A Struggle with Sin [v0.6.0.0a + Latest Guide][Chyos]

Good evening,
I still wonder how I got here… Sunday night almost 2am…
Right, I thought I could finish this update this Saturday until noon to finally put an endpoint to it… so that I wouldn’t have to write another weekly report in which I tell you that I still need more time because for some reason even after all this work this week it’s not done yet.

So now it is done, at least in part… But to a degree that you at least can enjoy some of it. I had planned 2 routes for Ugotha and 1 of them (dominance route) is currently only to 90% finished. Because of that I now put a hard breakpoint to that route so that the events there are blocked for now and you can’t complete it (I don’t want you to run into unfinished events). The other route (loverote) can be completed.

So that all the work today was not in vain I publish this version now. I’m not entirely happy with it, but not publishing it would also feel wrong after all the work I put into it today.

I will continue to work on this on monday and then also add in the content for Snikka which is also still not added. and you will also get a full changelog from me.
But right now I’m too tired to look through everything to write it properly.

Edit 02/18/25: By now both routes can be completed and as promised here the full changelog since 0.5.9.0:

• New Flail and Club weapons that you can craft starting at iron
• New weapon animations for all weapons (will only show for newly gathered weapons after this update, you can use the bow&arrow north of Arenfield to update your gear)
• Expanded the scene with Bianca in Arenfield with 4 animations (more about that at the end of this post)
• A new quest will begin after you completed the rescue mission in the mine. If you complete that quest after this update 1 week must pass before you can trigger it, for everyone who already did it the only condition is that you have at least 1 mercenary stationed at the mine. Then visit your camp, Lyvia has to be there to give you a briefing.
• New content for Gavina, will only trigger after you reached the deeper mine and you must have completed all of her previous progression (up to completing her anal training quest).
• New scene with Bianca at home involving Gavina
• New content for Bianca & Gritz (Option for the MC to join in)
• Bianca can now join the MC’s party outside for other quests around Arenfield after her quest is completed.
• 1 small scene for Snikka (Didn’t want to go too deep into character progression with her due to time limitations)
• Content for Ugotha, 2 routes for her with animations and interactions around the goblin village.
• Helena & Yasmine’s christmas scene – can be replayed during december ingame or rl december.
• New animation for Kate at the Old boars inn in the afternoon
• Claire’s anal and mating press animation from Old boars inn can now be played at her bed at the Drunken Fox when going to bed.
• New gear and new enemies – I have scaled down hp scaling for enmies to make fight’s a little shorter.
• Rework of Lyvia’s and Bianca’s dialog images + Made combat sprites for Bianca, Bianca can now join your group in the mine and has some (almost overpowered) new skills that I made for her.
• New characters with sprites & dialog images (Mostly goblins)
• 2 new maps
• 1 adjusted and 1 new defeat scene for the mine with the goblins.
• New music – I also added an option for those who perfer music without lyrics to turn it off in the options menu (Needs to be done from the menu after you started to play)
• Smaller changes: You can now convince Nyra to help you with Umah even if she isn’t your wanita, Corven will now let you learn skills (like building traps) even if you didn’t complete Arianna’s quest.
• A lot of bugfixes! Again thank you for all the reports! If you want details on everything check the bugreport channel on the discord.

v0.5.9.7 Test

• 1 new map
• 2 new animations with Kate at the old boar’s inn
• Claire’s anal animations are now available at night in her bedroom at the Drunken Fox
• New scene for Bianca at home if you completed Gavina’s content up to the point that she got new clothes
• New dialog images & sprite for Tia
• New scene with Tia & Dwain at the camp
• New scene with Maui & Dasan (fanmade scene by Xenowave! A big thank you to him for his work on this scene!) – It is a continuation of the scene with Umah & Maui
• New automation functions for mercenary management (I hope they all work correctly) You can also build an additional tent at the camp to house more mercenaries.
• A lot of smaller changes that I can’t all recall (Things like editing Yasmine’s old ride animation in the livingroom slightly so that her butt doesn’t look so edgy)
• Bugfixes! A lot of them. Thank you to all of you who reported them in the past month!

v0.5.9.6 (Winterhowl Special 2024)

In the end it wasn’t possible without some crunch on the finishline, but it was definitly worth it! In the last hour I added another animation which I just HAD to add… totally worth sleeping one less hour for it. 

 – In case you wonder, yes the title image has nothing to do with the current scene, that’s from Athia’s christmas special 2022.

Ok I’m not going to spoil anything about the scene other than you already know… Only that to start the little quest you must have had Sex with Helena and Yasmine then the quest should start when you are in Arenfield and it is either December ingame or December in Real life (so just now). The scene has a repeatable option, but it currently isn’t available as a dream scene… I might add that in the future, but for now it isn’t planned. Krampus now also has a new reward if you haven’t slayn him this year already (If you did you must pass another ingame year to kill him again).

v0.5.9.5

• New Flail and Club weapons that you can craft starting at iron
• New weapon animations for all weapons (will only show for newly gathered weapons after this update, you can use the bow&arrow north of Arenfield to update your gear)
• Expanded the scene with Bianca in Arenfield with 4 animations (more about that at the end of this post)
• A new quest will begin after you completed the rescue mission in the mine. If you complete that quest after this update 1 week must pass before you can trigger it, for everyone who already did it the only condition is that you have at least 1 mercenary stationed at the mine. Then visit your camp, Lyvia has to be there to give you a briefing.
• New content for Gavina, will only trigger after you reached the deeper mine and you must have completed all of her previous progression (up to completing her anal training quest).
• New gear and new enemies (During my tests I noticed that on the higher level which the goblins can have the damage calculation is really really off. This is something I will work on in the next days so that the fight’s don’t take that long!)
• Rework of Lyvia’s and Bianca’s dialog images + Made combat sprites for Bianca, Bianca can now join your group in the mine and has some (almost overpowered) new skills that I made for her.
• New characters with sprites & dialog images
• 1 new map
• 1 adjusted and 1 new defeat scene for the mine with the goblins.
• New music (I still have an earworm)
• In total ~880 New/reworked images in this update (Some more transition and nonesex animations)
• Smaller changes: You can now convince Nyra to help you with Umah even if she isn’t your wanita, Corven will now let you learn skills (like building traps) even if you didn’t complete Arianna’s quest.
• A lot of bugfixes! Thank you all again for the reports… I still have some more reports pending in my pm’s that I couldn’t all work on, but I will go through them in the coming days.

v0.5.9.1
New animations and interactions with Lilly
Smaller changes and bugfixes

v0.5.9.0:
fixed: Kicking out Henry freezes the game, Dialog at Penny’s table got disabled after completing the quest, Entering coldstone 2nd floor causes getting stuck, Coldstone estate map freezing during day (after talking to farmers), Entering the barn is impossible if not progressed Kate’s story, Problems with Dave & Penny’s scene (involving Henry), typos and other smaller problems;
Added: Alternative dialog when renovating the MC’s house after doing Penny’s quest (before interaction with Emily happened). – Big thanks to marniakeur and the others who reported these bugs!

v0.5.8.7
it’s gotten again late, but now Ophilia’s scene is finally done!

This one has really cost me some nerves. Kate’s drinking event needed several changes for this scene to properly work. I have also been working on an additional scene with Rick & Ophilia that originally wasn’t planned – But during my work on the scene I decided that without it something would be missing in the buildup, so I added it. To trigger the new content you have to play Kate’s serving game in the tavern. If Ophilia is serving there as well and the MC has progressed with her up to the current end of her story. You can call her over for a drink, Rick or the MC can then pay and give her a tip – For Rick this will require some getting to know before she sits down (not possible in ntr off mode). If she sits with the MC and Rick until the end of the evening she will be drunk and either the MC or MC & Rick will have to bring her upstairs.
A little bit of progressing is necessary to see all scenes, but I will leave the exploring part to you. 

On top of the bonus scene I also finally added Ophilias dream scene! It has a few variations and has a random chance to play with different corruption states or drunken/not drunken. It will get available after you progressed Ophilia up to the point where she changes her looks.
The scene at the huntinground has gotten a small update (Tia & Orcs) also finally fixed the animation… Sorry, wasn’t aware it was broken until I played it through.
Also fixed the MC’s jerk off scene with Tia in the mine… the scene still has grass on all areas, and looking at the prevote on discord this won’t change anytime soon… well maybe when I get too frustrated by it

v0.5.8.6a
Hotfix

v0.5.8.6 Test
•Maps: Reworked the Deep forest map, added 3 more maps which can be found Southeast of Arenfield (leave downhill next to the waterfall).
•Continuation of Penny’s quest with new animations and scenes for her. (~700 images)
•Rebalance of some of the item prices. Penny will now also sell roosters if there is more than 1 in the chickencoop as well as eggs if there are more than 10. As part of the quest she will also have cows that can get pregnant and that will produce milk which is currently only used to boost Penny’s income. The mill will also produce flour which Penny will bake into breads (The mill produces 2 flour per day and Penny can bake max 3 bread per day)
•Penny will also have to pay taxes now, there is a possible interaction with Dave, can be prevented by either making sure Penny has enough money (you can now also put gold into her lockbox) or by interacting with Dave directly when he collects the taxes. The tax collection will only begin after the quest has progressed to that point. there is also an additional quest that shows how many days are left until the next payment. (for the future I plan to replace this with an overview screen, but for now that would be overkill in terms of workload)
•A new named merc at the camp that allows you to recruit mercenaries directly. He will come to your camp after you lost the first merc in any way. After that you can of course also send him off, in that case he won’t show off again.
•Bugfixes! (For details check the discord channel) As always a big thanks to all of you for the reports!

Hotfix 0.5.8.5b
Fixed an image bug with Tia&Brigands, Fixed a freeze bug with Frisha&Grant

Hotfix 0.5.8.5a
Fixed an endless loop with Hiba&Tomak, Fixed chicken coop, Fixed bug with Gwen’s sexscene getting stuck, Fixed no choices when spying on Mira

Hotfix 0.5.8.5
Fixed image stuttering for the Hiba/Dasan BJ scene, Added: The transition with Penny to the Coldstone estate is now longer so that the player knows where it actually is.

Hotfix 0.5.8.0b
Fixed problems with Claire at the old boar inn (After you shared her with Bjorn she went wild), Fixed interaction with Claire at the drunken fox at night when she thought Kate was in bed when that wasn’t the case.

v0.5.8.0
Good morning,
feels like we had this recently already… right, same as last week.
I’ve decided to make this update not only so that you can see what I’ve done over the past week but also so that those of you who want can help me smooth out problems that will probably still be in this version. I’ve been running tests over the past 2 hours, but I didn’t test out every decision along the way of the sharing route for Claire and Bjorn.
For those of you unaware how to trigger this content at all I’ll write a short how to at the bottom of this post. For those who aren’t into sharing at all I’ve added a new animation for Claire in the MC’s bedroom.
So (very) short changelog:
Continued content for the sharing route for Claire & Bjorn (4 animations)
New animation in the MC’s bedroom (2 animations)
You can now sort relations alphabetical in the relations window (if it doesn’t work when pressing R you must open it through the menu (esc-> relations))
At the monastery storyline it is now possible to ally with Syfa and betray (imprison/banish) her in the end (this allows you to corrupt the other priestesses)
bugfixes, thanks for all the reports! (see discord bugreport channel)
Now short about how to trigger the sharing content:
In the morning talk to Bjorn and Carmen in the tavern, this will cause Bjorn to go upstairs. After that have sex with Claire in the hallway, this will draw Bjorn’s attention (since he is upstairs). Now to continue you must lose more than 3 gold to him in poker/Blackjack then he will ask you to take Claire to his bedroom. Follow the dialogue from there (there is no questlog for this).

v0.5.7.5

• Gavina’s bonus scene (in case you haven’t played it already)
• Dream system to replay scenes that became unavailable (Only scenes you have activated are available, currently there are 4: 2 for Emily (ntr with bandits, Marcus/Emily); 1 Imawyn in cell, 1 Gavina&Bianca + Tia&Lyvia with goblins) – Next on the to do list is Ophilia when she was drunk (will be added in 0.5.8.0)
• Rework of Toren, Odric & Kyle + their scenes and other images
• 3 new maps (+ 1 for transition but that doesn’t really count)
• New character sprites & dialoge images for Kate, Claire, Carmen and Bjorn
• 1 scene for Kate & Claire (5 animations + transitions)
• 1 small scene for Carmen & Bjorn (1 animation)
• A lot of bugfixes. Again a big thank you to all of you! I got a lot of pm’s and reports on discord and I fixed things like Tia never confronting Katherin about MC and her having sex (can be triggered during dinner at Katherin’s); Emily could get stuck in progression if you never rescued her from bandit camp but then captured Imawyn (now there is a new dialoge in which she is happy about the news that Imawyn got captured, this will also unstuck the quest should it be at that state) + many other smaller and bigger things that I can’t recall all.

Incest?
There is no incest by itself in this game. But if you read Marcus letter a second time (later in the game, Mira’s quest) you will switch to the alternative story and can change designations to what ever you like.

Please let me know if you encounter bugs so I can fix them for the next update.
This is a non linear game which makes testing for me allone difficult (you can be sure I do a lot of testing before each release)
But as this is a one dev project at the moment I hope you will forgive bugs if they happen and report them to me (if possible together with a savefile).
Thank you for helping me to improve the game!

Known issue:
– Sometimes after loading a save an error might pop up. normaly restarting solves the issue. I know this needs fixing and is on my to do list