Solacium
by Silent Key
Game Details
- Version
- v0.2
- Developer
- Silent Key
- Engine
- Ren'Py
- Status
- Abandoned
- Language
- English
- Censored
- No
- Updated
- 20 August 2026
About
2108: Solace City has traded raw emotion for enforced peace, and the VEROS system keeps it that way by scrubbing trauma, creativity, and pain out of its citizens. Your home sits inside an illegal dead zone, one of the last places feeling still exists unfiltered.
The house itself has started reacting to what its residents feel, warping and shifting with their unfiltered mental states as the city outside works to pull them back into line. Each survivor has their own needs, routines, and reactions, and the barrier around your sanctuary is the only thing keeping VEROS from reclaiming their minds.
You run the place: keep the infrastructure working, deal on the darknet for what you need, and hold the perimeter against system breaches. Alongside that is a relationship system where you steer each resident toward trust and clarity or let them slide into dependence and corruption, with the house's own shifting state as a running readout of how that's going.
Changelog
- Attribute System: Added primary attribute architecture to track physical, mental, and environmental states.
- Core Cube Integrity: House stability directly scales Cognitive Focus. Dropping integrity lowers focus regain, while a fully repaired core optimizes passive recovery.
- Bio-Profile & Vigor: Stamina and hygiene decay over time. Crossing critical low thresholds applies exhaustion or unhygienic conditions, altering or blocking dialogue options.
- Cognitive Focus: Regulates overall energy regeneration speed. High focus yields faster passive recovery.
- Energy Consumption: Passive regain is intentionally slow, making field stims and food required for quick recovery.
- Quests, Intro & House Systems
- Cinematic Intro: Added an opening camera sequence featuring the player sitting on the couch before control is handed over.
- Quest System: Integrated the core quest framework alongside the first story mission.
- Core Stabilizer: Added the repair item and repair logic.
- Emergency Warning System: Automatically triggers emergency red lighting and a pulsing screen overlay when core stability drops below critical levels.
- Sleep & Time Skipping: Added bed interactions. Resting smoothly fades the screen, advances time to 8:00 AM, and restores core physical attributes (Energy and Vigor).
- Ambient Audio Player: Implemented a playable audio device with different music sets.
- Darknet Terminal & Drone Delivery
- Terminal Marketplace: Integrated a Darknet terminal interface for purchasing items and resources.
- Drone Delivery System: Orders trigger an animated drone fly-in sequence that drops purchased items through the delivery hatch located in the Storage Room, complete with custom audio and visual effects.
- Node-Based Decor System
- Anchor Slots: Added dedicated placement anchors across tables, desks, and wall surfaces.
- Placeable Items: Added several new placeable decor items that can be crafted, placed down into world slots, or picked back up into the inventory.
- NPC Systems & Context Reactions
- Context-Aware Dialogue: NPCs monitor player attributes (exhaustion, low hygiene) and react dynamically, including refusing to engage until status conditions are fixed.
- Fast Conversations: Added a background dialogue layer for casual chats, environmental comments, and quick reactions without locking into a formal scene.
- Status Feedback UI: Integrated HUD notifications when status thresholds are crossed to signal changes in local interactions.
- Audio, Dialogue Control & Settings
- Dialogue Line Skipping: Fully integrated line-skipping functionality across dialogue sequences.
- Audio Routing Fix: Corrected dialogue sound channels so all dialogue lines properly respond to the Dialogue Volume slider in the settings.
- Interaction SFX: Added sound effects for item pickups and general world interactions.
- HUD Polish: Refined prompt readability, notification popups, and status indicators.
- Fixes & Technical Improvements
- Smart Resource Consumption: Repair items are now only consumed from inventory if a repair is required and successfully completed.
- Clothing Materials: Fixed material assignments and visual shaders across multiple clothing assets.
- Furniture & Camera Smoothness: Polished camera motion and movement controls when sitting down or standing up from furniture.
- Lighting Optimization: Streamlined day, night, and emergency lighting state changes for performance.
- Voice Acting & Facial Animation
- Voice Over Integration: Recorded and added voice lines for 60+ dialogue phrases.
- Facial Animation: Implemented facial animations for a portion of the newly voiced lines.
- Initial Release.
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