Ruin Me 0.53.0: The Wrens

Hi, perverts! There's a new patron version of Ruin Me available, adding a new minor ruination and other enhancements! The free version now has new quality of life improvements and a bunch of minor play scenes.

If you want behind-the-scenes design notes, previews of upcoming releases, new versions as soon as they're released, or the ability to vote in polls to decide what I develop next, sign up to my Patreon!

Version 0.53.0p is for $2+ patrons and adds:

• A new minor ruination, "Rescue a Welcoming Couple", letting you help a couple become comfortable with nonmonogamy. These scenes have consensual cuckqueaning (a wife getting off on her husband fucking other people). It's available in the cellar of the Reform Institute in Act III once Theresa has informed you about the "birds". There are now five birds sequences available, but only three are required to progress the main story.
• A new menu for Byron in the style of the one used in Theresa's chambers.
• Update to "The Mica Sign" expedition so that certain short conversations don't make time pass.
• Ambiences that play in the mansion; by default, these occur once a day and won't play the first time you enter the entryway each morning. Additional ambiences unlock as the game progresses, and some depend on your sophisticated taste options.
• Additional possibilities for the photo that is sometimes slipped under your door in the morning if the "Jealousy" sophisticated text is active, based on what training Theresa has had. The chances have now increased so it should happen every five days or so.
• New backgrounds for when the Birds relate their backstories.
• Improved art for Cathy, clarifying her hair and eyes and adding shadows.
• You can now travel directly to the cellar from the main Reform Institute menu once Theresa has informed you about the "birds" in Act III.
• Theresa now retains her makeup when she takes off the Vamp of Dracula costume, at least for a bit. At some point, I want to provide more makeup customization.
• Your BDSM supplies now arrive just *before* you use them, not after.
• A main volume slider in the preferences, plus clearer labels on the existing volume sliders.

Version 0.52.4 is free for everyone, adding:

• The bar toilets, where you can have minor play scenes that don't pass time, available from the start of the game.
  • Scenes include a gloryhole and piss play. This location will be expanded, given more art, and used for other things in the future.
  • There's a low chance of an encounter with Theresa (once she reaches Experience 3) if you've given her a routine involving sex in town or you've enabled the "Jealousy" sophisticated book in your bedroom.
• Options for erotic encounters and play with Theresa at minor locations in the Reform Institute, once you've started the "Improve the Reform Institute" task by talking to Theresa in the office there.
  • Institute play scenes are mostly text-only without art and don't pass time.
  • Different options are available in most Institute locations depending on what improvements you've made there.
  • Kinks include exhibitionism, public sex, voyeurism, group sex, enemas, piss play, foot stuff, feeding, drunken sex, and more.
• An option to gain 10 Ken per action in Act III by visiting Dr. Harvey's cellar laboratory at the Reform Institute.
• A reduction in price for the two less-revealing leotard costumes.
• An improvement to remove the "Where shall you go?" prompt on navigation menus (and some similar prompts), mostly to improve the mobile experience.
• Improvements to the early game and for new players:
  • An incomplete guide.txt in the game directory that will offer an outline of what's in the game, tips on how to access it all, and some hints for places players have gotten stuck.
  • The intro and tutorial sequence are now skippable if you've completed them on the same device before.
  • Better-distributed guidance for players in the early game, including a journal task for the initial town exploration.
• An overhauled top menu for Theresa's chambers, breaking her conversation into four main options (Chat, Investigate, Train, and Play) and two customization options. These main buttons should now display whether there's something new under them, which should hopefully reduce the amount of hunting around required.
  • "Chat" lets you talk to Theresa about herself; new responses will occur when her statistics increase.
  • "Investigate" lets you pursue horror expeditions and the main story.
  • "Train" lets you plan and execute training and, eventually, her graduation.
  • "Play" lets you access play scenes.
• Other interface improvements:
  • Play scenes have been rearranged in the menus to reflect the statistics required to play them.  
  • A new style for unseen play items (a red paperclip instead of an asterisk) that will also be used for new options elsewhere (for the moment, just in Theresa's chambers).
  • A new button background style for insensitive buttons.
  • A rework to the stat choice menu, used for play scenes, nomenclature, etc. This includes an update to how stat choice buttons are displayed that should reduce awkward layouts.
• New options and art for existing scenes:
  • Additional options for the second "Dirty Talking" training scene, letting you opt out of masturbating in front of Theresa.
  • New art for the third "Dirty Talking" training scene, actually hiding Theresa behind the screen as described.
  • Enhanced background effects for the conclusion of the "Moaning Hole" expedition.
  • An improvement to prompts for "The Smoky Glasses", making it flow a bit better if you postpone the expedition and providing guidance to wait until the next act.
  • New art for the figurine from "The Impassable Passage" horror expedition, shown when first acquired and when reviewing your curios in your bedroom.
• Improvements to options from the Bend Reality menu (available to Center of Attention patrons):
  • A division of the "Control Fate" option into "Control Randomness", which activates prompts to choose the outcome of certain random events, and "Pick Ambiences", which turns on the ability to pick which ambience will play in places like the town or the breakfast table.
  • A new prompt for when the Control Randomness cheat setting is active, used when giving options and probabilities for some minor random events.
  • The ability to control most of the random outcomes from the Naked Walk play scene.
• New transitions:
  • A new transition for entering/exiting the main menu.
  • A new transition for entering choice menus. Hopefully this is unobtrusive; please send me feedback if you have an opinion on it!
• Improvements to accessibility features:
  • Improvements to TTS self-voicing on stat choice menus (e.g. play scene menus, nomenclature menus) so that requirements are properly read aloud on focus.
  • Major characters (those with art) are now described in narration when they first appear.
  • An improvement to randtext tags, applying them as dialogue is said. This means that, for the first time, visual text, TTS self-voicing, and the game's History log should all show the same text for the same line!
• Minor fixes and enhancements.

If you sign up to be my patron at the $2/month level or higher, you get access to new builds as soon as they're done, plus the Reminisce feature that lets you replay old sex scenes without the trouble of rollback or save games. $5/month patrons also get access to a special cheat menu and the ability to submit requests! The current latest version will be available to everyone once the next patron-only build is up. If you want to contribute to the game's development, please become a supporter on Patreon!