Monster Girl Tavern 1.0a (Patreon)

The biggest Monster Girl Tavern update yet!

The main story reaches its conclusion, with a climactic battle and new post-game content. But there's still plenty to do after the credits: recruit monster girls for Expeditions, unlock Ascensions, expand your tavern into a trading empire, master a new TCG deck, and tackle a new Horde Mode in Slime RPG. Hope you guys enjoy this one, it's definitely my most crazily ambitious game yet. Hopefully the lack of a Steam release won't cause it to fall into obscurity. For now, I'm taking a small break from development 🫡

Changelog:

v1.0.1 (2026/11/01):

• Reworded key parts of these VIPs: Mosquito 1, Mosquito 2, and Penguin.

• Fixed character portraits covering the matches puzzle.

• Fixed Celestial Tree visibility before purchase and its failure to unlock immediately after purchase.

• Gated meal discovery totals behind Super and Supreme Foods unlocks.

• Fixed the reported large-number Decimal crash and hardened related bonus calculations.

• Shortened large numbers in the new-day log and normalized scientific notation.

• Fixed missing earlier portals in existing saves with out-of-order unlocks.

• Adjusted Velvet’s dialogue to accommodate fast progression.

• Prevented Lexi and Yuxian from appearing in ending conversations before being met.

• Added a Dragon Token cheat after meeting Yuxian.

• Added treasure-map access notices and clarified the Waterfall Cave hint.

• Removed premature story spoilers from locked Velvet invitations.

• Fixed the TCG Decks browser’s “Empty text tag” crash.

v1.0b (2026/10/28):

• Cleaned up dev assets being distributed, lowering game file size

• Applied a deeper fix to the black screen issue during sex scenes

v1.0a (2026/10/28):

• Maybe fixed an issue with Glorp-chan Tier 3 and Pocket's ero scenes being stuck as black.

• Fixed an issue with Glorp-chan and Treasure Troop's free roam dialogue

v1.0 (2026/10/27):

• Story Finale - The main storyline concludes

• 12 New Erotic Scenes - New encounters with favourites and several new faces.

• Expeditions - Recruit characters, assign them to collect rare treasures and invest in a 42-upgrade tree.

• Ascension - Eight post-game progression paths with new upgrades, challenges and rewards.

• Tavern Expansion - Shipments, Super Foods, more research, new product rarities and extensive automation.

• Monster Girl TCG - The Dragon archetype, 30 new cards, 11 challenge decks and major balance changes.

• Slime RPG - Carnage Mode, 14 new upgrades, six additional Slime Staff member, new Relics, Staff Levelling, and further improvements.

1. Story, Characters & New Scenes

The main story reaches its conclusion with a major new storyline involving Velvet and the fate of the Crossroads Tavern.

• Completing the story unlocks post-game progression, including Ascensions and two new VIPs.

• Added a special 100% Story Completion event for players who finish the story and find all 52 Ero Scenes.

12 New Erotic Scenes:

• Velvet: A new story-related recovery scene.

• Pip the Axolotl: A new VIP encounter.

• Erika & Synthia: A new Tier 2 scene

• Lexi: A new Tier 2 scene.

• Glorp-chan: A new Tier 3 scene.

• Yuxian: A new character with two scenes.

• Treasure Troop: Two new scenes, unlocked at Tiers 3 and 4.

• Loralei: A new scene.

• Moira: A new post-game scene.

• Valentine: A new post-game scene.

2. Expeditions & Treasure Troop

• Treasure Troop now progresses through Tier 3 and Tier 4

• Added six new Treasure Maps, bringing the collection to twelve.

Introducing Expeditions, a major new progression system is available through the Treasure Troop.

• Recruit monster girls from across the town, each with her own recruitment challenge.

• Level up your crew, exploit their unique passives and complete increasingly difficult routes.

• Invest Explorer's Marks in a 42-upgrade tree.

Elixirs & New Rewards:

• Added Elixir, a super-rare Tavern product acquired through Expeditions.

• Expedition Upgrade: Elixir Machine in the Basement.

• Added Blessing Cores, obtained through Expedition rewards and used to level Blessings.

• Treasure Map Reward: Whisper to the Level Cave, offering a new collection of upgrades in exchange for Mana.

3. Tavern Management & Economy

• Glorp-chan now has her tier 3, including a new scene and shop expansion.

• Added 20 new Tavern upgrades, expanding production, sales, automation and long-term profitability.

New unlocks include:

• Smart Synthia

• Automatic Basement upgrades.

• Additional advertising tiers.

• Super Foods in Meal Prep

• Access to product rarity bonuses.

Introducing Shipments: Glorp-chan now offers large commercial orders.

• Fulfil contracts by delivering substantial quantities of Tavern products in exchange for bonus Gold.

• Unlock milestone rewards as you complete more shipments.

New Product Rarities:

• Platinum: +25% Value and Demand.

• Ruby: +37.5% Value and Demand.

• Diamond: +50% Value and Demand.

These advanced rarities become available through later progression and upgrades.

Advertising & Income:

• Added higher-tier advertisement campaigns.

• Advertisements can now be cancelled before they expire.

• Increased Tip rewards throughout the game.

• Further adjustments to Tavern economy and product balancing.

4. Research & Wishcraft

Erika & Synthia Tier 2:

• Added their Tier 2 relationship event.

• Added 12 new Research nodes.

• Tier 2 allows two Research projects to run simultaneously.

• The new Laboratory Expansion upgrade raises that limit to three.

• Expanded Synthia's automation capabilities and related upgrades.

Lexi Tier 2:

• Added Lexi's second relationship tier and new scene.

• Expanded Wishcraft with a new UI and additional wishes.

• New wishes can improve Blessing capacity, Expedition slots, travel time, rare loot and product income..

5. Post-Game: Ascension

Ascension unlocks after the main story finale. Once you've mastered an existing activity or finished a character's progression, Ascension opens up another set of challenges and upgrades. It's designed for players who want to keep improving their Tavern long after completing the main story.

Eight Ascension paths are available:

• Clover - Farming: New crop masteries, stronger harvests and Overgrowth improvements.

• Jessie - Dairy Production: Additional Milk, Tea and production upgrades.

• Bubbles - Woodcutting: Eight new upgrades extending Woodcutting progression.

• Maeve - Ambrosia: New Ambrosia-focused upgrades and mastery bonuses.

• Loralei - Healing Baths: Six additional upgrades.

• Xion - Alchemy: Advanced potion upgrades and additional mastery progression.

• Evelyn - Revenant: Six new HP Donation upgrades.

• Titania - Fairy Challenges: New Royal Trials and advanced challenges.

6. Meal Prep: Super Foods

• Introducing Super Foods, a new progression tier with another 104 food targets to discover and complete.

• Super Foods provide additional bonuses and substantial late-game progression.

• Reaching Super Foods doubles the maximum level of all Kitchen Upgrades.

• Added a short tutorial to make Meal Prep easier to learn.

7. Dragon Boons

Yuxian the Dragon has taken up residence in the Waterfall Cave:

• Pay her entrance fee to visit her hoard and attempt to impress her.

• Complete increasingly demanding feats across the game's different systems.

• Each successful impression earns a permanent Dragon Boon.

• Added two relationship scenes across Yuxian's progression.

8. Town & World Expansion

More work has gone into making the world feel inhabited, with additional conversations and activities for existing characters:

• Added 32 random events across the world.

• Added 118 conversations for free-roam characters.

• Added more varieties of pixel characters visiting the Tavern during the evening.

• Added a new Library interior, complete with readable books, hidden chests and puzzles.

• The Library also contains an interactive computer and terminal-based puzzles.

9. Blessings

Added new Blessings associated with recent character and progression content: Axolotl, Alien Catgirl, Genie, Goblin, Mimic, Erika, Church Grim, Valentine and Shenlong.

Blessing Upgrades:

• - Blessings can now be upgraded to Level 2 and Level 3 using Blessing Cores.

• - Level 2 improves Blessing power by 25%. Level 3 improves Blessing power by 50%.

• - Blessing descriptions now update dynamically to reflect their effective strength.

• - Improved Blessing categories, tooltips and feedback for active, inactive and partially effective Blessings.

Blessing Balance Changes:

• - Fairy: Tips bonus increased from +10% to +100%.

• - Pixie: Sleeping now counts as passing two days.

• - Spider: Now additionally grants +25% Tips.

• - Magpie: Now grants +3 Golden Products.

• - Cave Siren: Blue Hearts now also restore 1% of maximum HP, MP and Healing Water.

• - Android: Now grants +25% Synthia Experience and an additional 25% HP/MP recovery benefit overnight.

• - Ghost: Now grants +8 MP Regeneration and allows MP Overheal up to 150%.

Portal Bonus Rebalancing:

• - Quiet Mountains: Its passive now increases the permanent Potion Bonus cap by 1.

• - Asphodel Overlook: Its passive increases product stocks by 1% per day. Its active bonus lets selected unequipped Blessings retain 25% of their positive effects.

• - No Man's Land: Now offers scaling Profit and Critical Multiplier bonuses based on Skeleton Keys, alongside cheaper Skeleton Keys.

10. Monster Girl TCG

New Content:

• - Added Dragons, a new archetype featuring 30 cards unlocked by defeating the new Dragon opponent in the Waterfall Cave.

• - Added 11 Velvet Challenge Decks, built to test players against highly optimized versions of existing archetypes.

• - Added nine rewards for completing those challenges, including new cards and a Victoria Unique.

• Deck Building & Quality of Life:

  • - Added deck importing and exporting to the Saved Decks interface.

  • - Players can now share deck codes and duel against imported decks by speaking to Synthia.

  • - Added SELL EXTRAS, allowing surplus cards to be sold in bulk after card selling is unlocked.

  • - Added an IMMUNE indicator to cards protected against effects.

  • - Improved Tutorial explanations and presentation.

  • - Fixed Level the Field incorrectly counting itself when resolving.

  • - Adjusted Power values across several existing monsters.

Fairy Archetype Overhaul:

All 44 Fairy cards have been reworked. The archetype has been redesigned around more effective combinations, stronger synergy and improved competitive viability.

• - Titania now uses a new Difficulty 10 Fairy deck.

• - Bubbles is now Difficulty 7.

• - Maeve is now Difficulty 8.

Beast Changes:

• - Ironhorn Bull: Gains +5 Power until the end of its turn.

• - Alpha Snek: Now equips the card it retrieves from the Graveyard.

Demon Changes:

• - Abyssal Tax Collector: Reduced the damage caused when Summoned or attacking.

Human Changes:

• - Open Recruitment: Changed to a Field card.

• - Guildmaster: Now belongs to both Human and Sea Folk.

• - Pockets, Cinder & Flare Too!: Now belongs to both Demon and Human.

• - Stubborn Goblin: Draws one card when Summoned.

• - Moira: Her effect now works on Human cards.

• - Spare Kit: Can now return up to two Equipment cards instead of one.

• - First Aid: Can now destroy itself to prevent the next destruction of a Human Monster.

Flyer Changes:

• - Dive Warning: Once per turn, returns a friendly Monster to your hand if it would be destroyed in battle.

• - Book Whirlwind: Can now attack on the turn it's Summoned.

• - Flying Demon: Correctly belongs to both Flyer and Demon.

• - Aerie Raven: Once per turn, can destroy one opposing Monster, but cannot attack that turn.

• - Harrier Girl: On Summon, can attack once for each Monster the opponent controls. Gains +1 Power for each Monster defeated that turn.

• - Guardian Finch: On Summon, protects friendly Monsters with lower Power from attacks until your next turn. Can also be Normal Summoned without sacrifice when your field is empty and you have less than 100 Life.

• - Skydart Bolbat: Removed its Summon requirement.

• - Winged Overcompensating Warrior: Power increased from 21 to 24.

• - Xion, Witchy Moth: Now activates one random Potion effect on Summon and at the start of each subsequent friendly Play Phase: permanently give a random Monster +5 Power, draw one card, or gain 10 Life.

• - Migrating Fyrebyrd: Once per duel, pay 20 Life during your Play Phase to Special Summon a random Flyer or Beast from your hand.

• - Chubby Devil: Cannot be destroyed in battle. Deals two damage to the opponent when sacrificed.

11. Slime RPG

• - Carnage Mode introduces a separate progression track starting from Act 1, Mastery 0.

• - Battles feature twice as many enemies.

• - Ruby rewards are doubled.

• - Progress through Carnage independently of the regular mode.

• Upgrades & Staff:

  • Added 14 new Slime RPG upgrades.

  • Added six additional recruitable Slime Staff members.

  • Slime Staff members can now be upgraded to increase their effectiveness.

  • Added 10 Ultra-Rare Relics with extremely cool effects.

12. General Improvements

• - Visual & Feedback Improvements

• - Added Buy All options to Clover's and Jessie's upgrade shops.

• - Velvet's final quest now transitions into a What Next? guidance system, helping players find available content around the world.

• - Updated several upgrade and management interfaces.

• - Expanded first-partner and virginity tracking for additional characters.

• - Velvet's HP Donations can no longer reduce the player below 1 HP.

• - Fixed the Spelunking Pickaxe skill being usable more than once per run.

• - Fixed assorted interface issues, inconsistent descriptions and typographical errors.

• - Various balance adjustments and usability improvements throughout the game.

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