Parasite Black [v.0.176 Rus / v.0.189 Eng] (2022) (Rus/Eng) [Ren'Py] [Android] [Damned Studios]

0.189 fixes - 2026-04-25
fixed Girl Troubles quest possibly bugging out in rare cases
fixed some typos & mistakes in narrative
added DLC screen for steam version
updated all translations with latest content
- fixed a bunch of typos & wrong names
- fixed being softlocked from arlena content due to low char relationship
- fixed sypha dialogue during beast of novaras
- fixed-improved some replay-based gallery scenes code
- improvements/additions to all translations
- many translation-related engine fixes
- changed/simplified underlying location nav code which in turn fixed some small play sequence errors
- fixed a bug with story-mode poison status effect
- fixed multiple bugs with playing back audio during some sex scenes
- fixed a bunch of translation-related bugs
- fixed a couple typos
- marbella and numa now have their own rel. screen entries and are properly "met" as you encounter them
- fixed lvl up to fadeout smoothly
- fixed white bear name (from rhuvar)
- added first meet scene to giselra
- fixed nyx sprite being displayed off-screen during one scene
- fixed one divine sex scene using obsolete anim
- fixed/improved Graceful Rebirth quest goals
- fixed impregnation events for myu, nijah, mika firing off too early (they will now start a week in, when the bump appears)
- fixed/improved placement of rhuvan hide dialogue in girl troubles qst
- fixed arlena scene progression during dazzling tail qst
- ui hotkeys will now work regardless of what keyboard language you're currently in (if they dont - report as bug)
- fixed double-% in skill descriptions
- fixed mrs. winward name in one of her scenes
- polish on es and ru translations
- more translation-related engine changes
- fixed a bunch of typos all over script
- clicking or pressing space/enter will now interrupt waiting
- a bunch of new UI sounds for various types of events
- added a way to jump to a page in saves screen
- damage during Dark Mage riddles section is now non-lethal
- tamer level up visual effect
- improved some ui anims to be smooth
- improvements to other language translations
- fixed a wrong callie-trayan scene
- fixed a bug with myu lines
- restored missing kiara missionary gallery scene
- fixed a bunch of typos in varied parts of the game
- tweaks/improvements to save compat
- lots of deeper engine changes/cleanup/improvements

0.186 changelog:
new/improved:
- new quest: Big Trouble in Little Hamun
- 13 sex scenes as a part of new quest
- black diamond arena now has ai vs ai battles
- added third route to the big trouble in little hamun quest & marbella relationship
- adedd restaurant bg to the LTBH quest
- improved first ves encounter scene
- improved a couple scenes in price of life quest
- Tweaked Mika questline, players can now look away and avoid Mika flashing them.
- added a char entry & missing meeting code for giselra
- "take all" now closes container
- new cheats in cheat menu
- butcher's place and all libraries are now actual shops
- shops will now dynamically sell their inventories and restock in a more natural way
- all in-game shops will now only trade in their specific item categories
- very large health potion (also changed icons of health potions for consistent scaling)
- improved items sorting code
- new celeste char sprite
- new dros female char sprite
- improvements and additions to marbella char sprite
- added russian translation (by Deus)


fixes/tweaks:
- fixed a bunch of typos & wrong names
- fixed being softlocked from arlena content due to low char relationship
- fixed sypha dialogue during beast of novaras
- fixed-improved some replay-based gallery scenes code
- improvements/additions to all translations
- many translation-related engine fixes
- changed/simplified underlying location nav code which in turn fixed some small play sequence errors
- fixed a bug with story-mode poison status effect
- fixed multiple bugs with playing back audio during some sex scenes
- fixed a bunch of translation-related bugs
- fixed a couple typos
- marbella and numa now have their own rel. screen entries and are properly "met" as you encounter them
- fixed lvl up to fadeout smoothly
- fixed white bear name (from rhuvar)
- added first meet scene to giselra
- fixed nyx sprite being displayed off-screen during one scene
- fixed one divine sex scene using obsolete anim
- fixed/improved Graceful Rebirth quest goals
- fixed impregnation events for myu, nijah, mika firing off too early (they will now start a week in, when the bump appears)
- fixed/improved placement of rhuvan hide dialogue in girl troubles qst
- fixed arlena scene progression during dazzling tail qst
- ui hotkeys will now work regardless of what keyboard language you're currently in (if they dont - report as bug)
- fixed double-% in skill descriptions
- fixed mrs. winward name in one of her scenes
- polish on es and ru translations
- more translation-related engine changes
- fixed a bunch of typos all over script
- clicking or pressing space/enter will now interrupt waiting
- a bunch of new UI sounds for various types of events
- added a way to jump to a page in saves screen
- damage during Dark Mage riddles section is now non-lethal
- tamer level up visual effect
- improved some ui anims to be smooth
- improvements to other language translations
- fixed a wrong callie-trayan scene
- fixed a bug with myu lines
- restored missing kiara missionary gallery scene
- fixed a bunch of typos in varied parts of the game
- tweaks/improvements to save compat
- lots of deeper engine changes/cleanup/improvements

v0.177 - 0.179
N/A

v0.176 - 2025-12-19
started a process of transitioning the game from using movie animations towards using sprite-based animations: for now about a couple dozen characters have the new battle animations, more to come.
fixed a loving kiss of death skill causing an error on use
fixed a bug with girl troubles quest, asking divine about each girl caused an error on repeat
fixed a bug with assassin/valchek smoke bomb skill causing an error
fixed a bug with nyx romance not triggering if you have "Failed" the slavemaster quest
improved save update code in various ways: skill point recalculation and more
fixed a bug with mc & markus staying transformed after the Beast of Novaras quest
fixed "zanzibat" character entry causing error on loading a game
fixed plenty typos all over the game
fixed elena's poisoned fangs skill to no longer cause a crash on use
other smaller fixes/tweaks

v0.175
big stuff:
- new act 2 quest: The Beast of Novaras
- multiple sex scenes as a part of the new quest
- new area: Hamun spa, a bathhouse with corresponding services
- new area: Hamun Arena with 10 battles to beat and a boss fight to tackle
- Sypha as a party character, with her own skillset
- new characters: Luna, Garen, Yarrick, Lord Zanzibat and more
- TRANSLATION SUPPORT. Two translations now ship with the game: spanish and chinese. Both should be about 99% complete.
Smaller additions/tweaks:
- new fort sebastian battle map
- new abandoned fort (end of prologue) battle map
- notifications will now stay on screen 2x longer
- fixed (now hopefully forever) the wait button to not flicker in-out when its unnecessary
- fixed price of life guild quest to not be available during novaras siege
- you can now see hp/ep bars of party chars in pre-battle character selection screen
- fixed some visual artifacts in dros sex animations
- fixed markus face sprites to not glitch out on expression change
- fixed small ui layout bug in journal
- more changes/fixes/improvements to save update routine
- fixed plenty typos
- plenty backend enginework

v0.174
- fixed a bug with not being able to enter the fort during the dark knight quest
- fixed a bug with choice menu during Poltrik estate entrance jumping to wrong sequence

v0.173
- fixed a bug with bookshelves
- fixed dros calling 160 coins 200
- fixed a value in a prayer for the dying skill not being color-tinted
- fixed quicksave to drop a proper notification (as opposed to an overlapping top-left one)
- added scrollbar to perks
- added (hidden) hotkeys to confirm screen. y or enter to confirm, esc to cancel
- fixed a typo in a book
- other smaller engine stuff

v0.172
fixed a bug with babazhul during elena quest
fixed madam Amara to be Carina
fixed dros clothes visibly changing to normal when leaviong bordello
fixed nijah belly lines displayed at wrong time
fixed a couple translation-related bugs
improved save update code

v0.171
new stuff:
new relationship screen layout,
added sounds to item acquisition/removal (and separate sounds for gold),
new silky-smooth notifications code,
added relationship entries & portraits for Numa and Marbella,
added item hotkeys to battle, similar to how skill hotkeys work,
added a guard blocking access to fort sebastian after prologue until you get an invitation from captain nyx (the dark knight quest),
fixes:
you will now properly heal in-between sparring sessions in prologue,
fixed large crafting recipes button spilling outside the recipes list frame,
restored tab key to skip,
fixed being able to talk to marbella about investment indefinitely,
fixed notifications to not slip into choice menus anymore,
fixed a bunch of typos all over,
kiara portrait will now be hooded when it should be,
fixed missing Alysha, Zara, Numa, Marbella relationship data in old saves,
lots of UI elements such as char attributes will no longer catch keyboard focus,
fixed a bug with elena cooking scene,
fixed wrong finish artworks for divine missionary scene,
fixed a couple mrs. winward glitchy animations,
fixed wrong writing for divine's Krishana gift,
significant improvement to how save update sequence handles items, your saves should now un-break even if you used cheats to alter item amounts before,
other engine/backend work & smaller fixes

v0.170 - 2025-09-04
- upgraded to renpy 8.4.* (among lotsa other things, that should fix steam achievements not working)
- fixed a bug with entering a cheat code and starting a new game potentially leading to steam achievements not working on this save
- you can now tell which items are worn by the currently selected char (brighter item frame outline)
- fixed auto-pathing: in map navigation, picking "safest" will now also pick the shortest path in case of 2+ equally safe routes
- mrs winward' tannery now has an extra line to re-explain what she does, as long as a persistent note on animal hides
- fixed marbella's mining shop income after investing, also dropped in a persistent note after investing
- fixed wrong sprites in one of the versions of divine bj sex scene
- hangings and mad prophet will only cut-in once: then they'll appear as clickable events on Novaras streets
- you can't save during a gallery replay scene anymore
- improved items' descriptions in combat/story
- fixed a bunch of typos & markup errors
- there's now more info in error reports
-Being able to talk to party characters via characters/inventory screen (work in progress)

v0.168
hotfixes:
- fixed being unable to return to carina during the coming storm quest
- (hopefully) fixed an error related to UnlockAllGalEntries function
- fixed an error in mika sex scene during Let's Celebrate quest
- fixed a bug with pages on container inventory screen (like chests) not changing
- "fixed" total transaction value to now also be displayed for selling items, not just buying
- fixed adara titjob gallery scene keeping adara naked into the game
- fixed kiara wash scene causing mc to stay in civ clothes

bigger additions:
- new dream event when sleeping in hamun
- new rare act2 travel event between novaras and lake balun
- new party banter scenes happening occasionally in Novaras or while traveling/camping
- new hamun location: beshar's smithy, with new items to craft
- new hamun location: marbella's mining co, to streamline your ore needs
- a bunch of new items, mostly for the above 2 places
- new (possibly) lewd encounter at desert normal and animal travel nodes: jackal girl
- also, camp visit events & preg content for jackal girl
- new alt path to take during the coming storm quest, looking for poltrik section, with lewd content too
- in same quest, new way to help out carina instead of putting on a sex show
- characters, scenes, battle enemies, skills, sounds and such for the above two
- new repeatable variants of mika x markus sex scenes, at palam tower
- preg logic for mika: can now get knocked up
- new preg. variants to mika bj, doggy, missionary scenes
- new romantic scene with kiara when traveling in act 2
- balancing tweaks to classes' skills: inquisitor (erika), berserker (ves), rogue (elena), rogue wolf (elena too), warrior (mc/markus)
- balancing changes to zanarak
smaller additions/tweaks:
- lizards' gang size is now slightly random: it is not guaranteed to always be increased according to your party size
- chars rejoining party are healed (example: myu or elena during siege)
- during bloodhound resolution, infection gain is disabled to avoid killing player in case of near-100
- plenty choice options reordered (positive topmost, negative bottom-most)
- added mika gallery doggy scene
- added various bits of fluff to deceased characters' profiles on relationship screen
- added missing hotkeys to navigate some areas
- choice options involving barter attribute check now have an icon
- added missing music to some training battles with mika
- widened some "morning" time checks (mostly for mika questline) to also include dawn
fixes:
- fixed an error related to 2 of the wolf form skills' description formatting
- fixed fawha at black diamond to now speak to the player about the resolution of the Tarek situation
- fixed kiara being in her wrong "form" after meeting her in the camp
- fixed (more like restored) quick save & quick load functionality: you can now hit F5 and F9 to quicksave & quickload
- fixed wait button flickering between active/inactive when moving between locations
- fixed a bug with worn items removed from player inventory causing errors/crashes
- added an indicator showing steam/nosteam build kind in main menu
- fixed a bug with infection death right at midnight causing an endless death loop
- fixed alot of character expression sprites glitching out: adara, regina, mika, dros, myu, sypha, perhaps more
- fixed (restored) being able to select mika's clothes for rep. bj scene
- fixed mika gallery bj/missionary scenes displaying wrong stuff or missing variants
- fixed a bug with nyx dominant scene happening in romance route
- fixed a bug with nyx gallery scene
- fixed/improved alot of cinematic stuff all over (character placement, scenes)
- fixed plenty typos all over
other:
- improvements to save update routine
- lots of various backend codework
- improvements to save update routine (namely items will now always be updated on load)
- errors will now have extra data appended for easier debugging
- cleaner mika preg logic (hopefully fixes errors some people had)
- travel map nodes draw order is now top->bottom, fixes visual artifacts
- some notes now have permanent/delayed icons attached for convenience
- almost all item descriptions are now based on their function, not just written out as text (still in progress)
- item containers are now initialized more cleanly and in 1 spot, that should improve save compat reliability - other backend codework

v0.167
hotfixes:
- fixed being unable to return to carina during the coming storm quest
- (hopefully) fixed an error related to UnlockAllGalEntries function
- fixed an error in mika sex scene during Let's Celebrate quest
- fixed a bug with pages on container inventory screen (like chests) not changing
- "fixed" total transaction value to now also be displayed for selling items, not just buying
- fixed adara titjob gallery scene keeping adara naked into the game
- fixed kiara wash scene causing mc to stay in civ clothes

bigger additions:
- new dream event when sleeping in hamun
- new rare act2 travel event between novaras and lake balun
- new party banter scenes happening occasionally in Novaras or while traveling/camping
- new hamun location: beshar's smithy, with new items to craft
- new hamun location: marbella's mining co, to streamline your ore needs
- a bunch of new items, mostly for the above 2 places
- new (possibly) lewd encounter at desert normal and animal travel nodes: jackal girl
- also, camp visit events & preg content for jackal girl
- new alt path to take during the coming storm quest, looking for poltrik section, with lewd content too
- in same quest, new way to help out carina instead of putting on a sex show
- characters, scenes, battle enemies, skills, sounds and such for the above two
- new repeatable variants of mika x markus sex scenes, at palam tower
- preg logic for mika: can now get knocked up
- new preg. variants to mika bj, doggy, missionary scenes
- new romantic scene with kiara when traveling in act 2
- balancing tweaks to classes' skills: inquisitor (erika), berserker (ves), rogue (elena), rogue wolf (elena too), warrior (mc/markus)
- balancing changes to zanarak smaller additions/tweaks:
- lizards' gang size is now slightly random: it is not guaranteed to always be increased according to your party size
- chars rejoining party are healed (example: myu or elena during siege)
- during bloodhound resolution, infection gain is disabled to avoid killing player in case of near-100
- plenty choice options reordered (positive topmost, negative bottom-most)
- added mika gallery doggy scene
- added various bits of fluff to deceased characters' profiles on relationship screen
- added missing hotkeys to navigate some areas
- choice options involving barter attribute check now have an icon
- added missing music to some training battles with mika - widened some "morning" time checks (mostly for mika questline) to also include dawn
fixes:
- fixed an error related to 2 of the wolf form skills' description formatting
- fixed fawha at black diamond to now speak to the player about the resolution of the Tarek situation
- fixed kiara being in her wrong "form" after meeting her in the camp
- fixed (more like restored) quick save & quick load functionality: you can now hit F5 and F9 to quicksave & quickload
- fixed wait button flickering between active/inactive when moving between locations
- fixed a bug with worn items removed from player inventory causing errors/crashes
- added an indicator showing steam/nosteam build kind in main menu
- fixed a bug with infection death right at midnight causing an endless death loop
- fixed alot of character expression sprites glitching out: adara, regina, mika, dros, myu, sypha, perhaps more
- fixed (restored) being able to select mika's clothes for rep. bj scene
- fixed mika gallery bj/missionary scenes displaying wrong stuff or missing variants
- fixed a bug with nyx dominant scene happening in romance route
- fixed a bug with nyx gallery scene
- fixed/improved alot of cinematic stuff all over (character placement, scenes)
- fixed plenty typos all over other: - improvements to save update routine - lots of various backend codework

v0.164 Bugfix - 2025-06-26
-fixed a bug with loading a save done mid-travel
- fixed a bug with old version gallery unlocks being a list and causing tons of errors on scene unlocks
- fixed all game quests to not include a debug quest: the game won't display that 1 extra quest you can't beat anymore
- fixed girls troubles' not completing on game load, if already resolved Mika's branch
- fixed Mika romance not starting if loading an old save w/girl troubles quest active
- made lovers' path / friends' path quests complete the other branch silently: this removes 1 (or two in case of friends path') other hidden quest you can't complete during your playthrough
- fixed a few typos
- tweaks and bug fixes for numerous battle skills for Kiara's banshee form, Erika's inquisitor class, MC's parasite black class and more: the vampire's song, eye for an eye, inquisition, defender of the weak, parasite attack, prayer for the dying, old gods bargain, a song of pain, a song of vengeance, a song of rage, (Zanarak's) black light, Kiara transform/un-transform

v0.163 Patreon
New quests:
- Best Friend's Path quest: the girl troubles' markus sharing path for mika quest, with sex scenes
- all-round improvements to mika training quest
- new romance with mika, with multiple sex scenes
- Beneath the Shadows: helping out new character, Carina
- new brothel locations & characters
- sex dungeon summon system with a sex scene for Mika
- The Coming Storm, part 1 of act 1 conclusion. Includes sex scenes, characters, battles.
- The Judgment Day, part 2 of act 1 conclusion. Also includes new characters, sex scenes, battles.
- New party characters, classes and skills
- Bunch of new items related to the above quests: weapons, armor & jewelry

Big changes/additions:
- new act 2 city w/ locations & characters.
- introduced a save update routine: saves up to version 0.159 (backwards from 0.162) should now be working on ver. 0.162. Perhaps even saves made on earlier versions of the game.
- new world travel code and UI:
- travel now takes various amounts of time, can be fast-forwarded with ctrl, and much more.
- changed/improved all travel maps, added 2 new travel paths
- world map indication of paths & your current location

Smaller fixes/changes:
- last selected combat team will now be auto-re-selected if you have more than 4 chars
- fixed a bug with shop discount not working properly
- Kiara rooftop scene now has a vag/anal choice
- fixed double Elena sprites during shared in thorns quest
- fixed the gangs' slain button during The Dark Knight to behave less weirdly
- fixed tons of typos all over the script
- cinematic improvements in script (better char/scene displays)
- health/energy bars now change smoothly
- fixed softlock during Price of Life quest
- fixed softlock during Nyx guard walk-in scene
- fixed numerous smaller bugs with battle system
- new relationship screen lines & entries for characters
- fixed a bug with selection overlap in combat
- wrong romance indicator on rel. Screen
- lots of other backend improvements, mostly translation-related
- added sounds for fire/poison status effects
- quest history now has a main indicator and also lists all quests in completion order
- fixed skill hit chances to not appear when they're not relevant

New assets:
- better sprites for Regina, Erika, Mika.
- new art/anim for divine parasite missionary sex scene
- new art/anim for divine parasite standing sex scene
- new art/anim for Kiara rooftop scene

v0.160 - Bugfix - 2025-01-31
- fixed a bunch of typos
- fixed loading a save causing renpy to "forget" stuff in some situations
- nosteam version save compatibility support begins
- easy difficulty now lowers infection gain by 25%
- callie & trayan will now properly be 'met' during the corresp. quest
- quicksave in battle disabled

v0.159
Bugfix 2:
- fixed a bug with mining booting the player to the main menu (hopefully for good now)
- fixed ves dropping her lover status if you load a save from an older version
- fixed a bunch of typos
- fixed counter killing an enemy causing ctd

Bugfix 1:
-Fixed mines return to main page bug -Fixed gallery purge bug -Fixed ves rel screen bug
-New Mage of Palam quest Girl troubles (incomplete) and Mika quest, 'Little lies.'
-Travel camp scenes featuring Myu and Elena
-Combat balancing across the board.
-Lots and lots of QOL improvements.
- auto battle option restored
- item-related error fixed
- dev-menu disabled
- "points to spend" arent shown in skill/perk ui if at 0
- lotsa typos fixed
- saving during battle disabled
- fixed an error with battle poison effects carrying over into story mode
- fixed an error with ves during bazark fight
- auto-forward icon swapped into a book
- fixed a bug which allowed you to hack around the "lowest attribute" requirement
- fixed zara sprite jumping
- added hover tooltip on infection bar
- fixed nyx dominant route last scene, now repeating every other night
- fixed thea missing from relationship screen
- fixed corresp. mrs winward scenes to only happen at night
- fixed winward stool scene to happen only after the plug
- fixed Ramonian twister buy price being lower than sell price
- set kraken level to unknown
- added the first lines of the save upgrade routine

v0.158 - 2024-12-10
Enhanced Visuals: We've fine-tuned the graphics to make the world even more immersive.
Smooth Gameplay: Improved mechanics for a seamless experience.
Optimized Performance: Bug fixes and enhancements for all systems.
Rich Storytelling: Additional dialogue and choices to deepen the narrative.

v0.157 - 2024-12-02
1.) DO NOT try and use old saves. Use the quick save feature - delete persistent data if you encounter any strange errors or bugs whilst playing and see if that resolves the issue. Otherwise, please report it in the discord!
2.) There's a lot of 'balancing' issues and things to be sorted due to the sheer amount of changes happening, as well as missing elements yet to be implemented. We will be working on this once the final skills/stats and things are in, very soon!
3.) It's been a long wait for this update (largely due to the amount of prep for the upcoming steam release) - we plan to fire out some much quicker updates as we get ever closer to the release, including the next major city and continuing the main story!
Big changes:
- prologue overhauled: it is now split into multiple quests, plenty narrative added/changed, new locations, characters & more
- In-depth overhaul of attribute & leveling system
- Battle skills overhauled: a class system & skill leveling is now in place instead of pre-assigned skills
- Changed many choice options to display the required gold/perk/attribute
- Sex infection reduction mechanic overhauled
- Plenty of new items to buy, loot or craft
- Crafting system: Drax now provides crafting services, some new enemies will now drop crafting materials
- New quest, characters, romance & sex scenes (Novaras tanner)
- Battle interface redone (once again) into something better
- new relationship screen & underlying code
- post-battle loot system (by default, everything is looted)
- Battle attributes changed and rebalanced for most of the enemies in the game
- New game changed: it now features a character creation screen
- Potential allies (party characters) had their initial attributes changed
- Perk system (finally) in, only a couple perks actually implemented
- skill checks are a fixed value pass/fail instead of rolls now
- Introduced (and tweaked) xp rewards for all quests
- Seeing sex scenes for the first time now adds experience
- Battle now only adds a very small amt. Of experience for each unique enemy team composition
- Leveling formula changed: you will now reach level ~10-12 on completing most of the current content
- Traveling mode expanded: plenty enemies & encounters (including sexy ones)

Added smaller changes:
- Kylisa can now cleanse the player of corruption
- persistent data and saves will now force-reset between versions
- From Another World quest narrative sequence changed & improved
- censorship option & its code tails removed
- travel map nodes randomize every 1h of game-time
- Intimidation removed
- Wait block on plenty locations, such as shops
- Magic resistance as an attribute removed: it is now a will-derived battle stat
- Attribute descriptions tweaked to be more informative
- Changed styling of items' desc (attributes given & more) sprites & other assets:
- Nijah bj sex scene changed
- new mc prologue battle anim
- new bandit story artwork
- new shani sprite
- new lucius mal sprite
- new vala sprite
- new kiara sprite
- new divine sprite
- new arlena sprite
- new markus art
- new kennel master art
- new drax art
- new guard art

Fixes:
All Vizura events have been added to the quickstart
Magic users were using energy instead of magic during battle, this bug has been fixed
Elena drunk event bugfix
Some texts in the battle log have been improved
Skill Dodge of the Warrior class has been nerfed.
The Win Battle button is now working stably and no longer crashes the game.
Some typos that were causing the game to crash have been fixed.
- fixed a bug with infinite character creation attribute points
- auto-battle option is now enabled for all battles except prologue fort tutorials
- fixed transform resetting skills (hopefully)
- fixed a bug with ctd on saving post-slavemaster quest
- fixed a wrong prologue skill ID
- cloak of darkness quest added to quickstart
- transform button is now shown even in battles where you cannot transform
- fixed damzel in diztrezz black diamond scouting section
- Fixed a wrong riddle answer (tree/fire)
- Battle teams rewritten to never bug out anymore
- Markus female gallery scene fixed
- Divine gallery scene fixed
- Thea gallery scene fixed
- Vizura quest tweaks
- Added plenty of missing change relationship calls
- Quest log / notes GUI fixes
- Plenty typos fixed all over the game
- Other smaller fixes
QOL:
- More robust & helpful tutorial messages sprinkled all over the game, shown once as certain conditions are met
- Added a large fonts option
- Added auto map navigation
- Auto battle team fill option
- Notifications when a character joins/leaves party

A couple things: - 2024-01-26
0.153 Changelog:
-The travel maps mechanic is the last major feature/mechanic to be integrated into the game. From here on out, we'll just be adding depth to ALL of existing systems and improving on them, such as combat, enemy AI, etc.
-The next focus now, is on (finally) the Mages of Palam quest(s) and wrapping up Captain Nyx for Act 1, before moving on towards finally wrapping up Act 1's main quests and leaping ahead with the story (with Regina content). We've already made a start gathering assets and things already~
-Apologies for the lack of communication on this one, we'll try get back to our more regular news updates shortly.
As usual, thank you all for your amazing amount of support helping to bring this project alive,
you guys are awesome!
Love,
-The Damned Studios Team
New stuff:
- Added a traveling system: getting to remote locations has never been this exciting
- Added a travelling merchant you can encounter on your travels (and have fun with)
- New holiday event (with two sexy scenes)
- An assortment of items related to the holiday event
- Adara's place can be visited (after the holiday event) - Adara can now be "properly romanced" (after the holiday event)
- Three new music themes for the holiday event & travels
- Couple new cinematic sounds
Tweaks/fixes:
- Already-clicked choice options are now slightly greyed-out
- Fixed a small display error in prologue
- Fixed pregnant characters spamming birth and behaving weirdly in general
Translation-related:
Books now won't crash due to splitting text tags no more
- Fixed a bug with Thea not appearing on quickstart romance option
- Some other smaller fixes

v0.152 - 2023-12-19
Visuals:
- New character sprites for: Lukkan, Borras, Skallion, Adara, Tarek, Nijah
- New Tarek & Nijah CG during the Damzel in Diztrezz quest
- New Markus' house background
- New Novaras Kennels background
- New battle skins: Myu, Elena, MC (Father's armor)
- New/improved Captain Nyx sprites
- Added the Behemoth Rat cg
- Added Myu feeding cg (The New Myu quest)
Narrative:
- New quest: Cloak of Darkness
- Added Divine romance content, you can now ACTUALLY enter the palam tower at night
- New palam tower locations (most are barred-off for now)
- Numerous edits/changes to prologue scenes
- Added / improved narrative choice icons
- Notifications and narrative choices are now displayed in dialogue history
Sexy stuff:
- Three new Captain Nyx sexy scenes
- Two new Regina sexy scenes
- Three new Sister Divine sexy scenes
Game mechanics:
- Added experience and levelling system
- You can earn experience by slaying enemies
- Added attribute points to all the characters including player (work in progress, unbalanced)
- Added attribute effects on battle, narrative and trading
- Added distribution of attribute points on leveling-up
- Laid out the groundwork for perks system (non-functional yet)
Battle:
- You can choose which characters will participate in most battles now
- Battle party limit is extended to 4, only present in some battles: prologue section mostly
- Added an option to toggle fast combat skill target selection
- Battle interface was considerably changed to display new combat mechanics
- If entering the battle in transformed state, player & markus now have their stats properly scaled
- Made default attack and defence a universally available skills
- Added dozens of battle skills and status effects for many in-game characters
- You and your companions will unlock new battle skill every 5 levels
- Combat belt is gone: you can now use as many items as you want in battle
- Added groundwork to scale mobs to certain levels for battle purposes, currently only implemented in demorai hunt battle
QoL:
- Quick-start menu: if you're a returning player, you can jump to the most-recent content more easily now
- Added/improved tutorial messages scattered throughout prologue/beginning of act 1
- Interface volume slider in options now actually works
- Location clickables now display their associated hotkeys
Fixes:
- Added missing Kiara rooftop gallery scene
- Countless amount of typos fixed
- Fixed a bug where MC remained naked after having bath with Ves
- Fixed behemoth quest's missing quest stages
Engine:
- Externalized alot of strings into variables: this is supposed to make translation of the game less of a headache, and is still in progress
- Prologue letter is now translate-able
- Ridiculous amount of other more engine-related changes

v.0.149 - 2023-07-20
content:
- new quest: The Slavemaster. Involves captain Nyx and is unlocked after The Bloodhound quest.
- new sexy scene w/Captain Nyx, happens during The Slavemaster quest.
- 5 adventure guild quests, 4 of which are repeatable.
- two new sexy scenes happening in one of the adventure guild quests. (Please note, the catgirl/catboy rotate weekly during the 'price of life' quest.
- new enemies, cgs, backgrounds as parts of the Adventure Guild quests.
- Thea romance content including sexy scenes, unlocked by advancing your Adventurer Guild rank.
- new regina sexy scene, happens after the Dazzling Tail quest.
- new Elena sexy scene, happens later into her romance.
- Myu can now be impregnated. Alt sex scenes are added, as well as some narrative. - new celeste sprite.
- new celeste returning to the city artwork.
smaller changes/fixes:
- numerous smaller fixes to old quests, such as transitions, dialogue, char positions and more.
- healing items can be used in story mode. Only one place where this is relevant as of now.
- books are now items you can carry around and use to read.
- WASD keys can now be used to navigate most of the locations in the game. S leaves most of the city' buildings. (we'll have help screen eventually listing all the hotkeys, promise).
- you're now notified if you've succeeded or failed a skill check (or, charm check as of now). - retreat from battle added to demorai hunt & balun exploration.
- Elena facial expressions no longer clipping' around.
QoL:
- you can now use potions in combat with numpad keys.
- saves can now be named. you can toggle this option on/off in prefs menu.
- double-click-to-proceed is gone for good.
- error screen changed to account for the game's early stages of development. - combat log can be toggled on and off permanently.

v0.148 - 2023-05-15
0.148 TECH BUILD! (Available to Infantry Knight and above!)
Please read before playing: All tech builds focus on improving the general gameplay/technical under the hood aspects of the game. The focus is NOT on adding new content to the game ... That will be the next build.
With that said, the lewd scenes in the prologue have been re-done ... Check em out...
0.148 changelog:
- removed a 9-page limit on saves
- added a load button to the save screen
- new hospital background
- new novaras smithy background
- new arlena bedroom background
- new nijah prologue missionary anims
- new kiara prologue cowgirl anims & narrative
- new kiara prologue bj anim
- ridiculous amount of typos fixed (hats off to Ivann for the majority of these, AGAIN)
- new inventory system
- inventory & battle item tooltips
- in battle, every char now has a unique item belt
- container system (just mc's chest at home atm)
- skill & status effect tooltips in battle
- battle now has a text-based log
- in battle, if there's only 1 player side character, auto-selection happens - fixed adara double-blushing occasionally
0.148 cheats:
toggle cheat menu: spidermonkey

v0.147 - 2023-04-08
- new quest: a tale of two emperors
- a bunch of new characters & scenes as per the quest
- new location as a part of the quest
- new quests, char & lewd stuff if you bring the slime jar with ya during The Bloodhound
- From Another World quest as a part of prologue: act1 now starts at either ves camp if player saved her, or at novaras city if they did not.
- quickstart changed to accomodate for FAW being merged into prologue sequence, added a choice sequence to alter pre-act1 choices
- Para dream sequence tied into Adara Reunion quest: doesn't rely on weird sleep trigger anymore
- gallery rework: characters as categories, scene variants as additional flags that are saved on being seen
- tons of fixes to existing gallery scenes
- gutted native renpy gui, rebuilt entire ui from the ground-up: main menu, save menu, credits, options
- as part of the above, plenty changes to ui big & small
- massive amount of typos fixed, big thanx to ivann for providing a list of most of these (was it 400+ total?)
- map doesn't have location names baked-in anymore
- valley of death as a separate location southwards of novaras
- "hunt demorai" moved to VoD
- added missing elena grind + lingerie finish arts - quicksave/quickload with f5/f9
- non-flickering main menu video (finally) & non-bugging-out save thumbnails
- some tutorial popups placed around the game, explaining functionality
- prologue intro stretched on x-axis a bit
- the dark knight lists gangs slain
- Added additional soundtracks
- new adara hug cgs
- replaced some prologue artworks w/better ones
- replaced nijah prologue doggy w/improved one
- prologue revisited, fixed some chars overlappin & other visual hiccups
- chars are shown on a separate layer by default now, as to avoid any vfx overlap
- relationship change lists capitalized name
- also tons of under-the-hood changes & smaller visual ones

v0.146 - 2023-02-16
General:
- world map & travel
- dros romance & corresp. content
- mal's shop is now working
- church location
- new mc artwork
- black diamond arena
- skill tests, currently used for charisma rolls in quests. Whenever you see one, you'll see a "drama" icon (two masks). Percentage tells your odds on "passing" the skill test.
- cheat menu replaced with cheat codes

Party battle:
- a bunch of combat sounds
- cancel skill button
- music lists as opposed to fixed tracks
- floating numbers (dmg)

Quests:
- From Another World quest now ends with a tavern scene
- The Dark Knight quest (after From Another World) - The Bloodhound quest (after The Dark Knight)
- A Graceful Rebirth quest (after High Fashion) qol/fixes:
- a bunch of 'Regina's replaced with [regina_ref]
- restored accesibility menu (a key)
- restored self-voicing (v key)
- made "goodbye" choices always the bottom-most ones - sometimes waiting would be blocked if ya skip too fast, not anymore (hopefully)
- arwen scenes static placeholders replaced with anims
- bunch of typos/text edits (umicans anyone)
- consistent infection change across any and all sex scenes
- startup disclaimer is a text now, not a picture

0.145- 2022-12-17Changelog:
- new character: arwen, a prostitute that cosplays occasionally
- 3 sex scenes (involving arwen).
- 2 (4 variants) cosplay sex scenes involving arwen
- palam tower now has a night music theme
- library has a new background art
- party battle turn counter/side indicator
- party battle ui no longer blinking in/out of existence
- first combat sound: bottle pop, expect more
- options to delete persistent data and saves
- new adventurers guild' background sprite
- mad prophet wanders about novaras
- new book readable at vala's
- added small unique scenes in case nijah & elena are at mc's at the same time
- black diamond not immediately available if you take the bloodbath route, extra scene there
- clothes shop new background & sound (after you bring the power crystal)
- nijah can now be impregnated on vaginal sex
- a bunch of scenes revolving around nijah pregnancy
-lukkan can be found at the tavern every few nights
- extra dialogue lines for nijah post-damzel quest
- new kylisa sprite
- entire ves questline revisited, reworked into separate quests & polished up
- no-lingerie version of ves 69 scene added
- some ves sex scenes improved visually
- ves tent flap soundbank
- adara reunion ("visit her at iron unicorn at night") turned into a quest, to avoid players getting lost
- Sister Divine dialogue slightly altered to not clog up questlog
- resting now ticks clock per-hour of rest
- resting also plays a clock sound
- you can now rest up to 24h
- "relationship with character changed" now lists char. name
- clock choice icon to indicate events that are gonna take up quite a bit of time
- elena music theme improved - regina story description improved
- vala first meet scene only happens at day
- gallery is now 5 gold per view
- nijah rescue sequence only happens after the "parasite dream"
- sunrise/dusk times tweaked to match those on the ingame day/night circle
- missing nijah house name fixed
- plenty of grammar fixes

-The Damned Studios Team 0.144 changelog: - 2022-11-07
-fix: saves breaking after combat
- fix: a bunch of 'bought' vs 'brought' typos - fix: alea wearing mask proper during her lewd scenes now

0.143 changelog:
- new: thea character (during adventurers guild sequence)
- new: alea & fawha character sprites (during black diamond quest)
- fix: missing ves camp button names - fix: dialogue history causing error
- fix: double click on messages
- fix: relationship char duplicate entry
- fixes: plenty of typos - new: elena the wolf-lady, questline available after completing adara reunion
- new: a bunch of new quests and events revolving around elena
- new: two rep. sexy scenes w/elena
- new: butcher character, curently used in elena's questline
- new: regina masturbating animation
- new: kiara sprites
- new: helena the courtesan
- new: a bordello helena works in
- new: slightly changed 'parasite first meet' cg
- new: gold coin amount interface bit (if player has any)
- new: scrollbars in dialogue history
- new: time frames (dawn, noon etc) are now displayed on the clock
- new: ability to select a choice menu entry with number keys
- new: hotkeys for most of the general interface stuff (not editable yet)
- new: three music themes; babazhul, bandits (nijah questline) and elena
- change: traveling around passes time a bit, so does demorai huntin'
- change: player now has some gold at the start of act1
- change: hunt rewards raised
- change: simplified how sleeping in bed works, as to avoid silly progression hiccups
- engine: moved over to python3 renpy
- engine: reverted .py separation: entire codebase is native .rpy files once again
- engine: while at it, cleaned up & optimized plenty of engine nuances such as init stages
- engine: midnight check for quests/logic
- engine: bare-code groundwork for leveling, pregnancy system, party management system

v0.141
- Migrated over to py3 renpy 8.*+
- Added animations for Ves party battle skin, Markus Transformed party battle skin
- Added first take on the relationship screen, it's gonna list characters MC is romantically engaged with as you progress
- Damzel in Diztrezz quest diplomatic route expanded with another detective-ish way to approach it
- Black Diamond can be accessed post-damzel quest
- Babazhul now has blinking/talking anims
- Added a stop-gap solution (till trading code is in) to buy healing items: General Store shopkeeper has some
- Expanded Damzel assault route considerably, along with one new enemy type
-Upgrade on Black Diamond party battle map
- Added a stop-gap dialogue option to Nijah's post-damzel lines, toggles her pregnancy status
- Added two pregnant variants of sex scenes
- Added pimp option for post-damzel talk with Nijah
- Pimping earns some coin passively which player can collect,
- 3 scenes of Nijah 'working' her clients, can be triggered if you (being her pimp) visit pleasure district at night
-Added two kissing cg's to Nijah questline - numerous smaller tweaks to narrative, expressions & editing

v0.140 - 2022-08-18
-Nijah romance heavily extended past Damzel quest
- Black Diamond lewd scenes (servant during Damzel quest)
- Sell Nijah option during Damzel quest
- As per feedback, pauses whenever lewd scenes happen
- Gallery scenes tweaked according to
- Novaras market location
- New party battle healing item obtainable from Nijah' market stall
- Tarek death CGs
- Couple under-the-hood tweaks

0.138 hotfix only changelog:
- New main character & markus prologue story sprites
- New Emperor Alcott story sprite
- Tarek got his own story sprite
- New party battle skins: Tarek, MC post-para, MC transformed
- Party battle can now show "night" variants of background scenes when suitable
- Night variant of fort battle map
- Fixed Arlena quest primer line not being shown (A dazzling tail)
- Fixed Dros not being there for the High Fashion quest
- Tweaked Alley HJ .webms, this fixes visual glitches happening on some machines

v0.137
Engine: - Fix to android (.apk) builds. They now work. Again.
Content: - New Nijah character sprite. - A new quest revolving around Nijah (Damzel in Diztrezz) that you can begin if you visit pleasure district after completing From Another World. Might want to daily-revisit ~twice or so for the event to fire.
Note: this is a first not-quite-linear quest we've got. Bring feedback if anything borks up.
- The Black Diamond location. Currently only visited temporarily for the duration of Damzel in Diztrezz quest, will be re-visitable once the quest is finalized & missing assets acquired.
- Three new enemy types: a bandit, a thug, a guard. Currently only used within Damzel in Diztrezz quest.
- Nijah house & some coding scaffolding for her TBA lewd content that is unlocked post ^ quest.
- Applied a quick & dirty visual tweak to sewers battle map.
We'll most likely change it further down the line. Till then, boosted brightness/contrast should do.
- Added a country-ish street battle map, currently used in Damzel in Diztrezz quest.
- Markus added as a character that you can speak to in his house. Not much there for now, just a consistency's sake.
- Added a small cozy system playing a random sound from an SFX library. Currently only used for door creaks around the city.
Will come full force when we get to combat sounds. - Added more 'glowing lights' VFX to locations. Think we've covered all of them.
Interface:
- You can now select an enemy in party battle instead of hovering about. Will come in play when there's need to hover over their status effects for tooltips.
- You can toggle narrative auto-forward in the options menu. This Ancient Technology was scrapped along with the original Renpy UI months back, but it was never forgotten.
- Small tweaks to misaligned text on some ui-s.
- Fancied up interactables' buttons all over the place. (The circles with icons in) Gameplay tweaks:
- Made it so that the player can't hunt demorai at daytime anymore.
- You cannot rest when the narrative screen is shown anymore.
- As per feedback, changed sewer quest (High Fashion) to only be trigger-able after completing From Another World.
- As per feedback, fixed Shani's name dialogue bit so that you can't annoy her about it indefinitely.

0.134
fixes a major bug causing quests to bug out.

v0.133
Visuals:
- Artwork replaced with new & improved versions: princess cg, day/night tavern, prologue laboratory
- Tweaked NVL (bunch of text on screen, like when reading books), so that it's more beautiful.
- Fixed Vala bugging out duplicating herself

Mechanics:
- potions you can use in battle are now taken from your inventory. you can fill your belt slots yourself, or let the system autofill it.

Quests/Progression:
- as per feedback, fixed mismatched ves dialogue
- disabled (fixed) sleeping during prologue
- high fashion quest now properly triggers on entering the shop for the first time
- added lewds gallery: you can find it around novaras pleasure district
- changed hunt bronze reward to lighten the grind
- reworked arlena questline: arlena's content was most likely not seen by most of the players due to tricky triggers it had set up & it being untracked. it is split into two complete quests and a repeatable romance stage after you beat those.
- added arlena as an interactable character after her introductory quest is complete
- as part of the above, some writing & narrative was added/changed
- cleaned up redundant notes and added a couple more to the journal

Interface:
- implemented new mouse tooltip instead of an obsolete one we've used
- as per feedback, added dialogue history screen, top-right textbubble-like button
- sound values now display in options screen
- added new tooltip to the battle, showing skill descriptions
- "censore violence" option moved to options menu as a toggle
- fixed main character's house interactables positions
- during reworked arlena qustline, you will sometimes see icons representing permanent outcome. these are meant to warn player to think twice, and should be visually self-explanatory. if this idea takes root, we'll have more of those placed around when appropriate.

Quality of life changes:
- Added party battle skill numbers, these indicate keys you can press to select a skill
- As per feedback, added an ability to cancel combat skill choice. after choosing a skill, press either esc or right mouse button to cancel skill selection
- Added cheat menu player can toggle on/off in options. a top-right flower-like icon, it allows you to add gold & change corruption levels. in battle, open it to access a "win battle" option. not recommended if it's your first time playing.

Under-the-hood changes:
- Baked kiara prologue scene into a webm: game folder size reduced by 15%, lag it caused is gone
- Tons of background & cg images converted to .webp, cutting game folder size further by ~%20, with this and above, file size optimization is now pretty much complete
- Codebase optimizations

Other:
- Novaras smithy got an ambient SFX loop

v0.131
- General refactoring of code
- Quest system
- Local navigation system
- Event system
- Time system, day/night cycle + calendar
- Reactive drag&drop system for future inventory and similar UIs
- General notification system
- Additional work on combat system
- UI for all of the above
- Changes to how data is stored to enable greater save compatibility going forward
- Plenty of new content including:
-Regina first peek scene remastered (animated)
- Ves storyline
-Shani (prostitute) content
-Library added
-Store added (Placeholder for now)
-And more...

Hotfix details:
-Ves is now showing off her lingerie outfit
- Ves bj animation changed, should not glitch out on some devices anymore
- ves cuddling art added to a certain scene in her questline
- ves bj now has an outfit choice pop-up if you've given her the lingerie
- mc parasite battle sprite slightly downscaled
- new erika sprite
- a slightly improved regina sprite
-Regina peek scene animation added

v0.129
-Over 6000 words of new story!
-Three new 'lewd' animated scenes with Adara to find!
-Reworked Regina and Adara character models.
Bugs and general fixes:
-Fixed bug where player could die during the tutorial.
-Some minor UI improvements (WIP).
- WIP Quest log (download walkthrough tho).
To clarify:
This will be the last update before the main revamp update. The combat, UI, navigation, and more, is all going to be overhauled and improved considerably. Some of the art will ALSO be changed in order to reflect a more consistent style moving forward.

v0.127
- Prologue: Pacing stages for Nijah missionary scene with new sound loops -
- Progression: Option to skip prologue suggested only for those who played it. As it is 30 minutes+ of gameplay.
- Act 1: Novaras city map & navigation
- Act 1: Beginning of act1 story, inc. a bunch of mostly-animated characters, ~20k narrative words & 5 lewd scenes.
- Gui: Quick menu gone, a button to enter game menu (upper-right corner of the screen) now present.
- Feature: test-grade inventory system, to be improved.
- Feature: test-grade quest journal system, to be improved.
- Combat: 2 attacks per enemy rule disabled for now, causes bugs, may return once combat is rewritten (next major update).
- Help screen temporary gone: keyboard & mouse bindings are being moved into options screen, as to allow re-binds and to revise unnecessary or additional bindings.
- Improved (or rather changed) android support: the game now displays almost the same on android as it does on PC. this will be revisited later, for now texts will be small.
- Other minor additions/fixes/changes.

Please keep in mind the current build/state of the game is a WIP!

Bugs fixed with 0.127 build:
- Added clickable houses' outlines for easier navigation
- Fancied up combat hero icons & fixed misplaced ones
- Added ambience to act1 locations - a half-dozen various community-reported bugs fixed
- Other minor fixes/tweaks
- Save compatibility between updates is a priority that we aim to fix within the next 1-2 updates but is not guaranteed with this build.
- Many of the systems, such as combat are going to be overhauled considerably in the near future.
- And more. We will be casually making bug fixes and updates this months feel free to suggest anything you want.

v0.124
-added more pacing stages to alley HJ scene + sfx + flavor text.
-added more pacing stages to Nijah missionary scene + sfx + flavor text.
-a couple wrong combat start HP values fixed.
-cleaned up Kiara combat/char, Borras char, Duprey char, Regina char sprites of dirty edits
-other minor fixes
Furthermore, combat system is being heavily re-written to be more workable in the long run
and inventory system is to be introduced soon, for chapter 1 free roam.

v0.123f
- fixed borras attack anim making him smaller than idling
- fixed Nijah bordello missionary sex Fx (no more panning right)
- fixed some dirty bits on character sprites
- cleaned up game assets of old/unused stuff
- added SFX over developer logo video

v0.123e
Small hotfix
Hotfix for the moaning sound effects of Regina replaying even after the scene where you peek at her.

v0.123d
- Removed blue outline on MC sprites.
- Re-did cursor into more 4k-friendlier version.
- Made cursor glow on more clickable stuff (Choice buttons/image buttons) - Nerfed 1st battle Markus' attack a bit, you should never be able to lose 1st battle now if you just spam basic attack.
- Removed some credits' text so that it fits screen w/o scrolling.
- Smoothed out slider thumb corners.
- Fixed scorpion boss hp displaying incorrectly.
- Added sex fx volume slider & pointed all corresponding sounds to it.
- Fixed (removed) gray border around Nijah missionary finish artwork - Moved house tooltips to center-top.

2021-08-31
Release

Meet the team!
Hello everyone!
We are Damned studios, an independent team of many talented people from different countries working together on an ambitious adult gaming project called PARASITE BLACK that we want you to be a part of!

Our hard-working team is comprised of:
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