VN Ren'Py Karlsson's Gambit [v0.8.31 FinalA2] [Grym Gudinna Games]

[Stan5851]

Desdemona has very little content at the moment though I'm sure she'll get some eventually.

Given recent trends to reduce any evil content on the Dom route, I wouldn't be so sure about that.

 

[The_Man_With_No_Name]

Given recent trends to reduce any evil content on the Dom route, I wouldn't be so sure about that.

You're right. Sadly very true.

 

[akki_sky]

Was there really any need to give two options for personal assistant. Dev just unnecessarily doubled her work.

 

[jadepaladin]

Was there really any need to give two options for personal assistant. Dev just unnecessarily doubled her work.

Yup, should have axed Mia and just kept Desdemona.

 

[Maviarab]

Yup, should have axed Mia and just kept Desdemona.

Easiest evil points in the game

 

[MilesEdgeworth]

Yup, should have axed Mia and just kept Desdemona.

Or given her proclivities kept desdemona and axed mia

 

[Stan5851]

Yup, should have axed Mia and just kept Desdemona.

Hey, you shouldn't be kink shaming of her eyebrows. Maybe one day a poisoned arrow meant for Kane or a stray bullet will get lodged in those eyebrows and that girl will save us.

 

[FDMuser]

It feels like the chat feed is a gathering of some hardcore dominants. Dear fans of femdom who understand the mechanics of the game well, your time has come.
Please tell me, who really knows what actions are currently necessary but sufficient for sub Kane to take to end up at levels K1, K2 and K3? And is it even possible? It's just that no matter how I screw up, Olivia appears who pulls me out of any shit by the ears, and "my" is a pretty evil young lady, I must say.

 

[jadepaladin]

It feels like the chat feed is a gathering of some hardcore dominants. Dear fans of femdom who understand the mechanics of the game well, your time has come.
Please tell me, who really knows what actions are currently necessary but sufficient for sub Kane to take to end up at levels K1, K2 and K3? And is it even possible? It's just that no matter how I screw up, Olivia appears who pulls me out of any shit by the ears, and "my" is a pretty evil young lady, I must say.

The "worst" I've been able to do is start as evil but still make "slave" choices, it leads to Juliette demoting me for fun, and then make sure your Olivia is good, so that you are misaligned with her. If you and her aren't on the same page, she actively tries to sabotage Kane and demotes him further at one of the ceremonies. That's the only way I've ever been able to trigger K2 and below. If Kane is good and Olivia is evil, you don't trigger Juliette's "fun" demotion and I tend to hang around K3-K4.

 

[kinkyshin]

It feels like the chat feed is a gathering of some hardcore dominants. Dear fans of femdom who understand the mechanics of the game well, your time has come.
Please tell me, who really knows what actions are currently necessary but sufficient for sub Kane to take to end up at levels K1, K2 and K3? And is it even possible? It's just that no matter how I screw up, Olivia appears who pulls me out of any shit by the ears, and "my" is a pretty evil young lady, I must say.

Good/Evil doesn't matter at all for rankings.

Kane and Olivia's long-term relationship (sis_team) actually doesn't really matter all that much for Kane's rank yet either, with one exception... This is because so far it only affects the first evaluation (on both sub and dom routes) but has absolutely no bearing one the second evaluation, which is the only important evaluation thus far. (The one exception is if Kane goes from k4->k5 on the first evaluation). The first evaluation is pretty much worthless besides that one exception lol.

There are 2 variables related to both Kane/Olivia's relationship and his rank:
1) sis_team, which I mentioned above.. it's a long-term tracker for their bond obviously and affects the first (useless) evaluation, but will almost certainly affect their relationship more importantly down the road on both dom/sub routes.
2) sishpts, which so far only matters on the sub route, and is a tracker of both their bond but mostly Kane's performance and affects the second (important) evaluation on the sub route.

You asked about the sub route in particular though, so that's what I put below:

First evaluation:
(Olivia likes you if you have at least 2 sis_team points. She doesn't like you if you don't.)
-> If Olivia likes you, and you've done very well (Delilah recommends k5), then you'll be moved up to k5 (which puts Kane's on an entirely different route).
-> If Olivia likes you, and you haven't done very well, then you'll be k4 no matter what (even if Juliette demoted you to k3).

-> If Olivia doesn't like you, and you've done very well (Delilah recommends k5), then Olivia will refuse to promote you to k5, and you'll be stuck at k4.
-> If Olivia doesn't like you, she will follow Delilah's recommendation. (Which could be stay at k4, or demote to k3 or demote to k2 if you were already k3)

Second evaluation:
-> Is entirely based on sishpts, which are negative points that you can gain both with your behavior around Olivia and your performance in your tests after the first evaluation...
-> If you gain very high sishpts, you will be placed in provisional k1. If high, then k2. If medium, then k3. If low, then k4. (again, your previous rank has no bearing on this, nor does Kane's relationship with Olivia... only sishpts... Yes, you can go from k4 to provisional k1 here lol)

So if you want to get on ranks k1(provisional)/k2/k3/k4 on the second evaluation, you'll need to get the appropriate amount of sishpts, which you can start collecting immediately after the first evaluation:

-> When you wake up in her house, you can be disobedient to her, which will gain you sishpts.
-> Then there are 3 tests... With Olivia/Juliette, with Olivia/Veronica, with Dominique. Doing poorly on these tests will give you sishpts.

 

[FDMuser]

Good/Evil doesn't matter at all for rankings.

There are 2 variables related to both Kane/Olivia's relationship and his rank:
1) sis_team, which I mentioned above.. it's a long-term tracker for their bond obviously and affects the first (useless) evaluation, but will almost certainly affect their relationship more importantly down the road on both dom/sub routes.
2) sishpts, which so far only matters on the sub route, and is a tracker of both their bond but mostly Kane's performance and affects the second (important) evaluation on the sub route.

Thanks for the super detailed analysis. But the problem is that I can only guess where I get the first or second rating and where I don't. I understand that for this you need a mod from "Sancho" or something like that. Right?

 

[IllDisposed]

The walkthrough does a fairly good job of showing where you can get different points. You probably want to find the description of the scene where your ranking is decided to see what scores you need for the ranking you're going for and then look through to find which scenes you can get those points in.

 

[PickerLewd]

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Corporate Development Memo 1 July 2025

Hi everyone!

Sorry for the late post but as I said last week, I was contemplating this since I knew I wasn't back from my trip until today. I did manage to get a good amount of writing done, but not quite as many renders so my total might not reflect the true productivity overall.

I did 81 renders by Monday (I have done another 20+ already but counting it for this week's update to get back on 100+ again) for a grand total of 2,094 renders. Very close to that 100 average a week. I didn't count formally, but I think I have about 60 raw animations, and I usually will now keep a good 2/3rd versus just half like I did in prior updates. I think they're getting a little more acceptable overall versus rejecting such a high percentage. Maybe someday I'll do a fun little release of all the "rejects" for animations? Some are hilariously bad!

I'm on a new scene that should be most of this week, but we'll see. Some of the start of it (an optional part of the overall scene not seen by all) is posted above.

I'm still really tired from the trip, but it was really a great experience! My father had been putting this together for about a year with people he knows out in Washington DC so it was really amazing getting to see some cool stuff! That's all I can really say about it but it opened my eyes for sure and something I'll take with me moving forward. I'm very lucky to have such an awesome dad!

I will try really hard to do a very lengthy and good update this following weekend trying to nail down my overall thoughts on the update, a road map and hopefully more. I'm still juggling some Steam translation stuff too so it's been also hitting some of my time for KG. But it's moving...

I'm way behind on messages/Discord too, but I'll start catching up as I get back into the flow of day to day. I appreciate the patience and support as this is admittedly a really, really, busy year with life changes, etc. But I'm still plugging away and happy doing it .

Love,

Tess

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[jadepaladin]

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[Stan5851]

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Corporate Development Memo 1 July 2025

Hi everyone!

Sorry for the late post but as I said last week, I was contemplating this since I knew I wasn't back from my trip until today. I did manage to get a good amount of writing done, but not quite as many renders so my total might not reflect the true productivity overall.

I did 81 renders by Monday (I have done another 20+ already but counting it for this week's update to get back on 100+ again) for a grand total of 2,094 renders. Very close to that 100 average a week. I didn't count formally, but I think I have about 60 raw animations, and I usually will now keep a good 2/3rd versus just half like I did in prior updates. I think they're getting a little more acceptable overall versus rejecting such a high percentage. Maybe someday I'll do a fun little release of all the "rejects" for animations? Some are hilariously bad!

I'm on a new scene that should be most of this week, but we'll see. Some of the start of it (an optional part of the overall scene not seen by all) is posted above.

I'm still really tired from the trip, but it was really a great experience! My father had been putting this together for about a year with people he knows out in Washington DC so it was really amazing getting to see some cool stuff! That's all I can really say about it but it opened my eyes for sure and something I'll take with me moving forward. I'm very lucky to have such an awesome dad!

I will try really hard to do a very lengthy and good update this following weekend trying to nail down my overall thoughts on the update, a road map and hopefully more. I'm still juggling some Steam translation stuff too so it's been also hitting some of my time for KG. But it's moving...

I'm way behind on messages/Discord too, but I'll start catching up as I get back into the flow of day to day. I appreciate the patience and support as this is admittedly a really, really, busy year with life changes, etc. But I'm still plugging away and happy doing it .

Love,

Tess

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PickerLewd, I appreciate you naming this image after me, haha,

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but right now my feelings about this scene I would describe as joyful relief and cautious optimism. Because these images still don't answer the main question of what happens to the love relationship with Angelica on the Dom route. And BTW, are you sure these images have nothing to do with the SS route? It's definitely Dom? I hope so.

 

[PickerLewd]

And BTW, are you sure these images have nothing to do with the SS route? It's definitely Dom? I hope so.

I don't know .
Does secret sub have dominant scenes too? Is Kane a switcher? (Mav's beloved word).

I assumed they were Dom route scenes because Kane is relaxing with his girlfriend and the two slaves are serving them both.

As for the preview, I know Angelica is your favourite, which is why I named it like that .

 

[Maviarab]

PickerLewd, I appreciate you naming this image after me, haha,

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but right now my feelings about this scene I would describe as joyful relief and cautious optimism. Because these images still don't answer the main question of what happens to the love relationship with Angelica on the Dom route. And BTW, are you sure these images have nothing to do with the SS route? It's definitely Dom? I hope so.

I don't know .
Does secret sub have dominant scenes too? Is Kane a switcher? (Mav's beloved word).

I assumed they were Dom route scenes because Kane is relaxing with his girlfriend and the two slaves are serving them both.

As for the preview, I know Angelica is your favourite, which is why I named it like that .

I'd say most are SS (still Dom btw heh). If Alessa there....

 

[Stan5851]

I assumed they were Dom route scenes because Kane is relaxing with his girlfriend and the two slaves are serving them both.

As for the preview, I know Angelica is your favourite, which is why I named it like that .

Yeah, that makes sense. Well, let's hope for the best. Especially since, unless I'm confused, Tess mentioned that the last thing she was working on was just a big optional scene for the Dom route where our Kane was having fun with his servants and slave girls.

And it's not like Kane looks like a "SS Kane" here. (though, of course, I'm not a connoisseur of the SS route and judge it more by the occasional spoilers glimpsed here).

Also, if the content with Celeste was canceled by Tess, one would assume that the compensation for that could be Kane meeting Alessa, still(?) part of that sexual relationship. Anyway, I don't want to be too optimistic yet, but I have similar feelings - these renders don't look like SS.

 

[jadepaladin]

I don't know .
Does secret sub have dominant scenes too? Is Kane a switcher? (Mav's beloved word).

I assumed they were Dom route scenes because Kane is relaxing with his girlfriend and the two slaves are serving them both.

As for the preview, I know Angelica is your favourite, which is why I named it like that .

I would have pegged these as SS with no context. Remember that on some SS routes (Alessa Love>Alessa pet) she asked if Kane wanted to "change it up" sometimes. This could be one of those times.
Amy is tied to SS as well, so

 

[Stan5851]

Although, if you compare what Tess wrote in the last devlog (23/06/2025)

Sub side has about two more games and scene or two left. Secret sub is next in my wheelhouse, then probably a shift to dom path last. This is likely the road map to finish this update.

and this one,

I'm on a new scene that should be most of this week, but we'll see. Some of the start of it (an optional part of the overall scene not seen by all) is posted above.

it looks like those images with Angelica belong to the SS route (unfortunately).