Hardenville [v0.2.1]

What is Hardenville?
Hardenville is an adult Visual Novel on Mac and Windows. This enthralling game features:

• Beautiful Illustrations: Engage with stunning visuals that bring the story to life.
• Captivating Storylines: Delve into a world filled with drama, romance, moral dilemmas, and deep emotions.
• Mature Themes: Explore mature themes like sex and nudity. (Note: All characters depicted are 18+ years old.)
• An Expansive World: With The Prologue as a starting point, the upcoming Episodes 1 to 9 promise 1000 images and 25 animations each, offering substantial content.

Who Are We?
We are JoyFI Games, a small and dedicated team with a shared love for adult Visual Novels. Although Hardenville is our debut project, our collective experience with this genre will shine through every choice and consequence in the game.

How Can You Support?
Your support is vital to our dream, enabling us to create better images, animations, expand our team, and so much more. Whether big or small, your contribution will help make Hardenville one of the best VNs to date.

What’s Under the Hood?
Hardenville is crafted with Daz Studio and Ren’Py, showcasing the best in visual and interactive design. Static images are rendered in 4k, while animations are rendered in 1080p, then upscaled to 4k for an immersive experience.

Stay Connected:
Patreon: Support us here
SubscriberStar:Support us here
Steam:Add to your wishlist

CHEATS:
• nomoreads: This cheat code enables a toggle in the settings to enable or disable links to SubscriberStar, Patreon, Discord, Steam, and Itch.io.
• galleryforall: Use this code to unlock the gallery.
• cashmoneyflow: Activating this cheat adds $10 in-game. Please note that it can only be activated in the in-game menu and not on the main menu

v0.2.1

• Added a safe save zone after Episode 1
• Added a skip button to the intro animation
• Added more gallery images, including special and monthly renders from the past year
• Added Q.Save and Q.Load in the quick menu
• Added subtitles to the intro animation
• Added the ability to select which chapter to start from and which path to choose
• Corrected grammatical errors
• Improved the quality of the intro animation
• Included one missing image of Jasmine in the gallery
• Overhauled the gallery UI to better match the rest of the interface
• Split the audio of the intro animation into three groups: music, ambient, and voice

v0.2.0

• 13 new gallery images
• 2 new mini-games: handball shoot-out and never have I ever
• Added the skip option back in the preferences
• Can now choose whether to call the landlord and landlady by their name or relation
• Changed music provider, all new songs, now with song name and artist displayed
• Continuation of the story with twice the content of the Prologue
• Corrected some screens that were not being pointed back to the correct screen
• Emojis in text messages
• Fixed a few persistent values not being saved
• New animations
• New contacts
• New residents
• Some new sound effects, with more to be added soon
• Slightly faster UI
• Slightly new UI look

v0.1.2

• Added over 30 new backgrounds
• Added more SFX
• Added more SMS conversations
• Adjustments to the ending
• Changed the replay feature
• Improved the bonding app with separate friendly and romantic points
• Improved the SMS app
• Option to enable/disable certain kinks in a new app
• Option to enable/disable consequence notifications in phone settings

v0.1.2 | Hotfix #1
Added requested country flag backgrounds for the in-game phone:

• Argentina
• Austria
• Belarus
• Belgium
• Bulgaria
• Colombia
• Cyprus
• Czech Republic
• Greece
• Poland
• Romania
• South Africa
• South Korea
• Switzerland
• Thailand
• Turkey
• Venezuela

v0.1.1

• Added a hint for the phone’s location
• Added another gallery image
• Corrected some grammar and modified certain dialogues
• Enhanced the gloryhole scene, removing references to the bartender
• Fixed the issue where the warning popup was displaying at the beginning of the story even if ‘Don’t ask again’ was selected at startup
• Increased the size of the home button on the phone
• Improved some of the renders
• Made the mini-game ‘rock, paper, scissors’ skippable
• MC can now exit the GH scene
• Removed some unnecessary choices
• The phone screen now appears automatically when needed to answer

v0.1.0
Initial Release
In this release, you can enjoy approximately 45 minutes of linear gameplay. But that’s just the beginning! We have some exciting news – Episode 1 is set to launch late December or early January, and it will contain more than twice the content of the Prologue.