Ren'Py Lust in Runeterra [v0.1.3d] [AfterDark Studio]

[khara_]

Really enjoyed the new content, thanks for the update, and hotfix, can't help but think that most other dev teams would leave the fix for the following update. Glad to see that you're not like 'most others'
I was using my 0.1.2c save for 0.1.3c, and yeah, Irelia's outfit quest seems to be bugged. Since my last save was right at the city entrance (end of previous update), I checked the city market every time I could in between events, and it seems that I can only get cards from there (no market event triggered at any point). Even visiting again after the Voidborn Commander quest, it still only shows cards. I did manage to get the outfit eventually, with messing around using the URM (and while doing that I think I got a spoiler about a certain blonde girl?, also I couldn't confront Akali or anyone about the info I got from the library (Guardian Tree thing) if that's in this update (I think you should mention that info during the hearing for the council's full support, but I gave them only half the info about the tree, maybe that's the reason?). The first choice at the attached save also crashes the game, if you can't get the same result, the crash report is this:

I'm sorry, but an uncaught exception occurred.

While running game code:
Exception: DynamicImage 'Ionia/Characters/Nalaya/Faces/Nalaya_[NalayaExpression].png': could not find image. ('Ionia/Characters/Nalaya/Faces/Nalaya_Smile.png')

-- Full Traceback ------------------------------------------------------------

Full traceback:
  File "script.rpyc", line 24, in script call
  File "scripts/Ionia/general/skits.rpyc", line 1619, in script
  File "C:\Users\Strawberry\Desktop\dl8r\LustinRuneterra-0.1.3c-pc\renpy\ast.py", line 2560, in execute
    Say.execute(self)
  File "C:\Users\Strawberry\Desktop\dl8r\LustinRuneterra-0.1.3c-pc\renpy\ast.py", line 615, in execute
    renpy.exports.say(who, what, *args, **kwargs)
  File "C:\Users\Strawberry\Desktop\dl8r\LustinRuneterra-0.1.3c-pc\renpy\exports.py", line 1494, in say
    who(what, *args, **kwargs)
  File "C:\Users\Strawberry\Desktop\dl8r\LustinRuneterra-0.1.3c-pc\renpy\character.py", line 1394, in __call__
    self.do_display(who, what, cb_args=self.cb_args, dtt=dtt, **display_args)
  File "C:\Users\Strawberry\Desktop\dl8r\LustinRuneterra-0.1.3c-pc\renpy\character.py", line 1045, in do_display
    display_say(who,
  File "C:\Users\Strawberry\Desktop\dl8r\LustinRuneterra-0.1.3c-pc\renpy\character.py", line 741, in display_say
    rv = renpy.ui.interact(mouse='say', type=type, roll_forward=roll_forward)
  File "C:\Users\Strawberry\Desktop\dl8r\LustinRuneterra-0.1.3c-pc\renpy\ui.py", line 301, in interact
    rv = renpy.game.interface.interact(roll_forward=roll_forward, **kwargs)
  File "C:\Users\Strawberry\Desktop\dl8r\LustinRuneterra-0.1.3c-pc\renpy\display\core.py", line 2166, in interact
    repeat, rv = self.interact_core(preloads=preloads, trans_pause=trans_pause, pause=pause, pause_start=pause_start, pause_modal=pause_modal, **kwargs) # type: ignore
  File "C:\Users\Strawberry\Desktop\dl8r\LustinRuneterra-0.1.3c-pc\renpy\display\core.py", line 2688, in interact_core
    root_widget.visit_all(lambda d : d.per_interact())
  File "C:\Users\Strawberry\Desktop\dl8r\LustinRuneterra-0.1.3c-pc\renpy\display\displayable.py", line 431, in visit_all
    d.visit_all(callback, seen)
  File "C:\Users\Strawberry\Desktop\dl8r\LustinRuneterra-0.1.3c-pc\renpy\display\displayable.py", line 431, in visit_all
    d.visit_all(callback, seen)
  File "C:\Users\Strawberry\Desktop\dl8r\LustinRuneterra-0.1.3c-pc\renpy\display\displayable.py", line 431, in visit_all
    d.visit_all(callback, seen)
  [Previous line repeated 7 more times]
  File "C:\Users\Strawberry\Desktop\dl8r\LustinRuneterra-0.1.3c-pc\renpy\display\displayable.py", line 433, in visit_all
    callback(self)
  File "C:\Users\Strawberry\Desktop\dl8r\LustinRuneterra-0.1.3c-pc\renpy\display\core.py", line 2688, in <lambda>
    root_widget.visit_all(lambda d : d.per_interact())
  File "C:\Users\Strawberry\Desktop\dl8r\LustinRuneterra-0.1.3c-pc\renpy\display\image.py", line 793, in per_interact
    self.find_target()
  File "C:\Users\Strawberry\Desktop\dl8r\LustinRuneterra-0.1.3c-pc\renpy\display\image.py", line 683, in find_target
    raise Exception(error)
Exception: DynamicImage 'Ionia/Characters/Nalaya/Faces/Nalaya_[NalayaExpression].png': could not find image. ('Ionia/Characters/Nalaya/Faces/Nalaya_Smile.png')

Windows-10-10.0.26100 AMD64
Ren'Py 8.2.3.24061702
Lust in Runeterra 0.1.3c
Tue Sep  9 11:12:07 2025

 

[Kague]

Hey! Just a quick comment to give appreciation to this game, I really enjoy it, the characters feels true to themselves. I really love Akali (my beloved) and how she's pictured it. Just a heads up for the good work and looking forward to the next update

 

[Dr Nystrom]

Really enjoyed the new content, thanks for the update, and hotfix, can't help but think that most other dev teams would leave the fix for the following update. Glad to see that you're not like 'most others'
I was using my 0.1.2c save for 0.1.3c, and yeah, Irelia's outfit quest seems to be bugged. Since my last save was right at the city entrance (end of previous update), I checked the city market every time I could in between events, and it seems that I can only get cards from there (no market event triggered at any point). Even visiting again after the Voidborn Commander quest, it still only shows cards. I did manage to get the outfit eventually, with messing around using the URM (and while doing that I think I got a spoiler about a certain blonde girl?, also I couldn't confront Akali or anyone about the info I got from the library (Guardian Tree thing) if that's in this update (I think you should mention that info during the hearing for the council's full support, but I gave them only half the info about the tree, maybe that's the reason?). The first choice at the attached save also crashes the game, if you can't get the same result, the crash report is this:

I'm sorry, but an uncaught exception occurred.

While running game code:
Exception: DynamicImage 'Ionia/Characters/Nalaya/Faces/Nalaya_[NalayaExpression].png': could not find image. ('Ionia/Characters/Nalaya/Faces/Nalaya_Smile.png')

-- Full Traceback ------------------------------------------------------------

Full traceback:
  File "script.rpyc", line 24, in script call
  File "scripts/Ionia/general/skits.rpyc", line 1619, in script
  File "C:\Users\Strawberry\Desktop\dl8r\LustinRuneterra-0.1.3c-pc\renpy\ast.py", line 2560, in execute
    Say.execute(self)
  File "C:\Users\Strawberry\Desktop\dl8r\LustinRuneterra-0.1.3c-pc\renpy\ast.py", line 615, in execute
    renpy.exports.say(who, what, *args, **kwargs)
  File "C:\Users\Strawberry\Desktop\dl8r\LustinRuneterra-0.1.3c-pc\renpy\exports.py", line 1494, in say
    who(what, *args, **kwargs)
  File "C:\Users\Strawberry\Desktop\dl8r\LustinRuneterra-0.1.3c-pc\renpy\character.py", line 1394, in __call__
    self.do_display(who, what, cb_args=self.cb_args, dtt=dtt, **display_args)
  File "C:\Users\Strawberry\Desktop\dl8r\LustinRuneterra-0.1.3c-pc\renpy\character.py", line 1045, in do_display
    display_say(who,
  File "C:\Users\Strawberry\Desktop\dl8r\LustinRuneterra-0.1.3c-pc\renpy\character.py", line 741, in display_say
    rv = renpy.ui.interact(mouse='say', type=type, roll_forward=roll_forward)
  File "C:\Users\Strawberry\Desktop\dl8r\LustinRuneterra-0.1.3c-pc\renpy\ui.py", line 301, in interact
    rv = renpy.game.interface.interact(roll_forward=roll_forward, **kwargs)
  File "C:\Users\Strawberry\Desktop\dl8r\LustinRuneterra-0.1.3c-pc\renpy\display\core.py", line 2166, in interact
    repeat, rv = self.interact_core(preloads=preloads, trans_pause=trans_pause, pause=pause, pause_start=pause_start, pause_modal=pause_modal, **kwargs) # type: ignore
  File "C:\Users\Strawberry\Desktop\dl8r\LustinRuneterra-0.1.3c-pc\renpy\display\core.py", line 2688, in interact_core
    root_widget.visit_all(lambda d : d.per_interact())
  File "C:\Users\Strawberry\Desktop\dl8r\LustinRuneterra-0.1.3c-pc\renpy\display\displayable.py", line 431, in visit_all
    d.visit_all(callback, seen)
  File "C:\Users\Strawberry\Desktop\dl8r\LustinRuneterra-0.1.3c-pc\renpy\display\displayable.py", line 431, in visit_all
    d.visit_all(callback, seen)
  File "C:\Users\Strawberry\Desktop\dl8r\LustinRuneterra-0.1.3c-pc\renpy\display\displayable.py", line 431, in visit_all
    d.visit_all(callback, seen)
  [Previous line repeated 7 more times]
  File "C:\Users\Strawberry\Desktop\dl8r\LustinRuneterra-0.1.3c-pc\renpy\display\displayable.py", line 433, in visit_all
    callback(self)
  File "C:\Users\Strawberry\Desktop\dl8r\LustinRuneterra-0.1.3c-pc\renpy\display\core.py", line 2688, in <lambda>
    root_widget.visit_all(lambda d : d.per_interact())
  File "C:\Users\Strawberry\Desktop\dl8r\LustinRuneterra-0.1.3c-pc\renpy\display\image.py", line 793, in per_interact
    self.find_target()
  File "C:\Users\Strawberry\Desktop\dl8r\LustinRuneterra-0.1.3c-pc\renpy\display\image.py", line 683, in find_target
    raise Exception(error)
Exception: DynamicImage 'Ionia/Characters/Nalaya/Faces/Nalaya_[NalayaExpression].png': could not find image. ('Ionia/Characters/Nalaya/Faces/Nalaya_Smile.png')

Windows-10-10.0.26100 AMD64
Ren'Py 8.2.3.24061702
Lust in Runeterra 0.1.3c
Tue Sep  9 11:12:07 2025

Thanks a lot! Glad the hotfix effort stood out—we must squash all bugs

We've been trying to find out more about the Irelia error but haven't been able to identify it

The Guardian Tree confrontation is something that will occur in a later update. For now, it doesn't seem to be that big of a deal...

Appreciate the crash report and spoiler restraint

Thanks again!

 

[khorneflakez]

I have been replaying the town section a few times to try and get better than the half-hearten support. I can get all the side quests done except for saving the councilor, I keep getting the Akali needs a day to prepare and then she is never in the inn. Any suggestions? Do you need to play the town section perfectly (timing\order wise) to get it all done?

Great update regardless.

 

[Dr Nystrom]

I have been replaying the town section a few times to try and get better than the half-hearten support. I can get all the side quests done except for saving the councilor, I keep getting the Akali needs a day to prepare and then she is never in the inn. Any suggestions? Do you need to play the town section perfectly (timing\order wise) to get it all done?

Great update regardless.

I just tested it with a save—after finishing the first step of A Knife in the Dark (where Akali says she needs a day to prepare), I was able to visit her at the Tavern inside the Inn the next day (both in the morning and daytime) without any issue. It might be that the event won’t trigger if you let more than a day pass, but I’ll do some extra testing to be sure.

For the city section in general, the timing isn’t super strict—you mostly just need to make sure you do the night events on the nights they’re available (so you shouldn’t need to rest or skip forward unnecessarily). I would say the hardest part would be to have a step of a quest that's only available at night on the first night

Edit: And thank you for playing!

 

[khorneflakez]

Just tried it again, knocked out the assassin early on, kept it between us, got the nod from the councilwoman, and then the quest still said meet in a day and she died later on.

Maybe the issue was doing it so early on ?

I did it again and when i dumped the body in front of the guards rather than keep it silent the quest progressed.

 

[joaopedro020406]

anyone know games similar to this??

 

[khara_]

anyone know games similar to this??

I think it's against the forum rules to discuss other games in a game's own thread (try general discussions maybe?), but I believe other than a 10y.o. rpg maker game, other LoL parody games are either abandoned, low quality, or contains 3-letter-cursed-genre. Also dev teams are rarely this level of based. Hence, the love this one's getting...

 

[Dr Nystrom]

Just tried it again, knocked out the assassin early on, kept it between us, got the nod from the councilwoman, and then the quest still said meet in a day and she died later on.

Maybe the issue was doing it so early on ?

I did it again and when i dumped the body in front of the guards rather than keep it silent the quest progressed.

If you knocked out the assassin and kept it between you, Hana shouldn't die (it's the choice I usually take). I'm taking a deeper look.

Thank you for letting us know!

 

[khorneflakez]

If you knocked out the assassin and kept it between you, Hana shouldn't die (it's the choice I usually take). I'm taking a deeper look.

Thank you for letting us know!

Glad to help! You guys are doing an amazing job on this!

 

[Zekethor2]

Great update! Honestly, with so many choices I don’t even know if I missed a lot of content, hahaha, I hope not. Anyway, first I wanted to say the city turned out really cool. Even though some characters didn’t have art, it was still interesting to stay there. But I don’t know, I think there could’ve been more scenes there, maybe with some of the council members, or the librarian, the woman taking care of the temple, the spirit that showed up there, or that demon girl, or in the tavern (if there actually were scenes with them, I must’ve missed them, haha).


Another thing I didn’t really like was the wheel minigame. Why? Well, there are different kinds of minigames, for example, repeating a blinking light pattern like in FET works because you know exactly what to do. You can fail, but at least you understand the game. That works for things like aiming games, memory games, even puzzles. But this wheel game? I still don’t get how you’re supposed to win. Honestly, I only passed it after randomly trying like 50 times. So as a suggestion, maybe swap it for another type of minigame.


Besides that, I was also expecting some scenes with Akali in the city, since it felt like the most intimate moment between the two, but it ended up happening later. My initial impression was that we’d spend more time in the city, but maybe the dev’s vision was more about introducing characters and setting up the alliance before returning to the main plot. I also noticed the changes in options and menus, which I guess will be useful for future updates.


That’s about it, I picked the spicy outfit for Irelia anyway, so I hope she still accepts it, haha… and I can’t wait for the next updates, especially with the three main girls!

 

[Dr Nystrom]

Great update! Honestly, with so many choices I don’t even know if I missed a lot of content, hahaha, I hope not. Anyway, first I wanted to say the city turned out really cool. Even though some characters didn’t have art, it was still interesting to stay there. But I don’t know, I think there could’ve been more scenes there, maybe with some of the council members, or the librarian, the woman taking care of the temple, the spirit that showed up there, or that demon girl, or in the tavern (if there actually were scenes with them, I must’ve missed them, haha).


Another thing I didn’t really like was the wheel minigame. Why? Well, there are different kinds of minigames, for example, repeating a blinking light pattern like in FET works because you know exactly what to do. You can fail, but at least you understand the game. That works for things like aiming games, memory games, even puzzles. But this wheel game? I still don’t get how you’re supposed to win. Honestly, I only passed it after randomly trying like 50 times. So as a suggestion, maybe swap it for another type of minigame.


Besides that, I was also expecting some scenes with Akali in the city, since it felt like the most intimate moment between the two, but it ended up happening later. My initial impression was that we’d spend more time in the city, but maybe the dev’s vision was more about introducing characters and setting up the alliance before returning to the main plot. I also noticed the changes in options and menus, which I guess will be useful for future updates.


That’s about it, I picked the spicy outfit for Irelia anyway, so I hope she still accepts it, haha… and I can’t wait for the next updates, especially with the three main girls!

Thanks a lot for the detailed feedback! Glad you enjoyed the city. We did want it to have more content and even discussed scenes with the characters you mentioned, but with full-time jobs and other responsibilities we had to keep things tighter for now. Hopefully we’ll be able to expand on that in future updates

Noted on the wheel minigame—I think a clearer tutorial would help, since it’s a minigame used in a couple of other games, or let the player play without a timer on the first interaction. Honestly, I also ended up brute-forcing it until it finally clicked on how it worked.

Akali’s time in the city is more about showing the MC isn’t as useless as she first thought (useful outside of combat). More intimate moments with her (and the others) are definitely planned, and the city itself will be revisited later

Did you have the problem of not being able to give her the dress? We just released another hotfix, this time addressing the dress issue and some typos

 

[Zekethor2]

Thanks a lot for the detailed feedback! Glad you enjoyed the city. We did want it to have more content and even discussed scenes with the characters you mentioned, but with full-time jobs and other responsibilities we had to keep things tighter for now. Hopefully we’ll be able to expand on that in future updates

Noted on the wheel minigame—I think a clearer tutorial would help, since it’s a minigame used in a couple of other games, or let the player play without a timer on the first interaction. Honestly, I also ended up brute-forcing it until it finally clicked on how it worked.

Akali’s time in the city is more about showing the MC isn’t as useless as she first thought (useful outside of combat). More intimate moments with her (and the others) are definitely planned, and the city itself will be revisited later

Did you have the problem of not being able to give her the dress? We just released another hotfix, this time addressing the dress issue and some typos

Yeah, I gave her the dress, so I think everything’s fine, but she still hasn’t opened the box to react. I guess the update ends there, right?

 

[Dr Nystrom]

Yeah, I gave her the dress, so I think everything’s fine, but she still hasn’t opened the box to react. I guess the update ends there, right?

Correct! It ends there for now. We are currently working on the continuation for 0.1.4.

 

[SpecterX]

Is there any order to do the city quests to get a full approval?
The councilor Hana assassination quest become unavailable after the first council meeting, I tried to go back to the tavern but only get the option to drink, not sure if it was intended or a bug.
And does making a deal with Isane carries any importance later on?

 

[Dr Nystrom]

Is there any order to do the city quests to get a full approval?
The councilor Hana assassination quest become unavailable after the first council meeting, I tried to go back to the tavern but only get the option to drink, not sure if it was intended or a bug.
And does making a deal with Isane carries any importance later on?

There isn’t a strict order. You need to either complete 3 side quests (including Branches of Truth with the ending where you pass the minigame) and share the whole truth of Tsumei's tree, or complete all five quests (with resolutions that show your power to convince them through fear or your understanding/kindness to convince them through values), then choose that option during the meetings.
Regarding the Knife in the Dark quest, are you on the latest version (0.1.3d)? There used to be a bug that made it impossible to complete if you didn’t continue it the day after.
Don’t want to give too much away, but... let’s just say the deal does matter. It won’t lock you out, but it can make certain things easier or simpler to obtain later on.

 

[WellMinded]

Really enjoyed the game so far. My only problem is with UI: I wish for transparent textboxes and for the characters to be always lit up during conversations. The CGs look like were made without consideration for such a big nontransparent textbox and it just frustraits me that when characters aren't talking I almost can't see them.

 

[Digitized_Rocket]

so does not indulging akali in her quest help with the corruption?

 

[Dr Nystrom]

so does not indulging akali in her quest help with the corruption?

The relationship value/corruption will increase as you move forward with the story regardless of your choices. Whether you end up with a more emotional/romantic relationship or a more physical/obsessive one depends on several of your choices

 

[Digitized_Rocket]

So finished the game but I am rather curious does knocking out the assassin have a benefit down the line? be it for story purposes and.....More carnal purposes her design is eyecatching and I love deadly ninjaesque women.