I'm very early in but I love this so far. It's very different from everything else out there. The story is strong and I love the characters. I've tried explaining to Devs that I don't need a harem, just one good woman and I've got that right out of the gate - so that's sorted and I can just focus on the story. (Though I will get mad if I'm not allowed to say no to the other women ... before anything happens at all.)
I'm just having issues actually playing the game i bought and unzip files but from there i can't seem to extract the exe and actually play so im just frustrated at this point
Hi, could you please send me an email at games.by.pandaman@gmail.com or join my Discord and message me there with details of what exactly is going wrong? Screenshots would be helpful. Usually, you just unzip the entire game to a folder and run the exe, so I'm not sure what could be going on.
Very cool game, several hours into it and not what I expected at all.
fyi for me the mac app in the zip didn't do anything, so in case this helps anyone with issues to run this on a mac I had to:
1. install renpy, use renpy to create a new project 2. unzip Price of Power, copy the "game" folder over the "game" folder in the new project. then you can open the new project and it will run.
Just one friendly tip, as I think this game is a hidden gem around here — if you advertise the other girl(s) as well in screenshots and maybe even game description, the game may get a bigger audience :)
I'm not going to, but you can feel free to modify the game however you want. Any modifications you make won't be supported and I can't help with them at all.
Do you use Steam? If so, I can get you a Steam key. If not, I'll get a DL mirror for you. Message me on Discord (thepandaman) or email me (games.by.pandaman@gmail.com) and we'll figure it out. :)
I had a similar problem. What might help is to publish a zip containing just the files that changed since the previous chapter. That should be significantly smaller, considering how you've structured the game files.
Is there (or can there be) a way to download the game without using the MEGA desktop app?
(It used to work fine just doing it in browser but apparently it's too big for that now: "insufficient buffer to decrypt data in the browser" seems to be the relevant part of the error message.)
Do you use Steam? If so, I can get you a Steam key. If not, I'll get a DL mirror for you. Message me on Discord (thepandaman) or email me (games.by.pandaman@gmail.com) and we'll figure it out. :)
Thank you for this awesome game, i'm enjoying every second of it. Already replaying for the 5th time, very addictive, love the relationship . Keep going, great game!
That was actually a quite enjoyable game until the latest chapters.
A bit of degeneracy is to be expected from a country which elected authoritarian libtard feminist cuckboy Justin "Blackface" Trudeau, but the last few chapters take the cake.
It's time to wipe out the woke mind virus. It's time for vaccine mandates.
Im currently playing through chapter 1 and i am hooked enough to have bought it outright. I love VNs with great story and strong character depth. Keep up the good work.
Seconding (or more:) the request for a demo on itch - I don't use discord (or much else in the way of social media), so that's no good to me, sadly. Plus I'd expect that the lower you make the barrier to trying the demo, the more people will do so (which should mean more sales)!
Worth noting that the mac packaging doesn't seem to work (at least for me). It looks like you are trying to move the actual "game" folder with the game data out of the .app, but it doesn't work on my machine. When I copy a working renpy app and paste in your game folder in the right spot, everything works, but it does appear to need that level of surgery to run.
Interesting, you're the only person to have reported that... I'll check around with other users and see what's going on. It's the standard Renpy packaging for Windows/Linux/Mac OS X, so it should work fine.
game is on chapter 8 but has no sexual content yet? im assume thats wrond due to screenshots on steam, update the itch desc if so and if not ill delete my comment when replied to.
never heard about this game, but when i read "it's story driven" and "the plot is the star" I became interested. I love when developer respect our human brains and don't treat us like horn dogs. jokes aside great job my man keep it up.
Some typos up to chapter 7. Not much just every now and then. Some sentences also need work as it will repeat words accidently as well.
I feel like it would be nice to have a scene showing when you enter a new chapter, but that is just preference.
The benign narrator (before you figure things out) is VERY bothersome to me and I even started skipping those times as that broke my immersion/annoyed me ( I stopped skipping when I figured things out as it became a lot more entertaining and actually felt relevant).
Even after Figuring out WHY it was like that, I think it would be better overall for the story, other readers, etc to remove its interactions/narrations as the purpose it serves up to the WHY is almost meaningless in the grand scheme of things (Up to the reveal moment). To add to that I believe the revelation of it would have a better impact if all of it was removed up to that point.
Better yet, If you just took every narrative moment and played it as a sort of "flashback" type scene which would THEN go to the encounter. That would be much better as well.
Basically. I feel even knowing why, it hurts the story more than anything as it currently is. I mean no disrespect.
Either way. I enjoyed it up to what has been released up to this moment.
I have seen there is an apparent ability to maybe harem route. But I really see no "natural" reason why this would happen unless 1) you beat it normally once and want to see it 2) are a natural douche lmfao
And I am a fan of harem shit.
OH! Some scenes where MC & MFL are running look very weird and were distracting.
I don't feel there is enough of a story to fully rate right now. But it definitely picked up from the "revelation" moment onwards. It's definitely (as stated) a slow burn. But it REALLY is lol.
Overall though. I have some thoughts on where I think this is going/could go, and I am looking forward to the rest of it. Great work. Definitely in the top tier rank of these VN's at least for now in terms of quality & story.
P.s. Choices are pretty minor right now & are more for flavor than impact IMO. BUT, there is what? 23 chapters to go? So maybe with time that changes.
Not a big deal if you are here for story as it is interesting.
Seems pretty interesting, I do enjoy a story driven visual novel with meaningful shit and not that fap stuff made for pervs by pervs
Also to those complaining about no sexual content and not wanting to play a visual novel without sexual content.. No disrespect but yall sound like pervy virgins complaining about shit like that..do yourselves a favour and go have real sex instead of living vicariously through these VNs like defuq get a girlfriend man
I agree.. the straight no story sex games get deleted quickly by me. Everyone loves some nudity but these are novels or at least mostly listed as so. If there is a crappy story im just done...
It's a major let down bruh.. Me personally I'm there for the story not the lewd stuff.. Without the story it's just a porn game and what's enjoyable about that
With the Romanceable characters is it going to be choice driven or linear story. Right now he seems to only have eyes for the noble woman even with the herbalist being there despite the past they share.
Maria is the main LI, so she's mandatory. Whether you attempt to romance other characters as well is up to you. I can guarantee that there will be at least two good endings (Maria-only and harem), but achieving the latter ending will take some work, since Maria isn't the sharing type...
Been really enjoying this romance so far, but one thing that keeps popping up that feels out of place is that weird narrator thingy. All it does is interrupt the flow of things to spout some nihilistic nonsense or an out of place joke.
Anyway, other than that, it's been a real heartwarming, and dare I say cute, story. I'm glad that it's not just filled with creepy encounters and horny shenanigans.
Guys don't look just the sex content in this games look for the hole game. For example the game once in a life time. There was sex content but the story really gave me feelings
"this is a slow burn romance game that will eventually have sexual content."
Sorry if this wasn't what you were looking for, but this is definitely not just a porn game. The plot and characters are the stars here, not the sex content.
This is a fantastic thing, imo. It's so hard to find a good VN in this style that isn't just a porno about you dicking down every woman you stumble upon.
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I'm very early in but I love this so far. It's very different from everything else out there. The story is strong and I love the characters. I've tried explaining to Devs that I don't need a harem, just one good woman and I've got that right out of the gate - so that's sorted and I can just focus on the story. (Though I will get mad if I'm not allowed to say no to the other women ... before anything happens at all.)
You can (in my opinion) very easily stay on the Maria solo path without other girls jumping in. :)
Good to know. I've played a few games where it says "you get to decide" but then throws in sex scenes that happen automatically.
I'm just having issues actually playing the game i bought and unzip files but from there i can't seem to extract the exe and actually play so im just frustrated at this point
Hi, could you please send me an email at games.by.pandaman@gmail.com or join my Discord and message me there with details of what exactly is going wrong? Screenshots would be helpful. Usually, you just unzip the entire game to a folder and run the exe, so I'm not sure what could be going on.
Very cool game, several hours into it and not what I expected at all.
fyi for me the mac app in the zip didn't do anything, so in case this helps anyone with issues to run this on a mac I had to:
1. install renpy, use renpy to create a new project
2. unzip Price of Power, copy the "game" folder over the "game" folder in the new project. then you can open the new project and it will run.
Just one friendly tip, as I think this game is a hidden gem around here — if you advertise the other girl(s) as well in screenshots and maybe even game description, the game may get a bigger audience :)
Hi, can I ask why you removed the text settings and also the relationship with the moon and beyond can be developed?
Привет, могу ли я спросить, почему вы удалили настройки текста, а также можно развивать?
Hi, you can ask, you can add a multimode and a mod or a cheat mod to the game so that you can choose all the skills and not just some?
I'm not going to, but you can feel free to modify the game however you want. Any modifications you make won't be supported and I can't help with them at all.
So I bought a game and cannot download it, because its size exceeds MEGAs free tier, seriously?
Do you use Steam? If so, I can get you a Steam key. If not, I'll get a DL mirror for you. Message me on Discord (thepandaman) or email me (games.by.pandaman@gmail.com) and we'll figure it out. :)
I had a similar problem. What might help is to publish a zip containing just the files that changed since the previous chapter. That should be significantly smaller, considering how you've structured the game files.
Is there (or can there be) a way to download the game without using the MEGA desktop app?
(It used to work fine just doing it in browser but apparently it's too big for that now: "insufficient buffer to decrypt data in the browser" seems to be the relevant part of the error message.)
Chrome seems to work for me
Do you use Steam? If so, I can get you a Steam key. If not, I'll get a DL mirror for you. Message me on Discord (thepandaman) or email me (games.by.pandaman@gmail.com) and we'll figure it out. :)
Thank you for this awesome game, i'm enjoying every second of it. Already replaying for the 5th time, very addictive, love the relationship . Keep going, great game!
That was actually a quite enjoyable game until the latest chapters.
A bit of degeneracy is to be expected from a country which elected authoritarian libtard feminist cuckboy Justin "Blackface" Trudeau, but the last few chapters take the cake.
It's time to wipe out the woke mind virus. It's time for vaccine mandates.
Is there a demo of this game available?
Im currently playing through chapter 1 and i am hooked enough to have bought it outright. I love VNs with great story and strong character depth. Keep up the good work.
or please sepperate mac and pc from one another as its causing conflict on my pc
iv bought the game what's the steam code for download?
Could you provide a 1 chapter, or ideally a 1-3 chapter Demo? I've been burnt before, shall we just say.
Also, are you planning to bring the FULL game to Itch.io? I prefer to play these games on here, and not on Steam ;)
Not a bad idea... Join my Discord and DM me and I'll hook you up with a demo? :) https://discord.gg/wn47JAMZv4
Seconding (or more:) the request for a demo on itch - I don't use discord (or much else in the way of social media), so that's no good to me, sadly. Plus I'd expect that the lower you make the barrier to trying the demo, the more people will do so (which should mean more sales)!
Awsome game 😉😉😉😉😉
Worth noting that the mac packaging doesn't seem to work (at least for me). It looks like you are trying to move the actual "game" folder with the game data out of the .app, but it doesn't work on my machine. When I copy a working renpy app and paste in your game folder in the right spot, everything works, but it does appear to need that level of surgery to run.
Fun game once I got it to run, though.
Interesting, you're the only person to have reported that... I'll check around with other users and see what's going on. It's the standard Renpy packaging for Windows/Linux/Mac OS X, so it should work fine.
I'm also on M1, which might affect things.
Checked with some other people who know more about Renpy - it might be an issue of OS X quarantining the Renpy app. Here are two known workarounds:
1) Show package content on app > contents > macOS - open executable file.
2)
Open terminal.
Paste (with a space at the end):
xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine
Drag the app onto the terminal, so you get something like
xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Users/<username>/Games/Price-Of-Power/Price-Of-Power.app (file path/names may vary)
Run that command. The app should now open properly every time without needing to locate and run the internal executable.
Do either of those work?
Interesting. The first one opened the game, but double clicking on the .app still didn't work. The second fixed things entirely.
The odd thing is that most renpy apps work fine without this. Not sure why yours and a couple others are unhappy, while the rest work.
I don't know why either, since I'm on the latest public release of Renpy... But I'm glad this fixed the issue.
game is on chapter 8 but has no sexual content yet? im assume thats wrond due to screenshots on steam, update the itch desc if so and if not ill delete my comment when replied to.
Nude en kissing, no sex.
This is the best story driven game i played
never heard about this game, but when i read "it's story driven" and "the plot is the star" I became interested. I love when developer respect our human brains and don't treat us like horn dogs. jokes aside great job my man keep it up.
Some typos up to chapter 7. Not much just every now and then. Some sentences also need work as it will repeat words accidently as well.
I feel like it would be nice to have a scene showing when you enter a new chapter, but that is just preference.
The benign narrator (before you figure things out) is VERY bothersome to me and I even started skipping those times as that broke my immersion/annoyed me ( I stopped skipping when I figured things out as it became a lot more entertaining and actually felt relevant).
Even after Figuring out WHY it was like that, I think it would be better overall for the story, other readers, etc to remove its interactions/narrations as the purpose it serves up to the WHY is almost meaningless in the grand scheme of things (Up to the reveal moment). To add to that I believe the revelation of it would have a better impact if all of it was removed up to that point.
Better yet, If you just took every narrative moment and played it as a sort of "flashback" type scene which would THEN go to the encounter. That would be much better as well.
Basically. I feel even knowing why, it hurts the story more than anything as it currently is. I mean no disrespect.
Either way. I enjoyed it up to what has been released up to this moment.
I have seen there is an apparent ability to maybe harem route. But I really see no "natural" reason why this would happen unless 1) you beat it normally once and want to see it 2) are a natural douche lmfao
And I am a fan of harem shit.
OH! Some scenes where MC & MFL are running look very weird and were distracting.
I don't feel there is enough of a story to fully rate right now. But it definitely picked up from the "revelation" moment onwards. It's definitely (as stated) a slow burn. But it REALLY is lol.
Overall though. I have some thoughts on where I think this is going/could go, and I am looking forward to the rest of it. Great work. Definitely in the top tier rank of these VN's at least for now in terms of quality & story.
P.s. Choices are pretty minor right now & are more for flavor than impact IMO. BUT, there is what? 23 chapters to go? So maybe with time that changes.
Not a big deal if you are here for story as it is interesting.
This is probably the best romance game I've played, keep up the good work!
sir where can we get the public release of chapter 5 of this game
Seems pretty interesting, I do enjoy a story driven visual novel with meaningful shit and not that fap stuff made for pervs by pervs
Also to those complaining about no sexual content and not wanting to play a visual novel without sexual content.. No disrespect but yall sound like pervy virgins complaining about shit like that..do yourselves a favour and go have real sex instead of living vicariously through these VNs like defuq get a girlfriend man
Ahahhaha Lol.
I agree.. the straight no story sex games get deleted quickly by me. Everyone loves some nudity but these are novels or at least mostly listed as so. If there is a crappy story im just done...
It's a major let down bruh.. Me personally I'm there for the story not the lewd stuff.. Without the story it's just a porn game and what's enjoyable about that
They make pornhub for that lol
Lol facts bruh
With the Romanceable characters is it going to be choice driven or linear story. Right now he seems to only have eyes for the noble woman even with the herbalist being there despite the past they share.
Maria is the main LI, so she's mandatory. Whether you attempt to romance other characters as well is up to you. I can guarantee that there will be at least two good endings (Maria-only and harem), but achieving the latter ending will take some work, since Maria isn't the sharing type...
Been really enjoying this romance so far, but one thing that keeps popping up that feels out of place is that weird narrator thingy. All it does is interrupt the flow of things to spout some nihilistic nonsense or an out of place joke.
Anyway, other than that, it's been a real heartwarming, and dare I say cute, story. I'm glad that it's not just filled with creepy encounters and horny shenanigans.
The Benign Narrative Entity is supposed to feel like that - you'll get a lot more explanation in Chapter 5, promise. :)
How many romanceable characters are there and will there be more in future updates?
There will be up to 4. :)
does chapter 1 come when you download it or just 2?
All inclusive. :)
I got it, thanks.
Guys don't look just the sex content in this games look for the hole game. For example the game once in a life time. There was sex content but the story really gave me feelings
Update us when there will be sexual content, I didn't click the ADULT tab or real love and romance
yes bos! NO ADULT NO PLAY
I am a adult.
i mean the game...no adult "content", no"t" play"ing"
"this is a slow burn romance game that will eventually have sexual content."
Sorry if this wasn't what you were looking for, but this is definitely not just a porn game. The plot and characters are the stars here, not the sex content.
This is a fantastic thing, imo. It's so hard to find a good VN in this style that isn't just a porno about you dicking down every woman you stumble upon.