom, loop and climax) - Reworked Eryn's face and body on her intro scene (4 eyes, 3 mouths, 2 poses) - Reworked Eryn's face and body in creek undressing scene (2 eyes, 2 mouths, 2 poses) - Reworked MC's face and body in creek undressing scene (3 eyes, 3 mouths, 2 poses) - Reworked Eryn's face and body in first creek bath scene (7 eyes, 10 mouths, 2 hands) - Reworked MC's face and body in first creek bath scene (4 eyes, 8 mouths, 3 hands) - Added an animated water ripple effect to first creek bath scene - Reworked MC's face and body in forest creature sighting scenes (3 eyes, 4 mouths) - Optimized forest creature sighting animation in a way that makes more sense - Added more choices to the early story to track choices - Added the new scenes to the gallery and updated preview images for revised scenes - Added new background throne room night (2 props) - Added 2 water enter splash sound effects for creek scenes - Added 2 water exit slosh sound effects for creek scenes - Added creaky door open sound effect - Added door closing sound effect - Added log thud sound effect for Lena intro scene - Implemented some early game rewritten sections with the new writing style - Removed several boring and unnecessary liminal sequences from the story - Fixed 1 major bug (missing choice tracking variable in act 1)

Version 0.14 is now completed and is in play testing. The script is up to 22,153 words with an additional 5-10 mins of main story. This update has a lot of complex artwork packed into some quick scenes and we're both really happy with how everything came out. We also experimented with some new tricks for animations, but rotating the wheel on the lift turned out to be way harder than we thought. The sound effects were also pretty fun to make this time around. Next update will start building out Eryn's romance route. Let us know if you find any bugs. For more progress pics and updates check out our official Discord server. Changelog:

• Script increased to 22,153 words with additions to the main story line
• Added new animated Silva scene (descending lift, 10 eyes, 26 mouths)
• Added new Silva action scene (attack pt1 pt3 pt5, 6 eyes, 13 mouths, 2 props, 9 poses)
• Added new Silva action scene (attack pt2 pt4 pt6, 7 eyes, 16 mouths, 7 poses)
• Added new background makeshift bedroom night
• Added new background outside mill night (2 props)
• Reworked color and added plants to background outside mill day
• Added 1 slash frame for the new Silva action scene
• Added 3 slash frames to replace the old ones used in the festival action scene
• MC sprite revision (replaced all 22 eyes)
• Added 6 new MC sprite mouths (3 open normal, 3 open slightly happy)
• Added ancient lift sound effect by using a manual coffee grinder of all things
• Added knife swish sound effect to new action scene
• Added running footsteps sound effect to new action scene
• Added door crashing sound effect to new action scene
• Minor bug/typo fixes and dialogue changes

Version 0.13 is now completed and is in play testing. This is a pretty good sized update that expands the main story line by introducing the final 3 planned main characters. The first character Aline is an elite and high ranking sentinel whose family has close ties to the head priestess and royal family. Next we added the head priestess herself, Evana, the current leader of the Order of Vera. Finally we added Silva, another sentinel but a wild card for sure. Another major focus in this build was adding new locations and backgrounds centering around the temple area. We're pretty happy with how everything came out and I think we really captured the kind of world flavor that we're going for in the artwork. This update is planned to eventually make its way into a new version of the free Steam demo build in the coming months. For more progress pics and updates check out our official Discord server. Changelog:

• Added about 10 mins to the main story line
• Created sprite for new character Aline
• Created Aline sprite faces (21 eyes, 24 mouths)
• Created 12 Aline sprite poses
• Created sprite for new character Priestess Evana
• Created Evana sprite faces (21 eyes, 26 mouths)
• Created 14 Evana sprite poses
• Created sprite for new character Silva
• Created Silva sprite faces (20 eyes, 31 mouths)
• Created Silva sprite poses
• Added new background dungeon
• Added new background temple bedroom
• Added new background temple bedroom evening
• Added new background temple bedroom night (2 props)
• Added new background throne room
• Added new background outside temple (1 prop)
• Added new background outside temple night (3 props)
• Added new story scene (Temple view)
• Added new Aline scene (Priestess in the throne room)
• Fixed 1 major bug and a few minor bugs/typos

Our demo build with the complete prologue chapter is available for free. The demo features 45-75 minutes of gameplay spread out over 5 story paths, as well as a hidden object game that will eventually unlock bonus scenes in the full release. The full release is still under development, so be sure to leave us feedback on which characters you'd like to see more content for. Leave us a wishlist if you like the game!

Version 0.12 is now completed and is in play testing. New gameplay is pretty short in this one since the new scenes required a lot of poses and complex movement, and the scene immediately following requires new locations and characters that will be coming in version 0.13. We also added a new background that isn't used in this version yet. Under the hood we've made some major changes. The GUI should look more or less the same but the way it works will make translations a lot easier for us. All of the menu tabs that say Start, Load, Options, etc used to be pictures that already included text. Now the buttons are all blank and the game generates the text on top which sounds simple but turned out to be pretty tricky. In addition to that I added hover effects for all of the buttons based on some feedback from controller users. Hover effects used to only be on about half of the buttons previously, but with the new button text system adding hover effects to everything was easier to implement. Coming in about 30 days is version 0.13 which will include the story that we don't have the assets for now and is also planned to include 3 new characters, 3-4 new backgrounds, and 4 new scenes. Changelog:

• Added story events that continue through the day that the MC wakes up
• Added 2 new main story scenes (4 backgrounds, 30 poses, 8 eyes, 19 mouths)
• Created background for market center
• Added 4 new sound effects (waterfall, various sword sounds)
• Added h-scene & effigy counters to revised end screen
• Made new GUI buttons with game generated text
• Made hover effects for all buttons
• Changed formatting of all translatable strings to make fan translations way easier
• Added additional language support and functionality
• Changed MC's default name from Biorn to Harth
• Minor bug fixes