First dungeon crawl Reena do jack shit so better run away or die. Pantry not working. No pictures in brothel - real for Reena and any for Jess.
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Until the game leaves Alpha, don't expect to keep any of your old saves
Westane is working on a fix for all of this including media
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Roadmap is coming next week based on something Westane said on the Discord. BitW is leaving Alpha soon and could possibly be this next update. We'll have a good timeline next week
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Overall, the game leaves a positive impression, although it's obvious that in many places it's a skeleton that hasn't grown muscles yet. For example, I was sure that even at this stage the expansion/upgrade of the brothel was available, but no, as it turned out, I have wasted my time looking for iron ore.
Nevertheless, I will keep an eye on the development of this project.
Nevertheless, I will keep an eye on the development of this project.
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Bug fix is out!
Brothel in the Woods - Alpha 0.1.2.5a has been released!
- Fix issue with pantry breaking (NaN issue)
- Saya should be accessible even while on the dream quest
- Added missing images
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Deep dive of news and the Road Map for the game just came out
The Roadmap
Below is an overview of what's coming from both games. After that, we'll dive in a little deeper and expand on what can be expected from these various phases.
Brothel in the Woods - Alpha Roadmap: (Now - July 2025)
While we are nearly out of Alpha, there is still a lot of major work that needs to be done. What we're going to go over in this section are items that players should expect to see getting attention very soon.
Intro progression is still getting dialed in. Players are already getting creative with subverting the event flow in the game's opening, which is itself fine, but the issues that are arising from it need to be addressed. Expect another quest or two plus a handful of fail-safes added in to ensure that nothing gets missed or overlooked while starting your journey.
Character progression is also going to see a more defined change with the removal of Affection. Think less stat grinding and more confidants from Persona. Each romancable character will have their own series of quests for you, approximately 6 per character. These quests will unlock at various stages of the game, often relying on other milestones or objectives to be completed, and will offer gradually increasing rewards... particularly of the spicy variety. Of course, options will be in place to avoid being intimate with characters you don't care about in that way, so there's nothing to stop you from completing the game and reaping the clothing-mandatory quest rewards.
Combat and equipment re-balancing is a major priority, and will likely be the theme of the next major update. Combat itself feels pretty good, but lacks ability variety. Things like AoE, status effects, and enemy healing are all going to find their way into the combat system, hopefully making for a more dynamic experience, particularly when it comes to boss encounters. What doesn't feel good is spending half your MP to miss with an ability, that could do anywhere from 3 to 14,819 damage depending on RNG... this is getting addressed. Risk in combat shouldn't come down wholly to a bad die roll.
Equipment felt good on initial implementation, but has kind of petered out when it comes to progression. I don't want to speak too much to this as we're still evaluating options, but the way equipment works currently is going to get a complete rework to allow for more, and more types, of upgrades. Right now there's not a sense of "Oh cool I got a better weapon!" and getting that is critical.
Leveling up feels bad! I mean... I guess it doesn't really feel like anything right now... which is still bad, right? Leveling is, at present, a complete afterthought that we now need to address, and I'm excited to get into it! First, XP is being decoupled from characters completely, instead opting for a full on Pokemon XP Share system. Your party members, even the ones not in your party, will always be the same level as the MC. That's fine, basic stuff, the real meat is in giving players something to "do" with those levels.
Skill points will be given to each character with every level up, and can be used to increase base stats like Health and Mana, improve or augment abilities, and apply passive bonuses like weapon specializations and resistances. Some characters may even have leveling perks that apply out of combat bonuses like lowering food usage or increasing brothel functionality.
Navigation and gathering will also be seeing some improvements. It's already starting to get a little clunky trying to get around and with more dungeons coming soon that's something that will need to be address. The current plan is a sort of "world map" system, making it easier to jump around from your farmstead to the village to gathering sites, to dungeons. Gathering will also see a rework to make it less grindy, but more info on that will come later.
The Brothel itself will see some further expansion and upgrade options that will affect workers' trust, affection, health, and income. Speaking of income, both the numbers and the nightly report will see adjustments as the in-game economy expands.
Reese, the local slaver, will see actual functionality added. He will provide a way to acquire new non-story brothel workers, and give players a chance to recruit story workers that they may have passed on for some reason... at a steep cost, of course.
The Economy sucks, and also in the game, too! Everything above is going to have some impact on what you can spend all that gold the brothel is generating on, while still navigating your tenuous relationship with Samuel. New gear, weapon upgrades, building upgrades, various progression systems, will all be tied to gold with the intention being that players will need to set goals and have an idea where their finances are going every week. This will, of course, take some time to balance, but that's the intent.
Also... mail system, NPC dialogue expansion, party member management menu, and probably other stuff I missed!
Entering Beta and Release
Once systems are shored up in Alpha, we'll be entering Brothel in the Woods' beta era. This will see a major focus shift from gameplay to content, as characters all get their personal quest lines built and expanded, databases get filled in, more brothel workers are introduced, and the main questline is further established and completed.
Once all that's wrapped up, so too is Brothel in the Woods! Bugfixes and modding documentation will release soon after 1.0 does, and whether or not it gets officially maintained and expanded after that will fall mostly to the community. Regardless, with the release, The Company will make its way back into the spotlight.
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The Roadmap
Below is an overview of what's coming from both games. After that, we'll dive in a little deeper and expand on what can be expected from these various phases.
Brothel in the Woods - Alpha Roadmap: (Now - July 2025)
- Complete all systems implementation with room for cleanup and improvement
- Introduce all major NPC's and their first round of quests (Claire and Saya, for example)
- Complete the first chapter of the Velvet Root quest line
- Add more items, quests, locations, enemies, images, etc.
- Expect to enter beta End of July 2025
- Enter beta once the above goals have been achieved
- Complete all quests and scenes for NPCs
- Complete Velvet Root quest line
- All systems are complete and stable
- All character endings added to game
- All quests, content, images, etc. added to game
- Free Play (NG+) added to game
- Expect to enter full release End of December 2025
- Open more modding option where applicable
- Release modding / whore creation documentation
While we are nearly out of Alpha, there is still a lot of major work that needs to be done. What we're going to go over in this section are items that players should expect to see getting attention very soon.
Intro progression is still getting dialed in. Players are already getting creative with subverting the event flow in the game's opening, which is itself fine, but the issues that are arising from it need to be addressed. Expect another quest or two plus a handful of fail-safes added in to ensure that nothing gets missed or overlooked while starting your journey.
Character progression is also going to see a more defined change with the removal of Affection. Think less stat grinding and more confidants from Persona. Each romancable character will have their own series of quests for you, approximately 6 per character. These quests will unlock at various stages of the game, often relying on other milestones or objectives to be completed, and will offer gradually increasing rewards... particularly of the spicy variety. Of course, options will be in place to avoid being intimate with characters you don't care about in that way, so there's nothing to stop you from completing the game and reaping the clothing-mandatory quest rewards.
Combat and equipment re-balancing is a major priority, and will likely be the theme of the next major update. Combat itself feels pretty good, but lacks ability variety. Things like AoE, status effects, and enemy healing are all going to find their way into the combat system, hopefully making for a more dynamic experience, particularly when it comes to boss encounters. What doesn't feel good is spending half your MP to miss with an ability, that could do anywhere from 3 to 14,819 damage depending on RNG... this is getting addressed. Risk in combat shouldn't come down wholly to a bad die roll.
Equipment felt good on initial implementation, but has kind of petered out when it comes to progression. I don't want to speak too much to this as we're still evaluating options, but the way equipment works currently is going to get a complete rework to allow for more, and more types, of upgrades. Right now there's not a sense of "Oh cool I got a better weapon!" and getting that is critical.
Leveling up feels bad! I mean... I guess it doesn't really feel like anything right now... which is still bad, right? Leveling is, at present, a complete afterthought that we now need to address, and I'm excited to get into it! First, XP is being decoupled from characters completely, instead opting for a full on Pokemon XP Share system. Your party members, even the ones not in your party, will always be the same level as the MC. That's fine, basic stuff, the real meat is in giving players something to "do" with those levels.
Skill points will be given to each character with every level up, and can be used to increase base stats like Health and Mana, improve or augment abilities, and apply passive bonuses like weapon specializations and resistances. Some characters may even have leveling perks that apply out of combat bonuses like lowering food usage or increasing brothel functionality.
Navigation and gathering will also be seeing some improvements. It's already starting to get a little clunky trying to get around and with more dungeons coming soon that's something that will need to be address. The current plan is a sort of "world map" system, making it easier to jump around from your farmstead to the village to gathering sites, to dungeons. Gathering will also see a rework to make it less grindy, but more info on that will come later.
The Brothel itself will see some further expansion and upgrade options that will affect workers' trust, affection, health, and income. Speaking of income, both the numbers and the nightly report will see adjustments as the in-game economy expands.
Reese, the local slaver, will see actual functionality added. He will provide a way to acquire new non-story brothel workers, and give players a chance to recruit story workers that they may have passed on for some reason... at a steep cost, of course.
The Economy sucks, and also in the game, too! Everything above is going to have some impact on what you can spend all that gold the brothel is generating on, while still navigating your tenuous relationship with Samuel. New gear, weapon upgrades, building upgrades, various progression systems, will all be tied to gold with the intention being that players will need to set goals and have an idea where their finances are going every week. This will, of course, take some time to balance, but that's the intent.
Also... mail system, NPC dialogue expansion, party member management menu, and probably other stuff I missed!
Entering Beta and Release
Once systems are shored up in Alpha, we'll be entering Brothel in the Woods' beta era. This will see a major focus shift from gameplay to content, as characters all get their personal quest lines built and expanded, databases get filled in, more brothel workers are introduced, and the main questline is further established and completed.
Once all that's wrapped up, so too is Brothel in the Woods! Bugfixes and modding documentation will release soon after 1.0 does, and whether or not it gets officially maintained and expanded after that will fall mostly to the community. Regardless, with the release, The Company will make its way back into the spotlight.