What do you want to see in the workshop?

Just had another idea; among whatever common standard enemies found in the Workshop region, there are Slaver Imps. Smaller gremlin versions of the taller slaver enemies. They would operate the same as the troglodytes from Black Reliquary where if kept alive long enough they gain a partner and therefore gain a second action. Their stats and status effects inflicted on the player depends on its variation.

Facehugger made of corrupted metal

perhaps some workshop breast modifying machine that plays with a unique pregnancy/quirk to get its effect across: it injects the heroes with a breast growth serum that starts off akin to a weaker milkmaiden quirk. but on repeated application turns into a debilitating thing. and if you want to keep it in line with other pregnancies where everything has a positive and a negative you can have the extreme versions of the Quirk/pregnancy make the hero weak at combat but have milkmaiden on steroids.

Had a sort of mad scientist boss come to mind as I was booting up the game today, so I guess there is that. I had some more to potentially throw in there but it seems like a good handful of others have suggested similar ideas to what I'd mention the boss doing.

I have a question, did you plan to make them corrupted like the Maiden when the lvl difficulty upgrade ?

I don't know if its possible but how about adding Rescue missions where the heroes go out on the area where their teammates gets kidnapped at?

How about a puppeteer who can bind heroes with bandages and turn them into her combat puppets. If you're tired of capture based mechanisms, here's another idea: to allow enemies to imprison our heroes like the anchor of the cove boss, requiring enough healing power to liberate them In addition, some ideas about wandering monsters, such as bundling injection machines, can inject heroes with certain drugs when they are captured. Each injection will permanently increase a certain attribute of the hero, but at the same time, it will also decrease a certain attribute

Sorry for second suggestion but why not make it an epic dungeon like the darkest dungeon and the crimson court? That would make it so you can make it a fully unique zone that requires a specific item prep and will allow for more unique interactions?

Wooo! Glad you got an idea and glad we got to help!

Golems like sexy golems.

Maybe headcrab or some magic machine?

Gimp suit, mouth unzipped for a base game “madman” style enemy

Here is some enemy ideas that i can think of that may fit with the maiden, a medieval horse torture device like enemy or bdsm maid like enemy or torturer (male) enemy or human-dog (bond by bdsm) enemy. Hope this help a little bit.

a thought that came to be is the Chain barer or Chain Dragon. a massive/small restraint machine, carved in steel to look like a festive dragon, with holes and ports for chains to pull and glide through. its main body might be small but the chains can reach far, pulling and shifting to restrain, position, and hurt the heroines. could easily have other attachments and ports as well so you can 'ride the dragon'

Brainwash/corruption devices, cursed trinkets that need to be removed through specific town action, another crimson curse type special condition that can only be cleared by an item gotten from the workshop, brainwashed captured heroines that you lost showing back up as there in special events.

Y'all remember that steam workshop mod where you can fight Heroes as enemies? Lorewise these heroines could be brainwashed or under the influence. Crazy idea but I'd imagine some Goblins either turning over to the workshop or just work in it, so they can appear there. Then there's also that big female bloodletter.

If I think of a workshop with the mentioned topics, wouldn't a kind of tribe fit in that takes care of the machines and the gear like dwarves or gnomes who became more and more perverted through the influence of the lair and equip themselves with mechanics or the bondage gear

I agree with the wooden horse and inanimate armor ideas

broken down neglected sexbots and/or people trapped in cursed semi-sentient bondage gear/machines

Possible ideas. Marionette or otherwise doll-styled enemies. Clockwork creatures would also fit. Perhaps little gremlins or clockwork mechanics that maintain and buff other constructs.

Wooden doll or inanimat armor ?

Mechanical wooden horse maybe? Or an electrostimulation machine?