PARASITE BLACK: 0.180 BETA release!

Hello, everyone! Thank you for your patience; it’s finally here, and we hope you guys enjoy!

A few things to cover, so please read. The new quest, The Tarbeck’s Part I, isn’t the longest quest, but it has a lot of variation depending on who you bring to the party. To experience everything the update has to offer, you’ll need to re-run the quest a couple of times and try to do things differently!

We’ve taken on a lot of feedback and are planning on making some important quality of life improvements in the future updates, as well as new and exciting future quests that we’ll be talking about soon once this build leaves beta!

If you find any bugs, please report them to the bug-report over on our Discord. Include a copy of your save, a screenshot, and a crash-report – as much information as possible, thank you! Link here:

https://discord.gg/RkVHgcnpxM

Thank you for your patience. Please follow the release schedule post to track release deadlines for 2026 here:

https://steamcommunity.com/app/2174500/discussions/0/546740620659728646/

Love, -The Damned Studios Team Changelog: Bugfixes:

• fixed one arlena animation being black

• updated Spanish translation (Will be completed with the full release when leaving Beta!)

• fixed a couple wrong lines during judgement day quest

• fixed an error in ves tj scene

• fixed nijah market stall to tint properly during dusk/dawn

• fixed some gui offset glitches in char. screen

• fixed a couple bugs in japanese translation

• "you lack the required perk" will now also spell out which perk you need

-Giselra spawn bug solved -Jp translation bugs big ones:

• new quest: The Tarbecks, part 1

• an insane amount of sex scenes (26 in total) as part of the new quest

• new Hamun city locations & characters as part of the new quest

• all battle skins in the game (near 70) had received sprite-based animations

• plenty battle skins (markus prologue, kiara prologue and more) were revamped & improved

• improvements to story sprites: mc prologue, markus prologue, arlena, shay, and others

smaller tweaks/improvements:

• the range between your lowest and highest attribute is raised to 15 (from 5)

• in battle, targets can now be selected with number keys, similar to skills & items

• fixed a bunch of old novaras city buildings' clickable offsets

• fixed smaller bugs in a couple battle skills

• additional sex music track

• daytime will now smoothly lighten/darken the background, no longer instantly flipping to night variant

• waiting no longer fades to black

• various smaller tweaks to cinema (shown chars, sounds) all over the script

• huge code cleanup/tidyup, purely engine-side - other stuff

Note: Only those who have purchased or received the game as a gift can access this beta.