Alvein

Alvein is a story-driven casual game where players return to their long-lost hometown and discover that all the men have mysteriously disappeared. They embark on a journey to rescue the lonely women. Players can freely explore different scenes on the map and encounter a variety of women. You may trigger various interesting story events, building deeper emotional bonds and learning about the women's secrets and personalities, unlocking a series of intimate animations. Besides exploration, the game also features various fun puzzles and mini-games. Solving these puzzles will win the girls' favor and speed up your progress.

Features of Alvein:

Emotional Core: Grapple with the protagonist’s guilt over his father’s death while confronting village-saving quests, balancing personal growth with high-stakes responsibilities. 

Complex Heroines: Interact with women harboring layered backstories, from vengeful warriors to cunning strategists, each offering unique questlines influencing the main plot.

Moral Ambiguity: Decide whether to prioritize the greater good or personal desires through dialogue choices that reshape alliances and unlock hidden story branches.

Puzzle-Driven Progression: Overcome environmental riddles and tactical combat scenarios requiring logic over strength, rewarding creative problem-solving.

Luck-Based Mechanics: Utilize a dynamic “Fate Meter” that tilts battles and social encounters via unpredictable critical boosts or sudden setbacks.

Guardian Trials: Prove your worth through village-defense minigames and resource-management challenges that test leadership skills essential for earning the Guardian title.

Changelog:

Major Engine Switch & Technical Progress

First: the game you'll see in the videos is still in development. The text box, UI, fonts, and blah blah will likely change by the final version. Right now everything's set up mainly to test systems and features.

The biggest news… we've moved the game from Ren'Py to Unity.

We tested different options, but only a full game engine like Unity could really handle everything we want to do. Switching over wasn't easy — we had to rewrite scripts and redo parts of the work — but the result is totally worth it.

Now we can fully customize the game, make it more interactive, and give players a deeper, more immersive experience.

So. We've wrapped up a bunch of technical and boring stuff — lots of code written, bugs fixed, systems polished, etc… Long story short most of the core systems are done, and that means it's finally time to start filling the game with content.

As you can see, the animations are detailed, layered, and transition smoothly. Fay finally feels alive on screen. This is still a technical build — but the heaviest parts are done.

We're now focused on moving in the finished content, polishing the visuals and gameplay, and getting the first playable build ready.

We've tweaked some of her animations, added new idle poses, gave her the ability to blink…

All animated scenes in the game will use the same style of animation. That means everything will be smooth and interactive.

Character Customization & Interactive Features

This will also be our first game where you can actually customize the main character a little!

To make that happen, we've started putting together a proper character creation screen for new games. It's still kinda work-in-progress (so don't worry about the missing background or ugly buttons), but it's coming along nicely.

Ever seen a more glorious character creator?

Now, since Fay is the only character in this game, we really want to make every moment with her feel dynamic and interactive.

And! you'll be able to touch her during conversations too. (We're planning more types of interactions, not just on her splash art.)

Depending on your progress with Fay, she'll react differently and allow or deny certain things. The further you go in the game, the more options and interactions will open up. Some of those interactions will even lead to full scenes.

For example — if you start touching her thighs, she might just… let you keep going. Uh-huh.

Upcoming Content Previews

We've also got some early sketches to share for upcoming scenes:

Fay getting ready for a massage.

Massage time! Hehe.

This game isn't just a "Fay interaction simulator". We're doing our best to keep a balance between vertical (depth) and horizontal (variety) development for both the gameplay and the story. If you enjoy deeper character progression and layered storytelling, we think you're going to love where this is headed.

Release Plans & What's Next

Overall, development is going pretty fast. Even with the engine switch and new systems, we're still aiming to release the first version soon.

Like we mentioned before, the game will be available on our website in a Web version (with save support for patrons), and also on Windows, Linux, and Android. macOS might come later if there's enough demand.

We don't have an exact release date yet, but we're hoping to announce one — or even drop the first alpha — within the next week.

That's it for today. More updates coming soon, including the first Alpha announcement!

Thanks again for your support. Stay tuned for more. 

Our Patreon supporters also get to vote on upcoming content, access exclusive behind-the-scenes materials, and will receive early alpha builds before anyone else. Just saying...

Player Comments of Alvein:

I played this one a long time ago, but from what I remember it is the best you will ever get from a RPGM imo. The art is really good, really contributes to all the scenes and story itself. Characters are likable. Really, there is not much to say besides "pick the latest version and play through it", it is a really solid game besides being incomplete in some aspects (mainly story).Unfortunaly, the project is abandoned because of problems with patreon (I don't really buy that, I think they just wanted to get rid of RPGM and make another game lol) BUT the developers are still working on games, and really good ones for that matter, support them!

A solid game. It's a littel grindy but not too bad. My only complaint, and this is a nitpick, is that it is difficult to woo multiple LIs at the same time since their events will frequently overlap (everyone wants you to visit in the evening specifically), but like I said, that's a nitpick. I'm not a big fan of the hyper body styles, but I can't hold that against the game because it was clearly advertised as catering to that crowd.

For RPGM it is really excellent. Good story line, cute art, nice characters and dialogs. Emilia is great, but i prefer a longer burn with moms. And i wish a deeper storytelling with MC's father, i mean what's going on? Really appreciate nice touches like "he called me by my name" (that's a way to go with your beloved mother, tread ligthly and keep your hints nearby) and Dreamfall melody sequence in one of the puzzles (man of culture). I wish author all the willpower to continue due to removed Patreon page (god, i hate these self entitled censoring mf'ers) and not to lose heart! It is good, what you are doing!

Absolutely beautiful. Drawings obviously are of highest quality, especially "maid" character, but also game itself, the graphics are really good. I like how colorful and varied the world is, how fun are even small events (thrashing the old furniture in tavern to rock music was GOLDEN EXPERIENCE). There're many small things that make this game outstanding.There's also a lot of content. Plot is good, writing is good, I wouldn't call it outstanding but above average. There's a lot of small problems with writing, but nothing really serious. Also the game runs fairly well which is weird to me, given how much is going on the screen. I like the camera zooming in during dialog, but i would appreciate option to disable it (I do see it can be annoying for some people, especially if you skip dialog)Also i love the music.TLDR Better version of Town of Passion. I just hope it will be finished.

Final words:

Alvein is a unique role-playing game app that offers a different gameplay experience by focusing on puzzles, mini-games, and character interaction instead of combat. With its visually attractive female characters and the emotional task of saving women from loneliness, the app aims to create an engaging and purposeful gaming experience. Users also have the opportunity to support the app's development, ensuring its continued improvement and success.