Building Concubine Together
We’ve never done a proper perks post, until now. Seeing supporters at Consort and even Phantom lit a fire under us to share how we’re using Patreon, what you’ll get at each tier, and a few in-game peeks of where your support is already showing up.
Why Patreon (and what we actually do with it)
Every week we publish short, honest development updates: what shipped, what broke, what we’re fixing next. Those are open to Outsider and up so anyone backing us knows the project is alive and moving.
We also thank all Outsider+ supporters publicly on our site: upgrade-entertainment.com/patreon
For Whisperer+, we share work-in-progress content before it hits the public feeds: planned levels, bosses, and mechanics, plus 4K wallpapers. For Companion+, you can jump into our private Steam test branch and help us tune combat, balance loot, and crush bugs. We also run polls that influence features, costumes, and content.
How testing works (Companion+)
We push a work-in-progress Steam branch.
You play, break things, and post feedback in Discord.
We triage + patch, then share what changed in the next weekly update.
Big decisions (tuning, costumes, QoL) go into patron polls.
Your reports directly change the game—balance, bugs, even encounter design.
At Consort, you step into our in-game credits and monthly live Q&As with the team.
And Phantom? That’s where you start leaving footprints inside the world itself, naming a small object or weapon, proposing a lore-friendly decoration (even a tombstone or wanted poster), and appearing on our in-game thank-you scroll.
This isn’t live in Early Access yet, but in the final game the scroll will be clickable, opening a page where Phantom supporters’ names appear beneath a short, lore-friendly letter of thanks.
Phantom-only, lore-friendly ideas you could propose (subject to approval): a named tombstone with a short epitaph; a wanted poster; a small statue/bust; a framed painting or tapestry; a market sign or shop ledger entry; a ceremonial weapon or trinket (e.g., hookah, dagger, prayer beads); an inscribed lantern or fountain plaque; a shrine offering bowl; a caravan banner or guild notice pinned to a board.