#demo update !!

[the-kingshound]

DEMO

I am exhausted, at the end of my rope, but finlly FINALLY it's here. I have no words, am only tired (and there might be bugs. You might also need to play from the beginning), I only pray you like this.

(send asks. it's the only thing I need.)

[pressplay-if]

demo (prologue + ch.1 & 2, 118k words)

please mind the content warnings! asks are open, but please note that I am currently not accepting/answering RO scenario requests and questions concerning RO details, i.e. ROs' favorite color, height, etc. All relevant info regarding ROs can be taken from this post or the game itself.

cog forum post

You are one of the most famous yet mysterious characters of the 21st century rock scene. 

It all started when you discovered your love for singing during an extended stay at a psychiatric hospital as a teen. Music became your motivator, and from then on, you knew the stage was where you belonged. You and your friends formed a band, and after years of practice in a garage and cheap gigs at dingy bars, your journey to the top begins abruptly when you team up with a skilled manager.

It’s a meteoric rise— until it isn’t. 

And now, a decade after your band has disappeared from the public eye, you’ve accepted an interview by the acclaimed Groove Magazine. You and your former band members have agreed to give them the truth, the whole truth; as ugly as that might be. 

Follow the story of your band’s rise to fame (and eventual fall from grace)

Play as a pop-rock vocalist

Name your band and customize your music and image

Handle the media, interactions with pushy fans and your own repressed thoughts and fears 

Romance your coolgirl-bassist, the childhood friend you cut out of your life, your absolutely insane guitarist, or your biggest fan/possibly stalker

Give one hell of an interview

Inspiration: Daisy Jones and The Six, Fleetwood Mac… and all sorts of music-related drama.

TW: themes of mental illness, unhealthy relationships, substance abuse, death, mentions of suicide, suicidal ideation, self-harm, SA-related trauma

ROs:

Stevie McLaughlin, bassist (f) — “I suppose I was the sanest one in that bunch.”

She’s one of your oldest friends, and if you follow the clanking chain of cause and effect all the way back to the beginning, it is her you have to thank for your entire career. The band was her idea, after all. She’s level-headed, composed, and always there to talk you down when you need her. Sometimes, she acts more as your retainer than anything else…

Stevie is tall and skinny with light brown skin and extremely long, curly black hair which she always wears in a wet look. She has big, dark brown eyes and a soft face.

Paul/Paulette Zima, lead singer & saxophonist (f/m selectable, trans) — “Trying to figure out where you know me from?”

Your band’s brand-new, second lead singer. Your manager says they’re going to give your music the kick it needs, that they’re the one missing ingredient to your success. You’re not entirely sure if you agree. Worse yet, you happen to know this person, and your time together didn’t end on a favorable note. They’re part of a past you would much rather forget.

Paul is very tall, broad-backed and thickly muscled with light skin, shoulder-length slicked back brown hair and bottle green eyes.

Paulette is of average height with an hourglass/slim thick figure. She has dark brown hair with parted bangs and light blonde strands dyed into it. Her eyes are bottle green.

Angel Monsanto, guitarist (m) — “I was always going to make it big, with or without those guys. Only, I… I really wanted it to be with them.”

Your crazy but good-hearted guitarist. His passion for music borders on obsession, and he will stop at nothing to make a name for your band. Sadly, he’s very much of the conviction that all publicity is good publicity, which has encouraged him to pull some very questionable stunts in the past. 

Angel is of average height and build with a warm beige complexion and long black hair. He has a square jaw with an occasional five o’clock shadow and brown eyes. 

Lincoln Saunders, groupie?? (f/m selectable) — “What can I say, I loved them.”

Calling Lincoln a fan would be an understatement. Fanatic is more like it. You remember seeing them at your very first show, and you’ve continued to spot them at every venue you’ve played at since. You don’t know anything about them, and perhaps changing that would be a very bad idea. But maybe you still want to.

Lincoln (m) is short and lean, with an angular face and wavy blond hair. His eyes are cobalt blue. 

Lincoln (f) is petite and tan, with a youthful, round face and chin-length blond beach waves. Her eyes are cobalt blue.

Others:

Maddox Wells (m), drummer

Another one of your oldest friends. You don’t much like to talk about what happened with him.

Fatima Shah (f), drummer — “I’m pretty sure they used to try to make me disappear with their fog machine.”

After things didn’t work out with your original drummer, Fatima saved the day. She’s a sweetheart to you, but from what you’ve heard, she can be kind of a terrible person. Maybe it’s best to stay a little wary of her.

Kalena Graham (f), manager — “The first time I saw them… well, they kind of sucked. But I knew, I just knew, that they had what it takes to suck on an international level.”

Your band’s manager. You can’t believe how lucky you were to have caught her attention. She’s experienced, driven, well-regarded in the industry and… kind of mean, to be honest.

Simon Young (m), reporter — “Start at the beginning. And then, don’t stop.”

The guy conducting the interview for Groove Magazine. He’s nice enough, if a little starstruck. It seems he has been waiting a long time for this.

Addendum: NSFW alphabet masterlist

Zima pt. 1 and pt. 2

Stevie

Lincoln

Angel

Dividers by @thecutestgrotto

Please consider reblogging <3

[llamagirl28]

The public demo has been updated!

What's new?

More of chapter 5 (it's a big one)

Listen to gossip

Elaine expresses her opinions regarding knighthood

Gawain reveals his surprise plan for the night

Nimue offers Mordred a tarot reading

Enjoy!

If you're aching for more you can check out the Patreon/Ko-fi early access demo. While it doesn't expand on Chapter 5 yet, it features lots of new content for Chapters 1-3 specifically related to the dragon friend. For more details on what's changed, check out this post.

[apt502-if]

Demo Update (July, 10, 2024): Episode 1

EPISODE 1 UPDATE: +100,433 WORDS

Hi Hello. Yes, I know. :< I went dark again! This time it was because I ended up changing more last minute and didn't want to moan on about the excuses so I hunched away to work on it in silence. :> I think I've made it clear through my actions that I am not a social media person so I tend to neglect the 502 Tumblr when I write. Sorry :< A lot happened in my life since posting the pilot but I did say I would never abandon 502 and I meant it. I struggled with my work/life balance since starting an IF (it's a lot of work) but I'm glad I'm here to I can update the demo now!

What to expect:

⛟ Another day in apartment 502

⛟ Spend some time with one of the roommates.

⛟ Have your orientation at your job and meet a familiar face!

Some things to take note of:

The news anchor route is not available. I didn't like the direction I was taking it and haven't figured out what I want to do with it. It's not gone permanently but this update it'll be blocked off :<

Stats are still not updating. I ended up changing them multiple times and realized I wanted to wait another update to figure out what stats I want to focus on. The story gives me many directions to go on when it comes to stats and I want to make sure I hone in on the stats that will apply the most of MC's story. The stats are there so you won't get any errors but they won't move or anything and they'll most likely change.

There may be some inconsistencies, typos, errors or things that don't match. The product of writing half the chapter over nine months ago and going through many changes. :< Please let me know if you find errors. You 100% will in a 100k chapter.

The demo is 150,299 words. Play Apt. 502 here.

[collegetennisoriginstory]

CT:OS Update #9 public release is now live!

Here’s the link!

Hope you guys enjoy it, I’m looking forward to reading your messages and comments/feedback.

I’m hoping that I’ve caught and fixed most of the bugs but if there’s still things that don’t work, let me know here on the forums/ on Tumblr (@allieebobo) or drop me an email at allieebobo@gmail.com.

Features:

This chapter has a pretty beefy/substantial word-count (total wordcount is now 898k!)

Features:

Fall festival (mini-car trip to a nearby town: hang out with your hallmates, feast on doughnuts and pies and apple cider, kiss in a corn maze with G)

Experience the fall-out and consequences of your Halloween Hookup (if you’d done something with Felix…) this got a lot lengthier than I thought (and very branchy) 

Extra fall dates with Tobin/Rayyan (if romanced). This includes a hike or a run + dip in a frigid lake, respectively — you can commit to them on these dates!

Gear up for the National Doubles Tournament — including some friendly matches to decide who’s picked to represent Cargill, and who your doubles partner ends up being (Felix is an option…)!

Play the first three rounds of the Doubles tournament (win all of them, and you’re through to the quarter-finals!)

Bump into a certain redhead who’s now more foe than friend (technically, anyway)

Spend your first night in the hotel room (pre-match shenanigans with one particular character, for the brave and the lucky…)

Extra scenes added:

Challenge match re-match against the player you’d lost to e.g. Deepal, which means the highest possible rank is now No. 3

Valentina’s Tacos now plays Mexican music (Son Jarocho)

Conversation with Tobin the…intimate scene at the Halloween party (their first queer experience! <3

Sam POV scene after returning home from the weekend at Cargill (3 variations: open, rejected, and committed branches)

A new hookup achievement if you hook up with two people on Halloween...

Extra note: Also! For the supporters who asked to be alerted to when the update should be mostly safe to play with minimal file changes/ disruptions to the save, I think now is the time!! (I hope). Sorry and I hope to be better about early beta-testing next round <3 Thank you for your patience!!

[merrycrisis-if]

Merry Crisis Chapter 5

In this chapter:

Nat arrives in Singapore!! Things come to a head!

Attend Nat's conference panel discussion, then head for lunch along the river 🍛

Make dumplings for dinner with Qiu (and sleepover at their place) 🥟

Watch a Malay horror movie and have dinner with Shay (and sleepover) 👻

Go for a bike ride 🚴‍♀️or hang out at the winter funfair with Nat 🎪 (then head to their hotel room for the night) 🛏

Commit to your RO of choice + some rejections (though the full suite of consequences for your actions will come over the next 2 days)

Word count: Around 50-60k with code depending on how ruthless my eventual editing is

This update will also come with some edits to the previous chapters, which may or may not improve the continuity between routes...*

P.S. with this chapter, we are now 6/8 chapters in (counting the prologue and epilogue)!

*I am still going through a herculean combing-through of stats and branching paths with the help of my wonderful beta testers. Things should be sorted out soon!!

Release dates:

Ko-fi Non beta tested: 29 Dec (~10pm GMT-5)

Ko-fi Beta tested: 1 Jan same time

Public release: 8 Jan same time

[loveafterdeath-if]

The last part of Chapter 2 is out! Here.

Alright, I'll first say it as a warning: it's a big hit or miss. I didn't have any 'bad' outcomes from my Ko-fi supporters, but we never know—some of you might be disappointed or glad. Idk.

Anyway! In this second part of this chap, you will:

Have some alone (short) time with your best friend after your call with Vince

Try not to fall with your RO

Spend time with your group of misfits

Spend time with your brother and other 'second' characters

Have another nice call

Experience a flashback

Go on a date (or decide to cancel it)

Lock your romance route (or decide not to romance any ROs)

Chapter 2 is at 160k words (excluding code), bringing the whole game to 280k words.

This time, you'll have to either restart the whole game or start from chapter 1 or 2, because there are some codes/variations/errors I modified and changed to make them work properly.

But more importantly, enjoy!

If you see any typos, errors, etc., feel free to head to my Discord, send them through asks, or email me those issues. Thanks to the beta testers who helped me through Discord and email!

[childrenofcain-if]

THE UPDATE FOR THE DEMO IS NOW LIVE!

what you can expect in this update comprising both chapter two and three:

get an exclusive invite to the illustrious house of styx.

meet the ROs.

try not to burn down the kitchenette with V.

share a tension-filled dance with C.

go on a swim with D.

do some outfit picking with your chosen RO.

who is that blond(e) stranger in the RE4 costume, and why do they look so familiar?

get choked by an RO for all the wrong reasons (and no, it won’t be kinky. repent for your sins!).

get a glimpse into what exactly is... w̵̢͈̱̻͋̔̾̎͌̋̓̏̚͝r̶̭͈̯͊͛̂̕o̷̧̝̤͇͚͚̓͌̒̈́̏̕̕ņ̴̨̬͚͓̫̱̞̘̰͊́̓̅̈̋͠͝ġ̵̨̺̪̳̘̠ up with you.

there may be some errors with pronouns and other stuff popping up, but you can send them to me on discord so we can promptly correct them. beta testers will be desperately needed for the next update so i’ll open the volunteering forms once chapter four is complete! also, it’s important that you start a new game because new variables has been added which might cause you to get stuck in certain areas!

huge shout-out to my talented big sib, @albywritesfiction, for the massive help in coding everything!

PLAY IT HERE!

[adoriels-tears-if]

It's an even day, an Update day !

I worked hard and added 1500 words to the demo tonight.

I hope you will enjoy reading it! Don't be shy and try as many choices as possible.

Also, I would be and am grateful in advance for any reblogs, likes and comments you can leave me!

Don't be shy about it either, it's my only reward!

[sanguinesky-if]

Sanguine Sky: Chapter 3 Pt. 1 is OUT! [Public Update]

Hello! I'm happy to announce that Chapter 3 Pt. 1 is OUT! The update contains 89k words [excl. code].

Here's the link: [DEMO]

Total word count: 197k words [excl. code] | 227k words [incl. code].

Important note: old saves won't work [including saves from the Patreon demo]. Please make sure to start the game from the beginning or use the "Proceed to the new content" option. I apologize for the inconvenience.

What awaits you in the update:

A busy morning at the department a week after the CID team's arrival: ▹ Seven unique scenes, one for each of the ROs, plus one additional scene for the solo route. ▹ Jealousy moments for both the MCs and ROs [conditional].

A new investigation that leads to a place from your past that you'd hoped never to return to: ▹ An unexpected encounter with Investigator S. Goldstein at a crime scene. ▹ Personal struggles and the possibility of experiencing an initial breakdown [conditional]. ▹ Additional POV scenes with one of the CID team members [conditional].

List of the new features:

A new secondary rival who offers an alternative to Paul(a)'s path.

The MC's and the ROs' height difference variables.

The MC's smoking habit.

Additional customization option for moles.

Technical notes:

Information about the romance system has been updated.

The list of the content warnings has been updated.

Important note: before messaging me about a bug, please make sure you've started the game with a new save.

Thank you for your interest and support! ♥

[allieebobo]

CT:OS Halloween bonus

As promised, wrote like a fiend this month and banged out almost a full chapter's worth of content for spooky season!

The update is three-quarters of chapter 7 (about 40k words including code and variants), and picks up where Sam's visit left off.

Release dates:

It will be out to ko-fi supporters on 31 Oct, and a week after to the public :)

Features:

Deal with the aftermath of your decisions over the weekend (talk to G, Tobin or Rayyan) <True horror>

Attend a language fellow/exchange student dinner-gathering as G's plus one (and the only American in the group). <the G-only scene I promised! You don't have to be dating.>

Prep Halloween costumes with your hallmates (yes, chaotic), and go trick or treating! 🎃

Attend a party after with the team ... then stay for horror movie marathon + sleepover or head back to Haynes to end the night with G.

Yep, Halloween hookups (however ill-advised ;)) are possible.

You can end this chapter very much in a committed relationship with the RO of your choice.

More details on the rest of the chapter/plans for CT:OS for 2024 below the cut.

Note: The rest of chapter 7 will include midterms, a time-skip (with some training/a match) and some fall festival shenanigans (because I love fall festivals). It should add up to a pretty chunky chapter that pretty much seals Act 1 of CT:OS (the 'settling into Cargill' part - establishing most of MC's friendships, routines, and possibly romances, forming a solid base for Act 2.)

I'll start writing the rest of the chapter once I'm done with Merry Crisis, and hope to get it out by end-Dec. We'll see! :)

[wiz-writes]

Public Demo Update: 30 March 2025

Find out what the Manor has in store for you in chapter 3.

There is now an option to start a new game through "quick start", which lets you set up some variables and then start at the beginning of ch2 or ch3.

I have also added a cheat mode, which (if turned on) helps you pass some skills checks that you might not pass otherwise. However, you will have to start a new game for it to work.

Features:

27k words of new content

learn more about your hosts

test your wits

spend some time with the ROs

live to see another day

Play it on: ITCH.IO   |   COGDEMOS

COG Forum   |   PATREON   |   KO-FI   |   PINTEREST

[redo-rewind-if]

Redo; Rewind Demo Update - Chapter 4

This update adds: Over 30k words (including code)!!

Features:

Avoid your original death! Or don't. You can just die. And die. And die.

Head into work for a fun surprise! Courtesy of V!

Use your time powers to fix yet another problem of August's creation!

Attend a meeting at a dilapidated warehouse because if there's one thing criminals love it's cliches.

FUCK !!!

I can finally say the update is here!! I'm sorry it took me so long, especially given how short it is... A lot of that had to do with real life stuff slowing my progress down unfortunately.

I did also decide to end the chapter in an earlier place than originally intended, and have moved the later content to the start of chapter 5. It's not a huge amount that was moved, but given the chapter length I do still feel somewhat bad about it...

I sincerely hope all of you enjoy it regardless!! And please do let me know if you run into any bugs or other issues. I did my best when it came to bug testing but there's always a chance I missed something.

[Link] - Demo Update, Available Here!

(Make sure to start with a fresh save to avoid possible bugs caused by the old ones!)

[robotvampire]

[April 1, 2025]

This is the tenth demo update for Fellow Traveler. Episode 3, Act 2 has been added.

240k total, approximately 60k per playthrough.

You get to:

Experience some powerful magic

Finally meet Blair!!

Meet (at least some) of Blair's kids

Meet another interesting character

Answer some (maybe) difficult questions

As always, please remember to play through the demo from the beginning so that stats and such are up-to-date.

Play the demo here!

❤️

[midnight-bay-if]

Demo Update - 10/03/2025

Finally! I have a working update ready for you guys. To be honest, I had this ready a few days ago, but then my old friend, the inner voice, decided to pay me a visit, and that voice is only ever critical. So, I held off for a couple of days so the voice could quieten and I could share what I have done without belittling myself.

It's not the final version of this update. I've already marked a few things for rewrites and edits, but it should be a decent amount to sink your teeth into.

Also, as always, I would recommend starting with fresh saves.

Demo link here (Over 82,000 words)

[collegetennisoriginstory]

CT:OS Update #9 is live (Early-release)

Click here for the demo link: ko-fi / patreon supporters!

This chapter has a pretty beefy/substantial word-count of new scenes, and I managed to finish writing the third round match for the National Doubles tournament… though at the expense of more editing* (See below for a disclaimer). 

Features:

Fall festival (mini-car trip to a nearby town: hang out with your hallmates, feast on doughnuts and pies and apple cider, kiss in a corn maze with G) 🍂

Experience the fall-out and consequences of your Halloween Hookup (if you’d done something with Felix…) this got a lot lengthier than I thought (and very branchy) 🥀

Extra fall dates with Tobin/Rayyan (if romanced). This includes a hike or a run + dip in a frigid lake, respectively. 

Gear up for the National Doubles Tournament with your doubles partner 👯

Ride in the bus up to University of Philadelphia and play the first two rounds of the tournament.

Bump into a certain redhead who’s now more foe than friend (technically, anyway). 

Spend your first night in the hotel room (pre-match shenanigans with one particular character, for the brave and the lucky…) 🛏

The third-round match! 🎾 (win this, and you’re through to the quarter-finals!)  

There are also some extra scenes/changes I made to the earlier segments: 

The challenge match re-match against Deepal (and/or the player who managed to beat you), which means your highest rank is now No. 3

Valentina’s Tacos now plays Mexican music (Son Jarocho)

Bear with me as I continue editing/polishing the chapter, and as always, love you guys and hope you enjoy the new content!

<3 Allie

Disclaimer:

I’m still tweaking the chapter based on beta-testers’ feedback, so it may be less polished (bugs are probably there, lurking) but I should be able to clean it up within the next 2 days.

However, because COGdemos now bumps you all the way to the start whenever I change any scenes, if you don’t want to end up having to replay when I push the bug-fixes, then you might want to wait a little bit!