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CHAPTER 5 UPDATE

Latest update -> CHAPTER 5 (06/06/2026)

✮ CHAPTER 5: 230K WORDS ✮

CHAPTER FIVE IS NOW OUT FOR THE PUBLIC!

The cast of BotB season four has touched down in a new state: Ohio! That's right—they're infiltrated G's backyard (and maybe someone else's?) Unfortunately, the rockstar isn't happy about this development considering the people who have decided to show their faces here. Meanwhile certain rumors are tainting the BOTB brand while the home lives of the ROs are starting to creep up on them. Will there even be a tour? Who knows?

As usual, MC remains in the center of it all. Their plans for their future comes into question when they're forced with new faces and possibilities. That is…if they even have a career by the end of this. For some MCs they should probably keep in mind to think with their head and not their…you know!

Chapter 9 is here!!!

As always, let me know what you think, and please tell me if you come across any bugs, grammar mistakes, or typos.

And if you didn’t know already, a patch is coming soon with new features, new minor characters, and additional scenes to expand the worldbuilding. It will also introduce council roles, further develop stats, and give the MC more opportunities to improve and use them.

What's changed:

If you played the original Chapter 1, you'll notice this is essentially a different game. The original came in in at 26k words, the rewrite is 469k. The prose has been overhauled from the ground up, with richer writing, deeper characterisation, and far more branching to reflect your MC and their choices. Scenes that existed before have been rebuilt rather than revised, and there's a significant amount of new content that wasn't in the original at all.

What happens:

Arrive at the villa and meet your fellow islanders one by one as they enter.

A one-on-one conversation with one of the nine other islanders before the coupling, who you spend that time with is your choice.

The coupling ceremony, where you'll be paired up for the days ahead.

Word count

469k words total (+443k from the original Chapter 1). Individual playthroughs are a fraction of that, the word count reflects how much the content branches to account for your choices and your MC.

A note for returning players: Chapters 2–11 are no longer accessible while the rewrite is in progress. Chapter 1 is the only playable content for now, but it's a much more substantial Chapter 1 than the one you remember.

Game Summary:

Welcome to Summer of Love. You and nine other singles will enter a luxury villa and couple up, spending a month in each other’s company, along with a few extras along the way – you’ll live together, eat together, sleep together, and hopefully, fall in love together. Sound familiar? Thought so – but instead of coupling ceremonies being split by boys and girls as is typical in shows like these, the public will be the ones deciding the order of who gets to pick, and as the cast is an all-bi one, you can pick whoever you like, so long as they haven’t already been picked. At the end of the month, the most popular couple will win £500,000. As for the other couples? As there are no dumpings, everyone has the potential to find love, and those in exclusive relationships by the end could also win £100,000 per couple. Ready for your summer of love to begin?

Play here!

The update to the demo available for the public!!

PUBLIC DEMO - 05/11/2026 - (Total: 340k)

Chapter One is currently released for free! You can play it right now on the link above, totally available for the public!

In these chapters you will...

Lose your temper.

Talk about your dreams.

Become a delivery person.

Do your laundry.

Talk to pretty people.

Find a cat.

Get shot.

If you run into any issues or errors please send me an ask about it.

Content warnings can be found at the start of the demo. God Syndicate is a romance interactive fiction novel meant for mature audiences.

Saves wont work, so you'll have to restart. But there is a chapter select now!

@interact-if

Chapter 8 is out for Ko-fi supporters and Patreon supporters!

Following the National Doubles tournament, this update is more slice-of-life focused, and takes us to the week right before Finals.  And yes, the big mom reveal is here.

Release dates 

Early release (less polished): TODAY! Early release (more polished): May 15 Public release: May 29 or earlier

Chapter 8 (58k words) features:

Hey… um… it's done.

Join Us at the Otome Games Celebration!

It's that time of year again! Steam Festival season for narrative games! We're kicking things off this month with the Otome Games Celebration, (thanks @arimiadev!)

Made Marion is on sale for the usual Early Access 15% off, but you can get an extra 10% off that if you pick us up in a bundle with several other excellent fantasy-themed romance VNs.

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Chapter 4 is here!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ANON! (I mean, it's probably not May 1st yet for you—I hope it is tho—but it's the thought that counts, right?)

I won't be free on my birthday, so I thought I could release the update today at midnight—that way I can tackle any bugs/errors/typos when I wake up. And that way I can also sleep on it and ignore the stress.

First, thanks a lot to the beta testers, but also to the two patrons who helped me catch several typos/bugs/errors! Thanks for the support from everyone too, you've all been there to hype me when I needed the boost.

Special thanks to the warrior I have in my corner who went through several routes just to find bugs!! I really appreciate and am grateful for the help.

Now,

In this chapter, you'll be able to...

Get your car with your chosen RO (unless you don't romance anyone)

Spend time with your chosen RO

Talk about Christmas approaching

Have some juicy revelations

Have dinner with your little family and your RO

Give your presents and open yours

Have a little moment with your brother

Have a little moment with your grumpy cat

Discover something

And experience some other things I definitely forgot about.

Your saves are definitely broken, simply because I changed the file and uploaded a new one, and because there's a few new variables. BUT! There's a feature for you to start from chapter 4 if you'd rather skip the rewrite. A bit clunky, but functional so far.

Chapter 4 is around +200k words—for some, it'll definitely feel shorter due to the many variables I put in it. It brings us to a total of roughly 840k words for LAD, and I'm already working on chap 5 :))

LtGBtK is now available on Steam and Itch.io!

It's time to go back to Opala and experience it with all the Sprites, new CGs, expanded scenes, and 2 exclusive short stories that you'll only find in the game! ;)

I decided to bring the release forward a few hours, just in case you all find any bugs/crashes. I hope you won't find any xDD but if you do, I'll be here, so just let me know! ♥♥♥

Don't know what LtGBtK is?

Two children raised together. One, a future King. The other, his whipping child. 

Their relationship? It's up to you to develop.

Love the Guard, Be the King is purely a Fantasy Visual Novel game focused on Romance and/or Friendship, written and developed by solo dev Ligia Nunes, author of "Bear in Sheep's Clothing."

This is a game with extensive LGBTQ+ representation in which you can choose to play as straight, gay, bi, pan, ace, etc. In this first game of the series, you only have one Love Interest, Mathias.

✨Age suggested: 16+ for non-explicit sexual scenes, some soft swearing, and violence.✨

MATHIAS’S HEART HAS BEEN bleeding since his father, the former King, decided to punish you for his mistakes. As the youngest child of a lesser bourgeois, you were raised in the castle, between the King’s cruelty, the Queen’s friendship, and Mathias’s kindness (or supposed kindness?).

Now, more than twenty Carnivals since your arrival, the King is dead and the Queen’s sickness worsens each day. As the azure taint spreads in the kingdom and the Opalean Wars come to an end, it’s Mathias’s time to sit on the throne.

Will the docile Prince become a kind King, a violent Monarch, or a ruthless Tyrant? Will you have any say in it? And how much will your relationship change?

Develop your personality, see how your choices build, and change your bond with Mathias.

It’s time to help him choose. Will your monarch Love the Guard or Be the King?