H-ERO – The Maverick Manor [v1.1] [Pyksies]

November 1, 2025F95

Overview:

Get hot and heavy this Halloween!

Entry #1 in the H-ERO series, The Maverick Manor is an urban-fantasy short narrative RPG about two Undead Monstergirl special agents. Tasked with investigating a massive pulse of magic at a remote mansion on Halloween, Agents De-Animator – the half-Zombified scientist Helen East – and Unlucky 13 – the towering Revenant amazon Jaycie – find themselves whisked away to a manor-turned-madhouse! Displaced and corrupted by the whims of an arrogant Succubus, the separated Agents must fight for their freedom, regroup, and kick some Demonic ass!

For if they don’t, then it’s their asses on the line! ♥

H-ERO – the Maverick Manor is a third person adult RPG that should take around 2 hours to complete, depending on reading speed. Expect tricky fights, exploration, and smutty surroundings and encounters!

For those returning from MERCANOID; welcome back! The Maverick Manor is my second game, fulfilling a long-held desire to create a game under a self-imposed October game jam. A test of overhauled systems and streamlined work methods, it was created over the course of 30 days to experiment with short games. The result is this ‘Narrative Short’ game, introducing an alternative setting to MERCANOID’s Glowing World with H-ERO. By streamlining out the weightier RPG aspects found in MERCANOID – and saving them for larger projects where they scale better – the result is a game with pre-defined characters with powerful playstyles, versus equally powerful foes. Learning their strengths is imperative to victory! Wait… Characters? Strengths, plural?

Yes, this is also an experiment in multiple protagonists! Experience a dual narrative chronicling Helen and Jaycie’s respective gauntlets through the perverted Manor, and help them find their way home! And as usual, you don’t have to lose to see the ‘goods’ – with a gallery now on-demand in the right sidebar!

And now, one year later – and this time actually ON Halloween! – the 1.1 Major Update adds in an all-new combat system, an absolutely massive Codex, a whole new status effects system, a bundle of extra lewds and Supporter Cameos, a robust new kink-filtering system, and two new ‘bad end softeners’ for the sensitive reader!

Monsters creep in the Manor! From tentacular abominations to corrupted Fae folk, they all have a taste for our plucky Undead protagonists. Fight to unlock a variety of kinky bad ends and work towards a happy ending – in every sense of the term! ♥ Kinks include Tentacles, Bondage, Breeding, Size Difference, Transformation, Possession and more!
Spicier kinks not your thing? Filter harder kinks to either Allow, Disable or Warn (preceding an affected scene with a more tasteful description to allow you to decide!). New in 1.1: Tags have been completely overhauled, giving you far more control over what you want to see!
A streamlined take on my RPG framework; get acquainted with powerful characters and learn how to harness their strengths to achieve victory.
A combat system designed around momentum and unhoardable resources. Status effects, weapon modifiers, elements, sub-equipment and more! Use every resource instead of spamming ‘Attack’! New in 1.1: A whole new combat UI and status effects system, reworked abilities, and rebalanced enemies; Hard Mode might make you sweat now!
Perverted possibilities lurk around every corner, surrounding a workplace romance that’s about to boil over! New in 1.1: All manor of little lewd encounters await in this manner! Wait- swap those!
Accessibility options such as text-resizing, content dividers and non-dialogue colour options!
A small peek at a second big, wide world of adult weirdness! New in 1.1: 130k words of Codex for your reading pleasure, with a robust new Codex system complete with ‘see also’ and rewinding history! Get lost in your own little wiki journey! Introduce yourself to a setting of Superheroics and the Supernatural, where Humanity shakes hands with entities most alien on the regular – and more besides! ♥
Don’t lose to enjoy: winning fights unlocks scenes just as losing does, available for viewing at any time with the Fantasize function, now available anywhere, any time!

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Pyksies can be found on…
Bluesky || Itch.io || Newgrounds

No AI has been or will ever be used in the development of Pyksies’ games. Game is designed with 1080p resolution in mind. Lower may struggle to fit content. Higher will require use of zoom and/or accessibility text size adjustment.

Thread Updated: 2025-10-31

Release Date: 2025-10-31

Developer: Pyksies – Itch.io – Discord – Bluesky – Twitter

Censored: No

Version: 1.1

OS: Windows, Mac, Linux

Language: English

Length: ~2 hours

Store: Itch.io

Other Games: Link

Genre:

Text Based, Female Protagonist, Adventure, Turn Based Combat, Fantasy, Horror, RPG, Puzzle, Anal Sex, Ahegao, Bukkake, Corruption, Futa/Trans, Group Sex, Groping, Handjob, Lesbian, Monster, Monster Girl, Multiple Penetration, Oral Sex, Big Ass, Big Tits, Paranormal, Possession, Pregnancy, Rape, Slave, Tentacles, Teasing, Titfuck, Transformation, Vaginal Sex, Vore,

Installation:

1. Extract zip, make sure the ‘assets’ folder and the file index.html are kept in the same folder. Run index.html through your browser of choice.

1a. NOTE: High-security/privacy browsers can have issues with Twine games, which need to store some light information for variables and saves. Incognito mode can also cause problems.

or,

Play in-browser on itch.io or Newgrounds.

Changelog:

Known Issues:

– None for 1.1 at time of writing.

1.1

– MAJOR COMBAT SYSTEM OVERHAUL!

– The combat UI has been totally overhauled, allowing for more information to be displayed per-turn about the protagonist and opponent’s respective actions. New bars exist for tracking status effects, for displaying fight-specific context and flavour, and hotkey’d menu buttons that dynamically disabled and enable based on fight situation and status effects are mapped to 1-8 on keyboards (top or numpad).

– Status Effects have been completely reworked into the new ‘Deadline’ system. When a status effect is applied, many of them now have set durations; the Deadline. Many status effects will get worse the longer they last, and if they hit their Deadline, a substantial penalty is inflicted as the effect is purged (or possibly gets worse!).

– It’s not all doom and gloom, however! If the protagonist is afflicted with a debuff/status effect, the Defend action transforms into Defend & Triage; with all the existing benefits of Defend, it now also purges most negative status effects, and decreases the progress of some more powerful ones.

– And don’t go worrying about your precious turn economy against the enemy; they’re part of this system too. The more effects are stacked on an enemy, the more their status stress rises. If it bypasses an enemy’s tolerance – determined by their intelligence and personality – then they will be driven to skip their turn to defend and purge too.

– Mass-applying Status Effects will often prevent them from hitting their Deadlines and thus their max potential, but can force the enemy to lose turns dealing with them. Vice versa, as the player, it’s up to you to decide just how far you can push your status effect(s) before the situation becomes untenable!

– Along with your chance to hit an enemy, you are told your chance to inflict a Status Effect on that enemy (which varies by the power of the effect and that enemy’s resistances).

– Major Kink Tagging Overhaul

– Scenes are now properly databased and a masterlist of kinks and other tags exists. This means that the Kink Filtering page under Settings has been drastically overhauled.

– The original concept of ‘Allow, Warn, Forbid’ remains, but now it applies to a substantially higher number of tags.

– If a tag appears in that menu, it means it appears in the game – the number next to it will indicate how many total scenes contain this tag.

– The new menu is significantly more compact. Hovering over a tag by name will explain what it means.

– H•ERO’s Codex (1.0) is now available! Featuring an all-new Codex system with a history function and ‘See Also’ entries!

– It is considerably larger than MERCANOID’s introductory Codex for The Glowing World, weighing in at roughly 130k words. Enjoy learning about H•ERO and all its oddities!

– New lewds!

– Cameo characters of Supporters can be found throughout the game in lewd little scenarios!

– A massive bonus scene (over 10k words) can be found in the Library!

– An optional extension to Amy’s bad end is now available!

– The game now has a proper Credits popup screen, available in the top left. This lists authors of contributing software/macros, creators of art assets, and my Supporters!

1.0.8

– It was still possible to move during a conversation cutscene after the Mandrakes fight, which would severely break the progression of the game. Fixed.

1.0.7

– Fixed the missing tag in the Kitchen description that was causing an error to appear. This was a messup of a fix in 1.0.6.

– Fixed the Mandrakes not properly directing to their bad end upon being defeated by them. Sorry!

– Fixed a whole bundle of mispellings.

1.0.6

– A multi-attack possibly made by Mandrakes would trigger their end-of-turn status checks twice, causing them to take two ticks of DoT, etc on one turn.

– When Helen takes the Winchester (if Jaycie sends it up), the icon now disappears for the sake of consistency with other item pickups.

– Upon restarting the final boss, some status effects would linger. This was thought to be fixed. It should now be definitely fixed.

1.0.5

– Void-access direction upstairs removed from bottom-center tile. Whoops.

– ‘Back’ was appearing in the new ‘Ero’ button version of the Fantasize menu. It shouldn’t have been, and took you to some MERCANOID-specific menu options. Bypassed/fixed.

– Incredibly Evil Knife’s attacks both referenced the character’s Main weapon in flavour text, not the equipped subweapon. Fixed.

– Embrace Of Our Lady could be used constantly due to an oversight with how Cooldown items work. Fixed.

– During the final boss…

– On the first attempt, Jaycie’s revival perk may not have worked. Fixed.

– Regen would carry on between attempts. Fixed.

– Charging states would carry on between attempts and break stuff. Fixed.

1.0.4

– A locked door upstairs was allowing entry. Fixed.

1.0.3

– Due to a problem with Twine’s archival import system, when I moved the project from my laptop back to my main workstation upon arriving home, it failed to update and thus erased fixes made during the final pre-release version, 1.0, and 1.0.1. Those fixes have been restored. Sorry!

– A tile in the Makeshift Bar would allow access into THE VOID. Fixed.

1.0.2

– Fixed the ‘Tentacle Pit’ bad end’s rewind function breaking if you attempted to use it after succumbing to the gas trap later.

– The game was still utilizing online assets for the Maps, specifically. This has been fixed to utilize the offline pathed assets instead.

– One such map was misnamed. It is now behaving.

– A few minor inventory UI bits that were irritating me have been smoothed over (superfluous +’s, flat totals after percentages looking weird, etc)

– Fixed an errant <<if>> tag from an abandoned piece of scripting in the Makeshift Bar (cleaning room door).

1.0.1

– Fixed the ‘Cannot find a closing tag for <<capture>>’ *2 bug in the Wine Cellar. For want of a /, the war was lost. Whoops!

Developer Notes:

Hi there, F95 folks! Pyksies again. Here’s a game I made in 30 days flat to achieve a long-standing dream of making a self-imposed October Jam game. A lewd-spooky little jaunt through a haunted manor, it is another complete-on-release game made to test some new and overhauled systems. A year later, the 1.1 update is here on Halloween as a swansong to this little game, laying stronger foundations than ever for the next one!

The Glowing World as explored in MERCANOID is my major setting, but I have two more I wish to play with for some smaller projects like this; H-ERO is one of them, a world of superpowers and the supernatural. I hope you enjoy the game – and remember, any purchases are endlessly appreciated, especially I take this ‘hobby’ more and more seriously!

Please note that while the game -can- be launched on mobile/tablet devices, it probably isn’t going to be a pleasant experience on anything other than a tablet. Game was made with 1080 in mind – larger resolutions can use accessibility text scaling or browser zoom in, lower resolutions may need to browser zoom out to fit the sidebar content.