The year is 2108. In Solace City, emotional peace isn't a gift—it’s an enforced mandate. To eliminate trauma, the VEROS system systematically erases raw feelings, creative sparks, and painful memories from its citizens.
Hidden inside an illegal dead zone, your home is the last barrier against absolute mind control. Defend your sanctuary, manage your survivors' raw needs, and mold their minds through love or corruption as the world outside tries to pull them in.
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THE ANOMALY
You manage a home inside an illegal neural dead zone—a sanctuary insulated from the city's total emotional control. But the house itself has begun to resonate with the raw, uncensored feelings of its residents, physically shifting and reacting to their mental states.
DEEP AI & NPC INTERACTION
Every resident has autonomous needs, daily routines, and dynamic emotional reactions. You aren't just managing resources—you are balancing complex human minds under high pressure.
LOVE OR CORRUPTION
Shape their trajectories through a deep relationship system. Guide them toward emotional clarity and trust, or push them down contrasting paths of corruption and total dependence.
SURVIVAL & BOUNDARY DEFENSE
Manage house infrastructure, trade on the darknet, and hold the perimeter against system breaches. If the barrier fails, their minds are reclaimed and the sanctuary is lost.
Changelog History
v0.2
Player Attributes & Survival Loop
* Attribute System: Added primary attribute architecture to track physical, mental, and environmental states.
* Core Cube Integrity: House stability directly scales Cognitive Focus. Dropping integrity lowers focus regain, while a fully repaired core optimizes passive recovery.
* Bio-Profile & Vigor: Stamina and hygiene decay over time. Crossing critical low thresholds applies exhaustion or unhygienic conditions, altering or blocking dialogue options.
* Cognitive Focus: Regulates overall energy regeneration speed. High focus yields faster passive recovery.
* Energy Consumption: Passive regain is intentionally slow, making field stims and food required for quick recovery.
Quests, Intro & House Systems
* Cinematic Intro: Added an opening camera sequence featuring the player sitting on the couch before control is handed over.
* Quest System: Integrated the core quest framework alongside the first story mission.
* Core Stabilizer: Added the repair item and repair logic.
* Emergency Warning System: Automatically triggers emergency red lighting and a pulsing screen overlay when core stability drops below critical levels.
* Sleep & Time Skipping: Added bed interactions. Resting smoothly fades the screen, advances time to 8:00 AM, and restores core physical attributes (Energy and Vigor).
* Ambient Audio Player: Implemented a playable audio device with different music sets.
Darknet Terminal & Drone Delivery
* Terminal Marketplace: Integrated a Darknet terminal interface for purchasing items and resources.
* Drone Delivery System: Orders trigger an animated drone fly-in sequence that drops purchased items through the delivery hatch located in the Storage Room, complete with custom audio and visual effects.
Node-Based Decor System
* Anchor Slots: Added dedicated placement anchors across tables, desks, and wall surfaces.
* Placeable Items: Added several new placeable decor items that can be crafted, placed down into world slots, or picked back up into the inventory.
NPC Systems & Context Reactions
* Context-Aware Dialogue: NPCs monitor player attributes (exhaustion, low hygiene) and react dynamically, including refusing to engage until status conditions are fixed.
* Fast Conversations: Added a background dialogue layer for casual chats, environmental comments, and quick reactions without locking into a formal scene.
* Status Feedback UI: Integrated HUD notifications when status thresholds are crossed to signal changes in local interactions.
Audio, Dialogue Control & Settings
* Dialogue Line Skipping: Fully integrated line-skipping functionality across dialogue sequences.
* Audio Routing Fix: Corrected dialogue sound channels so all dialogue lines properly respond to the Dialogue Volume slider in the settings.
* Interaction SFX: Added sound effects for item pickups and general world interactions.
* HUD Polish: Refined prompt readability, notification popups, and status indicators.
Fixes & Technical Improvements
* Smart Resource Consumption: Repair items are now only consumed from inventory if a repair is required and successfully completed.
* Clothing Materials: Fixed material assignments and visual shaders across multiple clothing assets.
* Furniture & Camera Smoothness: Polished camera motion and movement controls when sitting down or standing up from furniture.
* Lighting Optimization: Streamlined day, night, and emergency lighting state changes for performance.
Voice Acting & Facial Animation
* Voice Over Integration: Recorded and added voice lines for 60+ dialogue phrases.
* Facial Animation: Implemented facial animations for a portion of the newly voiced lines.
v0.1
Initial Release.
