Hazard Heroines - the Maverick Manor
I'm raising funds for further framework improvements! My first goal is to commission an artist to create some new map tilesets. Anything put towards that payment goal is appreciated! ♥
Get hot and heavy this Halloween! 🎃
Entry #1 in the Hazard Heroines series, The Maverick Manor is an urban-fantasy short narrative RPG about two Undead Monstergirl special agents. Tasked with investigating a massive pulse of magic at a remote mansion on Halloween, Agents De-Animator - the half-Zombified scientist Helen East - and Unlucky 13 - the towering Revenant amazon Jaycie - find themselves whisked away to a manor-turned-madhouse! Displaced and corrupted by the whims of an arrogant Succubus, the separated Agents must fight for their freedom, regroup, and kick some Demonic ass!
For if they don't, then it's their asses on the line! ♥
For those unfamiliar with my works; Hazard Heroines - the Maverick Manor is a third person adult RPG that should take around 2 hours to complete, depending on reading speed. Expect tricky fights, exploration, and smutty surroundings and encounters!
For those returning from MERCANOID; welcome back! The Maverick Manor is my second game, fulfilling a long-held desire to create a game under a self-imposed October game jam. A test of overhauled systems and streamlined work methods, it was created over the course of 30 days to experiment with short games. The result is this 'Narrative Short' game, introducing an alternative setting to MERCANOID's Glowing World with Hazard Heroines. By streamlining out the weightier RPG aspects found in MERCANOID - and saving them for larger projects where they scale better - the result is a game with pre-defined characters with powerful playstyles, versus equally powerful foes. Learning their strengths is imperative to victory! Wait... Characters? Strengths, plural?
Yes, this is also an experiment in multiple protagonists! Experience a dual narrative chronicling Helen and Jaycie's respective gauntlets through the perverted Manor, and help them find their way home! And as usual, you don't have to lose to see the 'goods' - with a gallery now on-demand in the right sidebar!
- Monsters creep in the Manor! From tentacular abominations to corrupted Fae folk, they all have a taste for our plucky Undead protagonists. Fight to unlock a variety of kinky bad ends and work towards a happy ending - in every sense of the term! ♥ Kinks include Tentacles, Bondage, Breeding, Size Difference, Transformation, Possession and more!
- Spicier kinks not your thing? Filter harder kinks (consent-play, mind control/corruption and soft vore) to either Allow, Disable or Warn (preceding an affected scene with a more tasteful description to allow you to decide!). Filter masculine, feminine and monstrous partners, too!
- A streamlined take on my RPG framework, get acquainted with powerful characters and learn how to harness their strengths to achieve victory.
- A combat system designed around momentum and unhoardable resources. Status effects, weapon modifiers, elements, sub-equipment and more! Use every resource instead of spamming 'Attack'!
- Perverted possibilities lurk around every corner, surrounding a workplace romance that's about to boil over!
- Accessibility options such as text-resizing, content dividers and non-dialogue colour options!
- A small peek at a second big, wide world of adult weirdness!
A codex full of lore! -Coming in 1.1! - Don't lose to enjoy: winning fights unlocks scenes just as losing does, available for viewing at any time with the Fantasize function, now available anywhere, any time!
Planned Content for 1.1:
- Codex, to provide lore and background on the Hazard Heroines setting!
- Combat UI overhaul, as part of ongoing Framework improvements.
- Bugfixing!
For support, information, feedback and more, join my Discord!
Hazard Heroines - the Maverick Manor is free to play here on Itch.io. For a small price, it can be downloaded to keep, entitling the buyer to any future updates made to the game!
The game has been tested prior to release, but some bugs may still be present in new/overhauled Framework systems. If you encounter any bugs, please give a detailed report in the comments here, or ideally on my Discord above!
Pyksies can be found on...
Bluesky || Newgrounds || Right here!
No AI has been or will ever be used in the development of Pyksies' games. Game is designed with 1080p resolution in mind. Lower may struggle to fit content. Higher will require use of zoom and/or accessibility text size adjustment.
Purchase
In order to download this game you must purchase it at or above the minimum price of $2.97 USD. You will get access to the following files:
Development log
- HHTMM 1.0.8 Changelog13 days ago
- HHtMM 1.0.719 days ago
- HHTMM 1.0.6 Changelog22 days ago
- HHTMM 1.0.5 Changelog23 days ago
- HHtMM 1.0.4 Changelog25 days ago
- HHtMM 1.0.326 days ago
- HHtMM 1.0.2 Changelog26 days ago
- HHtMM - 1.0.127 days ago
Comments
Log in with itch.io to leave a comment.
Really enjoyed the game! The main heroines were cool, and I'd love seeing them pop up in future projects of yours if you decide to bring them back. I was also a fan of the possession scene. Easily my favorite of the Bad Ends. Loved the impersonation and sexy body theivery. I'd love to see more like it in your future games!
I'm glad you enjoyed! ♥ Helen and Jaycie likely won't star again, but they may appear in smaller roles in another game in the Hahazrd Heroines series, depending on where I take it!
Tried to play and got softlocked in the intro because I'm unable to switch between the different inventories. It says that the buttons to do so are underneath the inventory but that's at the bottom of my screen and I'm unable to scroll down any further.
As stated on the game's page, it is designed for a 1080p screen minimum, and it is not designed with Android or other mobile devices in mind unless they have the resolution required to play the game in landscape (ie, a tablet). If you are on a 1080p screen, you may need to check if your system's display setting are defaulting to a zoom-in (some laptops do this, defaulting to 125%). You can also manually adjust the game's zoom by whatever method your browser supports; usually ctrl+scroll.
If, however, you are on an Android device, then the page will have warned in advance that it is unlikely to work.
Just saw the other day that this was up, so now I've played through it. Here's my notes. First, the lone typo I spotted: in the pre-fight between Helen and the Pixie, you write "her eyes aren't as usual" rather than "as useful". Second, a bug: when I picked up the super evil knife, it went into the key items rather than weapons pocket, and then when I returned to Jaycie it had vanished. There wasn't any text about like, the other knives ganging up on it, so I assume that's not intended behavior.
The big critique I have is just that, while a boss rush with light puzzling is fun, it doesn't give you much opportunity to experiment with Helen or Jaycie's kits before you need to apply it. Some abilities do and some do not mention what dice they roll, and the evil knives didn't tell me how much damage they did either, and while I never did lose a fight I think some replenishing encounters to test things out on would have been nice. (Also, I like attrition being a challenge, and with the medikits it wasn't, though I fully admit that's a me preference and it worked fine without.) I'd have liked a bit more on Amy's deal, but that may well have dragged, and I would also have liked the last thing that happens to her to be a choice but I'm not really losing sleep over it.
Okay, that's all the negative I've got. Positive: I love these girls. Helen and Jaycie are good, and Darla is very relatable for me in particular, though I'm not as hung as her. They were fun to play in combat and to read their thoughts in exploring, and the narrative stutter makes me smile when that happens. Your writing is still real good, really evocative, and I liked that the girls were emotionally intelligent enough to know what's best but still emotional enough to feel things and get a bit caught up in them. The accessibility options were greatly appreciated too, as were the content filters. And, of course, I would have liked more, but it was great as is.
That's all I got. Hope you're doing well.
Thank you so much for your detailed thoughts!
- Typo; found and fixed. Thank you!
- Bug regarding the Incredible Evil Knife: Uh!... I have literally no idea how that could have happened. I just went back and checked, and the code is set up correctly, and when I picked it up it went into Subweapons as expected. Are you sure you checked the Subweapons section, not the Weapons section? I'm trying to think of how this could have happened, but nothing logical is springing to mind. Both girls get one gear upgrade of each type each, though they need to swap the weapons using the dumbwaiter.
- I agree with the critiques! They more or less all stem from the time limit I put myself under to create the game, the 30 day challenge - save for Helen and Jaycie's kits and the time you have to figure them out. I think the issue there is that there's two of 'em! Sharing the spotlight made it pretty tricky to figure out balance and progression for the pair, and they also had to share my limited time budget for inventory and gear creations. If I made this same length of game but with just one protagonist, I think I would've had a far easier time balancing them out from start to finish. I also didn't have time to balance the game nearly as well as I would have liked, so the original slow march of attrition idea became, as you say, a bossrush with each fight balanced around you being at 100%. I will say that while this was a compromise, a lot of people have been more favourable on it than they were on MERCANOID's approach, so it leaves me pretty torn. ^^;
- I'm going to be reworking some combat things further in 1.1, including an overhaul of the status effects system to make it less generic and more interactive.
- Thank you for the positives. ^^
Is there a hologram display main protagonist in game?
No. No there is not.
Love this game! Writing is superb !
Thank you! ♥
This is excellent, truly excellent. You should be proud!
I can only say that I'm hungry for more.
I'm glad you enjoyed it! I've got more games in the pipeline~.
What kinds of games? What will be the focus?
A variety. Hazard Heroines is intended to be a series, as the name implies, and these will be an anthology of heroines - super or otherwise - getting in over their heads. Content for these games is intended to be a little kinkier than my main series, The Glowing World, which my earlier release MERCANOID is part of. I still intend on making games in that setting, but they should be larger in scope and contain the full suite of my RPG mechanics, as opposed to these smaller streamlined games.
The other remaining setting I want to make is Vore-centric, but it is its own setting for the sake of quarantining its niche away from those squeamish within my core audience. ^^; That will also be a series, and the first of which is going to be the next game after I finish this game's 1.1 update, with some more framework overhauling and the Codex inclusion.
Ultimately, I want to do those two alternate settings as small release valve projects while I work on larger ones in my main world. Even if a game is 'focused' on a kink, it will still include other content I enjoy writing.
Ohhh so there will be more releases under the name Hazzard Heroines? Will there also be multiple Main Characters?
Will the vore in your new small game be the soft version like the Gulper and Travesty bad ends in MERCANOID?
really like this style of game, good job on this one. hope to see more from you. always love ghost and monster. even more so when there are bad ends.
I'm thrilled you enjoyed it! ♥
Comments are open, folks!