Bastard Chronicles is an adult visual novel by Empertus, built in Ren'Py with animated 2D CG art using AI. It is set in a dark post-revolution matriarchy, where you play Mordred, a royal bastard forced into a corrupt order of female knights. The story mixes adventure, dating sim, and RPG choices as you infiltrate the regime, manipulate relationships, and decide whether to rebuild or destroy it from within. Your decisions shape romance, female domination, and male domination.
The current build is v0.2 Public, released November 29, 2025, and development is ongoing. It runs on Windows, Linux, and Mac in English, without censorship. This update added a new dialogue wrapper and a cleaner dialogue presentation, plus a sidequest system that introduces new characters and optional storylines. It also expanded events for Bediva, public Garetha, and Patreon-only Lamora, added ten new videos, and overhauled the combat backend for stability and future expansion.
Developer's description
Bastard Chronicles is a dark, adult visual novel set in a post-revolution matriarchy.
You play as Mordred — a royal bastard drafted into a corrupted order of female knights.
Your goal: infiltrate, manipulate, and decide whether to rebuild or destroy the new regime from within.
Choices define not only relationships, but power itself — submission, dominance, or something dangerously close to love.
v0.2 — Big backend update + new content
New dialogue wrapper
Completely reworked dialogue presentation. Cleaner layout, better pacing.
Sidequest system
A proper sidequest framework is now in place, introducing
new characters
and optional storylines that run alongside the main weeks.
New character events
Added new events and scenes for
Bediva,
Garetha (now public), and Lamora (Patreon only) expanding their routes and interactions.
New videos
10 new videos
added across new and existing scenes.
Combat backend overhaul
Combat systems have been reworked under the hood. This should make things more stable and easier to expand going forward.
v0.12 — Week 6 & Save Compat Update
• Android v0.11 is Public!
– Lamora, Palamedea, Garetha: Week 6 - 7 content (with branching into Sub/Vanilla/Dom routes)
• Week 6 of the main story
• Save compatibility overhaul
No more full restarts. Your old saves should now carry forward cleanly from this patch onward.
(Unless you’re running some cursed rollback voodoo - ignore those)
• Sandbox Mode goes public
Previously Patron-only, now available to everyone. Great for testing builds or just messing around with the Knights.
• Bugfixes, lots of them
v0.11 — Bediva & Week 5 Update
• Dating system reworked — now actually functional with new scenes for all 4 girls
• Bediva added: chats, dates, and two first story events
• New Elements: Poison & Darkness fully implemented
• Week 5 main story content added
• Sandbox mode introduced (testing for patrons)
• Android build available for patrons (testing for patrons)
• BIG: Fixed “no return label” crash in combat/events (old saves compatible)
• Sex scenes no longer skip accidentally + now linked to Memories
• Fixed Week 2 combat order
• Fixed Lamora sex scene
• Cauterize heals + removes Burning correctly
• Imbue Scorch applies Heated properly
• Fixed wrong checks in first Lamora event
v0.1.0 — Initial Release
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New:
Intro + Weeks 1-4; characters Lamora, Palamedea, Garetha
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Systems:
Dominance/Love route logic; early combat/dialogue checks
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QoL:
Skip-friendly scene flow; autosaves; gallery stubs
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Known Issues:
UI looks like vomit, some high-circle spells are buggy, dating is underbaked
Player reviews
Player rating4.0 / 5 · 1 ratings
Written reviews1 · avg 4.0★
Positive (4–5★)100%
Latest review2026-02-05
Randomsee2026-02-05★★★★★
great but needs more text in sex scene that describe the act, as well as some back and forth, otherwise they feel dead. the game will die unless that issue has been solved. a replay feature is also welcome.
★★★★★(1)
