This blog post's banner image is taken from the newest 'joint stuck in wall' predicament in the Extra Credit Zone (currently alpha testers only), drawn by PyperHaylie.

I'm just gonna skip right over the bit where I vent about why this release was delayed so much. There were a multitude of reasons and if you follow us on Twitter or chat with us on Discord you probably know most of them.

Let's instead briefly talk about this version, and the main feature that's been added - errands. You can read the details in the changelist below, but essentially NPCs now have more items to give away, and there is a new way to obtain them. NPCs will have various tasks or fetch quests that they want you to perform in order to gain their treasured items. And I plan to keep on building on this - as the number of errands and the number of possible requests are expanded, the number of possible errand-and-reward combinations increases rapidly.

The main purpose of this, beyond improving immersion (it makes sense that you want to ask NPCs for favours) is to improve the viability of a pacifist (or mostly pacifist) run. I know what you're thinking - there's already a pacifist run, it's called a slut run - but this should enable people who don't want to just surrender to sluthood right from the beginning to have viable ways to achieve some of their goals without resorting to combat. Or at least, that's the intention once some more errands and rewards are added, and the framework is made a bit more robust.

The next thing that I'm hoping I can make work is to introduce tiers of rewards, and tiers of errands. It doesn't make sense for an NPC to give you a very basic errand for an exceptionally rare reward, or to give you a pretty challenging or punishing errand for a very small (or time-contingent) reward.

In other good news, we've been able to switch to subscription billing over on the Shame Games Patreon, which means that when you pledge, it renews one month later, rather than on the 1st of the next month. So now is as good a time to join as any!

How to Download - Newbies on Windows

If you're brand new, on Windows, and either not very good with computers or just don't want to make any decisions on graphics version right now, download this zip file, which contains both the game file and the program needed to run it.

The zip file is approximately 425MB large. If your completed download is less than that, it is corrupted - it might be that the direct download server is having issues. In that instance, please use the MEGA mirror.

ZIP File - Direct Download

ZIP File - MEGA Mirror

After you've extracted your zip file, all you need to do is open git.exe and then select the file starting with TrapQuest to run the game.

If you have any issues with that, reach out to use on Twitter or Discord or in the comments section below.

How to Download - Everyone Else

Trap Quest was created with Inform. To play a work like this one, you need to download two different things:

1) A glulxe interpreter program (you open this program and then select the game file): many are available, Windows Git is strongly recommended for any machine that can run it (if your overzealous antivirus has a problem with area57's improved speed version, there's an older official version here). Another interpreter called Gargoyle is available on multiple platforms but is more prone to crashes. If you're having trouble consult this page.

2) The game file: This file will end in '.gblorb' and will be around 550MB large (there's a lot of images in this game!). There are 4 different versions because there are 4 different publicly available character windows you can use. Previews of the different versions' Character Windows can be seen here.
The versions with the 5th window, the Clothing window, are available from our Patreon posts and SubscribeStar posts.

If you're new and struggling to choose which version to try, Aika personally recommends Danaume. It's the original, classic TQ artwork, and focuses on character body state rather than worrying about trying to represent odd random things from the surrounding environment.

You can download the version of your choice from the links below.

Area57 Website Direct Download Links (site is sometimes unstable, if your download is significantly less than 500MB then it was probably corrupted): Danaume Version, Keriax Version,  Wonderfuller Version, Strateg Version

MEGA Direct Download Links: Danaume Version, Keriax Version,  Wonderfuller Version, Strateg Version

Known Issues

• Updating to the latest version of the MacBook operating system no longer supports WINE. If this is the case for you, I'm afraid you'll need to run Windows in a Virtual Machine or otherwise fully emulate Windows to play Trap Quest on your computer using the recommended Windows Git. Your other option is to try Gargoyle (see here).
• In some interpreters, on some people's computers, with some of the more complex character windows (mainly Wonderfuller and Clothing), undo is failing to work because the interpreter's undo buffer isn't large enough to handle the game.

Changelist

MAJOR CHANGES

• As you'll know if you follow the progress tracker, the crazy big thing Aika has been working on for the last several weeks, is errands.
  • You can ask friendly intelligent NPCs for various things, as a talk option.
    • The main thing you can ask them for is their held items.
  • They may decline, or they may come up with a price - you need to do something for them, or get something for them and bring it back to them.
  • Complete the errand and return to the NPC to get the agreed upon reward.
    • As long as you don't look crazy slutty, you may even be able to calm down an NPC who was about to get angry and fuck you, by having a completed errand waiting for them when they see you.
    • They should resolve the errand when they first spot you, or in some cases you can offer them the item you were supposed to retrieve (or the body part you were supposed to transform!).
  • Full list of potential errands so far:
    • Any NPC except robots:
      • [Egg laying] Get a small egg from a vine. You may realize, there's only one way to do that.
      • Obtain a fertility idol (it will have spawned in a random room in the mansion).
        • You'll usually only get this once per game.
        • When you pick up the fertility idol, there's a 50% chance it'll be a cursed idol. A cursed idol either instantly makes you pregnant if possible, or otherwise significantly grows your bust and butt.
        • When you pick up the fertility idol as a man, it will always transform you into a woman if you have common spontaneous TG events enabled.
      • Have zero wisps following you around.
        • If you have less than two wisps, you'll gain wisps until you have two.
    • Adventurer:
      • Settle her debt with the pimp.
    • Aeromancer:
      • Rescue her favourite pencil from inside the vine boss room.
    • Centaur:
      • Get a royal sigil (requires you to defeat a royal guard and demand an item from him... possibly multiple times)
    • Cultist:
      • Get pregnant!
      • Get drunk!
    • Demoness:
      • Attack another adventurer! (Not Barbara)
    • Dominatrix:
      • Bring her the cock candle
      • Let her lock you in chastity
    • Gladiator:
      • Get bigger boobs!
    • Icarus:
      • Use a prayer at the altar to pray for his reward!
    • Kitsune:
      • Show her something you stole from the shopkeeper!
    • Matron:
      • Let her lock you in chastity
    • Mechanic:
      • Reboot the robochef (might cause it to get angry!)
      • Obtain the amulet
    • Orc:
      • Get a bigger butt!
    • Pimp:
      • Attack another adventurer! (Not Barbara)
      • Wear the portal hotpants and bra, and go into debt.
    • Princess:
      • Collect a delivery from the shopkeeper and bring it to her
        • As a bonus, after this, if you get her in the same room as the shopkeeper, there's a fun special scene.
    • All Robots:
      • Find a spare battery (somewhere in the hotel)
    • Robochef:
      • Deliver a rather lewd cookie to the vampiress
        • When you deliver it she'll offer you a bite, this usually increases strength, dex, intelligence and anal sex addiction by 1, but if you get unlucky, just increases anal sex addiction by 3.
    • Royal Guard:
      • [Lactation] Give him a cup full of milk
    • Shopkeeper:
      • Deliver a slave collar to the pimp
        • If you owe him money, he might put it on you after you deliver it!
    • Unicorn:
      • Deliver love letters to the mechanic
    • Vampiress:
      • Get some cum from a wench in a cup, and bring it to her.
    • Wench:
      • She's being attacked by a royal guard! She asks you to protect her.
    • Witch:
      • Attack another adventurer! (Not Barbara)
    • Wrestler:
      • Kiss her while you've got cum in your mouth
      • [Watersports] Be her urinal
  • Most NPCs have been given an item or two that you might want to beg them for, and obviously they may gain other stuff you want, for example the key to your bondage. Apart from that, there's only a few special requests, so far.
    • If you're wielding the gladiator sword and it's got its magical chain bound to your wrist because you've run away from some fights, you can ask her to help you remove it.
    • If you've been given an errand from an adventurer to get the pimp to forgive her debt, you can specifically ask that of the pimp.
    • [Watersports] You can ask a wrestler, wench, or diamond+ ranked student to be your urinal as a favour.
      • (I added this because [for beta & alpha testers] at diamond+ rank, the headmistress refuses to give you the key to the toilets, and says that at this rank, you should be using each other as toilets.
      • Make sure you actually need to pee when you find them after completing the errand, or it'll have been for nothing. You either use them right then and there, or waste your reward.
• Reworked the statues in the dungeon statue hall.
  • There's now exactly six dicks to choose between sucking.
  • There's six effects that can happen when you suck a dick, one for each dick, but which effect occurs when you suck which dick is randomized at the start of the game.
    • There's three good effects and three bad effects. (For people without vaginas, there's only two good effects.)
  • You'll also always get a full mouth of semen. You might as well swallow it immediately in most circumstances, because even if you decide not to, you still get the semen taste addiction increase.
    • The exception to this is that one of the bad effects is a new curse wisp that encourages you to go swimming before you lose your mouthful.
  • You should only need to experience each bad effect once! Once you've learned which cocks are the good ones and which ones are the bad ones, you can then easily avoid the bad ones.

MINOR CHANGES

• The slave collar, cumslut collar and fuckdoll collar, when cursed, now cause you to gain a wisp that encourages you to return to serving in the brothel, whenever you leave the hotel region.
• The scene where you stumble upon Barbara deepthroating the shopkeeper now has art by Borvar.

TWEAKS

• Doubled the rate at which magic power regenerates in the background.
• Cultists can now give you a candle when you demand an item from them.
• The vine boss pit is no longer as impossible to climb out of with low dex, but it does now have two unlucky rolls you have to succeed at as well!
• While you're the bride, when an NPC that isn't your betrothed fucks you, and you don't resist every turn, it'll count as adultery.
  • As a reminder, to avoid being punished for adultery, you already needed to either have had a child with your betrothed, or be holding the bouquet, or have your betrothed in the room with you, or your betrothed have recently orgasmed. So now on top of that, you must always resist.
• The cultist veil is no longer in the elder altar room; instead you must trade with a cultist (or complete an errand).

BETA TESTERS

• More extra credit zone predicaments old than 1 year have been released. This includes:
  • Scissor lift joint predicament
    • Diamond ranked; requires diapers or full a2m to be enabled.
  • Gloryhole key exchange predicament
    • Ruby ranked
  • [Diapers] DDR predicament
    • Emerald ranked
  • Blowjob race joint predicament
    • Ruby ranked
  • Circular train track predicament
    • Ruby ranked
  • Pong joint predicament
    • Ruby ranked
  • Bottle jog predicament
    • Emerald ranked
• You can partake in the group kissing lesson (take the sapphire kissing lesson more than once)
• You can now get the scene where the robo vacuum cleaner forces you to be a human waste disposal unit.
  • Requires, amongst other things, you to not be wearing headgear.
  • Also, we fixed a bug with it where if you were gagged, and impaled on the robo vacuum cleaner, you could get softlocked.
• The dominatrix can now put NPCs in her cage, and you can now torment NPCs stuck in the Dominatrix's cage.
• [Watersports / diapers] The headmistress assembly where she locks the toilets can now happen.
  • There's also some functionality that is new to alpha testers too, where students will, when they cross paths with the headmistress, ask for the toilet key if able, and then return it to the headmistress the next time they cross paths. So at any one time, the key might be with the headmistress or a student. If the key is with a student, you'll need to complete an errand for them (at the moment that'll always be bringing them some energy drink from the drinks machine) or arrange for them to end up in the same room as the headmistress, so that they give the key back.
• You can now trigger the Final Battle with the demon lord (just get noticed by him after you've rescued the princess).
• [Mythical creatures] You can now attempt to dominate the centaur.
• You can now attempt to dominate the demon lord.
• Clothing window bug fix - assless fetish dress was not showing in the character window.
• [Lactation] Fixed a bug caused by having the slimegirl inside you when entering the Extra Credit Zone.
• Fixed a bug with the nun predicament in the Extra Credit Zone where it wouldn't let you enter the toilets.

ALPHA TESTERS (December 2022 Unlock File)

• A new ruby+ 'joint fuckhole predicament' - an extended prisoner's dilemma, with art by PyperHaylie.
  • You and your rival are stuck in holes in the wall in the same room, but your upper halves are in separate soundproofed capsules.
  • You both get given an option to be kind to your rival, or cruel.
    • What choosing to be cruel does changes each time, but each time is the same for both of you.
  • Afterwards, two new anonymous men enter the room.
    • If one of you chose cruel and the other one chose kind, the one who chose kind gets fucked by both men.
    • Otherwise, you both get fucked by one man each.
  • While being fucked by a man, you have three reaction options.
    • Spread your legs - lowers self esteem.
    • Wiggle your hips reluctantly - has a chance of making the sex less rough, has a chance of you getting spanked, has a chance of nothing happening.
    • Kick the man away - has a chance of making the sex more rough, has a chance of you getting spanked, has a chance of him suddenly swapping from vaginal to anal, but also has a chance of him ending the sex early, before he cums.
  • Then it all starts again with a new kind-or-cruel choice.
    • Your previous 'kind' or 'cruel' choices affect the chances of your rival being 'kind' or 'cruel' back in future rounds.But it's never 100%.
  • If someone chooses 'kind', there's a chance that their rival is released.
    • The chance of 'kind' resulting in the other girl being released goes up each time.
    • When one girl is released, the final two guys who enter the room will inevitably both fuck the one remaining girl.
    • Then that girl is released too.
  • There's a limited amount of clothing available in the room for the girls to walk home in. The first to be released will be able to dress much more modestly than the next.
  • [Cum fetish] The clothing is under your butts, so if you can't hold onto your anal creampies, your clothes will get coated.
    • This is made extra challenging by the fact that several of the 'cruel' options will cause you pain or shock, making it more difficult to hold on.
• First look at a new type of trap - the 'choice trap' which quite simply forces you to choose between two randomly chosen bad options. Currently you'll find two of these in containers in the woods, and two in containers in the hotel.
  • There's actually a third option - to leap back. This causes both options to be triggered, but you have a chance to evade, or at least partially evade, the bad stuff of each option.
  • There aren't too many possible options right now, but there will be more in the future!
• The suited woman you can encounter in the hotel now has more art for when she's angry with you (because you've successfully prevented her from using her main weapon), and also now when she defeats you in this state, she fucks you. Hard.
• Fixed a bug where the lipstick heels in the anal beads swimsuit predicament could stay locked on your feet at the end of the predicament instead of disappearing.

OTHER FIXES

• Fixed a bug where the sinful priestess pussy heart hole skirt counted as concealing underwear underneath it.
• Fixed a bug where watersports dominating the centaur triggered a different domination scene instead.
• Fixed a bug where when expelling eggs / anal creampies / etc. every turn after the first counted as an unexpected / involuntary expulsion that therefore went all over your thighs instead of straight to the ground.
  • After extensive viewing of enema porn... For research... I also made a tweak - when on your knees, expulsions always go on the ground rather than on your thighs.
• [Pregnancy] Fixed a bug where when you gave birth to the "manly voice"'s baby, there was no scene, you just suddenly stopped being pregnant.
• Fixed a bug where the shopkeeper would be satisfied by an item you offered to avoid getting fucked, but would then immediately notice you and want to fuck you again.
• Fixed a bug where you could stuck in never-ending combat if an academy student grabbed your arm and then an academy staff member spotted you.
• Fixed a bug where the minotaur and other bosses had no function for defeating Bowsette.
• If the minotaur / hulk needs to remove something that he can't (e.g. the portal hotpants), instead of breaking the rules of the game and ripping it off anyway, he'll throw you against a wall, hurting you, then leave you alone.
• Fixed a bug where when sex toys transformed, the new sex toy might not be properly flagged as penetrating the orifice that the old one was in.
• Fixed a rare bug where the mimic could trigger a bug by trying to give you a bottle of lube when every single bottle of lube has already been spawned in the game universe.
• Fixed a bug where any banished NPCs had their sex trackers reset, so weren't eligible for being the most fucked NPC at game end.