Hello everyone! First and foremost, we, the Top House team, would like to thank you all for your support! We were on Patreon and itch.io for a long time, and we struggled to work on the project when we didn’t have as much feedback from you

Now when there’s so many of you - 1500+ users on Discord and more than 130 patrons! - we have a huge boost in motivation and creativity. We are making development easier and faster and giving the project our everything! From the bottom of our hearts, thank you.

Today we would like to tell you about the things we’re making for future builds, and how the game will change going forward. We’ve already begun working on them, and you can always check on our progress on our Discord server, in the channel #build-progress. We update our progress every week or so.

We want to see Wanderer as something more than a point-and-click adventure with visual novel elements. Here are the mechanics you can expect to see in the future.

Classes

The Wanderer’s main adversity is not in his abrupt transport into another world, but the hard laborious process of education in the Academy, where your knowledge decides everything! The player will be able to attend classes, view his timetable and check his attendance records. Passing the classes with a high grade will reward the player with experience, new cards for battles, new quests and unique events.

Classes can be regular or special. Regular classes will contain various mini-games with a linear difficulty curve, and special ones will contain plot scenes and special mechanics.

Card battles

As fate itself has chosen our Wanderer, he must (and sometimes - forced to) stand and fight for his honor, battling monsters and saving fair maidens. (Not 100% accurate)

The card battle system is based on the deckbuilding roguelike game Slay the Spire. After meeting up with his companion (a major spoiler; though fans of Zero no Tsukaima already know what’s up) you’ll unlock multiple paths to hone and master your skills and deckbuilding mechanics.

Romance

Forming a relationship with the Academy’s students is a major part of the game. From flirting and presents to personal quests and dialogue choices, everything will affect how your relationship evolves. You’ll also have the opportunity to expose the more lecherous aspects of the characters, invite them over to your room, give them lewd gifts and explore the world of sex and pleasure with them!

You can also unlock new costumes for your maidens and ask them to try it out! The costumes will vary in their designs, rareness and lewdness. Some costumes will be purchasable, but you can get some of them unlock by completing personal quests and hidden achievements. The more romance and lust you gain with a character - the more willing the characters are to try more risky outfits.

Mail

The mail pipe in the MC’s room allows you to send letters to characters and order items with the help of a certain trader. He lacks in assortment a bit, but the access to lewd gifts and anonymous delivery inside the Academy’s walls more than make up for it.

When you progress a relationship with a character, you can get their postal stamps to mail them and invite them over. Not all girls are fine with receiving gifts in public (especially lewd ones!), and mail can help with that. Though, you can do more with them in your room than share gifts...

Journal

We heard your feedback, and decided to implement some new features in the up and coming builds. This includes:

• Gallery to re-watch unlocked sex scenes;
• Codex , where we explain how the fuck does the game work clearly and concisely
• Cheat-codes for patrons

Part of journal’s features will be included in the next build.

Also, our narrative designer will tweak and improve some existing quests to make them more accessible and interesting!

This concludes the list of features that you can expect in the future. If you have any feedback or suggestions - feel free to communicate. We’ll be happy to discuss it in Discord! We intend to post more gameplay videos and sneak-peeks as our work continues.

P.S. Not all listed features will appear in the immediate next build. Thanks for your patience! Yours, Top House team.