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Of Devotion and Despondence: REBRED

Earliestbird•Ren'Py•v1.0.12

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"Of Devotion and Despondence: REBRED" is a first-person visual novel infused with RPG elements, where a man navigates a shifting, hostile world through linear storytelling, strategic combat, and build customization via classes and stats. It delivers mature prose exploring philosophical themes of existence, love, and devotion alongside romance and explicit erotic scenes featuring breeding and bukkake elements. Standout features include balanced battles and epic lore, though dense text walls, stat-locked content, and AI-generated animations introduce pacing and visual inconsistencies.

About

Of Devotion and Despondence is a visual novel with heavy RPG elements that follows the journey of a man exiled to a shifting world, a place where humans are not expected to survive for long. It is written in first-person narrative, and tells an emotional story that focuses on mature prose, romance, and erotic scenes.

Pros

+Engaging story with philosophical depth
+Unique and balanced combat system
+Epic lore and consistent world-building
+Enjoyable RPG mechanics with class builds
+Effective AI-generated visuals and scripting

Cons

−Dense walls of text
−AI animations and art inconsistencies
−Stat thresholds locking content
−Grindy late-game mechanics
−Limited love interests

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Changelog

1.0.12
v 1.0.12:
Added the Bedroom Sex system!
Bedroom Sex unlocks based on story progression depending on the character, allowing you to enter the bedroom and have fun with them! This interactive system has seamless transitions between different actions and positions.
This update adds Bedroom Sex for Raven, unlocking once you finish the main story.
Raven's Bedroom Sex includes more than 70 new animations, including transitions, sex, anal, oral, handjob, titjob, cockplay, doggy, prone, and many cumshot animations.
The "Talk" feature will make Raven comment based on the currently selected position. The current BETA iteration includes comments for 5 positions (front, spread legs, kneel down, turn around, lean back).
Bedroom Sex for Dalena and Melrose are also planned for future updates.
v 1.0.11:
Collection art upgrade!
Updated every single Collection card with higher quality art. This includes: 27 Common, 12 Elevated, 6 Legendary, and 3 Unique Cards.
Added the Aspect of Pranks!
Attempted to fix an engine-wide issue affecting all Ren'Py games. (There's an NVIDIA/Ren'Py issue that causes the entire PC to freeze, where the PC must be rebooted. The attempted fix is to change the Ren'Py renderer to be Angle2 by default. You can check this by pressing Shift + G)
v 1.0.10:
Breeding time! Added a new girl event for Melrose after the main story is finished. All three main girls are now breedable!
Added 2 new animations!
Added a pregnant version for all of Mel's outfits.
Fixed a bug with incorrect breeding point calculations.
Fixed a bug with unintended outfit switching.
Adjusted a few goblin head items to be cheaper.
Added the Aspect of Media for the generous people who make game development possible! (Does not affect gameplay)
v 1.0.9:
Added 13 new animations! All sex scenes in the mansion are now animated.
Bonni Oral Part One (2)
Bonni Oral Part Two (3)
Jolestia Handjob (4)
Jolestia Sex (4)
Vote result: Added the Aspect of Firearms!
Fixed some typos.
v 1.0.8:
Added 9 new animations! Raven's sex scenes are now fully animated.
Raven: The Unfortunate Shed (1)
Raven: Panty-Play (5)
Ending Scene: Breeding Raven (3) (Can be accessed from Player gallery)
All ingame animations have been updated to higher frame rates.
Vote result: Added the Aspect of Trade!
Increased the chance of the Traveling Merchant daily event from 10% to 15%
Fixed a bug where the bent-over statue sex scene didn't unlock in the gallery if the player chose to take the hemp instead.
v 1.0.7:
Pantheon rework:
All Pantheon base images have been updated with higher quality artwork. Aspects of Progress and Serenity were remade completely.
Added a "Breeding" transition for each Aspect, showing their belly inflate and become pregnant.
Added a "Cumshot" animation for each Aspect.
Added a mouse scroll function to the Pantheon menu.
Added a counter that shows the number of bred Aspects.
Total number of new animations in the Pantheon is 64! (Plus 4 more for Aspect of Charity and Aspect of Kindness)
Vote result: Added the Aspect of Hoarding!
Added the Aspect of Kindness for the generous people who make game development possible! (Does not affect gameplay)
New Aspects and challenges are coming in future updates!
v 1.0.6:
Added 14 new animations! Dalena and Melrose sex scenes are now fully animated.
Dalena: Evening Trust, Anal (5)
Dalena: A Squatting Exercise, Sex (2)
Melrose: First Contact, Titjob (3)
Melrose: A Civil Discussion, Oral (4)
Updated the following animations with higher FPS versions:
Melrose: Cleaning Duties, Sex (2)
All adventure event animations that are not permanent locations (28)
Note: Did some groundwork for the Pantheon's animated rework. Arriving soon (tm)!
v 1.0.5:
Breeding time! Added a new girl event for Dalena after the main story is finished.
This also unlocks the pregnant version for all of Dalena's outfits.
Added 16 new animations! The Temple of Renewal is now fully animated.
Entirely new visuals for Session 4.
New animations have increased FPS. I will be going back to update existing ones in future patches.
Fixed a bug where breeding Raven didn't award a breeding point.
Fixed a bug where Dalena kept repeating her own name instead of saying 'Master'.
Fixed some typos.
v 1.0.4:
Added Goblin transformations! Instead of the previous cosmetic bodyparts, now crafting items will unlock full-body transformations with a randomized rarity system similar to the collection cards. Each goblin transformation has a different passive effect - equip the one you like the most!
12 Common, 6 Elevated, 6 Legendary transformations.
Unlocking a new transformation requires 5 Reagents spent, increasing by 3 each time until reaching the cap of 20 required Reagents.
Goblin now arrives around day 30 (reduced from 46).
Goblin crafting options are now named after the items they give in order to improve clarity.
Added 10 new animations!
Goblin event one (4)
Goblin event two (2)
Centaur (2)
Temple of Renewal: First Session (2)
Class changes:
The Smith starts with 8 Gold Nuggets instead of 5. Also starts with 15 Reagents when the Goblin crafting system is unlocked. No longer starts with Ruby.
Note: Gold Nuggets might be useful later down the line because one of the legendary Goblin transformations can scale PHYS with them.
The Architect now also gains 10 Essence when building a structure.
The Mercenary now gains 5 Essence after combat victories.
The Survivalist now starts with +40 max HP instead of 10.
The Arcanum now starts with 30 Shield and 20 Essence instead of 20 and 5. Also starts with 30 Reagents when the Goblin crafting system is unlocked. No longer starts with Diamond.
The Rhythmist now heals by 30% every even day instead of 25%.
v 1.0.3:
Added a new girl event for Melrose! She comes to clean your room, you try to come in her pussy - with an unexpected turn at the end.
Added 8 new animations!
Werewolf breeding (2)
Scaley oral underwater (2)
Goth oral on ship (2)
Melrose erotic event (2)
Clicking "Continue" after the main story is finished now brings you back to the main base, allowing you to continue playing.
The ending event where you breed Raven can now be revisited in the player gallery.
Added a button to toggle normal and pregnant profile picture versions for residents after being bred (currently only available for Raven).
5 new pregnant images for Raven.
Added a button to toggle event animations on and off, for those who prefer static images.
Added an icon for each profession during the end-of-day report to help with clarity.
Might have fixed a bug where Melrose's events immediately played the day after recruiting her. This was not intended, they're supposed to be spaced out with a few days in-between.
Balance changes:
Slightly nerfed the damage/armor/HP of the earliest enemies (Trinity Arm, Claw Hand, Stalker, Portal Guardian).
Increased the chance to find the mining profession item "Zal'Rog" while the quest for the lizard woman is active (4% -> 16%).
Increased the essence you gain from the "Essence Winds" daily event: 5 flat + days passed divided by 3 -> 10 flat + days passed divided by 2. It should help a decent amount with lategame essence upkeep.
Doubled the essence you gain by smelting a few of the craftable Goblin items: Candycone, Spikeball, Stabilizer (from 1 -> 2).
Doubled the essence you gain by defeating the three dungeon bosses (now 30, 50, 100).
Note: If you're struggling with essence, a good strategy is going for the lazy Raven build so she passively farms resources while not working, and then putting Melrose on foraging for the double dip.
v 1.0.2:
Hi, Earliestbird here.
It's been a while for ODaD, hasn't it? Well, for some time now I've been quietly working on stuff that has been long overdue.
One of the biggest criticism of the game has been the inconsistent art style. Some images looked plastic, while others — especially the later ones — had a more oil painting vibe going on. Now, the story kinda justifies a blurred face here or a missing finger there, but it can be very immersion breaking to go from a shiny 3D character looking chick to a cartoon landscape within the same scene.
With this project, improved quality is not the main goal (though there will be PLENTY of that). What I want is a more-or-less uniform, consistent art style. Something that keeps everything nice and grounded.
Oh, and animations. Lots and lots of animations.
What this patch brings:
IMAGE UPDATES:
Every single event picture - from persistent locations, to enemy encounters, to girl events - have been updated and in some cases, remade entirely. The improvements are massive if you look at the old versions and new versions side-by-side.
BETTER SEX SCENES:
Erotic scenes in particular have seen a massive upgrade. Some are entirely different, while others kept the general composition but now actually look great. The mushroom scene is my favorite.
NEW OUTFITS MENU:
All skins were remade. Not only that, but every skin has multiple animations like turning around, ass jiggle, and with room for extra outfit-specific animations in the future. Mel's Cowgirl outfit lactates for example. It's very juicy.
ADDED ANIMATIONS:
22 Sex animations:
Fog Anal (2)
River woman (1)
Ebony breeding (2)
Darkwing tower (2)
Herbs shopkeeper (2)
Strong & Mystic threesome (2)
City mercenary (2)
Mushroom hallucinations (2)
Statue piledriver (1)
Tiger girl (2)
Ebony pregnant (2)
Pirate anal (2)
33 Outfit animations:
11 for Raven
10 for Dalena
12 for Melrose
Other changes:
The adventure map screen now looks better.
Unmade battles in the dungeon now gives unmade kills for Aspect of War unlock.
Buffed the Rhythmist class (20% -> 25% Heal, 1 -> 2 Energy).
Increased resource costs of skill conversion from 20 to 100.
Diversified resource costs of girls' active talents. Where it was mostly metal and leather, now all 8 resource types are used for these purchases.
Animated main menu screen.
Slightly lowered the volume of buying talents.
In Residents screen, you can now close Active/Passive Talents by right clicking.
Temporarily disabled the "Arousing Dreams" daily event and the beta version of the text-based sex. Both of these things were way too undercooked to be anywhere game ready and I don't think anyone will miss them. When they come back, they'll be a thousand times better.
The images for the ending sequence remain the same for now. They were the most carefully crafted compositions I've done so far and they would take a lot of time to replace. They look pretty good too - though I'm still planning to update them in the future.
Note that some cumshots are placeholders until the animation is ready. I am making them with MAXIMUM STICKY LOADS in mind
What you can expect later on:
New animations with every patch. The plan is to animate every single lewd encounter - and more!
The Pantheon aspects and the Collection cards remain unchanged for now. I want to update them too, eventually.
Combat screen improvements.
Building improvements.
New post-ending content (like breeding scenes for Dalena and Mel).
This is the first patch of many more to come. Old save files should work in theory, but this is a big patch so things could break.
Have fun!
v 1.0.1:
I heard your feedback loud and clear, so here's the first patch bringing you a proper breeding scene with our main girl, Raven!
The sex scene can be chosen during the final scene of the Bond ending. I will also include scenes for Dalena and Mel at a later patch.
Breeding Raven!
Fixed a bug when using Divine Essence on The Constrictor didn't apply the 50% HP effect.
Fixed a bug that caused flickering on the combat screen.
Fixed a bug where the storm sound effects didn't stop in the main menu.
v 1.0.0: