Bunker X² - Alpha 0.5.100

The release is finally HERE!!!
Phew, the crunch was real but we're finally here.
The first real content patch and Alpha is now out and ready for you to download below!

I ENCOURAGE AGAINST PLAYING ON PHONES. IT'S NOT OPTIMIZED!

There's been a lot of bug reports, suggestions and people engaging with the development of the game and I wanna thank each and every one of those as well as everyone that chose to believe in this project 💗

The Alpha can be found below as a download. But for you that played the demo, keep reading for the content patch below:

🚨 First of all, I personally HIGHLY recommend starting a new save 🚨

What's New: the road to Alpha

🎮 NEW RECRUITABLE SURVIVOR: JAX. Somewhere out there, a girl born after the Fall has turned a college library into her own private archive, and she has never met a man in her life. Find her, earn her trust, and bring her home. She talks like a patch-notes changelog, treats the apocalypse like a game she intends to win, and the bunker will not be quieter for it.

💪 A massive dialogue overhaul. Hundreds of lines rewritten with far richer physical detail, and not just arms: backs, shoulders, chests, cores, and legs all get their due, each woman describing herself in her own way.

🤫 One of the survivors is carrying a heavy secret. Get close enough and it comes out. What you say next is the game's first choice she will remember forever, so choose carefully. The bunker has ears.

🪙 A new face in the wasteland: THE LUCKY MAGPIE. A sixty-year-old trader with a cigar and a rig full of stock. Rotating wares, dice-roll haggling, gift items, the occasional rare find, and her own music. One haggle per visit; win or lose, she remembers. Now also with her very own art and emote system.

🎰 Her pachinko stall, TEST YOUR LUCK. A fully physical 3D board, and Magpie stands right beside it, calling every drop, cackling at your trick shots, and rubbing it in when the good bin stays just out of reach. Can be found at the bottom right of her shop.

🗺️ Every expedition destination now has real artwork. Composed scenes of the ruins your teams walk into, on the map and behind every event.

👀 The women talk about each other's growth now. When one of them outgrows another, you can overhear exactly that conversation: pride, envy, and flexing included. Blink and you might miss one; those talks only happen while the gap exists.

🎬 Stage directions became cinema. Actions like a flex or a held breath appear as golden captions above the speaker, timed to the exact moment they happen, with a reading pause so you never miss one.

▶️ AUTO mode. Flip one switch and voiced scenes play hands-free. Lines advance when the voice finishes, with arrows to tune how long each one lingers. Choices always wait for you.

🔁 Replay any line. One button says the current line again, voice, expression, and actions included, without advancing anything.

😊 Expressions finally behave. No more mid-line flickers, no faces resetting to neutral, and every line ends on the expression it was written to end on, no matter how fast you click. Characters with alternate poses show you the ones you haven't seen before repeating any.

📖 Browse the roster without leaving the dossier. Arrow buttons (or A/D and the arrow keys) flip between characters, keeping whichever tab you were reading.

🧹 The whole story, checked front to back. Multiple full-script consistency passes: timelines, nicknames, and confessions sound line up better now. They shouldn't repeat stories, contradict themselves, or blurts out something she shouldn't know yet. (But I might have missed stuff)

🎨 New evolution artwork rounds out the cast. Full expression sets and alternate poses, so every woman's transformation is complete on screen through the stages you'll reach.

🏋️ Training rooms actually differ now. Each room develops its own pair of stats, so where you assign someone finally matters.

📦 The download is a fraction of its old size. Every image was re-encoded with no visible quality loss. Faster to grab, faster to load.

⏭️ Cutscenes are skippable. Space, Escape, or the button, with a quick confirm so a stray keypress can't cost you the moment.

🎵 New songs on the bunker playlist.

🛠️ A mountain of fixes and polish. Voices no longer get cut off mid-word, expeditions can't be double-launched, the game asks before you snack on your last Mutagen Bloom, names stay readable over any art, shop tags are bigger with colors that mean what they say (red means you can't afford it), and tool-tips can never hide behind buttons again.

But once more, the game IS in alpha. If you have errors then I implore you to join us on the Discord and report issues with the game. It will make me able to offer a better experience. Link to the channel on the discord should be visible in the bottom of the bug screen in game, reachable with the flag in the upper right corner of the game.