Another big update, this time focusing on introducing music to the game, slightly changes the entire visual style and does a few other minor improvements.

Music and Sound

• 12 melodies were added, that further set the mood in the different sections of the game
• Several sound effects were added, mainly about whip strikes and such
• This does not include any voices, moaning, screams, ect...

Visual Style

The rendering and processing of images was improved to create a more realistic view. This arguably makes the game less unique but more beautiful, as the previous style didn't handle faces very well and created some lightning and color distortions.

Additional Improvements

• Some additional images and minor dialogue were added in several places, but especially in the introduction which is no longer a simple info dump and now introduces the heroine and her "normal" life more properly.
• A particular brutal scene near the end that was short, is now longer and more developed
• A few "transitional" images were added here and there, to break up long sections of text and visualize scene transitions.

This is a major update that while not changing the core game much, adds a layer of extra polish, with special focus on further improving the visuals of the sex and kink.

Movement/Animation

A small experiment was done in the last update which is now vastly expanded, where some kink and sex scenes receive visual effects that imitate movement to make the scenes much more immersive. Some will love the result, other will be underwhelmed by it, as it falls short of having video. This is a deliberate choice because it keeps the game size on the hard drive low, and also since the animations are effects, and not movies, the VN engine handles them more naturally and the player can easily skip them or go back a step to rewatch the movement. Such effects have been implemented for most but not all sex and kink scenes.

Content changes

• Two new sex scenes were added with the main male character. That doesn't change much in their relationship or story - she was always available, in the current update he just casually decides to take advantage of that. Some existing scenes with him also got a visual upgrade
• The sex trainer was added as a minor character in a previous update. Now she's a more developed secondary character, having an image, some dialog and backstory. She also has some minor scenes playing around with the heroine
• The interrogator/punisher also got an image, and her whipping scene got a visual upgrade
• A small dream sequence was added in the intro, giving players a taste of what's expected later
• Dead end route is now just dead and all early choices lead to the same result. It made sense as a player choice but was conflicting with the core premise of the game that the heroine's destiny is pre-determined
• Epilogue on the secondary route now explicity tells the player how to get to the main one, while the epilogue on the main route got properly separated into a sex scene and a short non-sexy epilogue wrapping things up

Bottom line

If you've already played the game don't expect expanded story or gameplay. This is still a short BDSM-focused VN focusing on a single heroine and not much else. But do try a new playthrough if you want to experience the same story with even more and better visuals.

With the release date within days, it seemed the game could use some minor improvements:

Image Gallery

Probably the biggest piece of work, the game now allows users to see which images they've collected and thus know if they've skipped a scene or two via their in-game choices. Should be a fun way to track if there's more to see by going back and trying to do things differently.

Content

Added 4 more images, one of them is a cover for this post. And the related short scenes to slightly increase the game's content in places that needed it, without subtantially changing the story.

Fixes

The never-ending quest to hunt typos, as well as fixing a relatively serious logic bug where one of the main choices wasn't affecting what it should.

While the game is moving towards release, we created a dev diary to communicate what this is, how it came to be, and what to expect in the future.

The Story

The main concept was to create a NSFW game where the sexual slavery trope doesn't follow the blueprint "He got some cum on her face, which made her a sex addict". Nothing wrong with that but we wanted this game to aspire for a more realistic fantasy feeling. So it focuses on the female perspective by borrowing ideas from a popular book genre called "Dark Erotica". The main focus is the action and the kink, of course, with as little filler as possible this is an adult game after all. But it's also important to have a heroine we actually care about and villains we love to hate as they exploit her vulnerability.

The Name

The meaning of the name is that this is a story about a heroine so naturally motivated to please others, that with some coercion and manipulation shed be happy to suffer any kind of discomfort for it. Which she does. A lot.

The Game

This is a game where the main character accepts her fate mostly peacefully and has very limited agency. In a way, this is a trainer game from the perspective of the one being trained. And we felt the classic visual novel style of gameplay is quite appropriate for this dynamic. The heroine is making reactive choices, responding to whatever is happening to her, and these choices can either determine the main route of the game, or have more immediate and temporary impact. As a whole the game has two main routes, sharing a lot of scenes between them, which can be completed in about 2-3 hours if you just read through it at normal speed. Probably more if you have to take pauses. Which is a bit short for a visual novel but should make up for it by focusing on its main premise and not wasting the players time.

The Visuals

The visuals of this game went through several iterations as we were trying to find out something that works. Our main goal was always to have visuals that are pretty to look at but also properly visualize whats happening. Which is a bit of challenge in a game where so much is happening its scene after scene as the main character is moved around and placed in different situations. A decision that is a bit unusual for an adult game is that we wanted to display the heroine in a beautiful and graceful light whatever shes doing and whatever is being done to her. The result is an adult game that is definitely harder than usual in terms of whats happening but at the same time softer in terms of avoiding fluids and certain body parts.

The Future

Suffer to please is definitely an experiment in many ways and we hope you enjoy it. While anything can and should be improved, right now it feels as a story that feels complete. Thus in case players are hungry for more well likely move on to other projects with different characters but within the same shared world. A particularly exciting possibility is to reverse the point of view and do a VN/trainer hybrid game where the player plays from the male perspective and has more freedom to decide the events and outcome. But its still in very early stages of planning so well first see how this one is received and see if we get interesting feedback.