Marie's Adventure Release Notes — 1.0 to 1.12

Marie’s Adventure 1.0 went live on August 6, 2026, marking the transition from long-running demo builds to a commercial 18+ H-RPG on Steam, itch.io, and DLsite. No Budget Developer then shipped rapid patches — v1.0a (Aug 7) through v1.0h (Aug 16) — followed by v1.10, v1.11, and v1.12 (Aug 23). This page is the wiki’s changelog baseline; live bugs live on known issues. itch currently lists the download as Marie’s Adventure.v.1.12.zip.\n\n## Launch announcement window\n\nSteam lists August 6, 2026. The developer itch.devlog announcing full availability posted around August 7, 2026 (JST), matching earlier JST messaging. Treat Aug 6–7 as the same 1.0 launch window across regions.\n\nOfficial trailer hosting remains on Vimeo / itch / Patreon. A verified fan gameplay upload exists on YouTube (LB0F8tRHGd4) — embedded on Getting Started — but it is not an official channel. Do not confuse unrelated Marie’s Room videos with this title.\n\n## Storefront availability\n\n| Platform | Price (approx.) | Notes |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Steam | $15 USD | 69 achievements, English UI, mature content gate, Steam News patches |\n| itch.io | $15 USD | Community bug threads; stay on the newest Patch Note (v1.12) |\n| DLsite | Regional pricing | Carrd v1.0b Update + official uncensored patch — see Where to Buy |\n\nAll versions target Windows 10 64-bit, 4 GB RAM, DirectX 9-class GPU, ~2 GB storage. No macOS or Linux native builds at launch.\n\n## Headline features in 1.0\n\nPregnancy-driven progression. Marie’s blessing guarantees pregnancy after sex with accelerated gestation. Birth scenes fire at the Inn in Sylva City, granting party power-ups scaled to litter size. Other inns — including the starting village and Seliana — intentionally skip labor scripts.\n\nBrothel work and sluttiness. Optional adult economy content with dynamic CG that adapts to belly size, including pregnant variants. The Golden Cat hosts important substories (Golden Cat guide).\n\nTurn-based combat. Demon army escalation, Chroma vitality upgrades, and mid-game bosses like Remuru / Festival Rival / Volkard — see Combat Basics, Difficulty Settings, and Volkard.\n\nContent toggles. Players can disable childbirth depictions, lactation, nudity, and — since v1.0e — prevent automatic childbirth when sleeping (content settings).\n\nDynamic CG pipeline. Scene art respects pregnancy stage rather than using static replacements — later patches fixed incorrect belly sizes, twin presentation, and related CG bugs.\n\n## Patch Note v1.0a — August 7, 2026\n\nOfficial summary from the itch / Steam Patch Note:\n\n- Minor bug fixes\n- Balance adjustments\n\nTreat v1.0a as the first stabilization pass after storefront day-one.\n\n## Patch Note v1.0b — August 8, 2026\n\nOfficial fix list:\n\n- Fixed several Substory scenes at the Golden Cat\n- Fixed various bugs affecting certain scenes\n- Fixed an issue with the Naamah Symbol artifact\n- Fixed an issue with the Library Puzzle\n\nIf you soft-locked inside Golden Cat scenes or could not finish the Library Puzzle, install v1.0b or newer. DLsite players should still grab the Carrd Update v1.0b Patch even if Steam already shows a later letter.\n\nDeep guides: Golden Cat, Library Puzzle, Artifacts.\n\n## Patch Note v1.0c — August 9, 2026\n\nOfficial fix list:\n\n- Fixed a bug from the Shady Dealer\n- Fixed an issue causing Marie’s certain outfit to become invisible\n- Fixed an issue causing Elucia’s birth scene to loop\n- Fixed an issue causing birth scenes to use the incorrect belly size\n- Fixed an issue causing Vitality 3 Chroma to grant incorrect stat increases\n- Fixed an issue causing the game to become stuck after certain story cutscenes\n- Readjusted Festival Rival balance\n\nPriority upgrade if you hit looping Elucia deliveries, invisible outfits, Chroma stat lies, or Festival Rival brick walls. See Chroma, Outfits, Companions, and Difficulty Settings.\n\n## Patch Note v1.0d — August 10, 2026\n\nOfficial fix list from itch Patch Note v.1.0d:\n\n- Revamped the Safe Day difficulty\n- Fixed an issue that prevented certain Substories from progressing\n- Fixed an issue that caused the game to crash during the final cutscene\n- Fixed an issue with Essence of Captivation artifact functioning incorrectly\n- Fixed an issue with Marie’s twin babies birth scene\n- Added the Substory log (BETA) inside the journal — still under development; descriptions are not displayed yet\n\nDeep links: Difficulty Settings, Substory Log, Artifacts, How to Give Birth, Story Walkthrough.\n\n## Patch Note v1.0e — August 11, 2026\n\nOfficial fix list from itch Patch Note v.1.0e:\n\n- Fixed the description of the Matron’s Veil artifact\n- Added a new option to the Config menu to prevent automatic childbirth when sleeping\n- Adjusted Combat EXP gain to be reduced by half after all Stamina has been exhausted\n- Increased the Talent acquisition rate\n- Readjusted Festival Rival balance again\n- Fixed several minor bugs\n\nThis is the quality-of-life patch for players who kept accidentally birthing when resting, plus a clearer stamina/EXP rule. Update Content Settings, How to Give Birth, Combat Basics, and Artifacts workflows after installing.\n\n## Patch Note v1.0f — August 12, 2026\n\nOfficial fix list from itch Patch Note v.1.0f:\n\n- Rebalanced the game’s difficulty curve to smooth out difficulty spikes\n- Rebalanced Safe Day difficulty to also reduce enemy Max HP, with certain enemies excluded\n- Reworked the Volkard boss fight\n- Replaced the Naamah Symbol artifact with the Crown of Fortune Cat, which grants a chance to conceive an additional baby, bypassing Heritage limits\n- Added a new effect to the Stuffed condition that prevents Stamina recovery from eating food and reduces the chance of becoming Intoxicated\n- Fixed an issue where the Belly Slap command could be used despite insufficient Stamina\n- Fixed the description of Overdue in the Journal\n\nPriority upgrade before mid/late bosses, Safe Day runs, Heritage-limited multiples hunting, or Volkard retries. Deep links: Volkard, Difficulty Settings, Artifacts, Combat Basics, Heritage Plane.\n\n## Patch Note v1.0g — August 14, 2026\n\nOfficial Steam News / itch Patch Note v1.0g:\n\n- Added ‘NUM 0’ as a Cancel button — keypad 0 now cancels like Esc/X (Controls).\n- Added a log showing how much EXP each girl gains after battle — use it to confirm you are not grinding at half-EXP after empty stamina (Combat Basics).\n- Added a log when a girl becomes overdue — treat it as a go-home alarm before Sylva City labor (How to Give Birth).\n- Fixed an issue with Demonology Rewrite affecting the enemies — community 1 HP everywhere reports after porting old saves into later letters line up with this fix (Known Issues).\n- Fixed an issue with Killswipe not working properly — do not build Hellebore or castle routes around Killswipe until you are on 1.0g.\n- Fixed an issue with certain Objective Consult displayed the wrong dialogue — update if a quest box looks like the wrong scene (Jurai Castle).\n- Fixed an issue with certain Substories disabled saving after being cleared — reload after side flags if the save menu was greyed out (Substory Log).\n- Fixed an issue with Safe Day HP scaling did not work correctly to Remuru — retest Safe Day on Remuru even if 1.0f felt identical (Difficulty Settings).\n- Few minor balance adjustments.\n\nThe same week the developer posted a Steam thank-you / apology note: they are reading reviews, they are a two-person team, and more balance work is coming. Official Discord (announced in Steam News): https://discord.gg/NERfW7Qp5Z. This wiki still prefers numbered Patch Notes over Discord rumor.\n\n## Patch Note v1.0h — August 16, 2026\n\nOfficial itch Patch Note v.1.0h:\n\n- Added a new option to the Config menu to disable automatic milking upon sleeping — pair with the v1.0e auto-birth Config switch (Content Settings).\n- The game will now continue running normally when the window is out of focus — alt-tab no longer pauses the RPG Maker window the old way (Controls).\n- Fixed an issue where the map avatar displayed incorrectly when entering a competition.\n- Fixed an issue where the camera angle was not properly restored after certain cutscenes.\n- Fixed several minor bugs.\n\n## Patch Note v1.10 — August 20, 2026\n\nOfficial SteamDB / itch patch note v1.10:\n\n- Fixed an issue that caused the game to crash when entering certain areas.\n- Fixed an issue with character portraits not displaying correctly in dialogue scenes.\n- Minor performance improvements for areas with many NPC interactions.\n- Minor text corrections.\n\n## Patch Note v1.11 — August 22, 2026\n\nOfficial SteamDB / itch patch note v1.11:\n\n- Fixed an issue where save data could become corrupted after rest events.\n- Fixed an issue with the Crown of Fortune Cat not triggering correctly for players with multiple active pregnancies.\n- Added additional runtime checks for rare combat edge cases.\n\n## Patch Note v1.12 — August 23, 2026 (current)\n\nOfficial SteamDB / itch Patch Note v.1.12 (newest public numbered note; zip Marie's Adventure.v.1.12.zip):\n\n- Added a dialogue notification when a girl becomes overdue — builds on the v1.0g overdue log with an in-universe prompt reminding you to head to Sylva City (How to Give Birth).\n- Talent acquisition rate now scales based on the girl’s current Title rank — higher-ranking heroines gain Talent faster, giving veteran party members a meaningful progression edge (Party Progression).\n- Adjusted effects of multiple items including Disarm Oil — check item tooltips after updating to confirm current values (Items).\n- Minor bug fixes and text corrections.\n\nInstall 1.12 to get the Title-scaled Talent rate, the overdue dialogue prompt, and item balance adjustments. Steam News or the official itch devlog carries the full item-adjustment list.\n\n## Systems carried forward from demo feedback\n\nCommunity testing during demo years locked several rules that 1.0 keeps:\n\n- Walking advances pregnancy; sleeping alone does not.\n- Fertility upgrades remain tied to the Church and related items (fertility boosts).\n- Multiples require prep and save timing — use the pregnancy tracker for milk capacity math.\n- Birth remains Sylva City Inn only by design (automatic sleep-birth can now be blocked in Config on v1.0e+).\n\n## Known day-one limitations (still relevant)\n\n- English only for in-game text; wiki locales are fan translations.\n- Windows Defender false positives on JSON / exe assets.\n- Official sticky still lists white/black boot screens, x-ray after sleep quirks, and missing condition pop-ups.\n- No Steam Cloud listed for app 4819360 — back up locally (Save Files).\n- Substory log descriptions are intentionally empty in the BETA journal feature.\n\n## Recommended post-install checklist\n\n1. Confirm you are on v1.12 (Steam News / itch Patch Note / Marie's Adventure.v.1.12.zip).\n2. Open Config and decide whether to prevent automatic childbirth when sleeping and whether to disable automatic milking upon sleeping (content settings).\n3. Re-equip Crown of Fortune Cat if you still expected Naamah Symbol (artifacts).\n4. Read controls for menu navigation and F5 reload behavior.\n5. Follow getting started through the starting village.\n6. Bookmark Sylva City before your first 100% pregnancy.\n7. Open the journal Substory log after major Golden Cat / story beats (Substory Log).\n8. Pin updates hub for the next numbered note.\n\n## Related pages\n\n- Review — launch verdict with Mostly Positive Steam reception after 1.0h.\n- Known Issues — workarounds still open after 1.12.\n- Story Walkthrough — chapter routing.\n- Hellebore — Death Rot heal-race.\n- Volkard — reworked in 1.0f; still current on 1.12.\n- Guides Hub — deep mechanics.\n\nAugust 2026 1.12 is the current reference point when comparing future hotfixes on this wiki.\n