Devotion
by Shellheart Awe Games
Devotion is a sandbox text-base game with illustrative content that try to roughly fit the character description, story narrative, locations and scenes. You are playing as young female living with her 'landlord' and 'roommates', you all suffered a horrible tragedy, but now it's time to move on and fix what was broken. You are here to fix your relations with the closest people, graduate, choose the path in life and of course find a loved one.
Screenshots
v0.12a
New content
Added devotion to Danny option (can be done at the table in your room)
Opening Danny's 3rd lvl desire activities
Added full schedule for Ryan
Added Ryan's relations progression
Added Ryan's quest
Enabling Ryan's sexual interest
Opening Ryan's 1st lvl desire activities
Expanded schedule for Elena
Added new locations (Elena's appartment, Ryan's appartment, Clinic)
Added one new character (Elena's male guardian)
Bugfixing:
Fixed making gifts feature for many characters
Fixed getting stuck with low energy in some places
Fixed underwear depictions
v0.11b
New content:
Opening Danny's 2nd lvl desire activities
Added full schedule for Dirk
Expanded schedule for Vicky, Amaris and Mr.Rudner
Added Dirk's relations progression
Added Dirk's quest
Enabling Dirk's sexual interest
Opening Dirk's 1st lvl desire activities
Added new locations (Dirk's Apparment at New Block/Abandoned building at Outskirts)
Added one new character (a local hobo)
v0.10a
New content:
Opening Arty's 6th lvl desire activities
Expanded schedule for Vicky
Expanded Vicky's relationship progression
Added new locations (Vicky's House at Residential Area)
Added two new characters (Vicky's mother/ Vicky's mother's boyfriend)
New features:
Added debating with history teacher (chance of raising persuasion)
v0.09b
New content:
Opening Arty's 5th lvl desire activities
Added full schedule for Timothy
Added Tim's relations progression
Added Tim's quest
Enabling Tim's sexual interest
Opening Tim's 1st lvl desire activities
Added new locations (Tim's Apparment at New Block/Office at Furniture Store/Backroom at Beauty Salon)
Added two new characters (female beauty salon owner/male local businessman)
New features:
Unused locations on the map were hidden for the time being
Added map icon near the MC portrait for faster access (still available through phone too)
v0.08a
New content:
Opening Viktor's 6th lvl desire activities
Added two new characters (male school teacher/male classsmate)
v0.07 Hotfix
Bugfixing:
Fixed some bugs
v0.07b
New content:
Opening Arty's 4th lvl desire activities + 4 new scenes
Added full schedule for Connor
Expanded schedule for Elena
Added Connor's relations progression
Added Connor's quest
Enabling Connor's sexual interest
Opening Connor's 1st lvl desire activities
Added new locations (Connor's Apparment at Second Block/Restaurant at Furniture Store location)
Added two new characters (female school nurse/male school janitor)
New features:
Added special event indication feature
Updated hints with latest features info
Added Emergency button
v0.06c
New content:
Opening Viktor's 5th lvl desire activities
Added full schedule for Mr.Haggerty
Added full schedule for Olly
Added Mr.Haggerty's relations progression
Added Mr.Haggerty's quest
Enabling Mr.Haggerty's sexual interest
Opening Mr.Haggerty's 1st lvl desire activities
Added new locations (Mr.Haggerty's Apparment at Cinema/Conference Hall at Mayor Office/Bar at Club location)
Added two new characters (female principal/female classmate)
New features:
Added character scene indication feature for MC's contacts
Added 2 new ways of earning(losing) money - lottery tickets and slot machine
Technical:
Created scene list for each character for further indication
v0.05 Hotfix
Bugfixing:
Fixed some bugs
v0.05b
New content:
Opening Viktor's 4th lvl desire activities + 1 new scene
Added full schedule for Mr.Peterson
Added Mr.Peterson's relations progression
Added Mr.Peterson's quest
Enabling Mr.Peterson's sexual interest
Opening Mr.Peterson's 1st lvl desire activities
Added new locations (Beer Hall/Mr.Peterson's house/Zoey's house/Dining/Veterinary clinic at New Block)
Added two new characters (Mr.Peterson's neighbour/female classmate)
Added 2 new jobs
Added gift for desire increase
New features:
Added relations and desire indication feature for MC's contacts
Added general hint system
Added hints for available jobs at laptop
Technical:
Reworked goals code to speed development
v0.04b
New content:
Added devotion to Viktor option (can be done at the table in your room)
Opening Viktor's 3rd lvl desire activities + new scenes
Added full schedule for Danny
Added Danny's relations progression
Added Danny's quest
Enabling Danny's sexual interest
Opening Danny's's 1st lvl desire activities
Added few new scenes for Arty (Danny's appartment)
Added new locations (Danny's appartment at 2nd block/Gym/Police station/Motor-Coach terminal)
Added two new characters (gym coach/male classmate)
Added quest character (police sergeant)
Added adult site content
New features:
Added 'Call' option on the Phone for the contacts you have (will give hints/info where to find some characters)
Added 'Adult site' option to laptop at your room (+mini-quest for enabling)
Technical:
Reworked the code for better performance
Reworked repositories to prevent development from slowing down (might cause bugs where there weren't previously)
v0.03a Hotfix
Fixed some bugs
v0.03a
New content:
Added devotion to Arty option (can be done at the table in your room)
Opening Arty's 3rd lvl desire activities
Opening Viktor's 2nd lvl desire activities
Added more cleaning options (Arty's room)
Added more masturbation options (Living room)
Added two new characters (cinema director daughter/new female classmate)
Changed some of the old clips with new/switched some pics with clips
Added more hints for general mechanics and progression in dialogue
New features:
Phone option added to the Purse (go to map/skip time)
Bad ending mechanics from corruption now enabled
Added bad ending from poor performance
v0.02c Hotfix
Fixed some bugs
v0.02c
New content:
Added resolution to Arty's quest
Opening Arty's 2nd lvl desire activities
Enabling Viktor's sexual interest
Opening Viktor's 1st lvl desire activities
Added cleaning option around the house (tied to Viktor's activities)
Added masturbation option
Added new clothing piece in store
Changed some of the old clips with new/switched some pics with clips
New features:
Implemented persuasion mechanic (use laptop in room for improving)
Gaining relations progress was made more easy
Implemented highlighting relation and desire status if it reached the cap (time to search for event)
Added few new introduction events with hints for basic mechanics
Changed map icons: bigger size and images of respective places
Removed 'confidence' trait as obsolete
Added bad ending mechanics from corruption (will be triggered starting from ver. 0.03)
v0.01
Initial release
Locking most of the game behind patreon. Just do not play it. Leave it be. horrible developer. Shit like this should be removed from a website. Piracy website but hey, lets lock shit. Honestly it is just grindy horrible shit. just leave it be. there a lot other good actually GOOD games.
walkthrough is behind the paywall, to find something you need to play for hours. too hard to play. don't have any incest patch also incest is behind the paywall. if you want something you need to pay money.
I hope to change my review in a 5 star one sooner than later, beaucose I see potential in this game, the overall base of the game is taking shape and the dev seem to be willing to listen to the players, just right now the contents aren't enough to justify the dimension of the map that result in a big and mostly empty space, I also hope that not only softcore porn will be added.
Good : - Uh... good vid quality? Bad : - UI is clunky, not intuitive, and colors clash making some things hard to read. - Videos are kind of all over the place (mid 30's dude passing off as school kid? Uh....) - Absolutely zero walkthrough - Unity is not a good engine to make this type of game on. Ugly - About a 1 hour grind before you see any tits. - Another 2 hour grind to unlock sex in general. - That's if you don't get game over trying to grind everything. - Wanna use that old save? Lol that's a big no. Time to grind again.
I was initially hesitant about this game but decided to give it a try and ended up liking it well enough. Unfortunately I hadn't read that the saves aren't compatible between versions so when the next version came out, I decided to wait for more progress before comitting to a second grind. And that second grind ultimately made me give up on this game. Contrary to the dev's assertions, this game is incredibly grindy because unlike the games he's based this off of which give you cheat codes to skip the grind mostly, cheats are a patreon only feature for this game. And that's not even close to the worst of it because the *walkthrough*, the single most important thing to have in a game this opaque and difficult to progress, is also a patreon feature. Because of said opaqueness this game is basically unplayable without that walkthrough. At the time of writing the dev only has like 40 patrons so you have to wonder how is anyone even playing this? By the dev answering almost every question asked in this thread personally. That's how I got to see almost any of the content. That's very considerate of him but it wouldn't have been necessary with some sort of ingame walkthrough or just making the game less impenetrable to begin with. There are other issues like all the sex scenes being tiered and every scene in a tier being way too similar. That combined with the once a month updates adding one tier to one or two characters just leads to it being too slow a burn to stay interesting honestly. But the main issue is just how player unfriendly it is. TLDR; Grindy game that's too time-consuming and frustrating to make progress in without the paywalled walkthrough and cheats. I know that the dev wants to make money and that's fair but this is the sort of predatory bullshit that scummy fremium games do. Except unlike those games, this has no hook to actually keep players from dropping it like I just did.
Actually braindead game design. "Click around every single location with literally no guidance every single hour of the day, only one area of which is accessible without advancing an hour in order to find special events" Creator says he doesn't like grindy game design, but made a grindy game design that has no meaningful progress.
A great start! I have enjoyed v0.02-0.03 and I like the progress, the slowburning aspect and the author is friendly and open to suggestions. Hope this will become a great asset in the adult lifesims.
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