Chains of the Forest

You hunted a white stag into a forest no human returns from. Three days later, you woke chained in an elven auction hall — and
Lyrenne Veyrwald
bought you.
She runs one of the most ancient noble houses in the elven kingdom. She has slaves older than your country. She has a brother three centuries dead whose face you happen to share. And she is going to mark you, train you, watch you — and at some point, decide whether you become her favorite, her tool, or her ruin.
What this is
Chains of the Forest
is a dark-fantasy adult visual novel about power, desire, and the long con of a noblewoman who has had three hundred years to learn how to break men gently. Built in Ren'Py, written like a novel, with branching every two scenes.
This is also our
proof of concept
as a studio. We've been cooking since 2019 — five years of false starts, hardware upgrades, learning what makes an adult VN actually feel alive.
Chains of the Forest
is the first complete game we ship.
Features
32 characters
, each with their own arc and motives — from the cook who has survived 22 years in the basement to the rival noblewoman who hunts you on her cousin's orders.
~50 explicit sex scenes
, no two using the same beat. Romantic with Caelith. Slow-burn with Eshara. Aristocratic protocol with Aeloria. Predatory with Sarvanis. Quiet and human with Mira. Ritual marks with Lyrenne herself.
13 endings
across 3 major branches: stay (Consort / Shadow), escape (Underground), or flip the dynamic (Forest Queen / Conspirator).
Day-night cycle, energy, economy
— manage time, work elven jobs or shady contracts, gift, blackmail, build dependence.
Per-character stats
: affection, lust, domination — plus global corruption and defiance for the MC.
Free-roam hub
between scripted chapters with 7 explorable zones.
Replay gallery
persistent across saves.
Content & warnings
18+ ONLY.
Themes include: sexual slavery as setting, dominance/submission dynamics, dubious consent in some routes, voyeurism, multiple partners. No CSAM, no non-consensual violence outside fantasy framing. If those themes aren't your thing, this isn't the game for you.
By the numbers
~167,000 words written
~419 CGs (SDXL pipeline + R-ESRGAN upscaling)
~50 backgrounds
13 unique endings
Originally Spanish, fully translated to English (~8,300 strings)
Status
v0.3.0
— Act 1 complete (chapters I–XV) with all three major branches and 13 endings.
Act 2 in planning.
The team — MRGN Studios
We're a two-person studio. Day jobs by day, building this nights and weekends.
Supra
— Lead Director & Programmer. Systems, mechanics, gameplay from scratch. Trains custom LoRA models for art consistency. Five years building VNs solo before this; finally shipping.
Mylokero
— Lead Writer, Character Designer, QA Lead & Community Manager. Writes the narrative, designs every character, owns the prompts behind every CG. If you've talked to us in Discord, you've talked to Mylokero.
We met on F95Zone years ago, bonding over shared frustration with shallow adult VNs.
On AI
We use AI as a tool, not a crutch. Mylokero designs characters and writes detailed canon. Supra trains custom LoRA models for each character. Mylokero crafts the prompts. Supra generates variations. Mylokero curates and feeds back. AI assists dialogue polishing under Mylokero's eye. Result: characters that actually look like themselves across 100+ scenes. No janky face changes. Natural English despite Supra being Spanish-native. We're transparent about this.
Credits
Direction & code
: Supra (MRGN Studios)
Writing & character design
: Supra & Mylokero (MRGN Studios)
Engine
: Ren'Py 8.5.2
Art
: SDXL pipeline (unholyDesireMixSinister + custom uberpie LoRA + 2× ControlNet, R-ESRGAN 4× upscaling)
Music
: The Cynic Project — Pixelsphere (2017)
Typography
: Cinzel (display) + EB Garamond (body)
Support the studio
We're building this nights and weekends with day jobs. Patreon support buys us TIME — the eventual goal is full-time development with monthly updates instead of quarterly.
Patreon — patreon.com/MRGNStudios
— early access, dev logs, voting on next features
Discord
— community, bug reports, direct talk with Mylokero
If you enjoy the game, a rating + comment here on itch helps more than you'd think.
⚠️
18+ ONLY
. By downloading, you confirm you are of legal adult age in your jurisdiction.