Smallwood

by Parallaxzero

3.3 (8 votes)

Ren'Py v0.5.0

Game Details

Version: v0.5.0
Developer: Parallaxzero
Engine: Ren'Py
Status: Ongoing
OS
Language: English
Censored: No
Updated: 23 July 2026

About

Clark is just a kid in Smallwood, Kansas, until it turns out his real family isn't from Kansas, or Earth. The game plays it straight as parody: alien heritage, a hometown full of secrets, and a mission Clark never asked for.

Underneath the superhero setup is a fairly small story. Meteor-powered threats keep surfacing around town, and Clark can lean on a darker alter-ego to deal with them, but that power doesn't come free, and the cost keeps catching up with him between chapters.

Day to day, it's point-and-click visual novel structure: school drama, investigating whatever the latest meteor incident stirred up, and choices that push Clark's double life forward while the rest of Smallwood carries on its own busy, nosy little dramas in the background. There's also an in-game music player and a dedicated music room, which is more infrastructure than most parody VNs bother with.

Changelog

v0.5.0

Added Chapter 7 (11101 words)
Added New Textbox system
Added New Choice Buttons
Added a Music Player system (shows in the main menu and in-game)
Added a Music Room (supports most standard hotkeys)
Added 2 New Tracks: 'Man of Tomorrow' and 'More Than Human'
Added 53 New CGs
Added 5 Character Sprites
Added 2 Minigames
Added option to change Dialogue Text Color (also supports hex color)
Technical Improvements:
Updated Ren'Py to 8.5.3
Added a custom colorpicker for dialogue text
Added proper text input support for all platforms that supports the most common features(copy, paste, select etc.)

v0.4.0

Added Chapter 6 (14734 words; longest so far)
Complete Menu Rework
Added 2 New H-Scenes
Added 57 New CGs
Added 6 Character Sprites
Added 2 Minigames
Added a Presplashscreen
Added a customizable 'Navigation System'
Added option to change 'Dialogue Size' (Small, Medium, Large)
Added option to change 'Textbox Shadow Opacity' (0-100%)
Added option to change 'Font Style'
Added 'Reset to Default' option
Menu Rework:
Added New Main Menu (21 CGs)
Added New CG for Submenus (30 CGs)
Reworked all Submenus layouts (Preferences, Archives, Save, Load, About, History)
Save & Load pages now have a 5x4 Grid (an additional 16 slots per page)
Technical Improvements:
Added custom gaussian blur shader
Added value readouts to preferences sliders
History page now uses the custom 'name' styling for each character
"Mute All" now says "Muted" when toggled

v0.3.0

Added Chapter 5 (11856 words)
Added 2 H-Scenes
Added 2 New Characters
Added 26 Character sprites
Added 106 New CGs
Reworked Most CG and improved dialogue in the Prologue
Redesigned Sheriff Miller's appearance and sprites
Improved Narration across all chapters
Retouched 'The Torch Office' CG to improve dialogue visibility
Replaced 1 Pete 'talk' sprite
Replaced 'Kent Barn Interior' and 'Loft' CGs
Replaced 'Kent Kitchen Night' CG
Replaced 'The Talon' exterior CG
Replaced All 12 Hand CGs
Technical Improvements:
Improved Gallery by adding: Thumbnail blur, Non-MC Tags and Names of each character in a scene
Added "quiet" dialogue variant which allow characters to speak, without triggering their "talk" sprite(useful for things like: "hm", "..." etc.)
"image_scene" CDS now supports "with" statements

v0.2.1

Added Chapter 4(~8000 Words)
Added 4 small Minigames(16 CGs & many 'hotspot' buttons)
Added 37 New CGs
Added 8 New Unique Character Sprites
Added 1 New Character
Added New Game Logo(A Stylized S)
Technical Improvements:
Added customizable 'hotspot' buttons that uses invisible click zones defined by exact screen coordinates (rectangles or polygons), this replaces many button overlays that require CGs, thus saving space.
Added logic that automatically handles prefixes for any CG type, allowing me to use any prefix for any CG without them being predefined.

v0.2.0

Replaced 139 Character Sprites
Replaced CG in 7 H-Scenes
Replaced 74 CG/BGs
Improved Dialogue in all Chapters
Added Theme Song 'Save Me' (homage to the original)
Technical Improvements:
Updated to Ren'Py 8.5.2
General code cleanup
Added ability to paste the gallery code on Windows
Reworked 'Avoid Non-MC' option to be even more restrictive
Added a universal 'skip' framework for minigames

v0.1.2

Reworked Entire Prologue(dialogue & CG)
Added New Game Icon(for all platforms)
Added a Completely New Main Menu(24 CGs)
Added a "Start Menu" before starting a game
Added a New track
Added 47 New CGs(a lot of BGs have been remade)
Reworked 9 CGs
Reworked Narration in Chapter 2/3(reads more naturally now)
Added additional Dialogue to Scenes(Chapter 1)
Technical Improvements:
Added option to Avoid Non-MC Scenes(highly requested; can be toggled mid-game)
Added a CDS for panning in NSFW Scenes(works for my 2 primary resolution types)
Added a CDS for reusable CG button screens
Faded out music when entering a game(might add a more in-depth music system at some point)

v0.1.1

Added Chapter 3 (~10000 words)
Added 3 H-Scenes
Added 4 New Characters
Added a New Minigame
Added 38 New Unique Character Sprites
Added 61 New CGs
Fixed a Pete sprite being displaced
Technical Improvements:
Added multiple Creator-Defined Statements for the conversation system
Added short defs for more commonly used transitions

v0.1.0

Added Android Support
Added MacOS Support
Added a New Sprite system
Reworked the Conversation System (works better with native Ren'Py functions; More Scalable)
Added 118 New Unique Character Sprites
Added 13 New CGs
Added Age Verification Splashscreen
Added New Save/Load menu (vertical page viewer)
Added Auto-Hide functionality for the Quick Menu(more immersive)
Added New "Wall of Weird" location CG
Added New "Barn Loft" location CG
Added New Lex and Clark handshake CG
Updated "Luthor Mansion" location CG
Reworked Dialogue and Interactions in Multiple Scenes
Fixed Multiple Typos and Grammatical Errors

v0.0.2

Added Chapter 2 (9000+ words)
Added 2 H-Scenes
Added 28 New CGs
Added "Backstory" tab to the "About" section in the main menu
Added "Continue from Latest Chapter" option when pressing "Start"
Added "Time Tracking"(this is more of a dev thing allowing me to more easily track how many days have passed)
Replaced "Kent Farmhouse" location CG
Fixed incorrect names for a few CG definitions
Fixed incorrect CG calls in Chapter 1
Fixed 2 continuity errors in Chapter 1