Sinners Landing

So... With the dawning of the Year of the Rabbit it's time to make the biggest announcement since we started this Patreon:

We're working on a new game and we're pretty damn excited about it!

Now, before I go ANY further, let me be clear:

The #1 thing you can do to help us is GO WISHLIST OUR GAME! Even if you plan to buy it somewhere else, (or not buy it at all) your wishlist on Steam tells Gabe’s algorithm-generating chimps to pimp our shit harder, and we need all the help we can get. So... Go do that now. Here’s the link. Don’t worry. I’ll wait.

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Now, Let me tell you about SINNERS LANDING!

It's a fantasy visual novel, sandbox, roguelike kind of thing. You play as Tristan Lamprey, an apprentice mage, rogue, and hopeful artist who has failed out of his apprenticeship at a magical Wizard's Tower. Well.. When we say “Failed out” we mean he got busted banging the Archmage's daughter, and is on the run for his life, and has ended up washed up in Sinners Landing, a punkwater one-dock river outpost on the outskirts of the kingdom.

The town is, of course, almost entirely populated with beautiful women... because why wouldn't it be? Your job: Help the women of the town turn this forgotten outpost into a real village, dig yourself out of the crippling debt your wastrel gambling Viscount dad got you in, and try to not get shanked by the angry Archmage out for your blood. It’s a lot to do, but don’t worry, the sex makes it all better.

And there is much sex. You’ll get your wench on with maidens, retired courtesans, mercenary warriors, priestesses, and a rather sexy librarian. Oh, and a half-orc blacksmith. You’re gonna bang a half-orc. Because that’s half the reason I talked Droid into letting me make this game. Hot sweaty orc-sex is why I got into games in the first place.

The main gameplay is quite similar to Paradise Lust, because... Well, we like it. You'll wander around, talk to beautiful girls, learn about their lives, their backgrounds and histories, go on quests to help them out with their various issues, complete activities with them, and flirt with them - all the good stuff you remember from Paradise Lust, but in this case, all set in a tongue-in-cheek, fun fantasy setting.

But we’re also doing something completely new for this game: A full-fledged rogue-alike dungeon crawl, complete with card-battler combats with weird-ass critters. The dungeons are choose-your-own-adventure style challenges mixed with card-battling combats. You’ll use a simple skill system to overcome challenges, and improve your combat and magic abilities in combat. We’ve got rotbones, slugworts, petroleum jellies, stinkfudges, and a giant hairy beaver for you to fight And more.

And there’s a llama. More on that later.

We've actually spent a great deal of time building out an entire world with a story, background, history, and lore for you to explore, should you be so interested. Honestly, more lore than we’ll ever really use, but I liked writing it and nobody can stop me. So there. You'll learn about it through your conversations with the various girls, and your exploration of the world.

We intend to release the game through a series of “books”, each book being something like 10-12 hours of gameplay. Each one of these books will go through different seasons of your life in Sinners Landing, introducing new characters, new challenges, and new main story lines.

So, now let me answer the question I know you’re asking: What about Paradise Lust?

We’ve always said we want to wrap up the main story of Paradise Lust sometime this spring, and launch it before the Steam summer sale, and that’s exactly what we’re gonna do. The team is working hard to close out the main story and build out the rest of the game as we always planned. They’re ahead of schedule, and we have some great looking new scenes and things coming out soon.

But as much as we’d love to make Paradise Lust forever... We know that you guys don’t want a game that drags on forever with no real conclusion, so we intend to finish Paradise Lust and launch it as a full product. We'll still keep updating the game throughout the rest of the year with corrections, bug fixes, and small content or features, but at some point, every story ends. The story of Jack’s adventures on Tuvatuva will  largely end then. Will there be new adventures for him and the girls in the future? We’ll see...

After the launch of Paradise Lust out of Early Access, most of our team will transition to working on Sinners Landing. We plan to introduce it into Early Access around the same time, and in the following years, we'll be building out Sinners Landing in the multiple books we have planned, over a timeline similar to Paradise Lust, including monthly updates.

To be very honest, Paradise Lust was an experiment for the studio. We’re all professional normie game developers, and we weren’t sure how much we’d like making adult games. The fact is, we’ve had more fun making Paradise Lust than we have had making much anything else in years. And now, we've committed ourselves to making more than a game. We’re gonna build this little team into a genuine adult game studio with multiple games we're proud of. And Sinners Landing is the next stage of that journey.

On a personal note, I've been mostly focused on this game for the past few months - writing stories, building character designs, figuring out what the world looks like, helping to prototype the early game play - and I'm loving how it's all coming together.

I've never made any secret about my love of D&D, classic fantasy novels, and hack n’ slash games. This is what I grew up on. It's the reason I got into game development in the first place. So, when it was time to decide our next game, there really wasn’t any discussion for me. It was going to be a fantasy game. Because if nothing else, if I get to add “hot steamy half-orc sex” to the list of cool shit I’ve made in my career... I’m gonna call this a success.

In the coming weeks, we'll be releasing more information, snippets of gameplay videos, character designs, and more. We can't wait to hear what everyone thinks and share all this cool new stuff with you!

Now, again, if ANY of this sounds even a LITTLE interesting to you... GO WISHLIST US ON STEAM! It is the #1 thing you can do to help make this happen, it only takes a few seconds, and it’s FREE.

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