Liora's Price of Dignity 0.5.0-prerelease-3


It's not a Liora week, so only a small prerelease on this front. I have integrated Allure's last batch of VA work bringing the Edgar Date up to snuff on sound quality with the other events + Edgar Date 2 is now also voiced. 
Then, most of the progress is coming from out assistant devloper Trihan. He has continued to improve on the Frame Job quest and implemented and also on a quality of life feature:
Meet Backlog 2.0! Using our technology for supporting list items with variable height, Trihan was able to rework the backlog from a simple text display into a proper list which means it's navigateable and clickable. This in return allowed us to map the voice effects to each line, so if you want to hear Allure's voice acting from a previous line, you can just go into the backlog and select the corresponding line to play the voice line. 
And then there is steam. 
I had submitted the demo build last week, but since then it has failed review twice. The first time because the reviewers wanted to better be able to reproduce the sexual content, so I made them custom saves for everything and then after they reviewed that they decided the fade-to-black SFW version was still too mature in content and I had to mark the game as adult only. An SFW adult only game didn't make sense to me, so I decided to turn off the censoring and resubmit the full demo build. 
So now the steam adult game lottery is running and I have no idea if Liora will be banned or not. Will the steam reviewers perhaps punish me for trying to first submit an SFW version? If the demo build does get banned, does that mean the main game will also be banned on Steam? Who knows. Everything is just completely intransparent. 
Liora shouldn't be crossing any flags on Steam but with anime characters, we never know and it's all just one big gamble. So I can't help but feel anxious... The whole Steam demo has taken up significantly more time this month than I thought. Sadly the whole work I put into the SFW version last week has been pretty much for nothing... Welp. 
Anyways, that's it for this week (and with that this month's dev cycle). We will be returning to a Liora focused month starting with the next week. Regarding art updates, Deniis has sent me the first batch of sketches for the Tier 2 Banditwear H-CG variations, but I don't think there is a lot that's shareable there yet as production is still ongoing. 
Changelog 0.5.0-prerelease-3 (27.03.2026)
  • Added Edgar Date 2 VA work 
  • Frame Job: Added +1 Credibility when winning against a witness 
  • Frame Job: Maded Prestige damage to Edgar Credibility dependent (Half damage if Credibility is less than 5) 
  • Frame Job: Added bet prior to trial 
  • Frame Job: Gave information to the player what happens if Rean is found guilty prior to trial 
  • Frame Job: Replaced double qutotation marks with single marks for consistency 
  • Frame Job: Only mentioned presenting evidence as an option when first evidence is unlocked and hide option until then 
  • Reworked backlog into dynamic list with line count property 
  • Streamlined backlog navigation 
  • Added icon and playback for voiced lines in backlog 
Balancing
  • Reduced extra level for stage 2 areas from +2 back to +1 
Bugfixes
  • Frame Job: Fixed case of triggering detainment when giving sexual service to Edgar 
  • Frame Job: Fixed Edgar loss negotiation scene looping infinitely if there are no viable clauses to offer 
  • Fixed Seductive Dance training not triggering Ariadne Training 
  • Fixed typo in instant trigger check on negotiation check 
  • Added migrator for removing incorrect instant clauses from contract 
  • Fixed Highwarden Keep teleport to Brightwood causing softlock 
  • Fixed Rean in detainment not appearing correctly 
  • Fixed Edgar portrait being on wrong side if backing out of Fair Trade negotiation and re-entering it 
  • Fixed typos 
  • Fixed Edgar AI thinking advantage always means a critical even if the item cannot crit