Overview:
In “Back to Freedom” you are an ex-military man who made a mistake during a mission and caused the death of several allies. The consequences were harsh and you were sentenced to ten years in prison. When you are finally released, you just want to live a peaceful life again. But will the past let you live in peace?
The game is a visual novel style made in Twine/Html with several choices to be made, a basic character stat system that builds up according to your choices, a money system, minigames, lots of fully interactive content released according to your choices and stats, and a fully functional replay gallery.
1 – The game is not a sandbox. It’s a visual novel with some branches and more advanced and interactive systems than a regular visual novel. We have stats, money, stores, minigames, and things that are usually not present in most visual novels. However, there is no grind. I tried to achieve a balance between a simplified visual novel and a complex sandbox.
2 – At first, the story is simple and focuses on the character’s everyday life. As you advance, you discover a little more complex plot and individual problems of each character. Please don’t judge the game story by the first 30 minutes.
3 – The main character is a former elite soldier, so you can expect him to be fit, strong, and very good at hand-to-hand and ranged combat. Plus he’s a sex-machine. I need him to be like this to tell the story the way I planned. If you want to play with an inexperienced guy, who is despised by women and who will only have his first sexual experience after a long time, maybe this game is not for you.
4 – Some people complain about not being able to refuse some characters in the game. I need it to be clear: You can’t avoid starting a relationship with the main cast characters. Once the relationship has started, you can refuse any character as much as you want until the next stage of the relationship. And many scenes will only be available if you meet some requirements like stats or previous choices. Please keep in mind that this is an adult game. Getting to the end of the game by bonding with just one or two characters would be like playing an FPS and trying to finish the game without taking a shot. Side characters on the other hand can be refused and ignored. And maybe you don’t even find some in the game depending on your choices.
Game Updated: 2022-07-26
Release Date: 2022-07-26
Developer: Bald Games Patreon – Subscribestar – Discord
Censored: No
Version: 0.12
OS: Windows, Linux, Mac
Language: English
Genre:
Installation:
Changelog:
– 1 new in-game day.
– 6 new scenes.
– The preview image of non-available scenes in the gallery was changed.
– Introduced a hint system. When the player has an unavailable option or when he is in some part of the story where he could see a different situation, an icon with a question mark will appear. When hovering the mouse over the icon, a tooltip will appear giving the player a hint.
Note: This system was highly requested by many players. However, I did it in a way that doesn’t make the guide obsolete. The system is just to give the player a hint of what it would take to unlock the unavailable option, but will not give precise details. For that, you still need the guide. As an example, if you need a different car to unlock some option, the tip will tell you that you need a different car, but not which car. I believe this is enough to guide the player without handing over everything.
Note2: For now, the system is available from day 11 onwards. In the next update, it will be implemented in the remaining days and in the gallery.
0.11
– 1 new in-game day.
– 5 new scenes.
– 2 new side characters.
– Another chance to get a raise in job.
– Standardized music volume (a little lower than before).
– Standardized sound effects volume (a little lower than before but still louder than music to stand out).
0.10
– 1 new in-game day.
– 7 new scenes.
– 1 new main character.
– 3 new side characters.
– First game over screen (be careful with your choices).
– First pregnancy possible.
– First raise in job possible.
0.9
– 1 new in-game day.
– 7 new scenes.
– 2 new side characters.
– Added buttons in the cheats menu to increase or decrease all stats by 10 points.
– Added settings for 4 volume levels in the options menu.
– The dancing and shooting minigames have been tweaked. Now the links stay a little longer on the screen. Also, you can now use the A, S, D keys as an alternative to clicking. If that’s not enough, you’ll get a skip button with a winning result after failing the minigame three times.
– The slot machine minigame has also been tweaked. You have now double the odds of winning the first prize. Triple the odds of winning the second prize. And an average 50% increase in the odds of winning the smaller prizes. This will make it easier to unlock Shalina’s event and to make some money for those who don’t have money cheats.
0.8
– 1 new in-game day.
– 8 new scenes.
– 3 new side characters.
– 1 new item to buy from an occasional seller.
– 1 new minigame (shooting range).
– Some new sound effects and some tweaked ones.
0.7
– 2 new in-game days.
– 13 new scenes.
– 2 new characters.
– 3 new side characters.
– 3 new items to buy from an occasional seller.
– 1 new store (car store).
– 5 new cars to buy. Each car has its own image and sound effect.
– 4 new minigames (dance, blackjack, roulette, and slot machine). You can make money from the last three in a casino event.
– 2 new soundtracks
– Dozens of new sound effects.
– New inventory. As some items are now not sold in the online store, it made no sense to keep the online store interface integrated with the inventory. So we now have an independent inventory. It can be accessed from the chest icon next to the online store in the sidebar.
– New online store interface.
– New gallery interface. Character info and stats have been integrated into the gallery in a new interface. Now when you open each character’s gallery, you’ll see all the information about that character along with their scenes, in addition to a unique background for each character. No longer needed, the characters menu was eliminated.
– New cheats menu interface.
– All the changes in the interfaces of some menus were made in order to make them more beautiful and responsive for any screen size.
– Re-encoded all videos from the online version to 60% smaller size. This had a small impact on the quality of the videos but a big improvement on the loading times. If you want to play with the highest possible quality, I recommend the offline version.
– The Guide is now a supporter exclusive feature.
– Fixed a bug that prevent audio and font changes in options to be saved in saves.
0.6
– 1 new in-game day.
– 8 new scenes.
– Added animations and sound effects in the fighting minigame.
– Added sound effects in Mr. Reed missions.
– Added some more texts in the remaining main scenes (This work started in the previous version but had not been completed. Now all the main scenes have more text than they originally had).
– Fixed a bug in the gallery when restarting the game. This bug blocked some already unlocked scenes and sometimes did the opposite.
v0.5
– 2 new in-game days.
– 11 new scenes.
– A few more adjustments were made to the fighting system.
– Since some people didn’t find the online store easily in the past version, a link to the store has now been added every time you get an in-game tip about buying a gift. The online store is still available in the sidebar anytime from the ninth day (Tuesday). This is just an alternative way to access it.
– Added a dimmed button whenever there is an option unavailable by the player not meeting the requirements, such as when there is no item to give to a character or when some extra choice is not available. That way players will know (most of the time) when they are missing some opportunity in the game. Prior to this change, the option simply didn’t appear when you didn’t meet the requirements and players often didn’t even know that some alternative options existed.
– Added a notification whenever the player receives any stat points. (Note: the notification will not always be displayed at the same time the player receives the stat point. This can happen a little before or a little later depending on the context of the dialogs – This is not a bug)
– Added some more texts in most of the main scenes.
– Some main scenes have been rebalanced to make better use of stats.
– Fixed a bug in some scenes, when the partner climaxed three times.
– Fixed some more audio overlap bugs.
v0.4
– 2 new in-game days.
– 13 new scenes.
– New system: Money. Now you earn money for your work every Friday. Several events now spend or generate money. Several previous events were adapted to spend or generate money in order to standardize the game.
– New system: Online Store and Inventory. After a certain moment of the game, you will have an online store available in the sidebar. This store contains gifts for sale to be given to characters at certain times. The window also serves as an inventory showing how many of each item you currently have.
– New stat: Corruption. Now you can earn corruption points depending on the choices made during Mr. Reed’s missions. These points will impact the future of the story.
– Improved fighting system. Now the enemy has a chance to block and dodge just like MC. Also added a small tutorial before the fight as requested.
– Additional improvements made to the interface. The font size and line spacing have been reduced. This makes reading more pleasant and with less scrolling. The cheat menu was also slightly improved.
– Fixed a bug that generated infinite stats if the player opened a menu and came back during challenge quiz events.
– Fixed an audio bug when using the sidebar back button after an audio change.
– Fixed save backwards compatibility bug. However, due to the new money system and the change made in past events, you will need to start a new game. Sorry. Hope this is the last time.
v0.3
– 2 new in-game days.
– 12 new scenes.
– 1 new character.
– 1 new minigame (fight).
– Several changes were made for a better view on vertical screens, as well as smaller screens.
– New re-encode of older clips to smaller file size.
– New default font (Arial).
– New option in the options menu to change the font at any time. Three fonts are available: Arial (new default), Comic Sans (old default), and Times New Roman.
v0.2
– 2 new in-game days.
– 5 new scenes
– Updated gallery. Now you can easily see the scenes that still have to be unlocked in grayscale.
– A new menu option containing a guide with the requirements to unlock each available scene.
v0.1
– Initial release
Developer Notes:
English is not my native language, so I apologize for the possible mistakes.
Hope you enjoy the game.