The Last Embrace prologue officially in production

Hi, my new adult visual novel ''The Last Embrace'' is now officially in production. I am currently working on a 0.1 version of the game witch will consist of the prologue and serves as an introduction to my game's setting.

ABOUT THE GAME


You play as a young 18 year old girl named Kyra (can be changed early in prologue) and, unknown to her at the time, a vampire, who has been awoken roughly a millenia after her ''death'' to a modern world. But on top of all that, she also has a memory loss, caused by her long slumber and has only portions of her memory left. You will be guiding her through these modern times as she enters a big modern city in which she will be meeting new people while at the same time dealing with her vampiric nature as well as trying to recover her lost memories.

THE SETTING

Game takes place in a modern city, in the year 2025. A millenia ago, humanity at that time was facing a new enemy, vampires, who had spread the known world and almost all but destroyed the society at that time. However, humanity was able to band together and get rid of them once and for all, exterminating every last one of them in the process. Or so they thought. Millenia has passed, and vampires became a myth. You wake up as the last of your kind, with a memory loss at that, not able to remember anything about your past after you were turned. So, in my game, there will ever only be one vampire, or two if you decide to turn your love interest into one. The focus of the story is not on your typical hidden vampire society tropes you see in other games and media. Here, the focus is soley on you, and how you will navigate this modern world and deal with your vampiric nature. More on the story setting will be explained as the game progresses and recieves further updates, but roughly, there will be mystery, gore, murder and killing, intrigue, revenge plots, blood, and yes, occasional sex when the story permits it. 

CURRENT GOALS FOR THE GAME

The game's focus is on a story but with adult elements, and yes, there will be occasional sex scenes, albeit focus is not going to be on them. My goal is to have them fully animated when they do happen, but since im still fairly new to Daz3D where im developing renders for this game, it may or may not come to fruition. As of now, i was able to put together some simple animations and fully render them so i am hopeful. Protagonist will be able to ''engage'' with a few characters if that is your choice, but the main path is a romantic one between you and another girl whom you will meet during the prologue. That said, this potential relationship is not set in stone, so you can decline her advances and just be on friendly terms with her and instead pursue someone else or even play a solo route, which will come with its own benefits. Currently i have two main LI's outlined, one female and one male, to be available for the player, but the male one will come in later in the story so you will not encounter him in the prologue so keep that in mind. As the game is vampire themed, i have implemented a fairly straightforward hunger system for the main character, but for now the goal is for this to not have a huge impact on the main story part of the game but instead serve as a mechanic for a possible future optional sandbox system (still in the air on that one) which would take place between chapters where the player would be able to explore and ''feed'' on unsuspecting city folk. I am not yet sure if i will give her ''powers'', it is something i have seen in pretty much every vampire themed VN but maybe i will try to go for something else. The game will feature ten chapters plus prologue and epilogue for a total of twelve. I have roughly outlined all of these already so i roughly know already where i want the story to go and how it will end, but im open to ideas and suggestions as long as it will fit the overall story and theme im going for.

GAME STRUCTURE AND RELEASE GOALS

As mentioned above, the game is to have a total of 12 chapters, meaning 12 mainline updates are planed. I would like to release roughly one chapter every two months but we will see how it goes. Overall, my goal for the game is not to be too long and have it drag on for years but have a shorter and to the point updates where each chapters roughly consists of an hour of reading. The focus will be on story the main story and not much on filler content which serves no other purpose but to extend the time. As such, here you likely won't see huge render numbers in the thousands per update like some other games, im roughly aiming at around 100-200 renders per chapter. After all, im just one guy and there is only so much i can do with my limited resources and time. I aim to hopefully finish the entire game in a timeframe of a year to two at most. But some updates may come quicker than others so its just rough estimates as of now.

For the prologue itself, im aiming for a mid to late August 2025 release so in roughly a month, baring any unforseen issues.

The prologue will be made available for free by me on my Itch.io page and also will be made available to download from here or on my Patreon, but future chapters will be locked behind a sub on either of these platforms, choice where and how you support is up to you.

CLOSING THOUGHTS

So there you have it folks, my very first update about the game and a couple of screenshots to wet your apetite.

While this may not be for everyone since the game will be quite emotionaly heavy and violent at times, i do hope you will check it out and give me your thoughts on it at the very least.

I wish to thank everyone who supports me in advance and i hope that you guys like the content that im producing. While i fully support sites like F95Zone where you may find my content for free in the future and i activly engage with those communities, i do appreciate if you are able to provide support via tiers on my page here as it helps me obtain assets needed for VN production which in turn makes my VN's better for everyone so your support is much appreciated!

The production on the prologue is full steam ahead, and most of the coding in Ren'Py is already been done by me and most of the renders for 1080p PC version are now complete, i have roughly two more scenes to create and render, one witch includes a full blown (hopefully animated) sex scene!

I invite you to join my official Discord server as well if you wish to become a part of my new community.