Act IV of SLARPG has hit Alpha!!!! (Patreon)

You read that right!! We've reached another HUGE milestone. All of Act IV of Super Lesbian Animal RPG has reached internal Alpha for testing within the dev team, and it's been playtested by other human beings.

If this milestone feels like it came out of nowhere, well, it feels like that to me, too! I've been working on Act IV's side quests for the last few months and fleshing out the untouched corners of the game's world. (SLARPG doesn't have a huge number of side quests, but it does have a handful that expand upon the story.) This means I didn't have one last big hurdle to overcome like an act-ending dungeon or anything like that. I just had a list of scattered segments to chip away at. About a week ago, though, I just realized "oh shit... it's almost done." And sure enough, this weekend, I ticked off the last items on the list.

With this, almost the entirety of the game's world is now fully explorable, and all of the side stories, hidden treasures, and optional challenges that I really wanted to include are there. It's kind of surreal after so many years of planning, honestly. It's still only an Alpha, though, which for me means that there's still room to polish and perfect things later. NPCs with placeholder mugshots, areas that could use another enemy or two for the sake of variety, that sort of thing. But it's all playable and pretty dang presentable. I would estimate that about 90% of the game is playable now.

And with Acts I through IV now in Alpha, that can only mean one thing. It's time for...

Act V.

Act V is it. It's the end of the game. What everything else has been building up to. Compared to the sprawling Act IV, Act V is literally just the final dungeon and the ending, both of which I've been constantly daydreaming about and meticulously planning out for years. It's now time to finally make those ideas a reality. Of course, if you know anything about my taste in video games, you know I have to go all out with this climax. While it feels like we're coasting to the finish line now, I'm still gonna take the necessary time and make sure the ending is a satisfying one. (Especially because Bee recently finished two more of the last remaining tracks for Act V, and they are absolutely bananas. I've gotta make sure my side of things can match the hype of those tunes.)

All in all, we're still on track to release this year. I even have a more specific release window in mind now, although we're keeping that to ourselves for now so that we don't jinx it. It's happening, though. The game will be finished this year. We are so, so, SO close. I cannot wait for this to be in everyone's hands.

As always, thank you for your continued support! We couldn't have made it this far without y'all.