A Neon Fallacy

by NovahViking

2.9 (2 votes)

Godot Completed v0.04 Alpha

Game Details

Version: v0.04 Alpha
Developer: NovahViking
Engine: Godot
Status: Completed
OS
Language: English
Censored: No
Updated: 29 August 2026

About

Dex just moved to Fairview and has no idea what he's doing yet, which is the point of this opening alpha. He's unpacking into a new apartment, meeting housemates, and figuring out the DexPhone while broke and low on energy.

The setup is simple urban-life-sim scaffolding rather than a finished story: rent needs paying, jobs need doing, and relationships start from zero. Later arcs are promised but not here yet, so what exists is the first stretch of missions and the groundwork for the systems built on top of it.

Day to day, you're juggling cash, energy, and a mission tracker while poking around the city and an early inventory/business layer that's clearly built to expand later. Relationship progress runs alongside it, including the option to steer clear of NTR/NTS entirely if that's not your thing. It's an alpha in the honest sense, small, unbalanced in places, but already built around the loop it wants to grow into.

Changelog

v0.0.4

MAJOR ADDITIONS
Completely redesigned Central Slums map and navigation.
Added illustrated district locations, clearer labels, outlines and map zoom.
Introduced the first major Meridian Society pressure and consequence storyline.
Expanded ownership and management systems for the Bodega, motel, laundromat, pawn shop, gym, peep show, First Unit and other businesses.
Added the Route Ledger for tracking important decisions, evidence and consequences.
Added surveillance operations with selectable evidence, discovered information and persistent fallout.
Expanded the DexPhone with daily messages, relationship controls and clearer unread notifications.
Expanded the laptop with character dossiers, business information, surveillance records, evidence and private notes.
Added repeatable apartment parties with authored conversations, different character combinations, relationship outcomes and follow-up messages.
Added 10 manual save slots with separate Save and Load screens.
Added keyboard controls and an in-game hotkey guide for jobs and minigames.
Added NEFFEX – “Statement” to the main-menu presentation.
STORY AND CHARACTERS
Added a complete early Meridian pressure arc involving interference with Dex’s businesses and relationships.
Meridian now remembers Dex’s strategies and can respond differently to his decisions.
Expanded story content for Uncle Jay, Mara, Belle, Nacho, Caroline, Anita, Shannon, Melody, Lucia, Jo-Ann and Dex’s housemates.
Added more witnessed NPC conversations and information Dex can learn without directly participating.
Added more player choices, callbacks and consequences.
Improved mission guidance, progression breadcrumbs and blocked-mission explanations.
Added new Jo-Ann relationship and personal-story content.
Expanded Belle and Nacho’s developing storyline.
Expanded housemate reactions to Dex’s behaviour, promises, reputation and sexual history.
RELATIONSHIPS
Reworked relationships so affection, attraction, commitment and jealousy can develop separately.
Added clearer relationship boundaries and intentions.
Characters can date, change partners, break up, visit rooms and attend social events.
Added relationship rivalry, confessions and character-specific reactions.
Added more authored emotional follow-ups across the main cast.
NTR/NTS-related content remains avoidable through player choices and relationship settings.
Improved relationship menus and explanations.
BUSINESSES AND JOBS
Expanded business setup, investment, staffing, stock, pricing, policies, income, expenses and management events.
Added business pressure, neglect consequences and repeatable location events.
Fixed shared-business costs so Dex no longer pays every expense while receiving only a fraction of the revenue.
Rebalanced investments and earnings to reduce unnecessary grinding.
Expanded First Unit with clients, workers, trust, fatigue, boundaries, agreements, pay, safety incidents, meetings and departure consequences.
Added more connections between Mara, Meridian, Uncle Jay, workers and Dex’s owned businesses.
Added distinct minigames with grades, streaks, mastery, standing and contract progression.
Added keyboard shortcuts alongside the existing mouse controls.
Improved job feedback and reward clarity.
Improved NPC schedules and their presence at workplaces and locations.
NEW AND EXPANDED ART
Added 21 dedicated apartment-party images:
3 atmosphere images
15 character-pair images
3 party-ending images
Added new Meridian, surveillance, evidence and Route Ledger artwork.
Added new business, location, character-introduction and consequence images.
Expanded artwork for Naomi, Melinda, Talia, Jo-Ann, Belle, Nacho, Dex and the housemates.
Added more dedicated room-visit and relationship artwork.
Replaced many reused images, placeholders and title-card fallbacks with scene-specific artwork.
Improved character cards and dossiers so they display larger, clearer images.
Enlarged important motel and investigation clues.
NEW AND EXPANDED VIDEOS
Expanded the runtime video library from 29 clips in v0.0.3 to 103 clips in v0.0.4.
Added 74 additional runtime video clips overall.
Added and expanded adult scenes for Naomi, Melinda and Talia.
Added more Dex bedroom, room-visit, bathroom, shower and workplace sequences.
Added new business and location-based adult encounters.
Added new Raina Bodega and Sonia laundromat after-hours material.
Added dedicated oral clips for Velvet, Candy and Nova.
Added new kiss, oral and sex variations for supported room visits.
Added additional alley, motel, gym, laundromat, pawn shop, peep show and work-room media.
Removed mismatched clips and prevented unrelated videos from appearing in scene rotations.
Explicit videos now display cleanly without unnecessary interface overlays.
Fixed stretched and incorrectly cropped video playback.
Optimised video files and removed superseded source media from the release build.
UI AND QUALITY-OF-LIFE
Added text-scaling options.
Improved responsive layout across different resolutions.
Added larger artwork and tighter information panels.
Improved choice presentation and mission hints.
Added scrolling to larger action menus so options are no longer hidden.
Improved phone, laptop, relationship, business and character interfaces.
Added a proper application icon.
Improved navigation and loading performance.
Improved caching and dynamic media discovery.
FIXES
Fixed Naomi bedroom and keyhole media not being reachable correctly.
Fixed repeated intimacy with the same person incorrectly increasing partner-history counts.
Reduced runaway sabotage and excessive relationship-pressure chains.
Improved recovery from negative relationship and business events.
Fixed interface layers appearing over explicit scenes.
Fixed overlapping, cropped or incorrectly spaced UI elements.
Fixed several mission-progression and objective-clarity problems.
Improved Naomi’s notebook-related progression.
Fixed missing or inaccessible business dashboard actions.
Fixed dynamic media being missing from exported builds.
Improved cold-start, save/load and release-build stability.
PLAYER NOTES
Extract the complete archive before playing.
Keep the executable and PCK file together.
Some v0.0.3 saves may load, but starting a new game is strongly recommended.
All depicted characters are fictional adults aged 18 or older.
This remains an early alpha. Naomi and Melinda currently have the deepest routes, while several supporting routes and East Ward content are still being expanded.

v0.03 Alpha

New Gameplay / Systems
Expanded Central Slums side-business systems with buy-ins, setup routes, daily ledgers, weekly pressure events, managers, and business dashboard summaries.
Added clearer bodega ownership progression, partner actions, business previews, and heat/stock pressure.
Added Uncle Jay property-route content, including first favor and safe-room progression.
Added Mara/real-estate hooks for future property and district expansion.
Added numeric stat requirement feedback across missions, jobs, repeatable events, business actions, and blockers.
Added hygiene as a short-term condition stat capped at 100, with decay and low-hygiene social blocking.
Story / Missions
Added second-wave and third-wave housemate missions for Naomi, Melinda, and Christian.
Added support story intros/content for Melody, Lucia, Caroline, Anita, and Shannon.
Improved mission log readability with clearer current steps, location guidance, blocker hints, and save/load reliability.
Rewrote and tightened early intro/opening text for clearer character motivation and flow.
Apartment / Relationship / Privacy
Upgraded keyhole/peek presentation away from the old placeholder look.
Added apartment privacy interactions, including Dex reacting while watching valid peek media.
Added bathroom entry behavior, including safer relationship/intimacy paths and risky barge-in paths.
Improved relationship guardrails so Dex no longer gains hidden intimacy stats from automatic/off-screen relationship events.
Reduced runaway jealousy/rivalry pressure, especially cases where high romance and high rivalry could block intimacy progression.
Expanded Naomi/Melinda room-visit and peek media routing.
Adult / NTR / NTS Content
Added three new Naomi/Melinda NTS/NTR room-visit video variants.
Expanded encouraged/rival room visits so outcomes can escalate from private time to kissing, oral, or sex depending on relationship pressure.
Isolated NPC room-visit media from ordinary bedroom peeks so private/NTR/NTS content only appears in the correct context.
Added/queued adult media support for room visits, peep show, motel, Naomi, Melinda, and Dex private-time loops.
Repeatable Events / Daily Play
Expanded repeatable event density across apartment, bodega, street, motel, laundromat, peep show, and other everyday locations.
Added proactive NPC pursuit/event beats so the city feels less static.
Improved repeatable-event UI handling for still images and supported video fallbacks.
Added business media pools for Cheap Motel, Peep Show, and motel cleanup loops.
Improved hustle/minigame presentation and readability.
Art / Media
Added or updated 584 runtime images and 8 runtime videos since v0.0.2.
Current v0.0.3 candidate contains 1,038 images and 29 videos.
Expanded public-facing support cast art and visitor coverage.
Added/updated assets for laundromat, dive bar, alley/street, neighborhood support cast, and premium-story characters.
Added Melody and Lucia intro support and full-body cutout slots.
Continued OGV/video runtime support for in-game media.
UI / Fixes / Polish
Fixed apartment/room social panel text overlap.
Fixed bodega regulars feedback layout collisions.
Fixed laundromat sort text overlap.
Fixed room preview caption overflow.
Fixed alley and bodega repeat-click/action delay issues.
Fixed room-visit peek/knock feedback readability.
Fixed apartment exterior phone HUD visibility.
Fixed missing/mismatched portrait/resource paths found during the release sweep.
Improved UI overflow handling across menus, ledgers, mission details, location panels, and repeatable event cards.
Improved player-facing blocker messages for money, energy, items, relationship progress, hygiene, and stat requirements.
Build Notes
Windows build now ships as EXE + PCK. Extract both files into the same folder before launching.
Keeping the PCK separate reduced the Windows archive size to about 284 MB, over 50% smaller than the previous Windows archive despite the larger media library.
macOS build is also available as a complete app bundle.
macOS build is unsigned/unnotarized, so Mac users may need to right-click the app and choose Open on first launch.
Known Notes
District map overhaul is planned for later and is not part of v0.0.3.
Some future direct private-scene and business-loop media is already queued but not fully built out yet.
Caroline Moretti premium-story cutout still needs additional polish.

v0.02 Alpha : First Foothold

Major expansion to early-game content and pacing.
Added new housemate mission chains for Naomi, Melinda, Christian, and Uncle Jay.
Added introductory missions for Caroline Moretti, Anita Velvet, and Shannon Valen.
Added Mara Vale as a new real-estate contact for future apartment/business content.
Expanded bodega ownership and business systems.
Added early buy-in hooks for other Central Slums businesses.
Reworked bodega management with clearer day-to-day business metrics and feedback.
Added repeatable early-game events with cooldown balancing.
Added deeper NPC social systems, including NPC conversations, relationship movement, attraction, rivalry, dating, and room invite behavior.
Added apartment privacy interactions: knock, peek, leave note, and room visit handling.
Added new phone systems, including improved phone visuals, contacts/messages/feed/pulse style features, and cleaner relationship/social summaries.
Added collectibles and art finds that can appear in Dex’s room or art folder.
Added/updated 100 images and 14 runtime videos this build.
Current runtime media totals: 682 images and 18 runtime videos.
Added new intro video flow, developer splash/logo, and adult content age warning.
Reworked the Central Slums district map using the new asset-built map system.
Improved map pins, map centering, and location readability.
Improved many UI layouts to reduce overlap, overflow, and scrollbar reliance.
Fixed multiple NPC presence issues where characters were listed at locations but not visible/interactable.
Fixed several mission flow, button result, stat tracking, and relationship reporting issues.
Added Web and macOS export support alongside Windows.
Release builds now exclude dev tools and the city builder.
Reduced build size by removing legacy unused map assets from active exports.