Hi! I've been playing this game for awhile and have really been enjoying it. However, when I started up my game today, I got
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and when I logged in, I realised that the armour from the lizard/thief? dungeon was unavailable. I tried reinstalling the game but it did not solve this issue. Does anyone know how to fix this?
Edit: I deleted my NW.js and deleted my web cache and the issue got fixed ^^
LOVE this game! May i ask how can i unlock the 2 scenes about "pulsating strip of slimy rubber" and "cliffside lake and an overbearing black thong" in gallery (I have cleared the story)?
The "cliffside lake" scene can be unlocked by wearing the slimy black thong in the forest... and travelling to the East / Right, past the green slimes and trying to escape.
I believe the "pulsating strip of slimy rubber" scene is unlocked by losing the combat tutorial right at the beginning of the game!
Don't worry, you don't need to play through the entire game again. Just unlock these scenes on another file and they'll appear in your gallery at the end of the game!
Hello, look, I have a problem. I haven't been able to get the scene of the mercenary commander. I've already tried several things and I haven't achieved anything. I don't know if I'm already too far along in the story to be able to get it out or if I'm missing something, please help.
Thank you very much, I already took it out and a question, what is the unmarked key for? And by the way, there are more scenes that need high corruption? if you do not mind
The unmarked key isn't used for anything... yet. Future versions!
As for scenes that need high corruption to unlock, the mercenary commander's one is the only one. The blacksmith "suiting up" scene has a variation if you've got more corruption, however! If you've already got 10 points it'll be viewable in the gallery.
Hello, I think I've encountered a minor bug, nothing big really. It seems that once your corruption is too high, it won't display how much corruption you exactly have.
I think it stops displaying when your corruption is above 50, the last time I was able to check was 47.
Yeah, that's a known bug. Right now though there's no content in the game that needs Corruption higher than 10, it's simply a buffer zone for us to add future events.
If / when we get to the point where we expect players to have that amount of corruption, we'll make sure to fix the issue.
i just had a thought,why is grove uncircumsized? you realize the amount of bacteria that forms under there? its ugly, its nasty, it gets infected easily, im not complaining just making an observation, i just think it would make so much more sense to do it, its just a flap of skin we no longer need and it creates disease and looks ugly, can we have it removed in later builds? once again not complaining, just an observation, men that are uncut are more likely to get sick.
Maybe in the past? Its not like washing yourself now a days is hard to do. If you dont like the look of uncut thats fine, but all that "It gets infected easily" stuff does not hold as much water now a days as it used to.
Actually its still a thing, plus its ugly, its healthier to be cut, its a useless flap of skin that is no longer needed, modern men still get sick from forgetting to wash it, it serves no purpose.
Actually... It does serve a purpose. Same kind that a mammal's sheath does: Protect the most sensitive portion of the penis (the glans for us) from abrasion and such. Circumsized, or more properly, mutilated males have lower sensitivity in the glans for this reason.
Secondly, those who get ill, do so from not washing... Which isn't any more tedious than washing one's pits (which I would hope nobody finds tedious). So long as one washes, which literally just takes some clean water, infection rate is near zero.
It being "ugly" is purely your opinion. I find them quite fetching, myself.
The ideas behind circumcision are primarily tradition, a disgusting one started by an equally vile man by the name of Kelogg. Learn your history and actually check/investigate studies rather than allow them to confirm your bias.
Also, if this was "just an observation" you'd have stopped after the first rejection.
You're entitled to your opinion on the matter of course, but hopefully you understand that we're definitely not going to change our own stance and artwork just because of one dissenting opinion.
If the lack of m/f content and circumcised penises in the game is that much of an issue for you, I'm afraid that our game just might not be for you.
This must be a troll. I mean what kind of person would genuinely say this (and on a game about fictional lizardmen no less).
As a side note, thank you so much to the developers for not making him circumsized! I know it's a small design choice but it's honestly so great to see.
I'm gonna make another donation now just for this reason (but also to spite this guy).
You really have done such fantastic work with this game
piss off, i never said the game was bad, i just wanted to know about some details is all, the game is good, its just that the details here and there are odd, not particually bad, and studies do infact show that uncut men are in fact more prone to disease, its science, i never directly disrespected the devs, i have only over been cordial in my comments.
We appreciate your generosity with the donation, truly! But let's not start a flame war in the comments even if it's not something we agree on, OK? Let's end this here, please.
Just got this game, so far loving it, really nostalgic gameplay. Something that would be nice (Not sure if you have plans for it or not) would be a kind of cross save gallery, that way you dont have to initiate the actual scenes to view them. But amazing game so far!
idk if I'm the only one having this problem, but I play on MacOS, and the game would only show the logo, and then close, and I'd get a notification saying the game quit expectedly. Is there a way to work around this that you know of? (I've never had a computer until a month ago, and I'm still learning how to use this)
I've finished the game but there are still a few things I can't figure out how to do (I think this may be a bug with my computer).
First of all, I can't find the glory hole from the start of the game, so any time I've worn the black underwear it always ends in me having to start the game again because I can't get any further. It seems like the glory hole is in the blocked area of the forest behind the purple sigil, but when I go in there there is a green slime blocking the thing that I think is the glory hole and it jumps at me instantly gives me game over.
This is just one of a few things that the walkthrough says is possible but I can't get it to work on my game, but any help would be amazing <3
I honestly don't remember this part well (it was a long time ago that I played it), but the "gloryhole" is the tablet at the back of the cave. As far as I recall the only obstacles in there are the slimes that charge at you when you move through the maze but if you are quick, you can get past them and they just fall down into the holes. I might be remembering wrong, but I don't recall there being a slime right in front of the tablet. Also, putting on the underwear literally just before going past the sigil means that you have less lust/corruption to worry about, so if there is a fight scene you can survive it.
You were on the right path, you just need to dodge that final green slime!
When it appears, you can either rush forward to your destination... or you can run backwards where you came from, and the slime will miss you! Then you can go check out the glory hole scene
Hi, I love this game and I am very frustrated because I have these 2 problems.... qwp
I hope you can help me with these problems and I hope it's not too much of a bother.
1: The game only works running it from the .zip or playing it from the index.html in the firefox browser (this is normal isn't it?) because when I run directly the .exe from the unzipped .zip it doesn't work well and when I see in the windows 7 task manager there are several processes moving up and down with the names; GROVE, grove, grove, grove, grove, grove
it's very strange and i don't understand why it doesn't work well, because when i run it from the .zip it works perfectly up to a certain point and in the task manager the processes are different and this time the 4 processes have the name in capital letters (i don't know if this has something to do with it).
but well, I don't mind too much as long as I can use itchio's launcher.
although running the game from the itchio launcher, i have very bad fps and it crashes more often.
2: Another problem I have is that when I get to the desert zone, the game crashes after entering the zone and waiting a few seconds, although I have the theory that if I get to that zone running the game from the browser it might not crash or damage the game, the only problem with playing from the browser is that it doesn't let me load saved files and.... well... you can imagine :/
Maybe, and I think so, these problems are due to my laptop and its low performance, you see, my laptop has very low requirements but it runs some other rpg's (some, I mean very few) , what I don't understand is why the game runs so bad, is it possible that my laptop is missing a couple of drivers or something?
my laptop has
has a processor :
Intel(r) Celeron(r) CPU 847 @ 1.10ghz 1.10ghz
ram memory:
2.00gb (1.83gb usable)
and an operating system :
32bits
(sorry for my bad english, I'm using a google translator)
Looking at your computer specs, unfortunately the system requirements for an RPGMAKER game is about 4gb in RAM, with Grove potentially requiring a little bit more due to the presence of large .png images. It also doesn't help that the MV engine isn't the most optimised thing in the world, but we'll try and improve the overall performance of the engine in the future.
Regarding your zip issue:
I have a feeling that the zip issues are caused by your low system specs, with a browser potentially only loading certain scenes, hence the better performance. This is evident when you mentioned you crash in the Desert area as there are a few large assets there, but performance in the area in general isn't all too great for a few with decent rigs. We're looking into that for the next update as well.
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We'll do what we can with improving the performance in the future, but at the moment, it does seem like the primary issue relates to your low system specs. I do apologise I can't be of any better help!
i kinda like this idea, like turn off the game over screen in the gallery so its easyer to keep browsing it without being reliant on just clicking the game over scene button, and the outfit seems to regen constantly, i sucessfully did a nude playthrough, didnt even have trouble in the jungle level in the water, will we be able to come back and save the lost and traped adventurers later in that region? seem callous just to say "oh well" and leave them, wont they eventually die from something like that? the body can only take so much stress like that, and the pods, did the occupants get digested or something? and why cant we cut them open like rinnal? it just seems odd, so many people stuck and nothing we can do, the open pods, did they kill and digest before opening? or are they walking around somewhere in some shambleing state? if so, where are they? and will there be group fighting? like multiple teammates to order different attacks from and multiple foes at once too? and can we have any news on the possibilty of cursed clothing? and new monsters too, i prefere them rather than actual m/m scenes, i enjoy the story alot, i just like the monsters more is all, just give us a heads up when the update is getting near, i believe its possible to enjoy this game and be straight too, this game has plenty of potential, i would like to see it grow, odly enough its actually hard to find straight lizard games, i prefere them to furs.
dragons and other lizards have always looked cool and facinating, thats all, not here to offend, just co-existing with my own preferences as a straight guy, life sure feels backwards these days...
I'm glad that you're invested in the story of our game and have all these questions, but this isn't quite the place for a full-fledged discussion about all these topics, most of which are just speculation about the future and would be spoilers.
When we have a date in mind for release, we'll let people know via our various social media accounts. Please just be patient, OK?
Though we have thought about some silly cheats, they are easiest to implement when the game is content complete: we don't want to have worry about making sure they don't break everything, every time we add new content!
Your game is truly amazing and I have played many hours but i have a very frustrating problem when I want to close the game all of my progression just disappears even when I save so i can't really play unless I never close the game
I really need your help because I wish to play more of your game
I'm assuming you haven't unzipped the file? Make sure you don't play directly from the downloaded .ZIP, and to extract it first. You can do this via right clicking the file, and extracting it to the folder or desktop. Alternatively, you can also open the zip folder, and drag the first 'GROVE' folder onto the desktop
Apologies for the performance dip, we have some performance improvements in the works for the next update that should fix that issue. For now, making use of the mouse has been a common tactic players use that have issues navigating through.
Well, the issue is that in that part the player must lead the character through the briges before they change color... Anyway, your game is amasing ^^ and the creator is even more amazing ;3
This game has the feel of Undertale and Final Fantasy which I definitely love and the characters and nsfw scenes are to die for ( no pun intended ). There is only one question that I have regarding stats and combat. I noticed that there is a MATK stat but I have yet to find any skills or weapons based on this stat. Have they been implemented yet or is that aspect still in development? Also, will there be any support magic ( i.e. healing/buffing skills implemented and if so, how will they scale?
Currently, MATK is a blank stat and will likely not make it into the complete game. Magic and the such is being considered and developed upon, and should be implemented in a future build.
Thank you for your very kind words! I'm still surprised that we get the Undertale comparison, but I'm definitely not opposed to such. Hope future updates will be as enjoyable as the last!
You can play on android via JoiPlay emulator, but it is not fully supported and there are visual bugs. If you don't mind using cheats, you can skip some of the areas that have issues, but it will result in a less than optimal play experience.
We only recommend playing via android JoiPlay if you have NO alternative options.
I'm enjoying this game a lot but I'm stuck after exploring the Northen Settlement with the blacksmith, the game doesn't seem to progress any further when teleporting back to the inn. I've talked to the wizard, commander, and blacksmith. I've been stuck for an hour haha.
Your next destination is the jungle to the south. Leave the Quiet Meadow settlement by the bottom left exit, follow the path to the cliffs, and then head south...!
Thank you very much, glad to hear you enjoyed our game so much! Any support is highly welcome, from sharing the game to donating to just playing and leaving a kind review!
It's not even been half a year yet, buddy. But I understand it must feel like ages.
We've been very busy with work, with university, and game development has taken a back-seat because ultimately it's a passion project and we do have personal life goals to achieve first and foremost...
Buuuut, there is more happening in the background. We're quietly working on stuff. And we do have an update planned. I can't say when it'll arrive... but we'll do our best to keep folks updated when it does!
so ive been following the game for some time and even donated and i like dont regret it or anything but just asking if theres any news to when an update is coming if coming at all
We've been really busy these past few months with university and work. But hopefully, with summer holidays on the horizon, we might have a chance to get back to working on the game soon.
We'll do our best to keep folks updated, so either check out the Discord or follow RegalBuster's Twitter if you want to be in the know.
Hmm after i gave the strange suit (the one from the bandit place) the game sorta glitched out and the characters stay on screen and i dint get the suit back
If you go to your menu > key items > documents case and use it to teleport anywhere, it should clear this visual bug. You'll get the bandit suit back later in the game, so don't worry about that just yet.
This is a known error and has been fixed in our development build too, so it'll be gone in the future. For now, just use the teleportation fix, please!
Final Fantasy and Undertale are certainly two highly regarded games, so the fact you consider our little passion project to be of a similar caliber is a great compliment indeed, thank you very much! :)
Was trying to get the reward for The Rubbery Slime strip, item and only got the blacksmith scene. Is the reward implemented in .204 or is the blacksmith scene the reward?
So if you go into the slime cave core (where the slime dragons are) and loss to one they coat you in slime. You can then go to the fire in the room and it will give you the Slime Strip which you can take to the wizard and have researched. I just don't know if the cutscene with the blacksmith afterward is all that is supposed to happen.
The cutscene with the blacksmith where he... 'uses' the slime slab is all that's supposed to happen right now. If you haven't triggered that yet... look at the blacksmith's shop and see if you can find the slime slab there!
The completion and gameplay of the game impressed me the most. Aside from my little hobby （XD）, I've always wanted to see what the story will be like, so far I've experienced it pretty much, I still can't open the locked door, but it doesn't matter, I strongly support it. I had a problem with the sponsorship process, hopefully I can fix it later. You're the best game producer ever!
The locked door will open in a future update. And I also hope you will enjoy the continued story in the future! :)
If you're having trouble with trying to donate on this website, do try the direct donation link: https://www.paypal.com/donate?hosted_button_id=HNXW72YDN4GWN But do not worry if you cannot make it work. We're happy just to have your praise!
I absolutely love this game....it's funny at times (don't touch the desert dragon's banana), cute at others (everything about Kuro), and most of the time....incredibly hot (tentacles, slimes, hypnosis...oh yes)
I did encounter some issues with the tron like worlds where Grove goes into like a computer....namely frame rate drops and it became incredibly hard to progress with keyboard controls (even mouse controls weren't 100%). It might be just my computer or something...I dunno, had a heck of time getting through them due to the frame rate issues
that being said, will patiently wait to see what comes next
It seems to be related to computer performance, but some people have experienced issues even when running powerful hardware, so we're not entirely sure... nonetheless, glad you were able to make it through those timing puzzles and experience the whole game.
Thanks for the wonderfully positive review! Hope we'll continue to please you and everyone else when the next update is ready.
Does the tentacle plant from the first dream make anymore appearances in the next update? And when jailer says he "lost too many scouts already " (jungle) howcome you never see anyone other than them? It guess itsjust implied right? And the black thong, will it be seen again aswell? Dont take my questions for nagging, i realize you may have gotten them asked before, i just wanted to be specific is all, i am just curious, oh and why is it not possible to open other pots like the one rinnal was in? (Also jungle)
The tentacle creature from the first dream... there's a possibility you might see more of it in the future...!
As for missing scouts in the jungle, there's implications and hints... like the plant pods that are already sealed, or the water vine gameover scene...
The black thong itself we probably won't reuse. Cursed clothing, on the other hand... ;)
I don't want to give too many details or spoil things. But hopefully this will at least let you know we're considering all these things.
Deifnitely an excellent game! Once I played I just cant stop myself! btw those mind control elements in the sexual scenes are impressing and I love them soooo much~
Mind control, corruption, those are some of the key kinks of this game, so we're glad to hear you like 'em so much. More will certainly be coming, so do +Follow if you haven't, and I hope we'll continue to earn your praise!
Hello, I've been having a great time with your game. The art and enemies are great, and I'm impressed by the creativity and passion shown off by you guys.
I managed to get through a large amount of the game, but I had to stop right near the end due to a game breaking bug. I saved the game, and exited by going to the main menu, then closing out the tab. Upon reloading the game, the text became 'garbled' and mostly unreadable, like so.
Starting a new game 'ungarbled' the text, but the problem persisted. Let me know if this is a known issue. If it's not, feel free to ask more specific questions and I'll answer to the best of my ability.
I don't think we've ever gotten a bug like this before, so any details you can spare would be of great help!
- Which version of Grove are you playing on? (I'm assuming it's Windows 0.204, but just need to make sure) - Is the game folder unzipped? And where did you place the resultant game directory file? - Do you remember where you were, and what you did just before you encountered the bug? Was there anything unusual just before you saved?
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The only potential fix I can really think of is to re-download the game, and import your saves by using this guide below.
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Do feel free to list out any extra details that you can recount, and if at all possible, do you mind uploading the corrupted save file, the global.rpgmaker file and the persistent file somewhere for me to take a look at?
Thank you again for the report, and thanks for playing!
Hello RegalBuster, thanks for the quick reply. Regarding your questions -
- Yes, I am playing on the 2.04 patch- I've reproduced the bug on several (2-3) different fresh downloads over the past few months.
- The folder is unzipped, in a folder called 'games' directly in my downloads.
- The bug has happened at almost every point throughout the game, from the campfire straight after the intro scene to midway through the bandit's hideout. Saving seemed normal based on my experience with RPG maker games (e.g. no flashes, prompts, etc.), however I never once managed to load a non-corrupt file once I exited the game. The bug would persist when I transferred save files from an old game to a fresh download. However, starting a new game on a old or new download would 'refresh' the bug until I exited again.
Additionally, almost every time I would exit the game, the corruption would change a little. The complete scrambled eggs that you saw in the screenshot I've sent was the most common, but other effects including skipping letters (eg. HELLO ---> H L O, etc.) partially formed letters, or letters replaced with underscores. Notably, formatted text, such as the purple text in the computer world game over, or the ranger's subscript never corrupted.
I regret to tell you I don't have any of my original saves- When I joined the discord today I overwrote them with the completed gallery saves so I could see the slime dragon scenes (sorry). That being said, I closed out of Grove earlier and the saves seem to have been "successfully" corrupted.
Here are the files- let me know if you'll need anything else.
Upon testing the saves, I was unfortunately unable to recreate the bug on my end. I'm at a bit of a loss as to why this occurs, but I'll be sure to consider it for future releases. No worries about importing complete saves, you play how you want, and I don't blame you wanting to do so due to these save issues!
If you notice/remember anything else specific that you think could crack the case, do feel free to share. I unfortunately will need to mark this as a user-end issue, as there's not much I can do after a bit of testing.
Apologies mate, but do let me know if any other bugs crop up. These reports really do help
That's very fine- thanks for going the distance to help. I'll keep playing, and let you know if anything changes. Thanks for working on Grove, and have an excellent week.
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How do I teleport?,I keep on seeing that I can teleport on certain places but I don't recall the game ever tell me how to actually teleport
Go to the menu and use your Docs. Case, or go to Key Items and Northern Documents Case.
Hi! I've been playing this game for awhile and have really been enjoying it. However, when I started up my game today, I got
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and when I logged in, I realised that the armour from the lizard/thief? dungeon was unavailable. I tried reinstalling the game but it did not solve this issue. Does anyone know how to fix this?
Edit: I deleted my NW.js and deleted my web cache and the issue got fixed ^^
LOVE this game! May i ask how can i unlock the 2 scenes about "pulsating strip of slimy rubber" and "cliffside lake and an overbearing black thong" in gallery (I have cleared the story)?
The "cliffside lake" scene can be unlocked by wearing the slimy black thong in the forest... and travelling to the East / Right, past the green slimes and trying to escape.
I believe the "pulsating strip of slimy rubber" scene is unlocked by losing the combat tutorial right at the beginning of the game!
Don't worry, you don't need to play through the entire game again. Just unlock these scenes on another file and they'll appear in your gallery at the end of the game!
Hello, look, I have a problem. I haven't been able to get the scene of the mercenary commander. I've already tried several things and I haven't achieved anything. I don't know if I'm already too far along in the story to be able to get it out or if I'm missing something, please help.
The commander's tent required your corruption point to be 10 or higher to be able to unlock the special scene after sneak in his tent 3 times.
Thank you very much, I already took it out and a question, what is the unmarked key for? And by the way, there are more scenes that need high corruption? if you do not mind
The unmarked key isn't used for anything... yet. Future versions!
As for scenes that need high corruption to unlock, the mercenary commander's one is the only one. The blacksmith "suiting up" scene has a variation if you've got more corruption, however! If you've already got 10 points it'll be viewable in the gallery.
The 100th day of waiting, I hope the authors can graduate as soon as possible, can update the game.
We're slowly getting back to work on the game! Do check RegalBuster's twitter to see some updates and things as we go!
Man 100 days is nothing in comparison to most games on itch io with tags (adult,furry)
How do i unlock all chest scenes in gallery
Use the hints provided. If you're REALLY stuck, we can help, but do at least have a go at unlocking them yourself first
Help. I stuck in this exact moment and idk how to pass it. I tried to rush as soon as tiles turn blue,i tried to find secret hideout but it didnt help
nvm somehow white tile its a platform and not 3d effect thing.
holy shit ive been stuck on this part for like 30 min. how did i not see that.
thx so much man
lol i think i stuck here for 30 min too
Hello, I think I've encountered a minor bug, nothing big really. It seems that once your corruption is too high, it won't display how much corruption you exactly have.
I think it stops displaying when your corruption is above 50, the last time I was able to check was 47.
Yeah, that's a known bug. Right now though there's no content in the game that needs Corruption higher than 10, it's simply a buffer zone for us to add future events.
If / when we get to the point where we expect players to have that amount of corruption, we'll make sure to fix the issue.
i just had a thought,why is grove uncircumsized? you realize the amount of bacteria that forms under there? its ugly, its nasty, it gets infected easily, im not complaining just making an observation, i just think it would make so much more sense to do it, its just a flap of skin we no longer need and it creates disease and looks ugly, can we have it removed in later builds? once again not complaining, just an observation, men that are uncut are more likely to get sick.
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Huh? I don't think everyone shares the same sentiments as you, it's just a preference in the design. Seems like a very minor thing to latch on to
can you make a female version?
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Maybe in the past? Its not like washing yourself now a days is hard to do. If you dont like the look of uncut thats fine, but all that "It gets infected easily" stuff does not hold as much water now a days as it used to.
Actually its still a thing, plus its ugly, its healthier to be cut, its a useless flap of skin that is no longer needed, modern men still get sick from forgetting to wash it, it serves no purpose.
Exactly the same with male nipples. They serve no purpose so you better get rid of them.
Nipleless blacksmith
Actually... It does serve a purpose. Same kind that a mammal's sheath does: Protect the most sensitive portion of the penis (the glans for us) from abrasion and such. Circumsized, or more properly, mutilated males have lower sensitivity in the glans for this reason.
Secondly, those who get ill, do so from not washing... Which isn't any more tedious than washing one's pits (which I would hope nobody finds tedious). So long as one washes, which literally just takes some clean water, infection rate is near zero.
It being "ugly" is purely your opinion. I find them quite fetching, myself.
The ideas behind circumcision are primarily tradition, a disgusting one started by an equally vile man by the name of Kelogg. Learn your history and actually check/investigate studies rather than allow them to confirm your bias.
Also, if this was "just an observation" you'd have stopped after the first rejection.
Plus washing it is tedious too
We are just better off without it
You're entitled to your opinion on the matter of course, but hopefully you understand that we're definitely not going to change our own stance and artwork just because of one dissenting opinion.
If the lack of m/f content and circumcised penises in the game is that much of an issue for you, I'm afraid that our game just might not be for you.
Now then, let's leave it at that, shall we?
just an observation
Observe dez nuts
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This must be a troll. I mean what kind of person would genuinely say this (and on a game about fictional lizardmen no less).
As a side note, thank you so much to the developers for not making him circumsized! I know it's a small design choice but it's honestly so great to see.
I'm gonna make another donation now just for this reason (but also to spite this guy).
You really have done such fantastic work with this game
piss off, i never said the game was bad, i just wanted to know about some details is all, the game is good, its just that the details here and there are odd, not particually bad, and studies do infact show that uncut men are in fact more prone to disease, its science, i never directly disrespected the devs, i have only over been cordial in my comments.
We appreciate your generosity with the donation, truly! But let's not start a flame war in the comments even if it's not something we agree on, OK? Let's end this here, please.
I agree
Just got this game, so far loving it, really nostalgic gameplay. Something that would be nice (Not sure if you have plans for it or not) would be a kind of cross save gallery, that way you dont have to initiate the actual scenes to view them. But amazing game so far!
thats already in the game
idk if I'm the only one having this problem, but I play on MacOS, and the game would only show the logo, and then close, and I'd get a notification saying the game quit expectedly. Is there a way to work around this that you know of? (I've never had a computer until a month ago, and I'm still learning how to use this)
1). Download the game .zip file via the link below and extract the folder to the desktop.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/11goYxNG_QYnZZ96daS-YZYYbVuTiqZly/view?usp=shari...
Try this version first and see if it runs any better for you. If it still has an unexpected error and closes, proceed to the next steps:
2). Download the normal version of NW.js and transfer the app to your computer's Applications.
https://nwjs.io/
3). Go finder > utilities > terminal and use the following command to launch the game (the "name" should be your username for the file path):
open -n -a nwjs --args "/Users/name/Desktop/Grove_0.204
Sorry it's a bit of a kludge, but give this a try and see if it works for you.
I've finished the game but there are still a few things I can't figure out how to do (I think this may be a bug with my computer).
First of all, I can't find the glory hole from the start of the game, so any time I've worn the black underwear it always ends in me having to start the game again because I can't get any further. It seems like the glory hole is in the blocked area of the forest behind the purple sigil, but when I go in there there is a green slime blocking the thing that I think is the glory hole and it jumps at me instantly gives me game over.
This is just one of a few things that the walkthrough says is possible but I can't get it to work on my game, but any help would be amazing <3
I honestly don't remember this part well (it was a long time ago that I played it), but the "gloryhole" is the tablet at the back of the cave. As far as I recall the only obstacles in there are the slimes that charge at you when you move through the maze but if you are quick, you can get past them and they just fall down into the holes. I might be remembering wrong, but I don't recall there being a slime right in front of the tablet. Also, putting on the underwear literally just before going past the sigil means that you have less lust/corruption to worry about, so if there is a fight scene you can survive it.
You were on the right path, you just need to dodge that final green slime!
When it appears, you can either rush forward to your destination... or you can run backwards where you came from, and the slime will miss you! Then you can go check out the glory hole scene
Hi, I love this game and I am very frustrated because I have these 2 problems.... qwp
I hope you can help me with these problems and I hope it's not too much of a bother.
1: The game only works running it from the .zip or playing it from the index.html in the firefox browser (this is normal isn't it?) because when I run directly the .exe from the unzipped .zip it doesn't work well and when I see in the windows 7 task manager there are several processes moving up and down with the names; GROVE, grove, grove, grove, grove, grove
it's very strange and i don't understand why it doesn't work well, because when i run it from the .zip it works perfectly up to a certain point and in the task manager the processes are different and this time the 4 processes have the name in capital letters (i don't know if this has something to do with it).
but well, I don't mind too much as long as I can use itchio's launcher.
although running the game from the itchio launcher, i have very bad fps and it crashes more often.
2: Another problem I have is that when I get to the desert zone, the game crashes after entering the zone and waiting a few seconds, although I have the theory that if I get to that zone running the game from the browser it might not crash or damage the game, the only problem with playing from the browser is that it doesn't let me load saved files and.... well... you can imagine :/
Maybe, and I think so, these problems are due to my laptop and its low performance, you see, my laptop has very low requirements but it runs some other rpg's (some, I mean very few) , what I don't understand is why the game runs so bad, is it possible that my laptop is missing a couple of drivers or something?
my laptop has
has a processor :
Intel(r) Celeron(r) CPU 847 @ 1.10ghz 1.10ghz
ram memory:
2.00gb (1.83gb usable)
and an operating system :
32bits
(sorry for my bad english, I'm using a google translator)
Looking at your computer specs, unfortunately the system requirements for an RPGMAKER game is about 4gb in RAM, with Grove potentially requiring a little bit more due to the presence of large .png images. It also doesn't help that the MV engine isn't the most optimised thing in the world, but we'll try and improve the overall performance of the engine in the future.
Regarding your zip issue:
I have a feeling that the zip issues are caused by your low system specs, with a browser potentially only loading certain scenes, hence the better performance. This is evident when you mentioned you crash in the Desert area as there are a few large assets there, but performance in the area in general isn't all too great for a few with decent rigs. We're looking into that for the next update as well.
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We'll do what we can with improving the performance in the future, but at the moment, it does seem like the primary issue relates to your low system specs. I do apologise I can't be of any better help!
- RegalBuster
Oh, I knew the problem was with my laptop, well well....
Thank you very much anyway and good luck with the optimization of your game <3 <3 <3 ^^
Hallo !
Iv'e finished the game, all the scenes unlocked.
so i am wondering is there any cheat codes to just mess around ? Thanks :)
i kinda like this idea, like turn off the game over screen in the gallery so its easyer to keep browsing it without being reliant on just clicking the game over scene button, and the outfit seems to regen constantly, i sucessfully did a nude playthrough, didnt even have trouble in the jungle level in the water, will we be able to come back and save the lost and traped adventurers later in that region? seem callous just to say "oh well" and leave them, wont they eventually die from something like that? the body can only take so much stress like that, and the pods, did the occupants get digested or something? and why cant we cut them open like rinnal? it just seems odd, so many people stuck and nothing we can do, the open pods, did they kill and digest before opening? or are they walking around somewhere in some shambleing state? if so, where are they? and will there be group fighting? like multiple teammates to order different attacks from and multiple foes at once too? and can we have any news on the possibilty of cursed clothing? and new monsters too, i prefere them rather than actual m/m scenes, i enjoy the story alot, i just like the monsters more is all, just give us a heads up when the update is getting near, i believe its possible to enjoy this game and be straight too, this game has plenty of potential, i would like to see it grow, odly enough its actually hard to find straight lizard games, i prefere them to furs.
dragons and other lizards have always looked cool and facinating, thats all, not here to offend, just co-existing with my own preferences as a straight guy, life sure feels backwards these days...
I'm glad that you're invested in the story of our game and have all these questions, but this isn't quite the place for a full-fledged discussion about all these topics, most of which are just speculation about the future and would be spoilers.
When we have a date in mind for release, we'll let people know via our various social media accounts. Please just be patient, OK?
thank you for the reply, i look foward to your content
Not yet, I'm afraid!
Though we have thought about some silly cheats, they are easiest to implement when the game is content complete:
we don't want to have worry about making sure they don't break everything, every time we add new content!
Oki doki :)
if this dont violate any rules here could i ask to have a copy of your save file?
Your game is truly amazing and I have played many hours but i have a very frustrating problem when I want to close the game all of my progression just disappears even when I save so i can't really play unless I never close the game
I really need your help because I wish to play more of your game
sorry for my poor English :)
I'm assuming you haven't unzipped the file? Make sure you don't play directly from the downloaded .ZIP, and to extract it first. You can do this via right clicking the file, and extracting it to the folder or desktop. Alternatively, you can also open the zip folder, and drag the first 'GROVE' folder onto the desktop
- RegalBuster
Actually yes i didn't unzip it xD my bad but thanks a lot :D
The game is lagging a bit,, during the second visit to server location (I don't know the name of the location)
Apologies for the performance dip, we have some performance improvements in the works for the next update that should fix that issue. For now, making use of the mouse has been a common tactic players use that have issues navigating through.
- RegalBuster
Well, the issue is that in that part the player must lead the character through the briges before they change color... Anyway, your game is amasing ^^ and the creator is even more amazing ;3
How do i get slime by the slime dragon!
I try everything i could but nothing happen
Ensure you have more than 50 STM, and let yourself get grappled by the slime dragon. Once his sequence is done, you should be slimed.
- RegalBuster
This game has the feel of Undertale and Final Fantasy which I definitely love and the characters and nsfw scenes are to die for ( no pun intended ). There is only one question that I have regarding stats and combat. I noticed that there is a MATK stat but I have yet to find any skills or weapons based on this stat. Have they been implemented yet or is that aspect still in development? Also, will there be any support magic ( i.e. healing/buffing skills implemented and if so, how will they scale?
Currently, MATK is a blank stat and will likely not make it into the complete game. Magic and the such is being considered and developed upon, and should be implemented in a future build.
Thank you for your very kind words! I'm still surprised that we get the Undertale comparison, but I'm definitely not opposed to such. Hope future updates will be as enjoyable as the last!
- RegalBuster
will it ever be available for android?
You can play on android via JoiPlay emulator, but it is not fully supported and there are visual bugs. If you don't mind using cheats, you can skip some of the areas that have issues, but it will result in a less than optimal play experience.
We only recommend playing via android JoiPlay if you have NO alternative options.
I'm enjoying this game a lot but I'm stuck after exploring the Northen Settlement with the blacksmith, the game doesn't seem to progress any further when teleporting back to the inn. I've talked to the wizard, commander, and blacksmith. I've been stuck for an hour haha.
Your next destination is the jungle to the south. Leave the Quiet Meadow settlement by the bottom left exit, follow the path to the cliffs, and then head south...!
excuse me when will next update coming out ?
We haven't got a date yet. But make sure to +Follow the project here, or follow RegalBuster's twitter to be informed when we have something to share.
Dude it's amazing, this game fulfills my fantasy perfectly, I'm enjoying it so much, keep it up, I'll support you guys
Thank you very much, glad to hear you enjoyed our game so much! Any support is highly welcome, from sharing the game to donating to just playing and leaving a kind review!
Is there anything more happening with the grove development for new content its been almost a year or so now xx
It's not even been half a year yet, buddy. But I understand it must feel like ages.
We've been very busy with work, with university, and game development has taken a back-seat because ultimately it's a passion project and we do have personal life goals to achieve first and foremost...
Buuuut, there is more happening in the background. We're quietly working on stuff. And we do have an update planned. I can't say when it'll arrive... but we'll do our best to keep folks updated when it does!
Thank you for the reply
so ive been following the game for some time and even donated and i like dont regret it or anything but just asking if theres any news to when an update is coming if coming at all
We've been really busy these past few months with university and work. But hopefully, with summer holidays on the horizon, we might have a chance to get back to working on the game soon.
We'll do our best to keep folks updated, so either check out the Discord or follow RegalBuster's Twitter if you want to be in the know.
If you go to your menu > key items > documents case and use it to teleport anywhere, it should clear this visual bug. You'll get the bandit suit back later in the game, so don't worry about that just yet.
This is a known error and has been fixed in our development build too, so it'll be gone in the future. For now, just use the teleportation fix, please!
Final Fantasy and Undertale are certainly two highly regarded games, so the fact you consider our little passion project to be of a similar caliber is a great compliment indeed, thank you very much! :)
We're certainly considering ways in which the other characters might support you in other scenarios, combat and otherwise...!
Was trying to get the reward for The Rubbery Slime strip, item and only got the blacksmith scene. Is the reward implemented in .204 or is the blacksmith scene the reward?
So if you go into the slime cave core (where the slime dragons are) and loss to one they coat you in slime. You can then go to the fire in the room and it will give you the Slime Strip which you can take to the wizard and have researched. I just don't know if the cutscene with the blacksmith afterward is all that is supposed to happen.
No, there is a separate cutscene that is available after the slime strip is researched. look at this guide https://qazm.itch.io/a-grove-timeline
The cutscene with the blacksmith where he... 'uses' the slime slab is all that's supposed to happen right now. If you haven't triggered that yet... look at the blacksmith's shop and see if you can find the slime slab there!
Thank you, that's what I was wondering. I just thought I was getting a bug where I didn't get the item afterward. Thanks for clearing that up.
The completion and gameplay of the game impressed me the most. Aside from my little hobby （XD）, I've always wanted to see what the story will be like, so far I've experienced it pretty much, I still can't open the locked door, but it doesn't matter, I strongly support it. I had a problem with the sponsorship process, hopefully I can fix it later. You're the best game producer ever!
Thank you very much for your kind words!
The locked door will open in a future update. And I also hope you will enjoy the continued story in the future! :)
If you're having trouble with trying to donate on this website, do try the direct donation link: https://www.paypal.com/donate?hosted_button_id=HNXW72YDN4GWN
But do not worry if you cannot make it work. We're happy just to have your praise!
This is the game I most look forward to seeing updated right now. Love it!
An honour to hear that, thank you! Hope we manage to impress when the update finally launches.
Can you give us a rough idea of when you "expect" to launch this update?
Your game is amazing. I'm looking for NSFW game that MC try to escape the raping scene but end up with force breeding.
You did it very well.
I replay it very often
Thank you very much!
I wish I can play more monster like slug and sprouter
Is there anything you can tell us about the hole that appears in the cave you find the simth in?
Future content...!
I absolutely love this game....it's funny at times (don't touch the desert dragon's banana), cute at others (everything about Kuro), and most of the time....incredibly hot (tentacles, slimes, hypnosis...oh yes)
I did encounter some issues with the tron like worlds where Grove goes into like a computer....namely frame rate drops and it became incredibly hard to progress with keyboard controls (even mouse controls weren't 100%). It might be just my computer or something...I dunno, had a heck of time getting through them due to the frame rate issues
that being said, will patiently wait to see what comes next
It seems to be related to computer performance, but some people have experienced issues even when running powerful hardware, so we're not entirely sure... nonetheless, glad you were able to make it through those timing puzzles and experience the whole game.
Thanks for the wonderfully positive review! Hope we'll continue to please you and everyone else when the next update is ready.
Does the tentacle plant from the first dream make anymore appearances in the next update? And when jailer says he "lost too many scouts already " (jungle) howcome you never see anyone other than them? It guess itsjust implied right? And the black thong, will it be seen again aswell? Dont take my questions for nagging, i realize you may have gotten them asked before, i just wanted to be specific is all, i am just curious, oh and why is it not possible to open other pots like the one rinnal was in? (Also jungle)
The tentacle creature from the first dream... there's a possibility you might see more of it in the future...!
As for missing scouts in the jungle, there's implications and hints... like the plant pods that are already sealed, or the water vine gameover scene...
The black thong itself we probably won't reuse. Cursed clothing, on the other hand... ;)
I don't want to give too many details or spoil things. But hopefully this will at least let you know we're considering all these things.
Is there some way to save them later?
You'll have to wait and see where that's concerned...!
Will we have the ability to strip off outside of combat in the next update?
Potentially. Should be a fairly easy thing to implement for those who want to play like that.
Deifnitely an excellent game! Once I played I just cant stop myself! btw those mind control elements in the sexual scenes are impressing and I love them soooo much~
Thank you very much~!
Mind control, corruption, those are some of the key kinks of this game, so we're glad to hear you like 'em so much. More will certainly be coming, so do +Follow if you haven't, and I hope we'll continue to earn your praise!
I find this game rather enjoyable to play, plus opens the prospect of doing many runs plus I enjoy the sexual scenes.
Anyway keep up the good work devs!
Thank you kindly~
I saw it at the end of the game
you need to add the two new enemy doors
This game is masterpiece
Very kind of you to say so! I don't think we're quite at "masterpiece" level but your words are appreciate nonetheless.
Hello, I've been having a great time with your game. The art and enemies are great, and I'm impressed by the creativity and passion shown off by you guys.
I managed to get through a large amount of the game, but I had to stop right near the end due to a game breaking bug. I saved the game, and exited by going to the main menu, then closing out the tab. Upon reloading the game, the text became 'garbled' and mostly unreadable, like so.
Starting a new game 'ungarbled' the text, but the problem persisted. Let me know if this is a known issue. If it's not, feel free to ask more specific questions and I'll answer to the best of my ability.
I don't think we've ever gotten a bug like this before, so any details you can spare would be of great help!
- Which version of Grove are you playing on? (I'm assuming it's Windows 0.204, but just need to make sure)
- Is the game folder unzipped? And where did you place the resultant game directory file?
- Do you remember where you were, and what you did just before you encountered the bug? Was there anything unusual just before you saved?
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The only potential fix I can really think of is to re-download the game, and import your saves by using this guide below.
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Do feel free to list out any extra details that you can recount, and if at all possible, do you mind uploading the corrupted save file, the global.rpgmaker file and the persistent file somewhere for me to take a look at?
Thank you again for the report, and thanks for playing!
- RegalBuster
Hello RegalBuster, thanks for the quick reply. Regarding your questions -
- Yes, I am playing on the 2.04 patch- I've reproduced the bug on several (2-3) different fresh downloads over the past few months.
- The folder is unzipped, in a folder called 'games' directly in my downloads.
- The bug has happened at almost every point throughout the game, from the campfire straight after the intro scene to midway through the bandit's hideout. Saving seemed normal based on my experience with RPG maker games (e.g. no flashes, prompts, etc.), however I never once managed to load a non-corrupt file once I exited the game. The bug would persist when I transferred save files from an old game to a fresh download. However, starting a new game on a old or new download would 'refresh' the bug until I exited again.
Additionally, almost every time I would exit the game, the corruption would change a little. The complete scrambled eggs that you saw in the screenshot I've sent was the most common, but other effects including skipping letters (eg. HELLO ---> H L O, etc.) partially formed letters, or letters replaced with underscores. Notably, formatted text, such as the purple text in the computer world game over, or the ranger's subscript never corrupted.
I regret to tell you I don't have any of my original saves- When I joined the discord today I overwrote them with the completed gallery saves so I could see the slime dragon scenes (sorry). That being said, I closed out of Grove earlier and the saves seem to have been "successfully" corrupted.
Here are the files- let me know if you'll need anything else.
https://ufile.io/f/cwc6e
Upon testing the saves, I was unfortunately unable to recreate the bug on my end. I'm at a bit of a loss as to why this occurs, but I'll be sure to consider it for future releases. No worries about importing complete saves, you play how you want, and I don't blame you wanting to do so due to these save issues!
If you notice/remember anything else specific that you think could crack the case, do feel free to share. I unfortunately will need to mark this as a user-end issue, as there's not much I can do after a bit of testing.
Apologies mate, but do let me know if any other bugs crop up. These reports really do help
- RegalBuster
That's very fine- thanks for going the distance to help. I'll keep playing, and let you know if anything changes. Thanks for working on Grove, and have an excellent week.