Valenza Family
by Arcane Ink Productions
Game Details
- Version
- v0.9 - Chapter 5
- Developer
- Arcane Ink Productions
- Engine
- Ren'Py
- Status
- Ongoing
- Language
- English
- Censored
- No
- Updated
- 7 May 2025
About
Michael Valenza wakes up choking on pills and half-remembered nightmares, then goes right back to being a made man who solves problems with violence. The mafia setting is the usual mix of blood debts and shifting alliances, but the story keeps circling back to what's actually broken inside him, and it doesn't play that part for laughs.
The plot follows Michael trying to carve out territory and standing in a world where nobody's loyalty is guaranteed, while the past he keeps trying to outrun gradually turns out to be uglier than the underworld he's already in. Something darker sits underneath both.
This is a kinetic novel, so you read Michael's story rather than steer it: no branching choices, just his descent through mafia politics, family entanglements, and the women who complicate both. The romance and combat beats exist to fill in who he was before the pills and who he's becoming now.
Changelog
- Chapter V: Breaking the Pedestal.
- 293+ renders, 9 animations, 1 cinematic
- 1000+ lines of story
- Typo Fixes.
- Some tweaks for performance during animation show.
- New OSTs.
- 284+ renders and over 1700+ lines of dialogue
- Updated Game Engine for further stability.
- Typo fixes
- Squashed some bugs that occured after engine update.
- Tweaked Discord Rich Presence
- Additional GUI tweaks
- Defined few things that should cause prevention of previous known crashes and freezes.
- Discord Rich Presence now comes in isolated python file to prevent save file issues that were reported previously.
- Added Custom CPS in settings based on suggestion. If you're not satisfied with presets, modify your own CPS speed now.
- Fixed issue with Click to Continue screen.
- Added Analytics - You can now like-dislike specific scenes and with that provide us some insight and feedback.
- 180 + new renders
- Bug fixes
- New Tracks
- New SFXs
- Added Discord Rich Presence
- Typos corrected
- Extensive rewrites of the entire Prologue, Chapter I, and Chapter II
- Dialogue refinements across all early chapters
- Conversations adjusted to properly reflect Michael’s established personality, tone, and behavior
- Removal of legacy or outdated dialogue that no longer aligned with his character
- Multiple bug fixes
- Minor issues identified in the previous release have been located and resolved
- The new update comes includes:
- 345 + new renders
- 1700+ lines of dialogue
- Refined UI, new soundtracks
- Reworked main character's anatomy & Nora's character.
- Fixed issues with character's skins and morphs
- After days of late nights, rewrites, and GPU smoke, the next chapter in Michael Valenza’s story is finally here.
- ️ What’s Inside
- 400 + new renders & 15 + cinematics
- Rewritten some parts.
- New soundtrack suite and SFX.
- GUI Updates.
- Main Menu Updates.
- Presplash Update.
- Some font changes.
- A lot of story!
- New Soundtracks.
- New Codex Entries for World Section and People.
- Music Room tracks updated.
- GUI tweaks.
- Main Menu Update.
- Story, lots of story, as usual!
- New SFX
- New Tracks
- Squashed a typo (CH1)
- Added Codex, offering insight into game lore and characters. (Accessed by right click during playing. "CODEX" hard to miss!)
- Will add things to it as I go.
- Altered skip point for Rose based on feedback ( CH1 )
- Chapter I. (Approximately additional hour of gameplay / maybe a bit more depending on reading speeds.)
- Tweaks and fixes on Auto function, along with Auto Forward speed settings.
- New Soundtracks.
- GUI work.
- Shot a tiny typo.
- Intro + Prologue Release
- ~1 Hour of playtime
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