Overview:
In Taru’s Infernal Pledge, you step into the shoes of Taru ‘Bolt’ Nopsa, a dashing young woman and an exceptionally skilled thief, rogue and assassin. Immerse yourself in a new original fantasy universe and the sprawling metropolitan city of Valkama, the capital city of Jaerwik in the northern edges of the known world.
Taru has been working with a gang of criminals, her only family in truth, for a few years now. Her latest mission turns out to be a trap, and she is taken captive by cultists of an ancient evil known as The Fathomless Depth. Her soul will be sacrificed to appease this mysterious deity, unless she can escape her shackles.
Piru, the 5th archdemon of hell has been trying to tempt Taru into a deal with him for many years. Now, in order to escape the cultists, Taru finds herself finally pledging her body to the demon. The demon’s demands, however, make her head spin…
Become the demon’s concubine and assassin. Explore the Abyss with Tryton, the anointed of Astorolus. Embrace the blinding light of the God of Mercy with Opettaille, Her devout priest. Find your old gang, answers, and revenge. The road to saving your soul and reclaiming ownership of your body is long and hard…
Features
– A new original fantasy universe
– An interactive story with a lot of text
– A combat system, inspired by the classic game “Mastermind”
– Chapters 1-5 available
– Roughly 475 passages, 100 000 words.
– 7 sex scenes (text)
– 37 AI generated background images
– 31 tracks of music by Abstraction
Thread Updated: 2024-09-22
Release Date: 2024-07-16
Developer: FlimsyLegs Itch.io – Steam
Censored: No
Version: 0.4.0
OS: Windows, Linux, Mac
Language: English
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Installation:
Changelog:
- Added a hint in Chapter 3, when you’re deemed unworthy by the church: “You wonder what they deemed unworthy in you, but you have a strong feeling that being Piru’s assassin somehow tipped the scales against you…”. In other words, continuing the church path (in Chapter 3 and later) requires you to not be Piru’s assassin.
- Wrote Chapter 5, about 100 passages long and ~25 000 words. It contains two sex scenes, one of which can be experience per playthrough: A submissive threesome or a dominant threesome. (2 women, 1 man)
- Added 5 new images, to chapter 5
- Added 4 new music tracks
- Added a separate WINDOWS_ONLY and MACOS_ONLY package. I suggest you download the universal ALL_PLATFORMS version instead, however. Only if you experience issues (such as images not loading) in the ALL_PLATFORMS version, then you can download and try the windows/macos package.
v0.3.0
- Piru forces a concubine deal on you as payment (if you do not have it) in one of the paths in Chapter 3, if you are fatally wounded.
- Fixed two instances of journal updates missing in Chapter 3
- Added Chapter 4, roughly 135 passages and roughly 27 000 words (The story is now roughly 375 passages long, with about 75 000 words.)
- Added 11 new images for Chapter 4, and 1 new image to Chapter 1 (dream visit by Tryton)
- Added 10 new music tracks
- New NSFW content: An intense rope bondage scene
- Backward compatibility: Due to the way the journal works, it’s possible that you will end up with [undefined] entries in the journal. This might or might not happen, and should only happen if you have loaded an old save to a new version of the game, and I messed up some of the journal initialization mechanisms “patches” that are applied to your save as you progress through the game. If you see an undefined entry, please take a screenshot of the journal entry, then save your game “to disk” and send me a support email with the screenshot and attachment. With those two things, I can pinpoint what is wrong and fix it. Thank you in advance! (PS: Hope this doesn’t happen though!)
- Renamed “Quests” menu item to “Journal”
v0.2.0
- Expanded Chapter 1 Piru sex scene (both regular and bdsm path) from 2-3 passages each, to 7-8 passages each.
- Added Chapter 3, roughly 90 passages and roughly 20 000 words long.
- The story is now in total roughly 240 passages long, with about 48 000 words. Estimate time to complete: Less than 4 hours.
- Added 11 new images, to Chapter 3
- Due to the branching paths of Chapter 3, it is possible to miss the majority of the passages. If you wish to experience the content (temple path), then a Taru who has not sworn to be Piru’s assassin is needed.
- Added 2 new tracks of music by Abstraction
- Re-wrote combat log to be more entertaining.
- Expanded combat log to tell in detail how many actions worked and how many did not.
- Added history backward/forward buttons also to the combat page (top left corner)
- Bugfix: Fixed a bug where the music would keep playing from an old passage when loading a saved game, resulting in two tracks playing.
- Bugfix: Fixed a bug where the music would keep playing from a passage when pressing the “backwards in history” button, resulting in two tracks playing.
v0.1.0
- Added a new scene with Piru in hell, possible to reach from Chapter 1 “would you like a taste” and Chapter 2 end (if concubine, and did not accept the taste in Chapter 1)
- Added Chapter 2 – The Opportunity. This is a flashback chapter, 3 months earlier, that follows the gang. Focus is on Erika, Astrid and Taru.
- Added a better tutorial to the game’s combat system, with screenshots. Combat can still be skipped, if you did not read the tutorial, or simply do not care for it.
- Added an option to permanently disable combat in the Config Menu
- The story now has roughly 150 passages, 28 000 words. (previously 14 000)
- There are two sex scenes in the game, both can be missed depending on your choices.
- Added 15 tracks of music to the game. Credit and huge thank you to the amazing Abstraction for creating the tracks and letting me use his music in my game! If you like the tunes, head on over to http://abstractionmusic.bandcamp.com/ and browse his massive library of music! NOTE: Abstraction is not associated with Taru’s Infernal Pledge in any way.
- Added music volume control option in the Config Menu
- Added 9 AI generated scene images to enhance the feel of the story
- Added an option to toggle image visibility on/off in the Config Menu
- Fixed about 100 spelling mistakes in the original Chapter 1
- Added a very tiny “Chapter 3 Teaser” at the end of Chapter 2
v0.0.1
Initial Release
Developer Notes:
Credits:
Developer: FlimsyLegs
Art: The limited art (cover art, icons in the combat system) have been generated using AI tools. Map of Jaerwik and Valkama have been generated using free online fantasy map creation tools.
Music: Credit and huge thank you to the amazing Abstraction for creating the tracks and letting me use his music in my game! If you like the tunes, head on over to http://abstractionmusic.bandcamp.com/ and browse his massive library of music!
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