SLARPG Act IV's main story has reached Alpha!! (Patreon)

(Pictured above: a random bit of non-spoiler dialogue from Act IV for the sake of having a screenshot.)

Over the weekend Super Lesbian Animal RPG hit its next major development milestone: the first part of Act IV has reached Alpha! As with previous acts, this whole big chunk of the game is now fully playable and mostly complete with only a few placeholder assets here and there. It's real, and it's been playtested by myself and two other people. Said chunk contains all of the mandatory main story stuff that you can't miss in Act IV, as well as a bit of optional content. Playing through all of this takes somewhere around three hours, bringing an average (relatively thorough) playthrough to around the 10 hour mark. (Compare this to the 5-6 hours of game that was playable back in January. A LOT of progress has been made!)

However, this is more than just another act milestone. This means that the entire main story prior to the final dungeon and the climax is now fully playable. And what a wild ride that story is. Y'all have no idea.

So now what? Well, right now I'm taking it easy for a few days to recharge (and play Dread). But after that, I'll be working on side content! Optional side stories, treasure hunts, extra bosses, that sort of thing. For a while I considered saving this stuff for last and just finishing the story with Act V - which is, realistically, probably what a lot of teams would do. But for me personally, I think that doing it out of order would lead to some balancing issues, and making the ending first would likely take some of the wind out of my sails. I don't currently have an estimate for how long this will take, but things are still looking pretty good as far as the pace I wanted to have this year goes. As always, I'll continue to keep y'all posted.