Independent Horizons
by SwampyStudio
Game Details
- Version
- Chapter 2 - Completed
- Developer
- SwampyStudio
- Engine
- Ren'Py
- Status
- Ongoing
- Language
- English
- Censored
- No
- Updated
- 24 May 2026
About
Tom got lucky twice: adopted by the Cruz family as an infant, then handed a childhood friend named Pauline when Mrs. Cruz turned up pregnant right after the adoption went through. No blood relation, but a full family all the same, which is exactly the kind of setup this game wants you to complicate.
From there it's the usual widening circle of a visual novel household drama, with Tom now a 20-year-old man navigating the people around him, romantic and otherwise, as the story pulls in more women than he grew up expecting to know this well.
You click through days and choices point-and-click style, steering conversations and relationships toward whichever partners the story opens up, with the dating-sim structure doing the work of pacing who ends up where. It runs fine as a quick mobile session as much as a longer sit-down, and it doesn't pretend to be more than a family soap opera that stopped being about family fairly early on.
Changelog
- Contents:
- Total number of words - 54, 706 words
- Total number of (png) images - 5,986
- Total number of animations - 125 (All videos and coded animation) - As long as it’s moving (i.e., a 2-3 frame loop), it’s animation.
- Total number of (mp3) background music -115
- N/A
- Contents:
- 49471 total words
- 88+ animations
- 3500+ static image files
- Changelog
- Added Upload/Download SYNC
- Added 4 buttons in the settings:
- Button to open game folder
- Button to open saves folder
- Button to open saves directory
- Button to change name and color
- Phone features have been updated:
- Contact list - revised about section and added new contacts that weren’t included before
- MC's stats - Variables like Lust points, Humor, Charisma, Intelligence are now visible
- Relationship points - Relationship, Friendship, Encouragement, Neglect, Love Points are now visible
- Fruit Frenzy game final level decrease the speed from 0.8 secs to 1.3 secs
- Additional lustpoints during Lily's massage
- Additional variables
- Another option has been removed(for now)
- Phone features have been updated:
- Contact list - revised about section and added new contacts that weren’t included before
- MC's stats - Variables like Lust points, Humor, Charisma, Intelligence are now visible
- Relationship points - Relationship, Friendship, Encouragement, Neglect, Love Points are now visible
- Added one scene from Part 1 where the MC has two options: 1) Take a shower, or 2) Check on Katherine and Cassidy. This scene is now available, and it’s recommended to start the game from this part.
- Added three new erotic scenes.
- Additional video lyrics titled "Feel it now"
- Total number of words - 14990 words
- Total number of (png) images - 1368
- Total number of (webm) videos - 35
- Total number of (mp3) background music - 25
- Changelog:
- Phone features have been updated:
- Contact list - revised about section and added new contacts that weren’t included before
- MC's stats - Variables like Lust points, Humor, Charisma, Intelligence are now visible
- Relationship points - Relationship, Friendship, Encouragement, Neglect, Love Points are now visible
- Fruit Frenzy game final level decrease the speed from 0.8 secs to 1.3 secs
- Additional lustpoints during Lily's massage
- Additional variables
- Another option has been removed
- Visit my ss page for more info
- Before the game starts, an explanation of points is provided.
- Remade some images in the intro (the MC’s height was increased and he looks older than before); this isn’t finished yet, but I’ll continue to remake them from time to time.
- Added some variable points (for example: if Pauline chooses to kiss Mr. Cruz on the cheek, you won’t see any future options related to the other choice).
- Fixed the final part where there’s an instruction to save the game for Chapter 2.
- 5653 total words
- 33 WEBM files (that’s 857 frames of rendered animation!)
- 485 static image files
- Error during the massage. MC should be mc. But you can skip this by just ignoring it beside the rollback button. But it is now fixed.
- During the scene with the librarian and the MC checking the hole, there was an 'End of Replay' button at the bottom of the screen that wasn't supposed to be there, and you couldn't open the phone. This issue is now fixed.
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