Course of Temptation "Pour Decisions" Update Early Access (v0.6.0) (Patreon)

Early access to the River Rat career update is here!

This update adds a multiple stage career to the River Rat, beginning as a trainee server with the potential to work your way up to manager. Earn tips as you cultivate either a flirty or more professional atmosphere.

You may earn good tips by complying with customers' demands, but often a firm word or confident persuasiveness will do just as well. The River Rat is a good career choice for building Submission or Dominance skill, as well as Disinhibition and Exhibitionism.

At the top end of the career, you can choose a direction for the River Rat, taking it from its sports bar origin to a place that caters to geeks, a topless bar, or a lounge for the town's wealthy elite.

As I said in the last post, I'll be looking to refine balance and the rate of progression as we head towards the public release, as well as adding in a bit more content to round things out.

Considering that this is early access, you may want to turn on more frequent autosaves, which is an option now! You can find this by clicking the Options button and going into the Save Options tab.

As always, a huge thanks to the contributors who added to this update and those who spent the last few days playtesting the hell out of it.

Please find your link to early access just below these release notes. And as always, thank you for your support!

Release notes

The River Rat has been expanded with a new complete career path

Start as a River Rat server, serving tables and earning tips based on how quickly you respond to customers and whether you undertake any of their special requests

With good performance comes more tables to oversee, more pay, and more opportunities for tips

After proving yourself as a server, be promoted to bartender to sling drinks for tips and help supervise the servers

Work your way up to the manager position and be able to set the direction of the bar by choosing from a range of upgrades

Upgrading the River Rat will alter the demographics of its clientele and may even unlock unique events

As a server, choose to be either flirty or professional. Cultivating a certain kind of atmosphere will not go unnoticed, however, and will gradually alter the expectations of the customers and lead to uniform changes

Choose to comply meekly with customer requests to build Submission skill, or build Dominance skill by teasing them or convincing other servers to fulfill their requests

Around a hundred new events added

Employee discounts for meals now apply to the River Rat and QuickieBurger locations

Favoriting people now has an effect on their odds of being featured in events or becoming crushes

When being prompted for a reaction to an NPC that you haven’t established a relationship with, you’ll often see an indication when they match your character’s turnons or turnoffs

NPCs that your character finds attractive will be indicated in the People display with a new icon

Your character’s turnons and turnoffs can now be reconsidered, with a one week cooldown

Fixed hotkeys still working while dialog boxes are open and some rare save database bugs (contributed by majou)

Added new options for autosave intervals, plus the option to autosave at all

Gloryholes have been slightly refactored to allow the player to choose whether they want to be in the giving or receiving role

Partly implemented birthdays. They don’t do much yet, but a few events around them will be added

Added a bunch of new books (contributed by Meat Glacier)

Many fixes and tweaks

Download or play here!