Cuckqueen July update! <3
So how big did this update get, you ask?
Bigger than planned. Much bigger. Let me walk you through it, including the parts where I made work for myself that nobody asked for.
*Penny's story continues (and wraps up... for now)*
Events 5–8 are live, building up to her big decision point. Two branching paths, two different finales, and one of them ends in a full NSFW night scene with new animation. I won't say more. Go make your choice and live with it.
Also, Penny no longer locks you onto her path. The "Your Path is Set" popup is gone. Girls now stick around between acts, arcs run in parallel instead of hard-cutting each other off. Honest admission: the old system was a design decision from a much earlier, much smaller version of the game, and it stopped making sense about three updates ago. It just took me until now to untangle it properly.
Oh, and there's a new Maya shower side-scene. The bathroom is now a visitable room. You're welcome.
*The Notebook*
New HUD feature: a character notebook with portraits that unlock as you meet each girl, plus per-girl polaroid collections. The part I'm actually proud of — the "next step" hints are state-aware AND branch-aware. Meaning: it only ever hints at the route you're personally on. No spoilers for the branch you didn't pick. This was fiddlier to build than the entire feature around it, and I'd do it again.
*Findable polaroids*
Polaroids are now hidden in the game world as real objects — spot them, click, collect, each one comes with a short comment. Gathering them all will unlock a chance at a bonus side scene, but these will come in later updates!
*The visual overhaul (a.k.a. how I lost a month)*
What started as "let me fix a few inconsistent CGs" turned into ~160 brand-new cut-in illustrations woven through every single event in the game — prologue, Sarah, Penny, Lily, Amber, Chloe. Closeups, reaction shots, cinematic beats, comic-style panels that slide in. Plus a full staging pass over every Act 1–2 event.
Was it necessary? Debatable. Does the game look dramatically better? In my opinion, yes. Am I slightly dead? Also yes. Worth it.
*The unglamorous-but-important pile*
- Gallery rebuilt from the ground up — it's now driven straight from game content, which fixes the replay crashes and missing unlocks people reported, including in existing saves. This bug annoyed me more than it annoyed you, I promise.
- Story consistency pass across Penny/Lily/Amber Act 1–2 — some canon details didn't survive contact with two years of development, they do now.
- Pacing fixes: several events now have realistic day gaps instead of firing back-to-back like the whole cast has no jobs and no sleep schedule.
- Russian players: the Cyrillic "tofu" boxes are gone, and switching languages mid-game no longer breaks fonts.
- Polish players: Lily's translation was shifted by exactly one line through the entire file, which means some of you read genuinely surreal conversations and politely never mentioned it. Fixed. I'm so sorry. And a little impressed.
- Full translation update across all 10 languages — ~4,700 new entries, everything in this update is translated day one.
That's the update. It took longer than I wanted, it's bigger than I planned, and I'm genuinely proud of where the game sits now.
Thank you for backing this — every animation, every one of those 160 cut-ins exists because you do. Go play, collect some polaroids, and come tell me what broke. It's way too big for me to test solo, so I'm sure you'll break it; help me fix the bugs <3
More soon.
download link: https://mega.nz/folder/zvxxWTrR#gPp2AYLOESzAL5U6pXq2Gw