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Friends in Need [Mini-Sode: Blue Valentine] [NeonGhosts]

February 19, 2025F95

Friends in Need sees you stepping into the role of a man who made a very bad financial decision, which nearly resulted in your ruin. Years later, the reverberations of that decision echo once more through your life, suddenly enriching you beyond your wildest imaginings. When your best friend and long-time crush comes to you for help with her own financial misfortune, you realize that with nearly unlimited resources, you can be a force for good – or evil.

Friends in Need is a game focusing largely on moral choices – good, bad, or a little of both! That means that this game contains some taboo themes and situations. However, it’s entirely possible to play a wholly good route, if that’s your prerogative! Most relationships in the game are optional, and you typically have every opportunity to avoid sex scenes with specific characters, as well as certain non-vanilla kinks and fetishes.

Friends in Need is written and coded by NeonGhosts, and the art in the first chapter is by HorizonticalStudio, with NeonGhosts taking over future CG renders.

Thread Updated: 2025-02-18

Release Date: 2025-02-15

Developer: NeonGhosts – Patreon – SubscribeStar – Boosty

Censored: No

Version: Mini-Sode: Blue Valentine

OS: Windows, Linux, Mac

Language: English

Other Games: The Student Loan

Genre:

3DCG, Anal Sex, Blackmail, Cheating, Corruption, Creampie, Footjob, Male Protagonist, Male Domination, Oral Sex, Rape, Romance, Spanking, Teasing, Vaginal Sex

Installation:

Extract and run.

Changelog:

Mini-Sode: Blue Valentine

Happy Valentine’s Day, everyone! Here’s a little mini-game, from me to you.

Chapter 10 v0.71

Final version of Chapter 10! Adds bug fixes, a small tweak to Chapter 9, and a few pieces of new art.

v0.70 Beta

– Bug-fixes, typos, etc. corrected from Alpha.

– Updated portraits for certain characters.

– Added a small Ashe scene when MC is in the bath. To access it, you need to be on Ashe’s girlfriend path, where you had a good date with her, and she slept over/had breakfast with you.

– 1709 images, plus 12 small animations

v0.70 Alpha

1700+ renders.
90,000+ words.
Story scenes featuring Nicki, Mason, Viola, Gabby, Madison, and more.
4 ero scenes featuring Mason (with variables based on choice), 1 small ero scene featuring Spicy Sapphire on webcam, 1 ero scene for Gabby’s sugarbaby and dark path (with variations based on alignment), and 1 ero scene with three variations featuring a new secondary character.
Sexy/teasing/voyeur scenes for Brittani and Madison, and a tiny bit of the same for Viola.
Based on polling players, most said their playtime for one path was between 1-2 hours.

v0.60c

Fixed typos.
Fixed inaccessible dialogue error.
If you’ve already played previous versions, you probably don’t need to download this one. :p

v0.60b

Fixed visual continuity errors and floating object in one scene.
Fixed inaccessible dialogue error.
Changed dialogue during one scene, to better reflect player’s attitude towards a character.
Fixed typos.
Fixed missing image in ‘Brent in Need’ short story.

v0.60a

Total render count of 1,192 images for the chapter.
Erotic scenes for Risa, Pepper, and some newcomers.
Integrates ‘Brent in Need/Foe at a Low’ short story into the main build, between Chapters 8 and 9.

v0.59b

v0.57b

Aprils Fools Release

v0.57

929 total images
6 animations
3 possible sex scenes

v0.55 – Patreon

N/A

v0.4

1550+ new images
New story scenes featuring Ashe, Nicki, Risa, and Viola.
New ero scenes featuring Ashe and Risa.

v0.39

1350+ new images.
Ero scenes featuring four characters.
Fixed a few images in Chapter Two to resolved floating.
Added character ‘avatars’ alongside dialogue.

v0.375

922 new images, total.
Multiple new erotic scenes, with variable endings based on the choices you make.
Lowered opacity of the text box and added a text outline.
Fixed a few images in Chapter Three, resolving issues with clipping, floating, etc.
Added two new images and a few lines of dialogue to one of Ashe’s events in Chapter Two.

v0.34

69 total images for the Halloween Special.
Added reactive dialogue to the Halloween special, changing Guy’s dialogue based on his relationship to the girls.
Added 9 new images, creating a new event in Chapter Two.
Added 1 new image in Nicki’s Chapter Three lingerie scene, replacing an old piece of art.
Corrected various coding errors and typos.
Corrected a broken image in Gabby’s boutique scene.

v3.2

v3.2

Adds two new mini events to Chapter Three.

Adds 99 additional images.

Corrects typos and variables.

Corrects a handful of broken images.

Brows no longer temple, they steeple.

v3.1

Adds 1264 total new images to the game

features four sexual interactions

multiple light/dark options

multiple locations, and three new characters.

v0.22

Adds Chapter Two to the game.

Added 1000+ new images.

Adjusted opacity of text box to make it more transparent.

v0.15

Update for the first chapter with new dialogue and art.

Removed single choice menus.

Added approximately 80 new images.

Created a new, benevolent financial domination path.

Added content to the negative financial domination path.

Added flashback content to the beginning of the game, expanding on Nicki and the MC’s relationship.

Updated the GUI/main menu.

v0.1

The full first chapter.

Approximately 25-30 minutes of content.

One full sex scene, with three potential endings.

230+ total renders.

3000+ lines of code.

Developer Notes:

As Friends in Need is a game focusing on moral choices, each update will contain choices that allow you to potentially change your relationship with other characters, for good or ill! Therefore it’s recommended that you save often and try different paths. But, you’ll never be forced to be wholly nice or wholly evil to any specific character, and being cruel to one person doesn’t lock you into a path where you’ll be cruel to another. However, some of the narrative text will change based on your character’s overall alignment, which is designed to give deeper insight into your character’s potential headspace. Further, the developer does not believe in “game over” choices – instead, you just have to live with the consequences of your actions.

Patch Instructions:

“Step 1. Move “patch.rpy” into “game” folder.

Step 2. Allow “patch.rpy” to overwrite the existing file of the same name.

Please note that this patch can be used on any version of the game, from v. 0.15 forward.

*Neon Ghosts Studio claims no responsibility for this patch, recognizing it only as a fan-made contribution.

About the Vanilla Version:

The Vanilla Version is the Patreon version with all non Patreon confirming content removed.