The game is perfect in so many ways! Ideally balanced, a lot of great art (low detailed usually, cartoonish style, but suits it perfectly). It's the only gay game I know that's cute, creepy and sexy at the same time in equal amounts)) The new update brings quite a lot of new content. I hope to see more in the future!
Your bread friend can be re-acquired if you have any old saves! You can go back and grab him and he'll turn up again in your pocket dimension!
Otherwise, thanks very much for the long, thoughtful and kind comment! It's great that you think so highly of all the game design and gimmicks, and the overall balance between the lewd content and the gameplay content. I can only hope that we keep on creating stuff that continues to match that bar of quality, and even exceed it in the future.
As the game goes further and further, we'll try our best to make more distinct content for players who want to stay pure, vs. those who want to go a more corrupt route. There are a few things, usually story and exposition cutscenes, that can be missed right now if you're more inclined to just throw yourself into the lewd stuff... but as time passes, we'll try and make more significant reasons to play one way or another.
Thanks a lot for your kind words once more, and for playing our game in general!
I've played it all the way from the beginning and don't regret) I think there are small corrections here and there in the old content, but nothing major.
I dont want to sound ungrateful but I cant help but be curious. I was wondering if because the end screen says 'Dark Places Part 2' if that means a lot of groundwork has already been laid for the next update...or if its still going to take some time before another one is ready. Not trying to say in any way that Im dissatisfied with what we got. This update was amazing. But the idea of a 'Part 2' kinda has me intrigued as to what that could entail/mean...or if its just indicating a similar theme with the next expected update. As always thank you so much for the work on this. It truely is an amazing game
I am afraid we have no idea yet just how long the update will take, but I can at least say it's our intent NOT to have it take quite so long as before. Some of the groundwork is indeed done.
I can't say how long it will take... we as devs need a bit of a break... but hopefully you can be patient with us 'till then. Thanks for playing.
Thank you so much for a truly fantastic game! The mechanics and scenes are really well interposed with actual lore and interesting setting dynamics, so it's a real joy to play! Already rated y'all five stars, I have so much fun playing this game. ;3c
Unfortunately, like a lot of people on here, I find myself with a bit of an issue. On the quest to head down into the cavern to find Kuno's knife, the mine cart isn't present to take me down further into the cavern. I've attached an image of what I'm seeing - do you know if there's a way to fix this?
Thank you for the excellent game, and for your time!
Ah, and it's because I'm not SUPPOSED to go in there! Well, disregard my question, but please continue to accept my profuse praise! Your game is amazing, and so are you!
Go to the Inn. Use a HOT Coffee Bean at the coffee cup to make it night. Go to the mill at the farm and climb up. Pay attention to the visuals when THAT scene occurs...
The other one is to succumb to the enemy in a certain nightmare...
...well, I can only assume since you didn't tell me what didn't work.
Can you use a HOT Coffee Bean to make it night-time? Can you go to the mill at the farm and climb up?
Does a scene occur after that? Are you 'trapped'? Pay attention the pink icons that appear... don't they look like arrows?
If something about this is not working, first I recommend making sure you're on the most recent hotfix v0.307, and secondly please give me more specific details on what exactly is going wrong.
Quick question: Will saving Kuno or not have a big repercussion in the future? He seems to be fairly okay despite his extended exposure to the slimes and the thong's corruption.
Kuno didn't spend very long with the slime or the thong at all, really. A matter of a few minutes if you saved him yourself, and if you left him alone he was picked up by the other two explorers not long after.
Yeah just finish all of the updates in v0.306 and they are still as awesome as usual! There's no need to say how those CGs hit my point and how I love those new enemies! What impresses me on the other side is the development on NPCs's personality! which enriches the stories and make everyone more vivid! (and HOT)
But there's still a little problem that sometime the screen just freezes though I can still control Grove to move or to interact. Fortunately I've got a habit to save the game so the freezing did not affect my experience a lot. Sorry I do not know how the problem happens. It seems it happens randomly.
After all, thank you for letting us enjoy the "Grove"!
btw the SKIMPY COVER is SOOOO F****** SEXY HOT and BRILLIANT
Thanks a lot for all the kind words about the game and the story and the characters and more! Very much appreciated all around!
If you haven't yet, we definitely do recommend updating to the most recent version. There should be something to help mitigate those freezes you've been having, at least somewhat...!
1. If player enter the spider dungeon and S/L or using Doc.case to remove the darkness (a bug), Grove's FOV might be limited dark after they exit the dungeon(a chain of bug).
2. Appreciate that this update enrich the game with lots of husky guys, delicious🤤
3. There's philosophical thinking between the EMPTY pot and the FULL pot in the orange grove, which resembles the meaning of corruption to Grove and dragons, maybe?
4. Will the campfire dragon have more guitar repertoire🤤？and weather？That rainy dusk is gorgeous.
Did I understand correctly that the green lizard/dragon whom we defeated and which is now lying in a hospital tent, betrayed the moth dude and, as a result, they were both captured by corruption?
Also, can't we really take the yellow dragon that we saved from the slugs with us?
p.s. I also want to say that this is a very big and cool update that probably doubles the amount of content in the game. But in my humble (and useless, yes, I know) opinion, we waited a little over a year, and it's still too long a wait... It wouldn't be so sad if we didn't have a bunch of items in our inventory with which definitely something can be done but the game simply does not react to it, at best the wizard says that "sometime later". In general, the whole passage did not leave me with the thought that every now and then something is missing in many moments.
By the way, I didn’t even catch a single bug on the release, although I see that a lot of fixes have already been released, it looks like I’m lucky.
You maaay be a little off in that the aforementioned greenie and the Moth fellow have not stated to have met each other in conversation. And you cannot take the rescued dragon with you for the moment!
I understand if you think it's a bit too long of a wait and have expected more content as a result, but do keep in mind that we spend our free time working on this game for no real monetary gain. Other priorities will always come before it, and as a result, you will have to continue dealing with these quiet periods of no content. Appreciate you playing either way, and glad you found it cool :)
Don't get me wrong, I've been waiting a year for this update and I'm happy with it, it's just another "Never enough" thing.
Your progress is amazing and that's all that matters. After all, in just one year you were able to literally double the amount of content in your game. When some "workmen" who get a decent amount of money for it, do nothing for years, sitting in one place and just sucking the last juices out of their audience\write endless promises but show nothing.
It just makes me happy that there are people who can do their job, and do it with dignity. Instead of taking money from Kickstarter and doing nothing for 9 years constantly making excuses / remaking the same thing for 7 years, inflating the requirements of a game that has nothing.
You deserve every drop of a good word that is written to you and there is an ocean of them.
You also might have missed the "synthesis cauldron", a Key Item to deliver to the wizard, that allows you to put a lot of "junk" to use making new things!
Thank you for playing, and your kind words~! If you've got the time to give a rating / review, that'd be massively appreciated, but no pressure whatsoever!
0.3 was great, the game feels like it's got the right ratio of gameplay/pictures/text, and the writing avoids becoming too elaborate or showy. A favorite part of mine, spoiler-ish as it is, was the winged fellow later in the game. Grove's title change in the menu after the cutscene was a detail that I really liked.
One suggestion, though I'm not sure if RPGmaker permits, is to have a button for skipping cutscenes and reloading directly. Sometimes an enemy literally kicks your ass into submission repeatedly and getting out of it takes a while.
A skip is certainly something we could look into in the future, sure! Thanks for playing!
(Ps, Glad you noticed and enjoyed the role / class changes in the menu~ something a little subtle, but we thought it definitely did add a bit of extra spice)
I realised the Water Grappler is missing the scene when you have a Cock Latcher on you. Also, awesome update! One of the most anticipated and definitely worthy one.
I love this update, it's spicy (although i still want more scenes with rinnal and tuon they are my favorites) and honestly got jelous of the bat, we're here first but he got serviced first by tuon. Although now i don't know where the cauldron is, i kept losing the coin flip, and i can't invite the orange burly dragon back to camp, but other than that, this update feels nice and make me feel closer to the characters and can't wait for the next one (also that last part when we're peeking on tuon is an amazing touch)
The cauldron can be found in a merchant's tent on the far side of the slug nest. You can get back there by teleporting to the 'jungle campsite', going right and up the vines. From there, go to the top-LEFT and use the Jump Sigil to climb up the cliff. Go through the slug den to the other side. There's a place you can climb out, and the tent is a short walk from there!
Made an account here to say thanks to the Grove team, wishing the best for the upcoming years! I had loads of fun with the new content in 0.3, and excited for future versions!
Thanks a lot for making an account just to drop us a kind comment, that means a lot! If you've got a minute to spare, an itch.io rating would really make our day too!
Otherwise, cheers for playing through the game, and hope we can keep your interest for the future!
Just finished the game Great work by the way in the gallery there are still some locked chests do I have to do something to unlock those or is that for a future update
Any locked chests in the gallery can be unlocked! Pay attention to their hints and use your brain, and I'm sure you can figure them out!
You might need to go back to an older save to unlock some of them, but they'll show up in your gallery in the future, so you don't need to start an entirely new game!
First of all: Great Game! I just want to know if its possible to give players the ability to skip certain sections... i have played through the entire game, saved often as recommended, updated the game and lost all of my progress.... Kinda bummed out because i hate replaying games
Uh, if you updated, you can transfer your saves across! There's a save file transfer guide in the download! If your saves aren't showing up and you DID do that, try this:
Move all the existing saves out of that folder, open up the game and start a new game, make a few save slots, enough to accommodate all your files, exit the game, then replace the new saves with the existing ones you want to import.
Make sure to cleanse yourself using the buckets around the nearby forest before you fight.
Otherwise it's kind of just an endurance match. Make sure you're healthy as you can be when you start the fight. Try and pay attention to the enemy's attacks, as sometimes it becomes resilient to specific things and you might waste your resources.
Besides that just try and use all your skills, use your items, don't hold back. There's no specific strategy, it's just an endurance match really.
Hi, first of all congratulations for this new update, the new content is very good, I really liked the advances to the story and the new characters that were added.
At this moment I have a question about a certain part of the story, I just saw the cinematic of the blacksmith and the chastity cage (by the way, I loved it!, and I hope that soon something like that can be equipped on the protagonist)
And I got to the moment where they ask me to go to the mill, but as soon as I go up to check, a cinematic starts which automatically turns into "game over", please, could you tell me what I have to do?
I've been wandering around for many minutes and I can't find anything to do and it doesn't let me sleep and skip the night either.
When you get grabbed, pay close attention to the visuals. See the pink symbols that appear... don't they look like arrows...? I'm sure you can figure out the rest!
Otherwise, thanks a lot for the positive review! We're not gonna spoil any future content, but we hope you can still care to rejoin us in the future when the next update arrives!
Hello! I have a question. I don't know how to escape from the "amongst the roots" mini quest. I knocked down the boss and went to both the outside of the tree and the well cave, I don't know how to get out. Please help me. (ㅠㅡㅜ)
To exit, go into the hole in the wall behind the boss, keep going down until you reach the well cave, then go to the far left where the light is shining down. There should be a transition tile there!
I love all new the new encounters and character moments. The coin-game got a bit frustrating with my notorious bad luck, but besides that I have nothing negative to say.
Now I just hope that the timeline updates soon, so I can make sure that I didn't miss anything. Keep up the good work :D
The timeline is made by Qazm, a fellow player of the game. It'll take him a while to volunteer his time to finish the timeline, so you will have to be patient! Thanks for playing~.
Out of curiosity, how does one unlock the full gallery if you were to miss an event? I presume going back to some places could work but in the case of the mine quest would I have to go back and redo that entire mission for the last scene?
Question aside I've been loving this game from start to wherever we are in the development cycle and eagerly await the next chapter whenever it's ready <3
You'll have to go back to a prior save, yes... buuuuuut, there is a system in place where things unlocked on old saves will pop up in your gallery in future saves! No need to entirely replay the game!
Thanks so much for the compliments and the encouragement otherwise! If you can take the time to drop us a rating that'd be super appreciated too, but no pressure~
Otherwise, thanks again for playing, and hope to see ya next time!
I am not entirely certain where you are in the story... but if you rejected his explanation of quests, you can simply go to the bulletin board and pick up the first quest there!
He does explain where to actually go for a lot of the quests, so you really should pay attention to his words though...
no ummm he at some point tells you that he has something to tell you after you come back from the mission where kuno and the brawler go a separate way and find the big tree. But since I came back with no armour and no healing items (I also didn't save ) so I didn't want to hear it and he said to come to talk to him during the evening I think? Because he's buys during the day so I can't talk to him to progress the story
but i already finished every quest on the board and I keep going to his house and talking to him in the evening and he still doesn't invite me? I even met him at night when hw was talking to another desert lizard?
I'm afraid you might have missed the opportunity then. He should offer you whenever it's sunset (the sky is orange). There's two opportunities, once after the slug den quest, and once after the mine quest.
If you have any old saves to go back and witness these scenes, feel free to. But ultimately the only thing you missed out on are some relationship points and character backstory / exposition. No lewd scenes or anything.
I didn't notice this before and even still, it's very minor. When the Auxiliary Commander gives you the new desert outfit, the boxes around the site say that the 'powers that be are certainly putting a conceited effort into'. I think you meant say 'putting a concerted effort into'. I haven't seen anything else that stands out (other than getting my ass repeatedly and royally kicked by the drake in the orange fruit side quest.) D:
A good strategy for that fight is to Present Yourself... and then Resist! when he's grappling you! You can deal some damage and lower his defense in such a manner, several times infact...!
Wanted to say I enjoy the world building and the characters. Love talking to the NPCs and just interacting with every little thing for potential flavor text. Can’t wait for more lore bits in the future updates :D
As the person who writes a lot of that stuff, it's greatly appreciated whenever somebody calls out the lore and world building and characters specifically! Even if there's a lot of lewd things to enjoy it's always great when people end up finding the other stuff intriguing too!
More lore will most certainly be coming! Hope you'll continue to enjoy, and thanks a lot for playing!
You guys knocked it out is the park with this update! Everything got improved, the art, the gameplay, the enemies, bravo!
I thought I wouldn't like the quest system, I expected it to be grindy filler, but to my surprise they aren't. They all have unique enemies or provide character development. I already thought the art was good, but it got even better this update. The gameplay and combat got more varied as well. All of this kept the game fresh and not repetitive.
I liked the enemies in this update the most, especially the 2 bats and the slug golem. I got excited when I saw the chastity cage, thought we're getting some dommy blacksmith x grove chastity content, or a chastity bound state like with the slime suit or slave outfit, but oh well, maybe next update ;)
Now the long wait for the next update begins, but you guys have proven that the wait is well worth it. Thank you for your hard work
Thank YOU for the big kind review! Much appreciated, truly! Glad to know we can not only go above and beyond your expectations for the good stuff, but subvert your expectations for things you maybe didn't expect to enjoy!
No pressure at all, but we'd really appreciate you giving the game an official rating using the itch.io system! It'd help us a great deal~
But otherwise, thanks again for playing, and hope you'll stick around for the next update!
I'm looking forward to play this update! I'm really enjoying this game so far, the artwork and sounds are great! I love the seed hungry creatures and milking scenes especially :3
This game is just amazing!! I, as a person who does not know English very well, would like to ask. Is there any information about the Russian patch of the new version?
However, I recently noticed that someone tried to decompile and crack your game, but my dissuasion seems to have had no effect. Do you plan to encrypt your game in the future?
We don't mind it if you take a look at the game files, but we highly dissuade people from sharing it around as it could contain old assets and things that can easily create false expectations. We may look into better forms of encryption in the future, but if someone is motivated enough, there are tools for everything out there.
Teleport to the jungle campsite using your Docs. Case. Go to the right and climb up the vines. In this area, proceed around in a sort of C shape to the top-RIGHT exit. From there you'll be at the foot of a waterfall. You wanna work your way around, cross the river and climb up the waterfall using the vines and such. Once you reach the top of the falls... there's only one path to go, to the left. You should be able to figure it out from there.
Thank you so much I couldn't figure it out because for some reason my game wouldn't let me make that last jump to the tiny two block island where the deactivated sigil is when I was able to make it thank you
Please make sure you're playing the most recent version of our game. We had a brief issue where he disappeared, but it's been fixed now.
Make sure to use the save file transfer guide in the download so you don't need to restart And I recommend restarting from a save before you arrived back at the camp, just to be safe.
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Your game is awesome. I super super love it. But what are green apples for?
Collection. The green apple and the carrot respectively resemble creators.
Just a silly collectable! Collect all 10 to get a badge on your documents case! Thanks for playing our game~
- RegalBuster
The game is perfect in so many ways! Ideally balanced, a lot of great art (low detailed usually, cartoonish style, but suits it perfectly). It's the only gay game I know that's cute, creepy and sexy at the same time in equal amounts)) The new update brings quite a lot of new content. I hope to see more in the future!
P.S. you should start a patreon page)
Thank you for the kind words~. We're not interested in a Patreon at the moment as we don't have the time to provide monthly development updates.
-RegalBuster
Your bread friend can be re-acquired if you have any old saves! You can go back and grab him and he'll turn up again in your pocket dimension!
Otherwise, thanks very much for the long, thoughtful and kind comment! It's great that you think so highly of all the game design and gimmicks, and the overall balance between the lewd content and the gameplay content. I can only hope that we keep on creating stuff that continues to match that bar of quality, and even exceed it in the future.
As the game goes further and further, we'll try our best to make more distinct content for players who want to stay pure, vs. those who want to go a more corrupt route. There are a few things, usually story and exposition cutscenes, that can be missed right now if you're more inclined to just throw yourself into the lewd stuff... but as time passes, we'll try and make more significant reasons to play one way or another.
Thanks a lot for your kind words once more, and for playing our game in general!
Is there new contents in previous part? i just think that should i start a new game
I've played it all the way from the beginning and don't regret) I think there are small corrections here and there in the old content, but nothing major.
I see , thank you
I dont want to sound ungrateful but I cant help but be curious. I was wondering if because the end screen says 'Dark Places Part 2' if that means a lot of groundwork has already been laid for the next update...or if its still going to take some time before another one is ready. Not trying to say in any way that Im dissatisfied with what we got. This update was amazing. But the idea of a 'Part 2' kinda has me intrigued as to what that could entail/mean...or if its just indicating a similar theme with the next expected update. As always thank you so much for the work on this. It truely is an amazing game
I am afraid we have no idea yet just how long the update will take, but I can at least say it's our intent NOT to have it take quite so long as before. Some of the groundwork is indeed done.
I can't say how long it will take... we as devs need a bit of a break... but hopefully you can be patient with us 'till then. Thanks for playing.
Thank you so much for a truly fantastic game! The mechanics and scenes are really well interposed with actual lore and interesting setting dynamics, so it's a real joy to play! Already rated y'all five stars, I have so much fun playing this game. ;3c
Unfortunately, like a lot of people on here, I find myself with a bit of an issue. On the quest to head down into the cavern to find Kuno's knife, the mine cart isn't present to take me down further into the cavern. I've attached an image of what I'm seeing - do you know if there's a way to fix this?
Thank you for the excellent game, and for your time!
No need to head down the tracks! You need to into the cave just to the left there! Keep going down all the way to the bottom!
Thanks for all the kind words on the game so far though! Hope you'll keep on enjoying as you keep on playing!
Ah, and it's because I'm not SUPPOSED to go in there! Well, disregard my question, but please continue to accept my profuse praise! Your game is amazing, and so are you!
How can I see the scenes? I finished all the game and I don't know how to see them... Can anyone help me?
There should be a red orb in your room at the inn if you've finished. If not... you've still got something to do!
There might be something you need to do at night-time... take a HOT Coffee Bean to the Inn and head to the mill at the farm!
so... Can you help me by telling me how to get these two scenes that I'm missing?
Go to the Inn. Use a HOT Coffee Bean at the coffee cup to make it night. Go to the mill at the farm and climb up.
Pay attention to the visuals when THAT scene occurs...
The other one is to succumb to the enemy in a certain nightmare...
I tried and tried and it didn't work, what am I doing wrong? :(
...well, I can only assume since you didn't tell me what didn't work.
Can you use a HOT Coffee Bean to make it night-time? Can you go to the mill at the farm and climb up?
Does a scene occur after that? Are you 'trapped'? Pay attention the pink icons that appear... don't they look like arrows?
If something about this is not working, first I recommend making sure you're on the most recent hotfix v0.307, and secondly please give me more specific details on what exactly is going wrong.
Ok, thanks a lot for the help and I appreciate that ^^
Quick question: Will saving Kuno or not have a big repercussion in the future? He seems to be fairly okay despite his extended exposure to the slimes and the thong's corruption.
Kuno didn't spend very long with the slime or the thong at all, really. A matter of a few minutes if you saved him yourself, and if you left him alone he was picked up by the other two explorers not long after.
It would seem that he got off lucky...!
Welp, I guess I didn't need to do a pure and corrupt routes after all XD
There's plenty more that corruption effects than just this one interaction!
Thank you very much for your game updates. Can I ask how many more versions are needed in the future? I wish you a happy new year.
We should be finished with fixing the game now! Please feel free to try out the current version!
Yeah just finish all of the updates in v0.306 and they are still as awesome as usual! There's no need to say how those CGs hit my point and how I love those new enemies! What impresses me on the other side is the development on NPCs's personality! which enriches the stories and make everyone more vivid! (and HOT)
But there's still a little problem that sometime the screen just freezes though I can still control Grove to move or to interact. Fortunately I've got a habit to save the game so the freezing did not affect my experience a lot. Sorry I do not know how the problem happens. It seems it happens randomly.
After all, thank you for letting us enjoy the "Grove"!
btw the SKIMPY COVER is SOOOO F****** SEXY HOT and BRILLIANT
Thanks a lot for all the kind words about the game and the story and the characters and more! Very much appreciated all around!
If you haven't yet, we definitely do recommend updating to the most recent version. There should be something to help mitigate those freezes you've been having, at least somewhat...!
Otherwise, cheers once more for playing!
1. If player enter the spider dungeon and S/L or using Doc.case to remove the darkness (a bug), Grove's FOV might be limited dark after they exit the dungeon(a chain of bug).
2. Appreciate that this update enrich the game with lots of husky guys, delicious🤤
3. There's philosophical thinking between the EMPTY pot and the FULL pot in the orange grove, which resembles the meaning of corruption to Grove and dragons, maybe?
4. Will the campfire dragon have more guitar repertoire🤤？and weather？That rainy dusk is gorgeous.
1. Bug should be fixed on most recent version.
2. Glad you like it!
3. Who said a porn game can't talk philosophy...?
4. People seemed to like it, so maybe, yeah!
Did I understand correctly that the green lizard/dragon whom we defeated and which is now lying in a hospital tent, betrayed the moth dude and, as a result, they were both captured by corruption?
Also, can't we really take the yellow dragon that we saved from the slugs with us?
p.s.
I also want to say that this is a very big and cool update that probably doubles the amount of content in the game. But in my humble (and useless, yes, I know) opinion, we waited a little over a year, and it's still too long a wait... It wouldn't be so sad if we didn't have a bunch of items in our inventory with which definitely something can be done but the game simply does not react to it, at best the wizard says that "sometime later". In general, the whole passage did not leave me with the thought that every now and then something is missing in many moments.
By the way, I didn’t even catch a single bug on the release, although I see that a lot of fixes have already been released, it looks like I’m lucky.
You maaay be a little off in that the aforementioned greenie and the Moth fellow have not stated to have met each other in conversation. And you cannot take the rescued dragon with you for the moment!
I understand if you think it's a bit too long of a wait and have expected more content as a result, but do keep in mind that we spend our free time working on this game for no real monetary gain. Other priorities will always come before it, and as a result, you will have to continue dealing with these quiet periods of no content. Appreciate you playing either way, and glad you found it cool :)
- RegalBuster
Don't get me wrong, I've been waiting a year for this update and I'm happy with it, it's just another "Never enough" thing.
Your progress is amazing and that's all that matters. After all, in just one year you were able to literally double the amount of content in your game. When some "workmen" who get a decent amount of money for it, do nothing for years, sitting in one place and just sucking the last juices out of their audience\write endless promises but show nothing.
It just makes me happy that there are people who can do their job, and do it with dignity. Instead of taking money from Kickstarter and doing nothing for 9 years constantly making excuses / remaking the same thing for 7 years, inflating the requirements of a game that has nothing.
You deserve every drop of a good word that is written to you and there is an ocean of them.
UwU
You also might have missed the "synthesis cauldron", a Key Item to deliver to the wizard, that allows you to put a lot of "junk" to use making new things!
Thanks you for explanation, our godly banana monarch :3
Thanks for your effort!
The game is awesome,my first rpg/jrpg,i will remember it!
Also unique struggle battle system
Thank you for playing, and your kind words~!
If you've got the time to give a rating / review, that'd be massively appreciated, but no pressure whatsoever!
Ok
0.3 was great, the game feels like it's got the right ratio of gameplay/pictures/text, and the writing avoids becoming too elaborate or showy. A favorite part of mine, spoiler-ish as it is, was the winged fellow later in the game. Grove's title change in the menu after the cutscene was a detail that I really liked.
One suggestion, though I'm not sure if RPGmaker permits, is to have a button for skipping cutscenes and reloading directly. Sometimes an enemy literally kicks your ass into submission repeatedly and getting out of it takes a while.
A skip is certainly something we could look into in the future, sure! Thanks for playing!
(Ps, Glad you noticed and enjoyed the role / class changes in the menu~ something a little subtle, but we thought it definitely did add a bit of extra spice)
-RegalBuster
I realised the Water Grappler is missing the scene when you have a Cock Latcher on you. Also, awesome update! One of the most anticipated and definitely worthy one.
Currently there is no scene planned for the latcher and the grappler. Thanks for playing!
-RegalBuster
a nice game
How do you pronounces Jaler's name? is the J silent, like Juan?
Jal- er
-RegalBuster
I love this update, it's spicy (although i still want more scenes with rinnal and tuon they are my favorites) and honestly got jelous of the bat, we're here first but he got serviced first by tuon. Although now i don't know where the cauldron is, i kept losing the coin flip, and i can't invite the orange burly dragon back to camp, but other than that, this update feels nice and make me feel closer to the characters and can't wait for the next one (also that last part when we're peeking on tuon is an amazing touch)
The cauldron can be found in a merchant's tent on the far side of the slug nest.
You can get back there by teleporting to the 'jungle campsite', going right and up the vines. From there, go to the top-LEFT and use the Jump Sigil to climb up the cliff.
Go through the slug den to the other side. There's a place you can climb out, and the tent is a short walk from there!
Made an account here to say thanks to the Grove team, wishing the best for the upcoming years! I had loads of fun with the new content in 0.3, and excited for future versions!
Thanks a lot for making an account just to drop us a kind comment, that means a lot! If you've got a minute to spare, an itch.io rating would really make our day too!
Otherwise, cheers for playing through the game, and hope we can keep your interest for the future!
Just finished the game Great work by the way in the gallery there are still some locked chests do I have to do something to unlock those or is that for a future update
Any locked chests in the gallery can be unlocked! Pay attention to their hints and use your brain, and I'm sure you can figure them out!
You might need to go back to an older save to unlock some of them, but they'll show up in your gallery in the future, so you don't need to start an entirely new game!
Hey there, what's the deal with nightmares? Do they only come with higher corruption, or are they purely RNG?
You're correct on both accounts.
Dear Grove Team;
First of all: Great Game!
I just want to know if its possible to give players the ability to skip certain sections... i have played through the entire game, saved often as recommended, updated the game and lost all of my progress.... Kinda bummed out because i hate replaying games
Uh, if you updated, you can transfer your saves across! There's a save file transfer guide in the download! If your saves aren't showing up and you DID do that, try this:
Move all the existing saves out of that folder, open up the game and start a new game, make a few save slots, enough to accommodate all your files, exit the game, then replace the new saves with the existing ones you want to import.
Could someone please give a hint on how to beat the plant boss? I'm stuck.
Make sure to cleanse yourself using the buckets around the nearby forest before you fight.
Otherwise it's kind of just an endurance match. Make sure you're healthy as you can be when you start the fight. Try and pay attention to the enemy's attacks, as sometimes it becomes resilient to specific things and you might waste your resources.
Besides that just try and use all your skills, use your items, don't hold back. There's no specific strategy, it's just an endurance match really.
Hi, first of all congratulations for this new update, the new content is very good, I really liked the advances to the story and the new characters that were added.
At this moment I have a question about a certain part of the story, I just saw the cinematic of the blacksmith and the chastity cage (by the way, I loved it!, and I hope that soon something like that can be equipped on the protagonist)
And I got to the moment where they ask me to go to the mill, but as soon as I go up to check, a cinematic starts which automatically turns into "game over", please, could you tell me what I have to do?
I've been wandering around for many minutes and I can't find anything to do and it doesn't let me sleep and skip the night either.
When you get grabbed, pay close attention to the visuals. See the pink symbols that appear... don't they look like arrows...?
I'm sure you can figure out the rest!
Otherwise, thanks a lot for the positive review! We're not gonna spoil any future content, but we hope you can still care to rejoin us in the future when the next update arrives!
how to unlock secret new outfit, got couldrun and ingreediants and everything, wizz just says you dont need it yet,
p.s. found the the reference there, "just an observation..."
The outfit in the Synthesis menu is just the skimpy garments. If you're getting that message, that just means you already have it!
- RegalBuster
Hello! I have a question.
I don't know how to escape from the "amongst the roots" mini quest. I knocked down the boss and went to both the outside of the tree and the well cave,
I don't know how to get out. Please help me. (ㅠㅡㅜ)
To exit, go into the hole in the wall behind the boss, keep going down until you reach the well cave, then go to the far left where the light is shining down. There should be a transition tile there!
- RegalBuster
OMG!
The light is so bright that I didn't see the tiles.
Thank you so much!
Just finished the update and it was awesome.
I love all new the new encounters and character moments. The coin-game got a bit frustrating with my notorious bad luck, but besides that I have nothing negative to say.
Now I just hope that the timeline updates soon, so I can make sure that I didn't miss anything. Keep up the good work :D
The timeline is made by Qazm, a fellow player of the game. It'll take him a while to volunteer his time to finish the timeline, so you will have to be patient! Thanks for playing~.
- RegalBuster
https://qazm.itch.io/a-grove-timeline/devlog/477590/v03-update-plans
Here ya go, here's his words on the matter~
And thanks for your kind, positive review of the game!
Out of curiosity, how does one unlock the full gallery if you were to miss an event? I presume going back to some places could work but in the case of the mine quest would I have to go back and redo that entire mission for the last scene?
Question aside I've been loving this game from start to wherever we are in the development cycle and eagerly await the next chapter whenever it's ready <3
You'll have to go back to a prior save, yes... buuuuuut, there is a system in place where things unlocked on old saves will pop up in your gallery in future saves! No need to entirely replay the game!
Thanks so much for the compliments and the encouragement otherwise! If you can take the time to drop us a rating that'd be super appreciated too, but no pressure~
Otherwise, thanks again for playing, and hope to see ya next time!
Ah, bit of a shame in that regard. Oh well, just means it encourages multiple playthroughs!
I rejected listening to the axillary commander the first time and now I cant progress the story how do I talk to him?
I am not entirely certain where you are in the story... but if you rejected his explanation of quests, you can simply go to the bulletin board and pick up the first quest there!
He does explain where to actually go for a lot of the quests, so you really should pay attention to his words though...
no ummm he at some point tells you that he has something to tell you after you come back from the mission where kuno and the brawler go a separate way and find the big tree. But since I came back with no armour and no healing items (I also didn't save ) so I didn't want to hear it and he said to come to talk to him during the evening I think? Because he's buys during the day so I can't talk to him to progress the story
Ah, I see. You missed his offer to be invited to his house.
He should offer you to come visit again in the evenings. Maybe after the "mine quest" a bit later!
but i already finished every quest on the board and I keep going to his house and talking to him in the evening and he still doesn't invite me? I even met him at night when hw was talking to another desert lizard?
I'm afraid you might have missed the opportunity then. He should offer you whenever it's sunset (the sky is orange). There's two opportunities, once after the slug den quest, and once after the mine quest.
If you have any old saves to go back and witness these scenes, feel free to. But ultimately the only thing you missed out on are some relationship points and character backstory / exposition. No lewd scenes or anything.
I didn't notice this before and even still, it's very minor. When the Auxiliary Commander gives you the new desert outfit, the boxes around the site say that the 'powers that be are certainly putting a conceited effort into'. I think you meant say 'putting a concerted effort into'. I haven't seen anything else that stands out (other than getting my ass repeatedly and royally kicked by the drake in the orange fruit side quest.) D:
A good strategy for that fight is to Present Yourself... and then Resist! when he's grappling you! You can deal some damage and lower his defense in such a manner, several times infact...!
Typo noted as well, thank you.
Wanted to say I enjoy the world building and the characters. Love talking to the NPCs and just interacting with every little thing for potential flavor text. Can’t wait for more lore bits in the future updates :D
As the person who writes a lot of that stuff, it's greatly appreciated whenever somebody calls out the lore and world building and characters specifically! Even if there's a lot of lewd things to enjoy it's always great when people end up finding the other stuff intriguing too!
More lore will most certainly be coming! Hope you'll continue to enjoy, and thanks a lot for playing!
You guys knocked it out is the park with this update! Everything got improved, the art, the gameplay, the enemies, bravo!
I thought I wouldn't like the quest system, I expected it to be grindy filler, but to my surprise they aren't. They all have unique enemies or provide character development. I already thought the art was good, but it got even better this update. The gameplay and combat got more varied as well. All of this kept the game fresh and not repetitive.
I liked the enemies in this update the most, especially the 2 bats and the slug golem. I got excited when I saw the chastity cage, thought we're getting some dommy blacksmith x grove chastity content, or a chastity bound state like with the slime suit or slave outfit, but oh well, maybe next update ;)
Now the long wait for the next update begins, but you guys have proven that the wait is well worth it. Thank you for your hard work
Thank YOU for the big kind review! Much appreciated, truly! Glad to know we can not only go above and beyond your expectations for the good stuff, but subvert your expectations for things you maybe didn't expect to enjoy!
No pressure at all, but we'd really appreciate you giving the game an official rating using the itch.io system! It'd help us a great deal~
But otherwise, thanks again for playing, and hope you'll stick around for the next update!
I'm looking forward to play this update! I'm really enjoying this game so far, the artwork and sounds are great! I love the seed hungry creatures and milking scenes especially :3
Thank you! I hope you enjoy the complete experience!
How do I change the language to Chinese?
A Chinese translation will be coming in a few weeks. Please be patient. We will make an announcement when it is ready.
This game is just amazing!! I, as a person who does not know English very well, would like to ask. Is there any information about the Russian patch of the new version?
We are unsure at this time. But we will make an announcement if we do find some volunteers to make a Russian translation.
Thanks, I'll be looking forward to it!!
This is the best game I've ever played!
However, I recently noticed that someone tried to decompile and crack your game, but my dissuasion seems to have had no effect. Do you plan to encrypt your game in the future?
We don't mind it if you take a look at the game files, but we highly dissuade people from sharing it around as it could contain old assets and things that can easily create false expectations. We may look into better forms of encryption in the future, but if someone is motivated enough, there are tools for everything out there.
- RegalBuster
Finished it! Great update I'm already starving for more.
Nice work! Thanks for playing~
- RegalBuster
Where is the big tree for the second mini quest?
Teleport to the jungle campsite using your Docs. Case. Go to the right and climb up the vines.
In this area, proceed around in a sort of C shape to the top-RIGHT exit. From there you'll be at the foot of a waterfall. You wanna work your way around, cross the river and climb up the waterfall using the vines and such.
Once you reach the top of the falls... there's only one path to go, to the left. You should be able to figure it out from there.
How do you comple this quest? Ive already explored the entire tree and fought the boss
Go through the hole behind the boss.
Follow the path to the end and jump down.
Go to the left, find the beam of light shining down, and press Enter in the middle to climb up.
Thank you so much I couldn't figure it out because for some reason my game wouldn't let me make that last jump to the tiny two block island where the deactivated sigil is when I was able to make it thank you
I want to find new comer to get new equipment,but i can't find him in Auxiliary Division Hall .Where is he?
Please make sure you're playing the most recent version of our game. We had a brief issue where he disappeared, but it's been fixed now.
Make sure to use the save file transfer guide in the download so you don't need to restart
And I recommend restarting from a save before you arrived back at the camp, just to be safe.
I downloaded the latest version and transferred the data according to the operation, but the problem didn't seem to get better
That's not the latest version. It says "v.0304" at the top corner of your screen.
You need to be on "v0.306".
I also recommend you don't use a save that's already in the area! It might cause some issues.
thanks for your help.