Ren'Py Seeds of Chaos [v0.4.09] [Vénus Noire]
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There will be three Acts. This game covers Act I. Currently, Act I is very nearly wrapped up and you can cover all the important bits to the plot now. For the most part, the development team is rounding out the side characters, finishing up a few questlines, injecting the necessary CGs, squashing bugs, and generally getting things squared away for variables and whatnot for the smooth transition into Act II. Act I introduced the games' world to us and its inhabitants, and all the monumental story it wants to tell and the way you, the player, can go about shaping it. And there's a lot of things in the game's first Act -- it's simply huge! It's bigger than most of the other adult games of its genre. Hope that helps. Cheers!
We already have information if act 2 and 3 will be new games (like a "Seed of Chaos II") continuing the story or if they will be updates of this one?
- Sep 25, 2017
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How does this mod work exactly? It doesn't seem to do anything
EDIT: nevermind, figured it out
- Aug 25, 2017
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I would expect them to split it up, unless it's an issue for Steam sales, so they can claim they technically finished a game.
That said, it's been 6 years and we're not even out of the first act yet. Whatever form future acts may take, it's going to be a while.
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How many people is working on that game? Cuz 6 years for a single act is fucking crazy
- Jan 3, 2021
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To be fair, part of that time has been reworking older content. Turns out years of experience really helps improve their craft, and so they're gone back and touched up earlier work so that the current version of a consistently high quality.
Also, I loaded up the older version (0.3.06) with the gallery mod and counted up the number of scenes for shits and giggles. There are currently 193 entries in the gallery, not counting alternate versions (low/mid/high corruption) and branching paths for many scenes. It might be 6 years in development, but there is a mountain of lewd content there; including a lot of stuff you don't see too often, in addition to some of the absolute best dark fantasy content out there. Also, easily some of the best corruption/NTR content anywhere, bar none.
This game is also handily one of the best written experiences here, with grammatical fidelity, attention to detail, smart dialogue, and confident prose that puts it on par with the other stand out exemplars like Now & Then, Confidence Man, and Pale Carnations.
Sir, o Sir, the new version is out and we look forward to your update! Thanks so much for your hard work!
- Aug 25, 2017
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Yes and no. There was a lot of reworking and changing of earlier content, fiddling with mechanics and switching things around.
However, while the end result may or may not turn out great some day, the process certainly wasn't. I haven't played for a few updates now, so I can't comment on the current state, but for a long time many mechanics were broken or not working as intended. Options that were previously available suddenly no longer worked and vital subsystems, like the forge, happened to break completely without the devs even mentioning it until patrons pointed it out.
I'll have to take your word for the current version being of "consistently high quality" but if the changelog in the OP included all bugs and bugfixes it would be the length of a novel.
I do agree about the art and writing though. Quality stuff, even if the vast majority is aimed at subs and cucks.
- Dec 21, 2020
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It installs the same way all other Ren'py mods are.
First, download the mod. Should be an archive file format (ZIP, RAR).
Decompress the archive (7Zip, WinRAR, etc.).
Now take the files in the archive, and copy/paste them into the Game folder inside the install directory of the game you are modding (e.g. Downloads/Seeds_of_Chaos/Game).
But also, the current scene replay mod (ver 0.3.06) hasn't been updated for the latest game version (ver 0.3.07a), so use at your own risk or wait for an update.
- May 1, 2021
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The game features deuteragonists. A husband and wife pair. You spend time in each of their perspectives and make decisions as each of them depending on the scene. The male is a the most main character, especially in the begining, but by the end you'll have spent nearly as much time as the female character.
Because the characters are married and have a history together, and also the female character canonically has not been with other women before, she can't start off as a pure lesbian. You can however, play the husband as neglectful, and have her have a lesbian awakening very easily. All sex scenes are optional so she doesn't have to have any straight sex during the story if you don't want her to.
don't know if this was answered already, but how do I unlock gallery on the newest update? the one with changing False to True in 00gallery.rpy doesn't seem to work
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That is also largely fair, but I'll also disagree just a bit.
The game is a bit buggy, and the underlying mechanics have been overhauled, but they're still not great. I like that the skill checks now are a bit more simplified from their earlier heavily d20 inspired iteration, but they're still not great. But earlier content has not only been reworked to be better written, but fit more logically within the narrative structure; especially so with the intro content that occurs before Rowan is given free reign and pointed at Raeve Keep.
Now because there is so much content, and most of it has so many layers of dependencies (I've played around with debug using UnRen), I understand how keeping so many spinning plates in order at one is a daunting task. That's not an excuse for game bugs, but an explanation as to my understanding as to why they happen and why I don't let them bother me as much.
While there is certainly a sizeable amount of BDSM content of all stripes, I'd quibble with labeling it as the 'vast majority', especially so content where Rowan is a 'cuck'. Cause, he really isn't your typical jilted lover. If you're looking for an actual cuckold experience, where the MC gets soul crushed by watching their rival fuck the love of their life in front of them while they're impotent to do anything to stop it (e.g. A Promise Best Left Unkept, Babysitter, Alansya Chronicles: Fleeting Iris, Swing & Miss, etc.)? That content isn't in SoC. Sure, there is NTR content, quite a bit of it. But you can see that content by neglecting Alexia, focusing on Helayna, and just being an inattentive husband; let alone a right bastard in your own right.
Rowan isn't limited to being a sad-sack cuck, because Rowan FUCKS. While Alexia falls into Andras or Jezera's orbit, Rowan can be fucking damn near everything else that walks near him. Goblins, orcs, dryads, elves, succubi, captives, nobles, nuns, adventurers, driders, prostitutes, his forge master, his secretary, the brothel's madam, an anthropomorphic spirit-wolf, and even a fucking will-o-wisp. Rowan can be an absolute manwhore if you want him to be, without being submissive, whether or not Alexia is fucking around behind him. There are plenty of options to be a sub, but also to be a dom, or to be gay, or even just be vanilla as hell and faithful to Alexia in the face of corruption (but if you do, you probably play boring Paladins in D&D and you should be ashamed of yourself
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I play nuanced, intriguing paladins in Pathfinder, thank you very much.(but if you do, you probably play boring Paladins in D&D and you should be ashamed of yourself
(Though honestly I’ve never gotten a chance to actually play one, so I really just build them and write out backstories.)
That stopped working AGES ago. The best mod for this is the extended scene replay mod, created by MonkOne(who hasn't been on for months), and is now being worked on by opaquecake. This allows you to actually replay the scenes instead of just looking at pictures. You can use the link in the first post, that one should still have all the scenes from the previous version, .3.06
