The Last Sovereign News

There's a new public update! More info available here:
https://the-last-sovereign.blogspot.com/2025/03/tls-0792-public-release-kickstarter.html

As you can see, I am hoping that this is a big stable release that will last for a while. The only remaining achievement report is taken care of, the new sprites/battlers are polished, etc. If not, there's still time to fix it, but I hope this is solid. >_<



Meanwhile, the DStP campaign has smashed its stretch goals - that means the game's scenes will all be fully animated and voice acted! We're down to under a week, so we have rolled out some new tiers and a final stretch goal:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sierralee/dont-save-the-princess?ref=2uisrg

This is the biggest opportunity I've ever offered to get involved in my game design: in addition to stuff like your portrait in the game, you could design one of the princess's custom outfits, add an NPC, or even direct an entire new scene! More attention will arrive via KS in the final 48 hours, so if any supporters want first pick, now is the time. ^-^

New update for supporters on Patreon or SubscribeStar! More info here:
https://the-last-sovereign.blogspot.com/2025/03/tls-0790-released.html

This is an absolutely huge visual update, so I won't copy over everything now. It should be coming to Steam in a week, with an additional achievement fix.

Meanwhile we have exciting news on the DStP Kickstarter for everyone:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sierralee/dont-save-the-princess

We have passed 400% of our goal, and we only need to hit 450% in order to make every sex scene in the game fully animated! All of the money toward this goal will go to Annikath, so if you have appreciated her work and want to see her do more animations, this would support her directly, me indirectly, and DStP overall. ^-^

I don't usually do this, but I've pushed live a Steam-only update. This one fixes the only three achievements that I know to be bugged:

• Yarra's maxing achievement.
  
• Altina's joining achievement, if she joins later.
  
• Orilise's library count and achievement.
  

I had planned to wait and try to get 100% of bugfixes at once, but a TON of people are playing TLS right now, so I figured I might as well give a hotfix. ^-^ If any other achievements are bugged, just let me know and I'll get on them!

Meanwhile, I'm trying something else exciting: a Kickstarter for one of my side projects:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sierralee/dont-save-the-princess

This is a different sort of game than TLS, but it's another brick in the foundation of my career, so please consider following the project if you want to keep up with it!

Normally this is where I would link the blog, but this is actually a Steam-first update! Check out all the updates:

TLS 0.78.0

• All 169 achievements for Steam are now added and active.
  
• Over a hundred new attack animations added and thousands of changes made to the enemy database. Few balance changes, just an overhaul of the visuals.
  
• New sprites for certain characters: Aka, Robin, Uyae, Grynyth, Bertricia, Fheliel, Sarai, Tertia, Varia, Wendis. All sex animations have been updated to match.
  
• New battlers added: Mestan and Lilith.
  
• Sequence of new map images added to the intro.
  
• A significant number of busts thanks to Lamsey, culminating in the full Ardford council. I believe we have now changed all the major characters we plan to change.
  
• The custom LUK script has been modified yet again, this time hopefully insuring that enemies don't get any extra critical hit chance.
  
• Orilise now comments on the library completion throughout the game. She also activates the library achievement.
  

It makes me nervous to put out an update that hasn't been thoroughly tested, but there was no choice this time: the key component is the achievements, which can only be tested live on Steam. All 169 achievements should be active, so let me know if anything seems omitted. They can all be attained, but it's possible that there's an alternate path to one that I missed, for example.

The other Steam thing is trading cards, which should begin dropping.

In non-Steam news, please check out all the new attack animations! I put a ton of work into this, trying to make the game more visually striking throughout. There's also quite a bit of visual polishing above, taking the game increasingly close to the final release. ^-^

New update for supporters on Patreon or SubscribeStar! More info here:
https://the-last-sovereign.blogspot.com/2025/02/tls-0780-released.html

There is a whole lot going on in this update, so check the blog post! One of the main pieces of work this finishes is the Steam content, so expect achievements and trading cards to be turned on in a week once this update goes public.