This project got away from me a bit, but here it is!

Introducing - Hearth: an interactive story engine for SolarOS and the Web!

Features:

• Uses an open, human readable and writeable file standard (.hearth)
• SolarOS as a first class citizen platform
• Web-based player
• Multiple save slots for each story
• Easy to Use online Story Studio
• The ability to export a transcript of your playthrough (full transcript on web, limited on SolarOS)
• Support for branching narratives, variables, conditions, and user text input
• In-line markdown support for Bold, Italics, and Strikethrough
• An online "Featured Stories" repository

You can get Hearth on the Playground now!
I hope you all enjoy Hearth and I extra hope you share stories of your own for others to enjoy!

According to latest communication with CoG, the DLC for Life as a Lich should come out next month (Oct 2026?). This update to the game represents ~58,000 words of extra content to the game, including many bugfixes, improvements, extra side missions, and an expanded length of the main sequence of play (by +15%). It should be easier to talk/RO the NPCs (due to bugs they sometimes appeared distant), research new spells, explore new locations, and even have a pet demon cat!

v.1.2.0.

-If the rats ate them from your library, you can now learn Transmute Iron into Gold and Transmute Gold into Titanium from the Ossis Bibliotheca.

-Fighting clerics in battle will be far harder now, as they can crumble your minions into dust.

-Expanded length of main sequence of games by ~15%

-Added a guide to some of the game's main mechanics

-Added one more ending.

-For DLC: 3 new spells to summon demonic felines (level 1: cat, level 2: lynx, level 3: panther)

-For DLC: added 3rd level spell Transmute Titanium into Yellow Crystals.

-For DLC: added 3rd level spell Transmute Bones into Red Vials.

-For DLC: added 6 new spells to buff your minions in battle.

-For DLC: added the 1st level spell Open Doors

-For DLC: added new magic object that can be crafted: Key of Unsealing.

-For DLC: added entire new sequence of events and side missions, related to other gods.

-Bugfixes

v.1.1.5. 20th Feb 2026

-The Time Ring can now also be used in battles.

-There is now a second interaction with the little fire sprite in your study.

-For DLC: In the Ossis Bibliotheca you will now be able to find information about to craft a new item, the Medallion of Infernal Dissonance.

-For DLC: In the Ossis Bibliotheca you will now be able to find information about how to recharge the Time Ring.

-For CLD: In the Ossis Bibliotheca you can now talk to the Chief Librarian

-For DLC: added additional locations to explore in the far reaches of your underground cavern.

-For DLC: added possibility of taking ROs on a third date.

-Bugfixes

v.1.1.4. 11th Feb 2026

-Changed how the Time Ring Works, which now has a new mechanic attached to it to grant extra time in the game.

-Provided a clearer in-game indication of how to use the Reincarnation Ritual.

-Visiting the Queen of Bones or the Ossis Bibliotheca will now increase your body stat slightly, if you are body <90%.

-For DLC: The Ossis Bibliotheca now holds information on the various gods and some other demigods.

-For DLC: In the Ossis Bibliotheca you will now be able to find information about to craft a new item, the Medallion of Broken Prayers.

-Fixes to grammar and typos.

-Bugfixes.

v.1.1.3. 11th November 2025

-Continued work on DLC. Added one more "dungeon" (the possibility of exploring the volcano)

-Game length was extended by ~7%

-Added the possibility to show a timer in the game, so that readers have an approximate feeling of the time left in the game.

-Added the possibility of using some scrolls in battle.

-The Queen of Bones now warns that the clerics of Lythanthir have the power to turn and banish the unded.

-Extra dialogue options in some places.

-RO characters will now be more reactive, and express more nuanced greetings in some instances (either when they are in a relationship or not)

-Some ROs will now break their relationship with you, depending on their circumstances (either your actions or your faith).

-Bugfixes.

Cute! 😍

A drawing for Julian and Angel when they were young 🌱