The Promise

by Xagrim's Gameforge

2.8 (52 votes)

Ren'Py v0.99.9

Game Details

Version: v0.99.9
Developer: Xagrim's Gameforge
Engine: Ren'Py
Status: Ongoing
OS
Language: English
Censored: No
Updated: 12 August 2026

About

He's forty, married with a family, and has spent years handing out promises he never quite cashed in. Now the bills come due: work, choices, and consequences that land on everyone around him, not just him.

The game runs on two tracks, his own story and a wider one you're free to ignore if it doesn't interest you. Around both sit smaller side stories and one-off events that branch off whatever you decide, and some of those routes can close for good or end up somewhere you didn't plan for.

Underneath the choices are hidden stats, including a corruption meter for his wife, and you raise those along with family relationships to open up further events. Expect a mix of grinding and moments where timing and the right choice matter, since the game tracks what you do closely enough to hand out different endings for each character. Play it straight and stay loyal, or push things further and watch the household change around you, but the source is blunt about the risk: lean too hard on corruption and the situation can slip out of your hands.

Changelog

v0.99.9

Content:
Added a lot of new animations and now the finished ultimate scene for the cinema route for Michelle (Completed all cinema routes)
Added the repeatable part for Michelle’s final bar event, including all Queen, Masked, Husband, Wild, and King variations, with temporary role changes and permanent ones (Not complete yet)
Added new music and sounds
Improved some dialogues and scenes (Thanks to SDevil (Editor and Scene Writer))
Gameplay:
Major Character & CQM Update: Character profiles now dynamically evolve alongside the story. Meet new people, uncover their backgrounds, develop relationships, and make important choices — the CQM will gradually reflect what your character has actually learned and experienced during your individual playthrough. (Thanks to gnoobie for the percenteg visuells)
Added Character Profile Update notifications, making it easier to notice when new information, identities, relationships, or major developments have been added to a character’s profile.
Updatedt the CQM to get it ready for the future and put in some quests
Bugfixes:
Update Highlights
Fixed a major Scentek progression issue where Mister Peter’s warehouse route and Steve’s treatment route could incorrectly block or overlap each other, potentially leaving Michelle without a valid treatment path; affected old saves are repaired.
Fixed a major progression issue during Nina’s first cinema visit that could skip several cinema events, jump directly to the park route, and leave the route in an invalid state.
Fixed several issues across Nina’s neighbour, sibling-game, cinema, and film routes that could trigger the wrong route, skip introductory scenes, display incorrect hints, or prevent route flags from being set correctly.
Fixed multiple progression blockers in the Mia, Jill, Vanessa, Gloria, Melanie, and Fallen Angel routes that could prevent later scenes from appearing or cause events to trigger at the wrong stage.
Fixed several undefined or incorrectly named variables that could cause crashes in Jack’s public-pool route, Karen’s farm event, Michelle’s bar route, Lisa’s boyfriend route, and the boyfriend bathroom event.
Fixed numerous money and price issues across the VIP Bar, Lisa’s bar events, the cinema, public pool, farm events, bank deposits, flower sales, and other paid choices, including several cases that could create a negative Novos balance.
Fixed several issues in Michelle’s bar and dance routes that could select the wrong partner, reaction, dialogue branch, or progression stage.
Fixed multiple Jack-route issues involving ShareJack thresholds, spanking scenes, massage reactions, public-pool events, and Michelle’s responses.
Fixed several farm, mine, landfill, and production calculations that could display incorrect wages, output quantities, required amounts, purchases, or product results.
Fixed multiple boyfriend-route conditions and variable errors that could display or mention the wrong boyfriend or prevent character-specific dialogue from appearing.
Fixed several technical event issues, including an incorrect fishing hotspot, a missing farm image, a wrong washing-event menu jump, an incorrect television-channel condition, and incorrect minigame result handling.
Story Progression & Routes
Fixed progression and event-order issues across Mia’s route, Jill’s training route, Vanessa’s VIP progression, Gloria’s negative route, Melanie’s farm milestones, and the Fallen Angel route.
Fixed several Nina-route issues involving her first cinema visit, the younger and older neighbour routes, the sibling-game route, and the film route with Tchanun.
Fixed relationship and route progression issues involving Gabrielle, Jack, Lin, Helena, and Michelle.
Fixed Michelle’s Scentek treatment-route logic so the Steve and Mister Peter/Doctor Conrad Rabiot routes now remain mutually exclusive, including repair handling for affected old saves.
Fixed several progression thresholds that could prevent scenes from unlocking when Corruption, DDLevel, Charm, relationship, or sharing values reached specific boundary values.
Michelle’s Bar & Dance Events
Fixed multiple dance conditions that could select the wrong partner, dialogue, route, or reaction during Michelle’s bar events.
Fixed conditions involving Greg, the Tango Dancer, Dave, the older man, Olivia, and previous dance permissions.
Fixed DDLevel progression at levels 8 and 9 and corrected several Corruption, relationship, and Exhibitionism thresholds.
Fixed bar-history and previous-event conditions that could cause incorrect responses during later visits.
Nina’s Events
Fixed a major cinema progression issue that could skip multiple events and jump directly into the park route.
Fixed missing money deductions and incorrect cinema-counter conditions.
Fixed neighbour-route conditions and ensured the young-neighbour completion flag is now set correctly.
Fixed sibling-game hints and several film-route conditions that could skip introductory scenes or treat Nina as inexperienced at the wrong stage.
Jack’s Events
Fixed ShareJack updates and threshold conditions that could trigger the wrong public-pool reactions.
Fixed duplicated conditions that could select the wrong spanking scene or hide Michelle’s special reaction at exactly ShareJack 10.
Fixed an unreachable reaction during Jack’s massage event.
Fixed an undefined relationship variable that could crash one of Jack’s public-pool events.
Lisa, Boyfriend & Bar Events
Fixed incorrect prices, bill deductions, money requirements, and displayed costs during Lisa’s bar events.
Fixed several boyfriend-route conditions that could mention the wrong boyfriend or prevent David-specific dialogue from appearing.
Fixed Lisa’s roleplay state values so the Marcus and player variants are now recognized consistently by later scenes.
Fixed multiple boyfriend-address variable typos and an incorrectly initialized bathroom-event variable.
Fixed an incorrect variable in the B&B route and several money-related issues in the NTD route.
Fixed a wrong menu jump during Lisa’s washing event.
Economy & Payments
Fixed incorrect REA, clinic, bank-account, and remaining-balance calculations during the clinic finale.
Fixed VIP Bar prices and deductions for Vanessa, Marble, and discounted access.
Fixed paid choices that could be selected without enough Novos during Gloria’s route, Karen’s farm event, Vanessa’s drink event, the cinema, and public-pool visits.
Fixed bank-deposit conditions that rejected deposits equal to the player’s current Novos balance.
Fixed incorrect flower-sale profits, purchase-counter behaviour, and displayed prices.
Fixed incorrect cinema, chocolate, bar, and event-related payments.
Farm, Jobs & Production
Fixed several farm calculations involving Arousal, production output, product requirements, and displayed quantities.
Fixed Dave’s milk-product transaction and Noelle’s requested-product conditions.