Finding Color in the Ashes is a fantasy dating sim where you rebuild an inn and hang out with a witch named Lucy.
It’s a mostly cozy management game where you slowly rebuild a ruined inn, choosing how you spend your time. The day is divided up into mornings, afternoons, evenings, nights – and weekends have their own events as well.
You also need to keep the surrounding area clear of monsters, equipping yourself with weapons and spells and engaging in turn based dice-combat. There are a variety of weapons, armors, and spells to buy, learn, and upgrade.
You earn experience points by talking with Lucy, the guests at your inn, crafting potions, fighting monsters, etc. Spend experience on abilities to improve your combat effectiveness, learn new spells, or make changes to the inn.
The Game takes place over a year, and starts in the summer. Each season is about 90 days long, and has its own gameplay associated with it.
The Setting
A long time ago, there was a calamity that occurred and stole all color from the world. The source is a massive rip in reality in the faraway Ashlands. It’s a land filled with strange monsters and stranger anomalies. Adventurers from all over head into that cursed land to try and find a solution – but to no avail.
You play as a young adventurer who’s just inherited a run-down inn located on the road between the Capital and the Ashlands. Recently a mage named Lucy has moved in as well. She spent too much time in Ashlands, and has been cursed as a result. She’s doing her best to overcome it, while helping you to rebuild the inn.
Those cursed by the Ashlands are called Fractured – and they exhibit a variety of strange effects, but notably, they are some of the few in the world who carry color with them.
The Content
There are over a dozen different sex scenes in the game right now, with more on the way. Each has several variations, and some include more interactions.
There are quests, events, and plenty of dialog centered around Lucy. Progressing your relationship with her will unlock more content.
There are plenty of weapons, armors, spells – and ways to upgrade all of them. The turn based combat is dice driven with plenty of ways to spend experience and unlock new abilities.
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v3.5
The 3.5 patch allows you to hire the final companion – Katarina. She will show up in the spring. Her only real requirement is that you need to have already hired Ailis. this shouldn’t be an issue for most, but anyone still playing off very old saves from before Ailis’ introduction may need to use the built-in debug button to hire her, or start a new save.
Rina comes with a bunch of content – both gameplay and story. Her story has 12 new events in it with roughly 300 new lines of dialog. Additionally she’s available for afternoon hangouts with her own art + dialog in all the existing scenes.
She has 4 skills currently available on her skill tree which add functionality to the shrine. Specifically she unlocks Trials – minor tasks that can be undertaken while a god’s statue is in the shrine to unlock minor blessings. These will improve the benefits of using the shrine with a variety of new abilities.
There’s also some polish in the patch with some art updates, bug fixes, and minor adjustments.
Added
- New companion: Rina. She will join the inn during the spring.
- 9 Additional portraits for Rina
- Rina can join you for dinner (missing art for evening hangouts, but will be coming soon!)
- Rina afternoon hangouts (art + dialog)
- 12 New Events – 1 Nuncio, 11 Rina(1 with Ailis, 1 with Willow, several with Lucy) – about 300 lines of dialog
- Rina’s skill tree has the first 4 abilities available. All of them improve the Shrine.
- Shrine Trials: Each time you place a god’s statue in the shrine, you’ll have 21 days to complete a trial.
- Each god asks for something different: clear dungeons, fill rooms in the inn, and cast spells.
- Minor blessings: Each time you complete a shrine trial, you’ll gain access to a new minor blessing. These can be freely activated / switched between while a god’s statue is in the shrine.
- There are current 9 minor blessing implemented (3 for each god). Every god will eventually have 6.
- War gods blessings: Start with +1 companion action, Recover action adds 1 stack of offering status, Poison, Bleed, and Disrupted recover faster
- god of the heart blessings: Recover 1 condition every night, +1 to lowest inn resource every night, +3 to wood chopping yield
- Magic god blessings: +1 Attunement Dice, +2 to Spell Casts, +4 to Charged stacks
- New companion screen art for Ailis, Ellie, and Lucy
- Redraw of Eleanor sex scene (doggy)
- New pop-up art in Eleanor’s interactive sex scene
- New Actions in Eleanor’s interactive sex scene
- New pop-up art in Scout’s interactive sex scene
- New sex scene (Rina)
Adjustments
- Some timing changes in the interactive scenes
Fixes
- Shrine resets after loading game
- Gear maintenance not ending after offering finished
- Incorrect skill description for Recover (once per fight instead once per day)
