Merrilend
Welcome to Merrilend
Merrilend is an 18+ LGBTQ+ story-driven game about relationships, choices, exploration, and everyday life.
You arrive in a new home and become part of a household where everyone has their own personality, daily routine, relationships, and secrets.
There is no single path you have to follow. Explore the house, manage your time and energy, find characters according to their schedules, and decide who you want to spend your time with.
Your choices and interactions gradually shape your relationships. As intimacy grows, new conversations, situations, locations, and more personal moments become available.
About the Current Build
The current version of Merrilend focuses primarily on Chris while establishing the core systems that will support future character routes and story expansions.
Chris already has a complete relationship progression structure with multiple stages, scenes and interactions, while the rest of Merrilend continues to grow around him.
The current version includes:
- ❤️ Relationship progression and multiple affinity stages for Chris
- 💬 Conversations, interactions, random events and progression-based scenes
- 🎁 Gift system with unique scenes and Gallery unlocks
- 🗓️ Character schedules and time-based encounters
- 🗺️ Multiple explorable locations with travel time
- ⏰ Time and Energy management
- 💼 Work system with multiple jobs, INT requirements and salary progression
- 💰 Money and economy systems
- 🛍️ Shopping Center with multiple stores
- 🎒 Inventory and usable items
- 🏠 Permanent room and basement upgrades with visual progression
- 🃏 Playable Durak card game
- 🖼️ Gallery with replayable scenes
- 💾 Multiple save slots
- 📱 Mobile and landscape support
- 🔍 Fullscreen illustration viewer
Merrilend is actively in development.
Future updates will continue expanding Chris's story with new scenes, interactions and locations while gradually introducing additional character routes, including Derek and Adam.
The game's systems will also continue to evolve as new activities, locations and story content are added.
Support Development
Merrilend can be played online for free.
If you enjoy the game and would like to support its continued development, you can join the Merrilend community on Patreon.
Depending on the membership tier, supporters can receive:
- Development updates and behind-the-scenes posts
- Access to cheat codes
- Community voting and development polls
- Early access to new versions
- Downloadable builds
Patreon supporters can also help influence the direction of development through community polls — including which character stories and features should receive priority in future updates.
The main Merrilend story is not locked behind Patreon.
Supporting the project is completely optional, and the public version will continue to grow as development continues.
❤️ Thank you for playing Merrilend, leaving feedback, and supporting independent development.
Comments
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May I ask if a downloadable HTML version will be available in the future? I’d really love to play, but I’m unable to due to translation and device limitations.
Was this made with AI?
The illustrations — yes. The game itself, story, characters. code, systems and overall design are created and developed by me. I use AI as part of my illustration workflow. including locally trained character models and then select and process the images to keep the characters and locations consistent.
the version on itchio is too short, need more :-)
Thank you! ❤️ You're right — the current version is still quite limited in terms of content.
The next update is already in development and will be available on Friday, September 18. This update will mainly focus on the game's systems: improvements to the time and energy systems, as well as the introduction of the financial system.
New features will include Work, an expanded Shopping Center, several bug fixes, and some missing illustrations will also be added.
I'm planning to release new updates every Friday. The following update, planned for September 25, will open another location for Chris — the Brothers' Room.
After that, I plan to gradually introduce Derek and Adam, while continuing to expand Chris's story at the same time.
Thank you for playing — and I'm really glad you want to see more!