Hey everyone!

The new release is ready!

I've lost count of how many playthroughs I've made to iterate on the balancing, but it was worth it.

Combat feels much faster, making the choice for your next move a lot more important.

I hope you enjoy the Lost Naga ending too~

This is officially the biggest patch notes I've ever made lmao, big version!

Have fun!

Release Notes 0.11.7

Features:

Added Lost Naga ending.

-Available after strengthening Silas' Claim.

Added "Memories of Silas" Achievement.

Added art for the inside of Apothus' Castle (By Deriaz!).

-Changes when you destroy the ceiling of the main hall.

Added Overpower ability (Gain % Strength for each second spent in combat).

-Unlocked at level 1.

-Minotaur Guard starts with 5 ranks.

-Lost Prisoner starts with 5 ranks.

-Drenth starts with 5 ranks.

-Apothus starts with 5 ranks.

-Imp starts with 1 rank.

Renamed Prowess to Agility.

You can now fight Apothus even after promissing to join him.

Won encounters requirement to starting The Might encounter is now 20 (from 30).

Strength requirement to starting The Bind encounter is now 45 (from 20).

Balancing:

Changed player starting stats to 60 hp, 10 Agility and 30 Strength. (from 100 hp, 30 Agility and 15 Strength).

Changed Nyx Spawn health to 170 (from 210).

Changed Leviathan health to 150 (from 250).

Changed Lost Prisoner health to 250 and Strength to 70 (from 500 hp and 50 Strength).

Changed Lost Naga health to 350 and Strength to 160 (from 500 hp and 70 Strength).

Changed Drenth health to 350 and Strength to 100 (from 700 hp and 70 Strength).

Changed Imp health to 60 (from 64).

Changed Apothus Form 2 health to 1000 (from 1200).

Every global stat based abilities now grants multipliers on top of their bonus to their respective stats.

-Size tiers grant 10%, 20%, 50%, 75%, 100% to Strength.

-Muscle tiers grant 10%, 20%, 50%, 75%, 100% to Strength.

-Balls tiers grant 5%, 10%, 25%, 35%, 50% to Agility.

-Cock tiers grant 5%, 10%, 25%, 35%, 50% to Agility.

Reworked "Unarmed Strike" fight move into "Pummel".

-Has a 100% strength multiplier (from 70%).

-Has 7 base damage.

-Takes 2 seconds to perform.

Reworked "Bash" fight move into "Quick Jab".

-Has a 50% strength multiplier (from 100%).

-Has 3 base damage.

-Takes 1.2 seconds to perform (from 2).

Warrior of Duality now grants strength when corrupted instead of arousal.

-It is also unlocked from Level 1 (from 3).

Increased Empowering Drink stat gains to 15 hp, 10 Agility and 10 Strength per rank (from 5 hp, 5 Agility and 3 Strength).

Increased Deadly Aim crit chance gain by 10% per rank (from 7%).

Piercing Precision is now unlocked at Level 1 (from 5).

Vampiric Lust now heals for a percentage of max health instead of a set amount.

Changed healing amounts for Joint Assault to 2.5% per rank (from 5% per rank).

Strength of the Forgotten is now available at Level 1 (from 5)

-Still needs to be in NewGame+ for it.

Increased Block's damage mitigation to 45% (from 30%)

Increased Prideful Ascent time cost to 5 seconds (from 4).

Reduced growth multipleirs to Sigil Triad by about half.

Increased Silas' Dominance growth multiplier to 50% (from 20%).

Silas' Claim gains a 3x multiplier to its size theft values every time it's empowered.

Changed stat gains upon leveling up.

-Odd levels now grant 30 hp (from 20).

-Even levels now grant 7.5 Strength (from 4).

Changed leviathan choice restrictions.

Changed leviathan corruption calculation.

UI:

Added animated fades to combat report as new moves are added to it.

Moved time left before opponent's next move to the bottom of the fight window.

Added tooltip display for XP and Essence modifiers.

Cleaned up links in the main menu screen.

Added Corrupted glitches to the Balls stat when infested by Nyx Spawns.

Bugfixes:

Fixed an issue where negative body stats would not be shown in the character sheet.

Removed unused attack timing settings from Ferro's teammate menu.

Fixed an issue where The Might's fight rewards were much lower than expected.

Fixed an issue where Lukka would always complain that his reservoir was empty, until it was full.

Fixed a Lukka passage counting as an expedition.

Fixed issues with Mutation table.

This version is NOT compatible with saves from 0.11.6, but you can restart the game with your Essence, Achievements, and Exp from older saves.

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Hey everyone!

The features I had planned for the Lost Naga became more ambitious than I expected, so it became the main focus of the version.

I hope you enjoy ❤️

Even with the whole Itch.io situation, I plan to keep doing monthly releases as usual.

Exploring sexual themes and identities matters.

Release Notes 0.11.6

Features:

Added over 6k words of new Lost Naga content

The Lost Naga will hint at a secret powerful technique he hid within the Bastion if you lose to them enough.

-You can then find it within the jail cell near the Lost Werewolf.

-The technique can be strengthened further if you defeat the Naga.

-Using the technique on someone drains their size and tranfers it to the Naga.

-Using it on the Naga drains your own size and gives it to him.

-Using the technique against him will change how he acts after the encounter.

-The technique can be empowered further...

Added two new full body transformation art for the final, hyper form of Abel. (by WInty!)

-Has both hyper and fully corrupted bodies

-Corrupted body has layered tendrils and Nyx Spawns based on the scenes.

-The exile scene that lets you infest Abel with Nyx Spawns becomes available again if the player takes in more spawns in expeditions.

The Curse of the Naga mechanic is still present with the new content

-Curse is stronger if you lose to him after learning Silas' Claim

Added "Silas' Claim" fight move

Added "Silas' Curse" Ability

Added "Silas' Dominance" Ability

Added "Patron of Silas" Achievement

Bugfixes:

Fixed some Ethrex related abilities not being applied correctly.

Fixed Lukka's final Evolution being able to be repeated on win.

Fixed Incubus Strike name reference.

(Special Build) Fixed up Debug learn skills and abilities causing issues.

This version is NOT compatible with saves from 0.11.5, but you can restart the game with your Essence, Achievements, and Exp from older saves.

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Features:

Added final evolution for Echo.

-Accessible by talking to Lukka after evolving it once (must be over level 20)

-Made to have the intensity of an ending on an arc that keeps the game going.

-Echo Form now has a 3rd rank, which gives stronger stats and 30% damage reduction.

Added Achievement "The Urge That Remains" (Become one with the forgotten urge.)

Reworked "Herculean Build" into the "Echoes of the Urge" ability.

-"Echoes of the Urge" is obtained by reaching the last stage of Echo's evolution.

-Grants 50% of your muscle stat as strength.

-Some characters start with "Echoes of the Urge" (The Might, Apothus' second form, Nyx)

Balancing:

The pit full of Nyx Spawns now infects you with a Nyx Spawn Infection 3 times (from 1).

Bugfixes:

Made Metabolism and Mutant boxes directly editable, with a variety of controls: Press-and-hold +/- Directly input numbers Up and down arrows.

Changed metric display for small numbers.

Fixed mentions of "Ankou" instead of the player's name in Abel's muscle worship scenes.

This version is NOT compatible with saves from 0.11.4, but you can restart the game with your Essence, Achievements, and Exp from older saves.

Features:

Added optional path to corrupt members of the Golden Bastion after being exiled. (over 5k words)

-Citizens will seek you out after you get exiled.

-Corrupting them will make them come back for more after you reach enough corruption.

Added "Corrupted Worshippers" ability

Added "Dwindling Influence" Debuff for the Herald whenever you strengthen your corrupted worshippers.

Added "Corrupted Bastion" achievement

Added support for fight move critical damage.

Added support for fight move base damage

Added new Fight Moves unlocked by acquiring related abilities.

-Added Fight Move Incapacitating Growth (Grow your opponent, stunning them with pleasure. Scales with size and corruption levels. Unlocked at level 15)

-Added Fight Move Sacrificing Strike (Empower a strike by sacrificing a portion of your size. Scales on size sacrificed. Unlocked at level 20)

-Added Fight Move Growing Duel (Scaled Critical Damage based on cock size. Grows the opponent's cock and balls. Unlocked at level 20)

Drenth stats now grow in his narrative passages.

Balancing:

Buffed the Herald's base stats to compensate for his potential debuffs.

Beefed up Leviathan in a fight, while making him less Essence-greedy.

Draco's Omnipotence now recquires level 25 to be unlocked (From 20)

Bugfixes:

Fixed Autosaves not working properly.

Fixed volume and measurement choices resetting on NG+

Fixed widget reload potentially breaking NG+, forcing reload.

Fixed Torgar getting softlocked if you don't buy the slime blob and Leviathan evolves

Fixed certain verbs only displaying the first letter of the word.

This version is NOT compatible with saves from 0.11.3, but you can restart the game with your Essence, Achievements, and Exp from older saves.

Features:

Added over 6k words to Abel in the village.

-Added three intimate muscle worship scenes, each unlocking once your muscles are big enough.

-Added worldbuilding scene available after you fought the Lost Naga for the first time.

Added 20 unique scenes when passing time in the Bastion. Some only trigger when the player reaches a certain amount of stats.

Added "Worthy of Worship" ability.

Added "Devoted Worshipper" achievement (Let a friend unleash his fantasies of muscle worship.)

Localization:

Refactored how game logic is handled in localized versions of the game. Will greatly help improving stability in localized versions for the future.

When a passage transition is inconsistent between english and localized versions, the english one will be shown to prevent bad pathing issues.

Balancing:

Increased the player's base health to 100 (from 60)

Increased the player's base strength to 15 (from 10)

Reduced the imp's base strength to 5 (from 20)

Reduced Torgar's base strength to 10 (from 35)

Reduced the time cost of Herald's Devotion (From 5 seconds to 3)

Reduced strength multiplier of the first Size Diff global ability to 10% (from 20%)

Bugfixes:

Fixed an issue where some Cray dialogues could be played in the Village even after he left.

Fixed bad pathing issue when fighting the slime as a macro before it turns into Leviathan.

Fixed an issue where Herald's Devotion wouldn't be added to the player's moveset when getting the "Incomplete Memories" ending.

Fixed progression of the Nyx manor dungeon for the chinese version.

Fixed some display errors in Torgar's corruption path in Chinese.

This version is NOT compatible with saves from 0.11.2, but you can restart the game with your Essence, Achievements, and Exp from older saves.

Features:

After Cray leaves the Bastion, he will roam the Barrens.

-This triggers a one-time encounter against him, with unique interactions based on the outcome of the fight.

-Winning the fight will grant a stronger reward, but it's a challenging battle.

Added “Faith of the Chosen” Ability.

Added “Influence of the Chosen” Ability.

Added Achievement "Triumph Of The Chosen" (Defeat the chosen after he leaves the Golden Bastion.)

Added option to spend time in your current location instead of exploring.

-This replaces the menu to extend stars buff duration.

Simplified the Stars mechanics.

-You can now increase the Strength and Health of enemies, increasing your Essence and EXP gain.

-The inverse can be applied to yourself, increasing your Strength and Health, reducing your Essence and EXP gain.

Stars descriptor in the village now says how many days are left for the current star.

Character art will now be smaller on lower resolution displays.

Now hiding title logo on the sidebar for lower res displays.

Various grammar improvements for Leviathan's story arc.

Cleaned up Moveset Menu.

Cleaned up Stars Menu.

Balancing:

Ensnaring Goo now has a 50% strength scaling (From 0%).

Art:

Added art to The Might's introduction. (By Deriaz!)

Bugfixes:

Fixed an issue where Torgar's story would progress to its 2nd stage even if he still had potions to sell.

Fixed an issue where some choices would be displayed twice in the Chinese localization.

Fixed lots of bad passage linking for Chinese localization.

Fixed an issue where the first passage after a fight was never localized.

Fixed an issue where a lot of systems would break when going through new game+ in the Chinese version.

This version is NOT compatible with saves from 0.11.1, but you can restart the game with your Essence, Achievements, and Exp from older saves.

Features:

Added the Golden Bastion's guard post as a location to visit in the village.

-Adds Cray as a new interactable NPC

-Cray can give info about some encounters of the Barrens after the player meets them.

-He can teach the player the First Strike move. (No longer acquired upon hitting level 3)

-Cray's mood changes after some time, or certain events happen in the village

SPOILERS ON NEW VILLAGE FEATURES START HERE

After Cray's mood changes, he will leave the village at the next golden star.

Abel will then mention Cray's departure in new conversations.

SPOILERS ON NEW VILLAGE FEATURES END HERE

The Lost Prisoner now escapes on his own after 17 days, even if not untied by the player.

Added a passage when showing an empty Essence reservoir to Lukka.

The village's flavour text now says which star is affecting the world.

Tweaked the pacing of some writing in Nyx's realm

Simplified mentions of the Eldest to refer to the Herald instead.

Renamed "Infinite Development" ability category to "Endless Development"

Removed mentions of learning the disabled move "Enraged Pummel" upon hitting Level 6.

Art:

Added art for Leviathan's critter form and beast form (By Winty!)

Balancing:

Fixed an issue where The Bind was using The Might's powerful Slash attack.

Inhaling the corrupted cloth in the into now gives 3 Corruption (from 10)

Bugfixes:

Fixed an issue where buying every sigil from Torgar put him in his next stage, even if the slimey blob was still available.

Fixed the fight move picker menu asking for 6 moves even when you only have 5 available.

This version is NOT compatible with saves from 0.11.0, but you can restart the game with your Essence, Achievements, and Exp from older saves.

Features:

First beta version!

The game now contains 240k words, and has every encounter planned for the final release.

Reworked the Slime encounter from scratch (with huge help from Myst <3)

-Starts as a basic slime, but its potential can be awakened...

-Torgar now has an option to sell you a "slimey blob"

SPOILERS ON NEW ENCOUNTER FEATURES START HERE

-Once evolved into Leviathan, he can be strengthened further to reach a stronger Beast form.

-Leviathan has the "Sand Dive" move (Reduces incoming damage by 95% for 1 seconds.)

-From there, he can reach a perfect pure or corrupted form and join you as a teammate.

-Leviathan learns "Leviathan's Protection" move in his purity path (Reduces incoming damage of your teammate by 20% for 2 seconds.)

-Leviathan learns "Leviathan's Corruption" move in his Corruption path (Heals your teammate for 10% of their corruption as health.)

SPOILERS ON NEW ENCOUNTER FEATURES END HERE

-Every damage mitigation moves now show how much damage is reduced when taking a hit.

-Different damage mitigations can now be stacked.

-Disabled the Save and Options menus during combat.

-Shelving the Lost Entity encounter from the eastern Barrens. (It was stuck in a awkward state where their stats couldn't be persistent, unlike every other encounters. Plus a lot of its ideas were repurposed into other parts of the game. Not quite sure what to do with this one.)

Bugfixes:

Fixed display issues of hp and damage values showing lotd of decimals after blocking.

This version is NOT compatible with saves from 0.10.5, but you can restart the game with your Essence, Achievements, and Exp from older saves.

Features:

Added "Growth Tremor" as a level up ability. Whenever you receive damage, you permanently gain that much to your Muscle stat. (up to X% of your Muscle stat)

Added "Joint Assault" as a level up ability. Heal (5%-25%) of your max health every time your teammate attacks.

Added "Strength of the Forgotten" as a level up ability. Gain 5% Strength for each finished Cycle. (up to 50%-150%)

Added "Reckless Maneuver" as a level up ability. Increases critical hits damage by 30%-150%. Reduce critical hits chance by 5%-25%.

Added "Tandem Tactics" as a level up ability. Grants 25%-125% Strength to your teammate during combat.

Added "Symbiotic Tactics" as a level up ability. Grants 25%-125% of your own Strength to your teammate at the start of combat.

Added "Unstoppable Expansion" as a level up ability. (Whenever you gain any amount of growth, add (0.1%-1%) of your current size to that amount.)

Added "Building Sized" Achievement (Grow taller than a building.)

Added "Planet Sized" Achievement (Grow taller than Earth's diameter.)

Added "Natural Leader" Achievement (Join forces with every potential partner.)

Added new Fight Move "Block" to the player's starting moveset. (Reduces incoming damage for 1.5 seconds)

Renamed "Actions" to "Seconds" to make it clearer that it is meant to express the duration of fight moves.

Art:

Added art for the Golden Bastion (by Deriaz!)

Added art for Nyx boss fight (by Winty!)

Balancing:

Removed Slash from the player's starting moveset. (Replaced by Block)

Herculean Build is now available at level 15 (from 1)

Removed the "Momentum" ability until it's reworked to fit new combat systems better.

Bugfixes:

Fixed muscle stat inaccuracies with large values by a factor of 3

This version is NOT compatible with saves from 0.10.4, but you can restart the game with your Essence, Achievements, and Exp from older saves.

Features:

Added The Might encounter.

Is difficulty is balanced around mid-late game.

Can be encountered in the Eastern Barrens.

Featuring new art by Winty!

Added "Harness of the Might" Achievement.

Added "Health Infusion" ability that can be acquired when leveling up. Grants Health equal to your level upon acquiring this ability. (can be ranked up indefinitely)

Added "Power Infusion" ability that can be acquired when leveling up. Grants Strength equal to your half level upon acquiring this ability. (can be ranked up indefinitely)

"Power Infusion" is now the default pick upon entering the level up screen.

Added "Infinite Development" category for level up abilities.

Fixed a lot of small grammatical errors throughout the whole game.

Balancing:

Tweaked Herculean growth percentages and added extra ranks for it. (From 40,68,89,105,125 to 10,20,30,40,50,60,70,80,90,100,110,120)

UI:

The Crit Chance tooltip now display all sources modifying it.

Bugfixes:

Fixed an issue where the "first time" intro passage for The Bind would not be used.

Fixed an issue "Baptism In Corruption" wouldn't give stat boosts.

Fixed an issue where "Orgasmic Growth" could be unlocked before unlocking Echo.

Fixed Tiadane as a teammate having bad cropping on his combat portrait.

Fixed bad info display for "Essence Hoarder" and "Apex Predator" when they are triggered

Fixed localized display for Corrupted Remedy

This version is NOT compatible with saves from 0.10.3 but you can restart the game with your Essence, Achievements and Exp from older saves.

Features:

Drenth will now escape Apothus's manor after you unlock the seal to Nyx's realm.

He then becomes a new encounter in the Barrens, and will behave differently if hostile, pure or corrupted.

Your encounter with him will affect what path he takes even further.

Added "Forgotten Wanderer" Achievement.

Greatly improved UI for the mobile version during combat.

Added new UI icons instead of normal choices for features in the Village.

Added option menu to the sidebar.

Removed options selection on character creation.

Added language picker to the new options menu.

Supports English and Chinese (wip).

Remove the journal from your home.

Balancing:

Turned size difference global abilities into percentage buffs instead of raw strength. (From 7, 10, 40 Strength to 20%, 40%, 80%)

Removed arousal gain buff from Size Difference global abilities.

Bugfixes:

Fixed display of high Metric number shortenings (k, m, b) being off by 10 ^ 3.

Fixed an issue where Drenth wouldn't switch to his alternate art in some scenes in the manor.

Fixed some passage transitions not using the bottom choice menu.

Fixed the level up screen mentioning "Stamina" instead of "Prowess".

Fixed Herculean Build's buff being applied after the next time you grew, instead of directly after you acquire the ability.

This version is NOT compatible with saves from 0.10.2 but you can restart the game with your Essence, Achievements and Exp from older saves.

Features:

If you gain too much Corruption, Lukka will now be exiled as well for helping you in your journey (after a few in-game days)

He will then work on rebuilding a lab in the Barrens.

Nyx will have his stat boosts reseted if you lose the fight against him.

Added an option to escape from Nyx's fight if you lose too often to him.

Fixed broken fight UI display for the mobile version.

Added tooltips explaining the Strength, Prowess and Crit Dmg stats when hovering them.

Removed Gumroad link from the opening page.

Removed passages related to changing teammates attack timings since it's irrelevant in the new fight system.

Balancing:

"Codex's Passion"'s healing is no longer affected by Corruption.

Increased "Codex's Passion"'s healing to 5%,10%,15%,20%,25% (From 2%,5%,10%,12%,15%)

"Herculean Build"'s stat boost is no longer capped. Ranking it up now increases the Strength multiplier (From 50% to 40%,68%,89%,105%,125%)

"Masochism" and "Draco's Omnipotence" now requires the arousal mechanic to be unlocked before appearing in the level up screen.

Bugfixes:

Fixed an issue where the option to "keep exploring" after finding the crash site didn't work.

This version is NOT compatible with saves from 0.10.1 but you can restart the game with your Essence, Achievements and Exp from older saves.

Features:

Reworked incubus encounter completely.

-He now called Erthex, the incubus.

-Features unique passages before and after each stages of your demonic transformation.

-He can now join your party after you defeat him as a Lord of Lust.

-Defeating him after he joined you grants the "Lust Incarnate" ability.

Added the option to have the choices be either inside the main window or at the bottom of it.

Added missing variant for hyper sized cocks in the glory hole room of the castle.

Adjust character portraits so that they float to the side to allow text to flow around them. (Thanks MuscleMage!)

Art:

Added art showcasing The Bind as a ring before his encounter (Thanks Deriaz!)

Added wip character art for The Bind (Thanks Winty!)

Bugfixes:

Fixed an issue loading a saved game after rebooting the game.

Fixed broken choice window in Firefox. (Thanks MuscleMage!)

Fixed broken narrative events in some of Abel's dialogues.

Fixed an issue with cancelling limit breaks after removing points from stats.

Fixed display bug in the description of Last Stand.

Fixed a display issue with one of Apothus 2nd form's attack.

Balance:

Tripled the amount of Limit Breaks gained by leveling up.

This version is NOT compatible with saves from 0.7.4.1 but you can restart the game with your Essence, Achievements and Exp from older saves.