Barren Bargain
Grow crops, harvest them by ending the day, restore your energy, sell surplus produce, interact with characters, choose who deserves your help (or intentionally refuse) at the week's end, and witness the outcome of your decisions.
Play in fullscreen mode for better expirience.
The world is gripped by madness. A demonic rain poisons the land, crops wither and die, and hunger drives people insane. You are a farmer whose land has miraculously survived amidst the widespread desolation. One day, unexpected guests arrive at your home. The powerful and the desperate, they are ready to do anything for your harvest. Now your crops have become a weapon and a guarantee of survival in a world where morality is a luxury few can afford.
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Why doesn't the progress bar increase after entering a sex scene?？(v 0.0.3)
You most likely have a gaming monitor. The high refresh rate is causing the game to malfunction. Even though I've set the frame rate cap and vertical sync by default, the game sometimes hits 1000 fps, which can cause code execution issues. Check your monitor and graphics card settings.
Hey is there anyway you can port this game into android i tried the web version and its pretty fun good job😛
Maybe in future. I think its possible, and also not much work required for that. Main issue is - possible errors while making APK build that i cant handle. Never done that before. Also I heard about Winlator - you can run windows apps at android through this app, you can try that.
Great game so far. A few things I would like to mention:
1) I don't have a problem with the protagonist or the women. Although they have "ugly" qualities to them, it gives the game more charm and the uniqueness of that aspect makes the game more desirable.
2) The game is very easy to exploit, and I am not talking about the tutorial week (that is the least exploitable part of the game). I finished the game with more than 1,400 gold without optimizing gains.
3) Any plans on making a harem ending where you get all the girls?
4) Please can you fix the game crash when opening the shop menu?
About exploits - I've tried various balance options and decided to stick with the current one. I don't want to scare players away with difficulty. But there will be more challenging levels in the future.
About harem ending - I thought you'd only be able to help one girl (and maybe fulfill one negative reqirement to other girl), but with the balance like this, I think we should consider that outcome as well.
About game crash - I haven't encountered opening a store crashing the game. Can you describe what happened in more detail? What did you do step by step, and what happened in the end?
Thanks for feedback !
Certainly. I can't go into great detail of it since I am not too sure of the specifics, but when I would open the store it would hardlock the game (sorry about saying crash I should have been more specific). I would walk up to the store and open it, but instead of being met with the store interface opening, it would hardlock into a black screen that I had to close the application. Perhaps I can try to make a screen recording to explain it better.
EDIT: Please see video to better demonstrate the lock.
Thanks for taking the time to record a video! The problem seems to be related to loading a save file while playing. I'll try to fix it.
Hey, I was wondering if this game was using ai
Absolutely NOT !!! I'm more of an artist, so this isn't a problem for me.
Fun concept, but the start is a little grim for a H game. I dont know how much you've written the story so far, but maybe you could change it so that the wife gets kidnapped instead and the kings guards will promise to find her if you help them or something?
I thought that grimness will hook the player so he remember game longer. But I like wife too, and I think we need to try to get it back, or not remove it at all, as you suggest. One of my ideas is make her alive again as an undead, lol.
I think grim is good. It makes the situation more believable. Also the dead wife is a good opener for whats to come.
Alot of H games are just porn, i think it will be best to go for a game with actual world building.
grim or dark fantasy is not always the way but the game already plays with the theme of famine and food scarcety.
Yeah I dont completely disagree with grim, but starting out with a death and contemplating suicide just seems like a bit too deep of sink in mood to be going into horny-mode just in a few scenes.
It’s a great game! The artwork is beautiful and well-crafted. The game is a bit complicated to learn at first, but once you understand it and develop a strategy, it becomes much easier.
I'm probably in the minority but I do find games where woman get it on with non-traditional characters more interesting than the typical "handsome college age guy with big dick" games. So that's a plus from me, but once again, I'm probably in the minority haha
Does anything stop us from mashing "I'm out of energy" and getting infinite energy in the day from the wife
Absolutely nothing. But this is tutorial, you must learn in safe environment. Maybe i remove that later, not sure for now
Seems really interesting and wanted to give it a try, but the MC is just too off-putting to try it.
Played it all the way through so far, pretty well put together. Some suggestions:
Keep up the good work.
Good points, thanks.
the game is gorgeous, the only thing is that the MC is off putting, i would give the option to have another design, but of course it's your decision
Good
Like the female design,the MC uhm not so much 😬
You are not alone... Perhaps it was a mistake to create this kind of protagonist, but I designed him this way to serve a more engaging story.
Its a good design choice for a story driven game, but for people who need the N U T it maybe distracting lmao
will there be futa content?
Truly asking the important questions, good job, man
Oh, that's a vital question! Thanks for asking.