After a grueling journey through the desert, you've finally reached it: a dungeon rumored to defeat even the strongest of adventurers. Will you win glory and riches, cementing your reputation as the greatest sorceress alive - or will you find something even more valuable within?

For best performance and graphical quality I strongly recommend playing the desktop standalone version, but the game is also playable via browser.

Iacta Est is a turn-based strategy visual novel about relationships, curses, and hot monster people. This is my first venture into a more gameplay-focused interactive structure (as well as my first project in Godot), so I'm super excited to finally share it! This project was inspired by games from AploveStudio and The Echo Project, among other influences. All of the music tracks are sourced with permission from talented Newgrounds musicians, so go check them out and give your favorite tracks a kudos!

This game features violence, sexually explicit scenes and dialogue, and mature themes. Please play at your own discretion. A full playthrough normally takes about an hour and a half.

Also available to download is the CG & Extras pack, featuring 37 CG images, 8 character sheets, and 9 chibi character images!

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StatusReleased
PlatformsWindows, HTML5
Rating
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(53 total ratings)
AuthorZoquete
GenreStrategy, Adventure, Visual Novel
Made withGodot
TagsAdult, Dice, Erotic, Furry, interspecies, NSFW
Average sessionAbout a half-hour
LanguagesEnglish
InputsKeyboard, Mouse, Touchscreen
AccessibilityInteractive tutorial

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Thanks for the "египеская сила" at the end, very inspiring

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that croc blowjob...was that paarthunax reference?

btw great game! love the artstyle and soundtrack, the roguelite element in the gameplay too! Had a pretty easy time with only like 2 resets total on crane+croc and Bastet, 3 if we count getting bad ending. -10hp for extra die every turn is such a no brainer to grab.

all in all cant believe this level of polish and care is given to a free game. will definitvely keep an eye out for your new stuff. and holy crap was just going thru your past work and realized you made wasteland rodeo, amazing stuff really

Thank you! I'm glad you liked it and I'm working on making the next project even better. 

( And yes, it was :) )

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Just finished the game, what a nice story with a well-made minigame to match! My only complaint would be that the crane + croc fight feels incredibly unfair, took me the longest of any fight by far, and everything else felt balanced and beatable by mainly strategy rather than pure luck, but I found a combo of perks that made it what I feel to be the least luck based in the end. Great soundtrack too.

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With the complexity showing through here, I could easily see myself paying for games you make in the future, this one even sits on the edge of being worth several dollars. Keep up the great work

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Thank you! I'll be releasing details about a new project sometime soon, so keep an eye out!

Hey I found your art first on iFunny then twitter and now here, do you happen to have any android games?

Not right now, I'm going to be working on supporting Android in the future! I'm curious, what art of mine was posted on iFunny?

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it was some fallout new Vegas ones, it had description of the coyote snake that goes invisible (I can't remember the name) and I believe a death claw. Someone in the comments mentioned you so I went to Twitter and found you to see more art, very nice I might add. And it mentioned you made games as well, I got SOOOOOOO excited lmao

Any chance to be on android? 

Not for this project unfortunately, but I am keeping it in mind for future games.

The game mechanic is quite interesting, but fight Alea vs Pentari x Sexebi is too hard. You can't defeat them without preying to The God Of Random.

For example, situations like this happen quite often...

It looks like you didn't pick up as many artifacts as you need by that point! You should take items from Tali (the cobra) whenever you have the chance to even the odds.

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Oh, so that's how it works. I have been thinking I can hold only one artifact. Thanks for your game, even the gameplay mostly depends on luck, it's still very interesting.

cool game, i am actually surprised that i liked the game itself more than the nsfw scenes.

Thank you! I wanted the game to be more than just a gallery for the NSFW stuff, so I'm glad to hear it.

super cool concept! Can’t wait to see more from you.  Only issue is that the Second fight with the crane and croc feels impossible. I’ve also got the bug where upgrading one of my relics permanently reduces me down to 2, and having to restart is very frustrating 

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I'm glad you liked it, and I'll keep that feedback in mind! (Edit: This and other issues have been fixed in the most recent patch.)

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bro tri x quake was NOT fun TAT 

how is 4 turns wihtout new dice fair at all

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It is pretty tough! Thanks for the feedback.

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The crane x crocodile fight is like imposible, is there a trick for it?

It's not impossible, but it's definitely not fun. I'm all for challenge but that fight is so heavily stacked against you that even having the correct abilities just means you can do nothing but pray.

Exactly, I feel that the crocodile's ability is way to overpowered. It feels like it neads a nerf

Thanks for the feedback, I'll keep that in mind!

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So, just to clarify, the nsfw is only on itch.io? And how can I access these scenes?

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Yes, NSFW option is only on Itch. The scenes are accessed by playing through the game, they are mostly on Day 2 and two ending scenes are on Day 3. After you get them, you can rewatch them in the gallery.

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Will my progress be saved if I close the page?

That I do not know, sorry. The dev will be unavailable until august so I'm trying to answer any questions people have in the meantime, but I never asked about saves in the browser version. If anything, playing the downloadable version is usually always better.

The downloadable version will save your progress even if you close the game, but the browser version will not.

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Is there some sort of trick to the crane fight? I've been at it for like 20 minutes and can't get it, that might just be me though.

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So far it seems like everyone who plays the game has one particular fight they get stuck on, and it's different for everyone.  I can recommend stacking parries to get the multiplier high enough to defeat him in one turn, but if all else fails, try to swap your artefacts!

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Thanks for the tip! I'll give it a shot, I've tried stacking parries up to about ~6-7 but it just gets too high for me to overcome or fight back at that point, and I stuck with the artifact that passively allows me to deal 3 damage, so that could be my main issue. But either way I'll still try.

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That Game is awesome! I'm so in love with these characters and i'm so pleasured of the ending!

Thank you! I'm glad you liked it!

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it's a really great game! I think there's an important bug though:
if you swap out the artifact that gives you +3 to a dice, it counts as one artifact only. So if you get +3, and then swap it out, you are effectively down one artifact permanently, which breaks the balance of the game, 'cause it's hard enough that you can't afford to just straight up be missing an artifact. this locked me from progressing past the 2nd fight with they gaybois.


great game overall tho! just a few kinks to figure out (heh)

Thank you for pointing out that issue! I'll make note of that and I'm glad you liked it overall.

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The game for android crashes on first fight with the fox. It crashed on where she was gonna stab me in back.

Thank you for your report! I've looked into it and updated the android build to resolve the issue.

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It still crashes, it may be a nasty bug, can you check?

Have you completely deleted the game and reinstalled to download the new version?

Yes I did. Still the same result.

Trying to play on android and the game just crashes on first fight :/

Same here... Weird.

Ditto my response to Zaato!

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I feel like the last fight (And possibly the one before that, but I did beat it out of sheer luck) is almost impossible without getting the right skills, like the one that triples your dice. First playthrough and i only got the add dice value, add extra dice and skip die draw. Since parry is disabled on both of those, you'll never out value your opponent when they draw more dice than you, unless you constantly roll 6s, even then i dont think its possible to win the last fight even if you do that unless they get super unlucky with their rolls. and god, im not into the idea of doing dozens of fights until they do get that lol

And I dont like the idea of repeating the game again just to get the right skills...


Other than that. a decent game with a cute story

Thank you for the feedback! You do need to be careful to choose abilities that work together. However, when you are stuck on a battle, you are given the option to swap out your artifacts for others, which I believe addresses your problem.

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I didnt see that option tho. No button or anything after losing 2 or so times on the final boss. Unless I was looking in the wrong place.

Unless that was an option that wasn't in the version i was currently playing?


Also want to make sure. Does playing on the site not save your progress? Since in my case, it didn't. 

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Yo... My antivirus blocked me from downloading it, it showned that your game has a malware and forced deleted it.  Care to explain?

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Oh before ya blame it on my end, I was able to download other porn games just fine. It just blocked your game due to "malicious" code. It may be on my end. But can you check your game for something that may trigger it? And no, I refuse to disable it. I can never be too careful.


(FYI: Google security also alerted the same thing)



It is on Android.

Happens to like 95% of itch.io games, and i haven't come across a game yet that actually has a virus so you're good to go.

i did, its clean. Thanks.

I really liked this game. My main problem with it is that whenever I download it, it's shifted to the left. Like, only the w in new is able to be seen on the menu. This obviously causes a problem in battles not being able to use some of your dice if they spawn offscreen. I am playing on a laptop if that matters.

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I haven't been able to reproduce this error, but adjusting the size of the window might help? I'm afraid this problem is something outside the scope of the game.

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I liked the game, it was difficult at some points, but very entertaining, I hope you will make another one in the future, I would love to play it

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Thanks! I don't know what my next game project will look like, but I plan on making each one better than the last.

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Heya! Fun game. I like the artwork!

One problem though - I'm on the 2nd day and the fight with the fox lady doesnt appear to be beatable. I spent like an hour on that fight alone and whatever strat I can think of using doesnt work because she just always has more dice than me. If I save dice/ parry, she just steals my dice. And if I use them right away - she still  has more than me. Im not exactly sure what to do...  Maybe you could add a way for players to stop her from stealing our dice?

same im stuck on the cannery this game is good and has potential but it really lacks in balanced difficulty

Ditto my response to migenius just now!

Hello! Thanks for telling me about this. Based on feedback from you and other players, I've made some fixes that correct the balance issues you were running into. If you go back for another run, please let me know what you think!

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Thank you for the adjustment - I restarted my save and got different upgrades to see if that would help. I was able to defeat the fox lady and continue onwards- which was good. As said, I love the unique combat gameplay - it is loads of fun so replaying the game isn't so bad. Although a proper save feature would be nice to have as I'm not always sure an upgrade is good or not and sometimes I accidentally go forward without grabbing an upgrade which kills the run .

I'm now on day 3 stuck with the croc crane duo - I'm not sure how to beat them as if I save my dice, they simply kill me before I can use them and if I use them right away I have none during the choke phase and the crane reflects the high dmg back.  Similar balance issue as before with the fox lady.

edit: I restarted again and got different upgrades and was able to complete the game but that was mostly due to RNG and less so skill. The only critique for the game is the balancing and the lack of proper saving - everything else is good!

Thanks for the feedback, I'm glad you enjoyed it! As with any game of chance, the trick is definitely getting the odds to work in your favor. Also, in case anyone has a similar issue with accidentally skipping artifacts, reloading your save before entering the next room will put you back in the shop dialogue. I'll keep your critiques in mind for my next project!