Horos – DEMO is ready
March 8, 2023Yes! Today we’re releasing the DEMO!
“People say it was a miracle I survived. My wounds… they were too deep; I should’ve been dead three times over. I was lying on a pool of my own blood when they found me, babbling like a madman. The farmers were inclined to put an end to my misery and spare me needless suffering, but they couldn’t bring themselves to kill someone in cold blood, so they dragged my not quite corpse to the stables to let me die in warmth and at least a bit of comfort. Except… I didn’t.
When they saw I was not only alive but recovering, improving… they took me to Swingmore. There’s an innkeeper here, a good woman, someone who wants to take care of me, to let me… I don’t know. I don’t know nearly anything. But here I can rest till I’m ready to decide. To decide who I am, and maybe discover who I was.”
This is the story of how you got your new name, Horos, and the man you became with it. The monster-slayer, the lover of many. The seeker of what you lost.
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This demo has a generous amount of content:
- you’ll be able to have sex with 4 characters, including Lucretia the tavern owner, Kara the blacksmith’s daughter, Mandy the witch and Nuala the guardian of the sacred Elven three. Sex scenes and interactive and requires a few playthroughs to discover everything that girls have to offer
- various enemies are waiting for you – goblins, a lot of them. We also have the 3 types of swamp people and something special lurking for you by the lake
- in terms of the story, you’ll have a chance to play the intro and the first quest, during which you’ll get familiar with the characters and the world
Please bear in mind that it’s only a demo, a fragment of the full game. The full game is still under development and might be slightly different from the version we’re presenting today. For instance, in the full version, we plan to have all fights in the game skippable so you can focus on discovering the story and not killing monsters. Also, we plan to use the map to help you keep track of your current position (the number of territories you can visit in the full version of the game is much bigger). If you got ideas for some changes or tweaks, please let me know in the comments below – I would really appreciate that.
I’m very excited about the possibilities that Renpy offers. Developing HOROS was pure joy for me – I hope you gonna love it!
You can play the demo here: https://playforceone.com/game/horos-demo/
You can play the demo here: https://playforceone.com/game/horos-demo/
Absolutely loved the demo! Can’t wait for the full release.
Are there plans to add some sort of quick travel or map in the full version?
Yes, we do.
Great work! Nuala is one of the best character designs yet!
Interesting gameplay, pretty good lite-RPG. The open world-ish idea is a nice touch, and the easter eggs in the background was nice.
My only nitpick, the voiced greeting was a bit annoying for Kara.
In the game, if you don’t already have the potion, there is a button in the cave to go north. However it will just cause the game to freeze. Shouldn’t have the button there unless you have the appropriate potion after attempting to dive and running out of air.
Thanks, I’ve fixed that.
Any news about the Club Velvet Rose sequel?
Next week I’ll write about CVR.
Cool, looking forward to that one
I think that is where the game froze on me tonight.
Hey guys, this is a great demo and it shows awesome promise for the game. A coule of things I found we “meed” is actually spelled “mead” and after the ogre was defeated then instead of the town “reviled” I think you mean “Revelled”. Aslo I was defeated by the goblin intruder (I think that’s what it’s called) at the elfs house, and every time I went back I couldn’t get the encounter to trigger again so I was kind of stuck and not able to progress the storyline any further.
There was something I knew I was forgetting as well, I had the same bug where on my first play through I didn’t defeat that goblin and then the only quest I had to was to help her, but never triggered again.
Thanks, I’ve fixed that today, uploading the new build.
when is the full game of horos coming out for lopgold.com?!
I’ll try to release it within the next 2 months.
Pleasantly surprised that I was disappointed when the demo froze on me. By then I had been playing for more than an hour, and I would probably have played for a few more hours if there had been no freeze-up (when I went into the cold waters looking for sturgeon). I might wait till the full version comes out to visit the game again, but definitely plan on seeing more.