New content added to the game:
- 6 new abilities for a total of 30
- Enforcer system to prevent afk regenning when a zone is cleared
- 2 new songs in the OST
- slight visual tweaks

Our team is working on the octopusy. And we are happy to announce that it will appear in the game this summer. If you have any suggestions for improving the game, we are always ready to listen.

Hey there,

Just a quick update since our Steam Deck has arrived and we tested all of our games on it.



We can happily report that On Rusty Trails runs very well on the small device!
No tweaks to the settings are required, it will launch the Linux build out-of-the-box and it didn't seem to have any problems with the hardware.

You can even crank it up to 8x MSAA with V-Sync enabled, and it will push a stable 60 FPS. Please note though, that while the picture quality with MSAA is very nice compared to FXAA, it will eat more battery.

Have fun!
Black Pants

Update 22.06.18 changes:

- New event with Chiyo and Kayelinth, which starts when you talk with Chiyo at the sleeping chambers. Requires Chiyo's first night CG scene, Kayelinth's first night CG scene, the river scene with Chiyo and Kayelinth, the encounter with Raidy on the challenge floor of the Spire of Courage, and the dialog about stone plates as teleport options in Lalizan in Dorgania.
- You can now marry Chiyo. Requires the Mystery forest event with Kayelinth, and that you advance the main story until Varea comes to your castle.
- Added a "Monitor Synch FPS" option to the option menu, to help people who suffered poor performance due to FPS issues.
- The teleport stones for Begus, Amagal, and Dorgania have no use anymore and can be sold.
- The "Teleport Stone Central" was renamed to "Teleport Orb".
- Instead of receiving multiple teleport stones, the teleport orb is "upgraded" with the coordinates for Amagal, Begus, and Dorgnaia, when you have the events about it.
- Trey gives you the teleport orb after the introduction to the ministers in the throne room now, instead of requiring an additional dialog at the sleeping chambers.
- Fixed a bug with the red button in the nature dungeon of the brexeet isles.

• Fixed esc menu invisibility when render scale is set below 1.
  
• Fixed the character shadow offset when render scale is set below 1.

Patch note 18/06/2022

- Improved display of tabs in options.

- Setting the correct keyboard shortcuts on defoult. Temporarily lock the keybinds tab in the options.

- Improving the display of damage to enemies in relation to their current health level.

- Correction of disappearing back tab in options.

- Optimization of decorative elements of the surroundings.

- Fixed some bugs in the final boss stage.

Dev Notes

• We are about to start our second phase of Act V playtesting! But I wanted to get a (slightly early) monthly update out first, so that we can properly focus on it. I hope you enjoy some of the fruits of the last few weeks!
  
• MVP of this build is Soulphase, for doing a quite tremendous amount of work to refresh all of our translations. We are still looking for more help, so let me know if you’re bilingual and have some time to spare!

Features

• Fate: Naho’s infernal fate (collab with DoItToJulia and Null).
  
• Fate: A followup to Sabetha & Inej’s protean fate (collab with DoItToJulia and Null).
  
• Art: Chanwe’s kobold fate (Lubbio).
  
• Art: Darja’s anal scene, remastered (Lubbio).
  
• Art: Darja’s anal scene, nude variant (Lubbio).
  
• Art: Marie-Anne’s protean fate (Lubbio).
  
• Art: Naho’s protean fate (Lubbio).
  
• Art: Character art for various guards, remastered (Irrelevant Art).
  
• Art: Character art for drakesgard (Irrelevant Art).
  
• Art: Character art for the drakesgard commander (Irrelevant Art).
  
• Art: A new ‘overwhelmed’ emote for Darja (Irrelevant Art).
  
• Animation: Animated idles for Malagar, gauntleted version (Amon Ra).
  
• Animation: Animated idles for Malice, remastered and extended (Amon Ra)
  
• Animation: Animated idles for Malice, nude variants (Amon Ra).
  
• Voice: Adeline’s transitions from the Pale Rock finale to her reunion (Act V only, Marina Montague).
  
• Voice: Many of the dragon’s lines for conquest decisions (GreyScale).
  
• Voice: Many of the dragon’s lines for Mina’s heist (GreyScale).
  
• Voice: Malagar’s arrival, surprise nude Darja variant (Robin Peakway).
  
• Voice: Malagar’s goofy laboratory intro (Robin Peakway).
  
• Voice: Malagar’s plans for transanguination (Robin Peakway).
  
• Voice: The rest of Malagar’s part in Heloise’s bad science scene (Robin Peakway).
  
• Voice: Mina’s bed of riches scene (Marina Montague).
  
• Voice: Valzira’s vaginal scene (Jezebeth).
  
• Voice: Valzira’s pregnancy reveal (Jezebeth).
  
• Voice: Valzira’s captive interrogation (Jezebeth).
  
• Voice: Valzira’s kobold fate, and its followup (Jezebeth).
  
• Voice: Valzira’s wolfman fate, and its followup (Jezebeth).
  
• Voice: Valzira’s mercenary fate, and its followup (Jezebeth).
  
• Voice: Zizeryx’s ignition scene (Jezebeth).
  
• Voice: Zizeryx’s part in the conquest of Pale Rock (Jezebeth).
  
• Voice: Zizeryx’s part in Marie-Anne’s fate followup (Jezebeth).
  
• Translation: Czech, menus and up to the end of Act I (DragonRiderMax).
  
• Translation: The French, German, Polish, Russian, and Spanish translations have all been refreshed and improved (Soulphase).

Tweaks

• The Chinese (Traditional) translation has been removed from the game’s options because we cannot currently keep it up to date. If you speak Chinese and can help us restore either of the translations, please get in touch!
  
• The French Act II translations are under heavy maintenance, so they have been temporarily removed. They’ll be back in the next update!
  
• Markers for when you reach the end of current content have been refreshed, so they will not play if there is still some way of progressing a character’s plotline (such as making them consort).
  
• Chanwe’s existing scenes have been amended to make use of her new emotional range.
  
• Darja’s forced scene will reflect your previously-established hole preference.
  
• Guards throughout the game have been visually differentiated by type, and rank.
  
• The old style idle animations for the guards have been archived, while we await the new versions.
  
• Malice recognises if she is being named after one of her mothers.
  
• Audio and visual direction for Marie-Anne’s protean fate scene has been improved.
  
• Visiting the proteans will show unseen fate followups before any repeats.
  
• Supporter credits in the About page have been updated.
  
• Writing and VA credits in the Gallery have been updated.
  
• Heloise’s wolfman fate has been added to the gallery.
  
• Naho’s protean fate has been added to the gallery.
  
• Malagar now has a gallery page of his own.
  
• Gallery scenes have been ordered in a more consistent way.

Fixes

• Automatic language assignment will only happen once, on first bootup, rather than every time you load the game.
  
• Adeline’s nude character animations work correctly.
  
• Captives that are busy receiving Breaker’s HR services will not be available for other purposes.
  
• Malice will not consider people as potential mothers if they are in the tender care of your hordes.
  
• The climax of Malice’s dream scene animation arrives slightly later.
  
• Mina’s consort promotion properly reflects her current state of dress.
  
• Sabetha’s animated idles no longer make the occasional visit to Schroedinger’s black box.
  
• Valzira’s “Unwanted Delivery” scene has been restored to the gallery.
  
• Game text has been aligned with VA in several places.

Play the Demo of The Shadow Government Simulator for free. This is a great opportunity to gather your opinions about the game and make the final product even better.

Just visit the The Shadow Government Simulator Steam page now and there is a green banner with the ability to play our demo! Have fun!





We are going back to work, see you soon,
The Shadow Government Simulator Team

Calling all digital artists!

We're running a competition to have a piece of fan art included in DEVOUR's new, upcoming map.
We're looking for something that can be used as a large, unframed wall poster with the theme 'anti animal cruelty' (especially farm animals like cows, pigs and sheep). Feel free to play around with this concept in a comedic way!

Art should be submitted via the #art-contest channel of our Discord server. You can join our Discord server here. High resolution image files (PNG/JPG), over 2048x2048 only please. The final date for submissions is 10am PDT on 8th July 2022, after which the development team will review all submissions and vote for a winner. If we receive a large number of submissions, we may choose two winners. Artists may submit multiple entries if they wish to.

Please feel free to get in touch with any questions in the comment section below, by DMing CosmicChatter#0690 in our Discord server, or by DMing us on Twitter.

We're working super hard on DEVOUR's new, upcoming map, as well as lots of other exciting things. For more, check out our recent news post, and keep an eye out for teasers and more details in the near future!

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