Finding Color in the Ashes is a fantasy dating sim where you rebuild an inn and hang out with a witch named Lucy.
It’s a mostly cozy management game where you slowly rebuild a ruined inn, choosing how you spend you time. The day is divided up into mornings, afternoons, evenings, nights – and weekends have their own events as well.
You also need to keep the surrounding area clear of monsters, equipping yourself with weapons and spells and engaging in turn based dice-combat. There are a variety of weapons, armors, and spells to buy, learn, and upgrade.
You earn experience points by talking with Lucy, the guests at your inn, crafting potions, fighting monsters, etc. Spend experience on abilities to improve your combat effectiveness, learn new spells, or make changes to the inn.
The Game takes place over a year, and starts in the summer. Each season is about 90 days long, and has its own gameplay associated with it.
The Game takes place over a year, and starts in the summer. Each season is about 90 days long, and has its own gameplay associated with it.
Installation:
1- Extract and run.
Developer: MooncatcherStudios
Censored: No
Version: Alpha v2.30
Language: English
Genre: RPG, VN, 2DCG, DICE, TURN-BASED, MANAGEMENT, DATING
Alpha 2.23
Added
- New SFX
- New Music Track
- Audio options menu. You can now set master, sfx, and music volume.
- 3 new weapons: Spear, Halberd, Wightblade
- Spear and Halberd are polearms. They roll from your defense dice pool. They give you +1 dice when blocking, and gain +1 damage for each 2 agility dice you have
- Wightblade rolls from your magic dice pool. It deals magic damage instead of physical, restores mana on attack, and gains +1 damage for each attunement dice you have
- New Gear screen: gear screen now has tool tips for equipment traits + enchants.
- New Forge Materials: Deepiron and Mithril
- Dwarven expeditions will get more ambitious as time goes on, offering better rewards.
- Forge upgrades: Ailis can upgrade your weapons and armor at the forge – raising the max upgrade rank from 3 to +5.
- Forge Gear: Ailis can forge armor and weapons for you. This takes time, coal, and ores.
- Complete merchant rework. The UI is much nicer and the merchants have portraits now. This will be expanded on in the future.
- New Sex Scene (Lucy + Ellie)
- New Event
- New night POI for Scout (forvalaka hunting)
- New Event art
- New Sex Scene (Scout)
- Temp fix: If you are playing an old save where you missed Ailis during the winter, a button to add her to the party will show up starting in spring. Has not been thoroughly tested, use at your own risk.
Adjustments
- Companion POIs on the patrol map have a small animation to make them more obvious
- Weighted chances of unlocking some scenes quicker
- Adjusted inn guest payouts. The reputation level of your inn has a bigger impact.
- If you choose not to fight the Wight with Scout, you can still do night patrols until you’re ready to face it
- Redraw of hardplate armor
- Ability to adjust storage bonus provided by the Cellar
- Your friend-shaped lizard has expanded their inventory to include shinier rocks
- The Patrol POIs for recruiting Scout, the Dryad, and Ellie now show up in both patrol and hunting modes
- You can forge coal and materials at the same time
- Adjusted forge times and outputs
- General goods are available for purchase even when the road is dangerous
- Slightly lowered the maximum food and alcohol cost for the army staying at the inn
Fixes
- Possible to be blocked from donating to the dwarves even if you had enough resources
- Spell tomes were missing from the merchant menu
- Willow’s scene picker wasn’t working
- Scout was generously contributing more rent than intended
- Greenhouse was giving false positives on finished projects (blades + armor)
- Could go negative gold bartering with soldiers
- Crafting armor could result in crafting weapons
- UI bugs
- Using spacebar to progress dialog during events could soft lock the game (caused by a default key binding in godot).
- Could not use the guests quick-buy options after winter
- Fracture art showing up scout’s combat portrait
- A sequence break that could lock you out of late-night reading during scout’s questline
- Gear screen wasn’t showing player + lucy spell bonuses correctly
- It was possible to go negative into your patrol notes
- The game could crash in some instances when you encountered a wolf at too high of a level
- Various typos
