Ren'Py The Awakening [v0.4.6d] [SLim Games]

Bevhillscop · Aug 23, 2025

Please for the love of tits keep mini games out of VNs

DaFinker · Aug 23, 2025

Bevhillscop said:
Please for the love of tits keep mini games out of VNs

I think he's been off his ADHD meds. Keeps changing the style and approach: part straight VN, part sandbox, part mini-game, and now new scoring that pits girls against each other. And the voice acting. Holy shit! Such awful voice acting!

mrbombadil · Aug 23, 2025

Question 1: Is it possible to progress without submitting to femdom? It seems both the teacher progression AND the sisters progression is permanently blocked if you decline femdom. What is up with that?

Question 2: Is there any way to play the newest content (Mao/Nao) without having to listen to the voice acting? I always mute porn games. So I don't understand why the dev removed the text we can normally simply read. But perhaps I've just missed something.

I'd really appreciate any help.

doodle27 · Aug 23, 2025

bulifun · Aug 23, 2025

mrbombadil said:
Question 1: Is it possible to progress without submitting to femdom? It seems both the teacher progression AND the sisters progression is permanently blocked if you decline femdom. What is up with that?

Question 2: Is there any way to play the newest content (Mao/Nao) without having to listen to the voice acting? I always mute porn games. So I don't understand why the dev removed the text we can normally simply read. But perhaps I've just missed something.

I'd really appreciate any help.

there is no real femdom, just some light play with teacher but the game forces you to turn the tables before it gets interesting and zero femdom with the sister

DaFinker · Aug 24, 2025

mrbombadil said:
Question 1: Is it possible to progress without submitting to femdom? It seems both the teacher progression AND the sisters progression is permanently blocked if you decline femdom. What is up with that?

Question 2: Is there any way to play the newest content (Mao/Nao) without having to listen to the voice acting? I always mute porn games. So I don't understand why the dev removed the text we can normally simply read. But perhaps I've just missed something.

I'd really appreciate any help.

The real Tom Bombadil wouldn't worry so much about it or feel emasculated by it. He'd be up for Goldberry leading him around like a little dog from time to time if that's what got her off.

And the thing about these VNs is it balances out. You get to turn the tables and play it both ways. If it makes you feel insecure to not always be the dom in a situation, you might need to find another VN.

I've never had on the voices after hearing them for the first time, and always seem to have text conversations, so don't know what you're running into. Unless, of course, there's some kind of banter during the gaming session I didn't hear, but the scene seemed otherwise complete.

mrbombadil · Aug 24, 2025

DaFinker said:
I've never had on the voices after hearing them for the first time, and always seem to have text conversations, so don't know what you're running into. Unless, of course, there's some kind of banter during the gaming session I didn't hear, but the scene seemed otherwise complete.

For me there's simply zero dialogue displayed for the sisters. Only MC's dialogue is shown. It feels like the game skips over the text for the girls.

So it seems you guys could see the text as expected, but in my game it's not shown. Very strange.

Anyway, I finished the game and was left surprised at the many issues and the little content 7 years after the initial release.

Mondoblasto · Aug 24, 2025

mrbombadil said:
Anyway, I finished the game and was left surprised at the many issues and the little content 7 years after the initial release.

This is the reboot version. If you check back into the OP, you'll notice the old version that got pretty far before SLim went for a do-over, that's gone beyond that content. I could be wrong, but I seem to remember a demo version even before that.

I personally feel that the dev has gotten... distracted in the past with the holiday versions. Not that other devs haven't done that kind of content, far from it! But with the pacing that the development cycle has been for this game, those didn't help.

Also, I get that SLim was excited for the Purple Orchid gameplay that challenged his development skills, I do... but did that drive the story forward? Well from what I saw, no, it didn't. Yes, it's technically content, and new to boot at it's unveiling, but it left the story at a standstill to make that content.

Now he's considering adding a clicker mini-game? With the assets, and the coding, and all the other niggly features that would make it solid and complete? Not to mention that the open poll apparently gave their collective blessing on it. Just how long is it going to be to focus on the main story yet again?

Sorry for long post, the development cycle of this project has been somewhat frustrating for me.

joelurmel · Aug 24, 2025

If you encounter an unexpected switch from English to Spanish, it is because you extracted the files from the RPA archives and then decompiled the RPYC files.

The solution 1 (only if you have not installed a translation mod, in which case you are not affected):
delete all *.rpy & *.rpyc files from <your game dir>\game

in a Terminal, cmd.exe or PowerShell you can type:
cd <your game dir>\game
del /f /s /q *.rpy
del /f /s /q *.rpyc

extract from the game zip archive scripts.rpa to <your game dir>\game

The solution 2:
if you want to stay with your *.rpy files, you have to update the english translation yourself.

And you will no longer have any problems.

Technical explanation:
The developer produced the translation files from the *.rpy files, and when you decompile the *.rpyc files, you don't get the original rpy file because empty lines are not always restored and are sometimes added.
This causes the lines to be renumbered, and since the Ren'Py translation relies on a pid calculated using that line, there is no match, which is why you get the Spanish sentence instead of the English one.

ljabc · Aug 24, 2025

where is our superhero?

cxx · Aug 24, 2025

ljabc said:
where is our superhero?

SLim_Games · Aug 24, 2025

Mondoblasto said:
This is the reboot version. If you check back into the OP, you'll notice the old version that got pretty far before SLim went for a do-over, that's gone beyond that content. I could be wrong, but I seem to remember a demo version even before that.

I personally feel that the dev has gotten... distracted in the past with the holiday versions. Not that other devs haven't done that kind of content, far from it! But with the pacing that the development cycle has been for this game, those didn't help.

Also, I get that SLim was excited for the Purple Orchid gameplay that challenged his development skills, I do... but did that drive the story forward? Well from what I saw, no, it didn't. Yes, it's technically content, and new to boot at it's unveiling, but it left the story at a standstill to make that content.

Now he's considering adding a clicker mini-game? With the assets, and the coding, and all the other niggly features that would make it solid and complete? Not to mention that the open poll apparently gave their collective blessing on it. Just how long is it going to be to focus on the main story yet again?

Sorry for long post, the development cycle of this project has been somewhat frustrating for me.

I am not focusing on the clicker game, besides that. I pretty much coded the entire thing already.
Well to be fair, AI helped a lot with the code so it was done in 2 days.
But for the next update - I'll add more of the night event scenes and the missing fairy scenes.
so a mini update.

I don't know when I'll do the clicker game, it's really a tiny tiny side game anyway.

SLim_Games · Aug 24, 2025

BigCosyStoryFan said:
The Awakening wasn't just unlisted, Itch hit it with a takedown. Purple Orchid (which is part of this game but also standalone), was not. Compare the pages:

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The takedown notice for this game is unclear as to what the problem is (
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, repeated below):

As I said, I assume it's the school setting, which could be fixed by just upgrading the setting to college/university, and worst case by also bumping ages a year or two. There's no mention of other potential issues (consent issues aren't a thing in this game as far as I remember). If it is just the final-year-of-school issue, then it's a bit of a misread by Itch (a lot of other games have love interests of the same age); if it's more than that, then it's unclear. I doubt it's the dubious home situation, as there are games with incest-enabling flags which still haven't been taken down.

Personally, I wouldn't care if Slim cleared the situation to remove any hint of potential incest, bumped it to a small college/university, and/or bumped ages so that the youngest love interest is >20 (and they all stated it). Given the same people are going after SubscribeStar and Patreon (through the same channels), it may well be the only solution that keeps the game alive.

I think that it was all games that had the tag "incest" in it.

because the awakening and taboo story had it, and both are now gone on itch.io
purple orchid on the other hand is still up.

also when you search for incest, everything is gone too

BigCosyStoryFan · Aug 25, 2025

SLim_Games said:
I think that it was all games that had the tag "incest" in it.

Possibly. Probably all incest and pseudo-incest, which sort of forces the hands of a lot of developers. But there are plenty of games with integrated incest patches that are still indexed and available, and a few which appear to be de-indexed but have it (but they don't have the tag).

Either way, I was commenting on their takedown notice/text, which suggested it wasn't the pseudo-incest/incest. I'm hoping Itch can at least tell you what it is they need/want you to fix, because I'd imagine the same payment processors will eventually work their way around to SubscribeStar (and probably once again put pressure on Patreon).

Daastaan007 · Aug 25, 2025

If I choose pancakes, does Magaret's route still open?

Daastaan007 · Aug 25, 2025

Eonor said:
Updated my compressed Android port of The Awakening with Shawnchapp's walkthrough mod to v0.4.6.

Got some basic gestures loaded in: swipe up for save menu, swipe down to hide UI, swipe left to rollback and swipe right to skip. Save files are now stored in the Documents folder. This sometimes means that you may need to close and re-open the port after installing so the save folder is properly created.

Please let me know if you encounter any issues with the ports and I'll see what I can do to get them sorted.

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There is a bug.
We can not message Linda after the charity event.

I can only request you to update the port after Dev publishes a bugfix version.

allan0308 · Aug 26, 2025

ljabc said:
Have our heroes all forgotten this game?

Almost

SonsOfLiberty · Aug 26, 2025

SLim_Games said:
I think that it was all games that had the tag "incest" in it.

because the awakening and taboo story had it, and both are now gone on itch.io
purple orchid on the other hand is still up.

also when you search for incest, everything is gone too

Yeah, if it didn't have the tag it would probably still be up, as I doubt they checked the actual content of games as a lot of way worse ones are still up, same with Steam and lots still with said content on both store fronts.

I don't suppose anything will be done with the ones that purchased it?

Bob69 · Aug 26, 2025

The Awakening [v0.4.6c] [SLim Games] - Update only

If you missed it you can find the old Update only patch HERE.

Universal: v0.4.6b -> v0.4.6c [116 MB]