Download game Refuge of Embers [v0.23a] [APK]

Android:

1. Settings>Apps>Menu>Special Access>Install Unknown Apps
2. Download and tap “refuge.of.embers-android.apk” to run

Windows:

1. Extract archive to desired location
2. Click on “RefugeOfEmbers.exe” to start playing

Linux:

1. Lock the door to the basement that you dwell in and turn out the lights
2. Shake the cheeto crumbs out of your IBM Model M mechanical keyboard
3. Extract .tar.bz2 and .tar archives to desired location
4. In /game directory set “RefugeOfEmbers.sh” to executable
5. In /game/lib/py3-linux-x86_64 directory set “RefugeOfEmbers” to executable
6. Navigate back to /game directory in your terminal and type “bash RefugeOfEmbers.sh”
7. Wonder why normies don’t use Linux even though Android and Windows only have 2 steps for the same process

Version 0.23:

• Script increased to 61.434 words, plus a lot of existing story removed and rewritten
• Early story expansion and improved choice system focusing on Eryn’s path
• New Raisa h-scene animation loops

Version 0.22:

• Script increased to 55,819 words, plus a lot of existing story removed and rewritten
• About 15 images added, many fully animated, most on Eryn’s path in act-1
• Continued an ongoing major overhaul of the main story and romance paths
• Ongoing reduction of technical debt under the hood to speed up future updates
• Full new GUI and menu system with improved controller and handheld support
• Fixed major bugs like broken paths and crashes on start for some players

Version 0.21:

• Script increased to 53,613 words
• New, improved, and expanded h-scenes for the gooning aficionados out there

Version 0.20:

• Script increased to 44,740 words with additions to Raisa romance path
• New Raisa h-scene
• New character
• New locations

Version 0.19:

• Script increased to 39,097 words with additions to Lucine romance path
• Added new Lucine animated h-scene (in the stable, 1 static scene, 2 loops, 2 climax animations)
• Added new main story scene (Murfi blocking road, 10 eyes, 11 mouths, 2 poses)
• Added new background burnt down mill stable
• New parallax animated scene (morning sky with clouds)
• Created sprite for Murfi with 3 eye options
• Added a new MC sprite pose (holding shirt)
• Added a new Aline sprite pose (holding MC’s shirt)
• Updated gallery to have all scenes for the new act-2 characters
• Other minor bug fixes, story changes, and added sprite animations

Version 0.18:

• Script increased to 34,729 words with additions to main story path
• Major story revision surrounding Remi in act-1
• Added new Evana scene (bathing, 3 eyes, 4 mouths)
• Added new Evana scene (leaving hot spring, 2 poses, 4 eyes, 3 mouths, 1 effect)
• Added new main story scene (Remi training part-1, 4 poses)
• Added new main story scene (Remi training part-2, 3 new poses, 7 eyes, 11 mouths, 1 effect)
• Added new animated background temple bathhouse
• Added new background temple garden daytime (1 prop)
• Added new background temple garden night
• Added 2 new impact frames to the new training scenes
• Added new animated fog effect
• Added option at the end to jump back to see new content on existing save
• Fixed missing censor bar on some act-2 scenes
• Fixed a crash on Lucine’s route
• Fixed a missing layer on Eryn’s sprite
• Added flowing water sound effect for bathhouse
• Created sound packages for the new locations
• Other minor bug fixes, story changes, and added sprite animations

Version 0.17:

• Script increased to 32,025 words with additions to Eryn romance path
• Added new static Eryn story scenes
• Added new Eryn animated h-scene (cowgirl scene, 3 animated loops and 2 optional climaxes)
• Added 1 new liminal scene
• A lot more small stuff, complete changelog coming later

Version 0.16:

• Script increased to 28,763 words with additions to Lena romance path
• Added new Lena scene (laying on bed, 6 eyes, 5 mouths, 2 effects)
• Added new Lena animated h-scene (lodge above tavern, loop and climax)

Version 0.15:

• Script increased to 24,741 words with additions to the Eryn romance path
• Added new Eryn scene (chatting in bed, 5 eyes, 9 mouths)
• Added new Eryn scene (sleeping together, 2 mouths)
• Added new Eryn scene (changing bandage)
• Added new Eryn scene (sleeping in the mill, 4 poses)
• Added new Eryn scene (Eryn pushing MC onto bed)
• Added new Eryn animated h-scene (temple bedroom, loop and climax)
• Reworked Eryn’s face and body on her intro scene (4 eyes, 3 mouths, 2 poses)
• Reworked Eryn’s face and body in creek undressing scene (2 eyes, 2 mouths, 2 poses)
• Reworked MC’s face and body in creek undressing scene (3 eyes, 3 mouths, 2 poses)
• Reworked Eryn’s face and body in first creek bath scene (7 eyes, 10 mouths, 2 hands)
• Reworked MC’s face and body in first creek bath scene (4 eyes, 8 mouths, 3 hands)
• Added an animated water ripple effect to first creek bath scene
• Reworked MC’s face and body in forest creature sighting scenes (3 eyes, 4 mouths)
• Optimized forest creature sighting animation in a way that makes more sense
• Added more choices to the early story to track choices
• Added the new scenes to the gallery and updated preview images for revised scenes
• Added new background throne room night (2 props)
• Added 2 water enter splash sound effects for creek scenes
• Added 2 water exit slosh sound effects for creek scenes
• Added creaky door open sound effect
• Added door closing sound effect
• Added log thud sound effect for Lena intro scene
• Implemented some early game rewritten sections with the new writing style
• Removed several boring and unnecessary liminal sequences from the story
• Fixed 1 major bug (missing choice tracking variable in act 1)
• Added the prologue day 0 and day 1 rewrite with more sprite animations
• Added new background props to slum background (supply delivery)
• Reworked all 31 Eryn sprite eyes (new irises & pupils, small fixes)
• Added 6 new Eryn sprite mouths (3 open normal, 3 open slightly happy)
• Reworked several existing Eryn sprite mouths
• Major rework on Lena sprite (lowered neck, repainting)
• Reworked or remade all 16 Lena sprite eyes (new irises & pupils, fixes)
• Major rework on all 5 Lena sprite arms
• Reworked Lena sprite hair
• Added 7 new Lena sprite mouths (4 open normal, 3 open slightly happy)
• Major rework on Lucine sprite (lowered neck, smaller forehead, repainting)
• Reworked all 19 Lucine sprite eyes (new irises & pupils, small fixes)
• Added 6 new Lucine sprite mouths (3 open normal, 3 open slightly happy)
• Reworked shirts on Lucine sprite
• Reworked socks on Lucine sprite to add thigh muffining
• Redesigned Aina sprite hair
• Reworked Aina sprite makeup and added freckles
• Added 9 new Aina sprite poses
• Rework on Raisa sprite (repainted the torso)
• Added 6 new Raisa sprite mouths (3 open normal, 3 open slightly happy)
• Added bottom underwear to Raisa sprite
• Added more clothing variation options to Raisa in the gallery sprite viewer
• Reworked or remade several MC sprite mouths
• Added all new characters from Act-2 into the gallery
• Remade and streamlined pregnancy morphs and clothing on all sprites
• Added previously unused face animations to Lucine intro scene
• Added a darkness mask to beginning dream sequence that fades away
• Added sprite blush fade effect to make it less jarring
• Added flicker effect to the candle in the intro scene
• Added movement to MC sprite picking up and setting down firewood on day 1
• Added firewood pick up and set down sound effect to day 1
• Added cloth sound effect for MC and Eryn picking up towels
• Remade door closing sound effect
• Changed gallery unlock cheat code to something even more archaic
• Fixed glitchy timebase for background and sprite time of day fades
• Major revision to gallery code and gallery sprites
• Removed a metric piss ton of now unneeded gallery variables
• Added a dev mode to speed up face and pose animations
• Small and boring code changes to things like sprite names to stay consistent
• Updated game engine and broke everything, then unfuckulated it all again
• Changed ending text & stat screen to be controlled by variables instead of manual edits
• Fixed using the name Harth in the last Eryn h-scene instead of the player name variable
• Further optimizations from old png files to smaller lossless webp files
• Other minor bug fixes, story changes, and added sprite animations

Version 0.14:

• Script increased to 22,153 words with additions to the main story line
• Added new animated Silva scene (descending lift, 10 eyes, 26 mouths)
• Added new Silva action scene (attack pt1 pt3 pt5, 6 eyes, 13 mouths, 2 props, 9 poses)
• Added new Silva action scene (attack pt2 pt4 pt6, 7 eyes, 16 mouths, 7 poses)
• Added new background makeshift bedroom night
• Added new background outside mill night (2 props)
• Reworked color and added plants to background outside mill day
• Added 1 slash frame for the new Silva action scene
• Added 3 slash frames to replace the old ones used in the festival action scene
• MC sprite revision (replaced all 22 eyes)
• Added 6 new MC sprite mouths (3 open normal, 3 open slightly happy)
• Added ancient lift sound effect by using a manual coffee grinder of all things
• Added knife swish sound effect to new action scene
• Added running footsteps sound effect to new action scene
• Added door crashing sound effect to new action scene
• Minor bug/typo fixes and dialogue changes

Version 0.13:

• Added 2,015 words [~10 mins] to the main story
• Created sprite for new character Aline
• Created Aline sprite faces (21 eyes, 24 mouths)
• Created 12 Aline sprite poses
• Created sprite for new character Priestess Evana
• Created Evana sprite faces (21 eyes, 26 mouths)
• Created 14 Evana sprite poses
• Created sprite for new character Silva
• Created Silva sprite faces (20 eyes, 31 mouths)
• Created Silva sprite poses
• Added new background dungeon
• Added new background temple bedroom
• Added new background temple bedroom evening
• Added new background temple bedroom night (2 props)
• Added new background throne room
• Added new background outside temple (1 prop)
• Added new background outside temple night (3 props)
• Added new story scene (Temple view)
• Added new Aline scene (Priestess in the throne room)
• Fixed 1 major bug and a few minor bugs/typos

Version 0.12:

• Added story events that continue through the day that the MC wakes up
• Added 2 new main story scenes (4 backgrounds, 30 poses, 8 eyes, 19 mouths)
• Created background for market center
• Added 4 new sound effects (waterfall, various sword sounds)
• Added h-scene & effigy counters to revised end screen
• Made new GUI buttons with game generated text
• Made hover effects for all buttons
• Changed formatting of all translatable strings to make fan translations way easier
• Added additional language support and functionality
• Changed MC’s default name from Biorn to Harth
• Minor bug fixes
• Wrote audio functions packages to handle game sound
• Fixed audio not playing in some gallery scenes
• Added audio debugging button to audio options menu
• Added end of build screen with gameplay stats
• Slightly touched up face on first Eryn scene
• Added 4 new Eryn mouths to sprite
• Remade all options menu UI
• Remade all buttons and frames
• Fixed the janky old cheat code options screen
• Reworked how gallery scenes are unlocked
• Removed several hundred variables that are no longer necessary
• Touched up Eryn dialogue and face animation on act-1 day-1

Version 0.11:

• Added story events halfway through the day that MC wakes up
• Added injuries and bandages to MC sprite
• Created mirrored version of new outfit
• Created sprite for new main character Aina
• Created Aina’s faces (20 eyes, 23 mouths)
• Created mirrored version of Aina’s sprite
• Added 1 new Aina scene (Intro at her tavern)
• Created background for makeshift house
• Created background for burnt down mill
• Created background for Aina’s tavern
• Created background for city outskirt slums
• Fixed 2 major bugs and a few minor bugs

Version 0.10:

• Biggest update released to date, project moved from alpha to beta
• Completed story events through the end of Act-I with 5 paths
• All core systems completed and save stable
• Music and sound effects now implemented
• Time of day added with colormatrix modifier for sprites
• Implemented a hidden effigy minigame that will eventually unlock bonus scenes
• Added censored mode to video options for content creators and possibly the Amish
• Added missing Raisa hickey story sequence
• Removed several unnecessary liminal scenes
• Removed or replaced on-the-nose and unnecessary dialogue
• Added new sprite accessories into script
• Added more pose animations to existing scenes
• Updated gallery thumbnail images to new artwork
• Added all new and existing scenes to the gallery
• Added MC poses, clothing, and faces to the sprite viewer
• Created sprite for new character Goddess Vera
• Created Vera’s faces (6 eyes, 7 mouths)
• Eryn sprite beautification (Remade breasts)
• Eryn sprite outfit (Remade sleep shirt)
• Eryn sprite accessory (Mirror-able bag)
• Added new Eryn pose (Holding effigy)
• MC sprite rework (Fixed mirror hair)
• Added new MC sprite effect (Hickey)
• Added new story scene (Candle scene in intro)
• Added new story scene (Drinking with Remi, 8 eyes, 13 mouths)
• Added new story scene (Effigy in bonfire)
• Added new story scene (Rhame sighting, 2 mouths)
• Added new story scene (Rhame on cliff, 3 poses, 2 backgrounds)
• Added new animated story scene (Remi defeating enemy, depth of field and loop)
• Added new story scene (Remi standoff, 2 poses)
• Added new animated story scene (claw slash)
• Added new story scene (Remi wounded)
• Added new story scene (MC attacking)
• Added new story scene (MC wounded, 4 poses, 3 eyes, 2 mouths)
• Added new Eryn scene (Festival romance, 3 poses, 6 arms, 20 eyes, 26 mouths, 3 effects)
• Added new Lena scene (Festival romance, 2 poses, 11 eyes, 9 mouths, 1 effect)
• Added new Lucine scene (Festival romance, 10 eyes, 8 mouths, 1 effect)
• Added new Lucine animated h-scene (Titjob at festival, loop and climax)
• Added new Raisa scene (Festival romance, 7 eyes, 9 mouths)
• Added new Raisa animated h-scene (Blowjob at festival, loop and climax)
• Added new Rithe scene (Festival romance, 9 eyes, 16 mouths)
• Added new Rithe animated h-scene (Handjob at festival, loop and climax)
• Remade animated Lucine handjob h-scene (loop and climax)
• Remade Vera intro scene (2 mouths, animated motes, added parallax effect)
• Reworked title screen with new logo
• Reworked intro video with new game logo
• Reworked MC’s face & body on market work scenes
• Reworked Eryn & MC’s hair color
• Reworked Eryn’s face on intro scene (2 eyes, 3 mouths)
• Reworked Eryn & MC’s faces and bodies on creek undressing scene (5 eyes, 5 mouths)
• Reworked Eryn & MC’s faces and bodies on first creek bathing scene (8 eyes, 17 mouths)
• Reworked Eryn & MC’s faces and bodies on second creek scene part one (5 eyes 6 mouths, 2 effects)
• Reworked Eryn’s body on second creek scene part two
• Reworked Eryn & MC’s hair color on third creek scene, changed to new parallax system
• Reworked MC body size on Eryn Effigy scene
• Reworked Eryn & MC’s faces and bodies on creature sighting scene (2 eyes, 3 mouths)
• Fixed Eryn having 2 left feet in the sleep scene
• Reworked Eryn’s body & MC’s face on third creek scene (4 eyes, 9 mouths)
• Reworked light and shadows on Lena firewood scene part 2
• Reworked Lena’s body on creature sighting scene
• Reworked Eryn & MC’s hair color on Lucine fence scene (2 poses)
• Reworked Raisa intro scene to include Eryn’s bag (2 poses)
• Added new background MC living room evening
• Added new background MC bedroom evening
• Added new background MC bedroom night (Optional lanterns and doors)
• Added new background MC’s yard evening
• Added new background forest evening
• Added new background forest trail evening
• Added new background town road night (Optional streetlights)
• Added new background market evening
• Added new background market festival night
• Added new background shrine ruins
• Added new background shrine ruins festival night
• Animated the cow on Lucine’s farm to bring joy to the hearts of millions
• Changed game system icon to the new logo
• Created 5 unique character effigies for the hidden effigy minigame (Eryn, Lena, Lucine, Raisa, Rithe)
• Hid those 5 effigies throughout the game in various scenes
• Created new animated particle system to fix performance issues
• And much more, this is an incomplete changelog

Version 0.09:

• Added story events halfway through fifth day
• Added new Eryn render (Creek)
• Added new Raisa animated H-Scene (Footjob)
• Replaced 2 placeholder backgrounds with final art (Creek & Forest Path)
• Added bepis to Rithe’s character sprite
• Added Eryn’s sprite poses to the sprite viewer
• Fixed Eryn’s sleeves not appearing in the sprite viewer
• Full redesign of the options menu with new GUI elements
• Added new video options menu
• Added animated particles video option to mobile version
• Added a useless VR mode video menu because we think it’s funny
• Created gameplay options menu screen
• Added new option to select language for later support
• Created new audio options menu screen
• Added mute button to audio options menu
• Added music and sound effect sliders to audio options menu
• Created new toggleable content options screens
• Replaced redundant toggleable content option with anal content
• Added internal view content preview picture to menu
• Added impregnation content preview picture to menu
• Added male on male content preview picture to menu
• Added anal sex content preview picture to menu
• Added placeholder female on female content preview picture to menu
• Created new extra options menu screen
• Added cheat code input screen to mobile version
• Fixed cheat code input not properly unlocking gallery
• Added potentially cursed M̵̩̼̃̓́̈́y̷̬̭̏͋͋̕̕s̵̯̪̗̰̓̐͛́̄̃͘t̸̢̏̈́̀̏̈ê̴̛̲̗͕͔̪̭̱͂̇̎r̵̲͕͖̽̌̈́̈́͊y̷͎͈̭̯͍̪͆̆̔̌̎̇̕ ̴̛̣̳̌̓͗̄͛͝Ó̶̹̊̀̚͘p̶̙͕̹̪̹̫̻͗͒ẗ̴͋ͅi̷̯̦̤͆̊́̒̓̚ơ̴̢̧͓̭͖̫͛n̷̡̢͚̜͖̪͛͐̿ to the extras menu
• Created supporter imagebuttons with links
• Added logo to splash screen
• Splash screen now generated with existing assets instead of using a picture
• Simplified buttons to use fewer image assets
• Continued major performance tweaks and file conversions

Version 0.08:

• Began major conversion of all images from png to webp for performance
• Began cropping and manually positioning all converted images to fix cache issues for mobile users
• Added story events through fourth day
• Added 1 new MC render (Catching boar)
• Added 1 new Eryn render (Cooking dinner)
• Updated Lena’s sprite to new poseable layer system
• Lena sprite beautification (Body, All Eyes & Mouths)
• Added 5 new Lena poses
• Added 4 new Lena body morphs (Pregnant)
• Updated Lucine’s sprite to new poseable layer system
• Lucine sprite beautification (Body, All Eyes & Mouths)
• Added 6 new Lucine poses
• Added 4 new Lucine body morphs (Pregnant)
• Updated Raisa’s sprite to new poseable layer system
• Raisa sprite beautification (Body, All Eyes & Mouths)
• Added 13 new Raisa poses
• Added 4 new Raisa body morphs (Pregnant)
• Updated Rithe’s sprite to new poseable layer system
• Added 8 new Rithe poses
• Added mirror versions of all asymmetrical character sprite assets (hair, clothes, & more)
• Added pose and pregnancy morph options to the gallery
• Replaced 1 placeholder background with final art (Blacksmith Shop)
• Converted all backgrounds with props to layered image system
• Horizontally flipped the market background for some reason
• Fixed minor bug on complex scenes by replacing stock RenPy checkered background with solid black
• Added video option to toggle particle effects in PC version to fix bug on some systems

Version 0.07:

• Replaced 1 placeholder background with final art (Living Room)
• Finished existing Lucine animated H-Scene (Added second loop of animation)
• Finished existing Lucine animated H-Scene (Additional rendering & details)
• Added new Harth+Eryn & Harth+Lena Render (Creature in the woods)
• Full Eryn sprite redesign & beautification (Hair, Body, All Eyes & Mouths, Clothing)
• Updated Eryn’s sprite to new poseable layer system
• Replaced existing Eryn render (Opening dream scene doorway)
• Added new Eryn render (MC falls on top of Eryn)
• Added 11 new Eryn eyes
• Added 9 new Eryn mouths
• Added 2 new Eryn face effects (Animated Sweat Drop, Mortified Face)
• Added 14 new Eryn poses
• Added 2 new Eryn accessories (2 Bags, 1 Belt)
• Added 3 new Eryn body morphs (Pregnant)
• Created reversed state for Eryn’s sprite (All clothes & accessories)
• Redesigned Harth’s bepis
• Redesigned Harth’s hair
• Redesigned Harth’s knife
• Updated Harth’s sprite to new poseable layer system
• Added 1 new Harth eyes
• Added 3 new Harth mouths
• Added 2 new Harth face effects (Animated Sweat Drop, Mortified Face)
• Added 1 new Harth misc effect (Neck Hickey)
• Added 16 new Harth poses
• Rescripted existing story with Harth & Eryn’s new poseable sprite system
• Rescripted gallery with Eryn’s new sprite system
• Rescripted entire choice variable handling system (New game start required to work)
• Fixed persistent name variable issue
• Major performance optimizations

Version 0.06:

• Added story events halfway through third day
• Added full gallery feature & UI elements
• Added full sprite mixer feature
• Replaced 1 placeholder background with final art (Behind House)
• Added removable props to Behind House background (Towels & Hunting Trap)
• Added 1 new Eryn render (Creek Day 3)
• Added new Lucine render (Fence)
• Added new Lucine animated H-Scene (HJ)
• Created 2 atmospheric particle movement templates (Creek Flies & Blowing Embers)
• Added placeholder blowing embers effect to title screen
• New & improved parallax effect for intro dream scene
• Added darkness overlay to Harth’s character sprite for intro dream scene
• Reworked all gallery tracking variables in script (New game start required to work)
• Minor dialogue changes
• Minor code changes

Version 0.05:

• Added story events through second day
• Created placeholder background for Lucine’s farm
• Replaced 1 placeholder background with final art (Town Market)
• Created new side character Baylor
• Created new main character Rithe
• Created Rithe’s faces (29 eyes, 34 mouths)
• Created Baylor’s faces (11 eyes, 18 mouths)
• Added 2 new Harth renders (Marketplace Working)
• Added new Raisa render (Drinking)
• Added 1 new Eryn render (Creek day 2)
• Added new Rithe render (Carving Effigy)
• Added sound effect and music support to menu for later release
• Minor dialogue changes

Version 0.04:

• Changed MC backstory slightly
• Minor dialogue changes
• Created full Android GUI
• Replaced 2 placeholder backgrounds with final art
• Created new side character Remi
• Added Remi’s intro scene to day 1
• Created Lucine’s faces (20 eyes, 26 mouths)
• Created Lena’s faces (19 eyes, 26 mouths)
• Created Raisa’s faces (26 eyes, 41 mouths)
• Animated Raisa, Lucine, Lena, & Remi’s new faces in script
• Added new Eryn render
• Added new Raisa render
• Added new Lucine render
• Added new Lena render
• Fixed several minor bugs & typos
• Redesigned Lena (body & clothing)
• Shrank MC by 5%
• Added gallery tracking variables to script
• Several critical naming system and code structure rewrites to prevent future bugs

Version 0.03:

• Initial Public release