Yes, the Lucas Kaiser route of XOXO Droplets is out!

We promised you a romance route for that strange Halloween-haired party man and we’ve officially delivered. If you have the extended addition of the game already then you’ve got access to the route. It’s a completely free addition so you only have to let the game update.

If you’ve been playing the basic version of XOD, now would be a good time to pick up the whole thing. It’s 32% until October 17th! We chose that number because the overall word count went from a massive 290,000 to a whopping 320,000, haha.

It’s important to note that originally you could get the first few events of the Lucas route in either version of XOXO Droplets. Now all the Lucas content is included just in the extended version of the game.

If you're all set to woo that boy, here's some insight into how it works. The Luke Route isn’t gameplay based. You don’t have to rack up Affection Points, or buy certain items, or anything. His events happen at specific, automatic points throughout the game. There are a few chances where you can choose jump off of his route, but other than that all you have to do is get through the days. Our recommended method is-

• Start a new file from the beginning
• Turn events you don’t want off using the events setting page in the More section
• Use cheats to get Reputation and Swifty Taffy
• Set the taffy to Weekly Equip
• Sleep away the days
• On October 11th, Year 1 you will be invited to a party, be sure attend
• Keep sleeping through the months and enjoy all the lovely Lucas Kaiser content


If you find any issues with this route, please let us know by posting in the bugs/errors thread!



We’ve also made some other improvements; fixing typos and removing bugs and the like. Plus we added a brand new cheat code!
i-want-it-all

That code works in the extended addition of the game. It instantly unlocks all the unlockable gallery/list content. The outfits, CGs, phone backgrounds, and the Guy List. Lucas isn't included on the Guy List because he functions so differently from the other boyfriend options. The one downside is that if you use this code you won’t get the achievement for filling out the Guy List on your own. You’ll have to clear your data from the More Section and start from scratch.



And that about wraps things up. This will be our final major addition to XOXO Droplets. It’s been wonderful sharing this project with all of you. I hope that you’ll continue to enjoy it! While moving on is always sad, at least there’s that spin-off to look forwards to.



Lastly, we’ve got one more bit of news; GB Patch Games has started a Patreon account! We’ve been workshopping it for the past month or so, coming up with fun tier rewards and creating lots of informative posts, and we’re ready to start sharing it around.

You can get early access to our projects, snazzy sneak peeks (including into some very special games that have yet to have been announced on our public social media pages), digital merchandise, and more. Plus the 10$ tier includes a key for newly released projects, which will count for this Lucas update to XOXO Droplets~

PATREON [www.patreon.com]

I hope you’ll check it out and continue to stick with us as we work on new endeavors. Thank you so much for everything!

Hey everyone!

I hope you’ve been enjoying XOXO Droplets for what it is. However, I’m sure we’ve all been thinking it, if only those guys could’ve been even worse people. Well, the time has finally come for that dream to be realized. The jerk squad is back in a brand new game and now they’re not only unnecessarily difficult annoyances, they’re also obsessive murderers. Amazing.

XOXO Blood Droplets is a Visual Novel being produced by GB Patch Games. It is a spin-off game, however you don’t need to have played the original for this to make sense. You play as JB (renameable) and get to romance the six main boyfriend options from XOXO Droplets: Pran Taylor, Jeremy King, Bae Pyoun, Shiloh Fields, Nate Lawson, and Everett Gray. There’s an array of side characters running around as well, both old and new. One route will be released for free, the other five will be included in a paid “full version”.

In the normal XOXO Droplets the boys have trouble admitting how they feel and don’t actively try to romance the MC. That is not the case here. All six of them openly want to be with JB and are willing to get rid of the competition if that’s what it’ll take. If you'd like to know what it’s like to have the tables turned and be pursued by these guys, do check out the demo we just released!

XOXO Blood Droplets Demo [gbpatch.itch.io]

Also, feel free to join us in our Discord Channel if you have any questions or wanna share your experience with the demo (or anything else, really. The community is very nice). We’d be happy to see you there!

XOD Community Invite [discordapp.com]

Lucas Kaiser will be added as a 9th boyfriend option to XOXO Droplets once we hit our sales goal. January 6th is his birthday. To celebrate that, and hopefully push us closer to the goal, we’re having a special 3-day sale! We could’ve had the percentage be the same as the age he was turning, but he can totally pass for 25~

If you've been thinking about picking up the full version, now would be a great time to do it! We're also having a little giveaway on Tumblr for the XOXO Droplets soundtrack + other little digital XOD goods~

Giveaway Post [gb-patch.tumblr.com]

Happy birthday, Halloween Hair.

The first game our company released, A Foretold Affair, is on sale for 40%! The sale ends early on November, 28th. AFA is a Visual Novel rather than a simulation game like XOXO Droplets, but it does star another very amusing and out-spoken protagonist.

If you have a chance, I hope you'll give it a look!

A Foretold Affair Steam Page

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In this barren world of endless deserts, almost all live their lives upon large fractions of land floating above the surface.

Here there are two types of people: Normals and Abnormals.

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Buffalo Seer is an eccentric Abnormal who wants nothing more than to use the magic ability within them: future seeing. However, even within their society where everyone has a special power, future seeing is considered dangerous and advised against.

Unable to be swayed, Seer finally gains permission to look into their own future, only to receive an unbelievable revelation. Not only have they left Abnormal society, they're married to someone they've never met before.

With visions of happiness in their mind, Seer leaves everything behind and ventures to the part of the land fraction where those without magic live: Normal society.

Seer is going to convince this stranger that they are meant to be together no matter what it takes, even if it means tagging along on an adventure.

In only a few days Seer will learn just how far away that pleasant future is.

⚜Features:

150,000 word script
3 future spouse options (one male, one female, one agender)
Choose pronouns (he, she, or they) and a 'Normal' name for Buffalo Seer
A variety of choices, all of which are worth choosing
Light animation effects & over 20 CG images
A beautiful, piano based, soundtrack

To show our thanks this season we're having a giveaway on Facebook for a bunch of fun XOXO Droplets stuff. All the details are posted there.

Click here if you'd like to enter! [www.facebook.com]

Thanks for everything so far! And good luck to everyone who decides to give it a shot~

Hello!

We've officially updated XOXO Droplets to include a new way to get the boyfriend endings; confessions~
Now if you out-stubborn your jerk he’ll ask you to be his girlfriend at the end of the game. Confessions are available in the free and paid versions. Exact steps to get them are explained in the Event Guide .

Just let Steam update XOXO Droplets for you and you'll then be able to get these new events.

In other news, if you reblog the announcement post on Tumblr [gb-patch.tumblr.com] you'll be entered into a giveaway to get a key for the complete version of XOXO Droplets!

Thanks for everything. I hope you enjoy these extra-adorable (at least for these guys, haha) events~

*Edit
The game was tweaked slightly again to solve an issue with some people getting an error report when loading saves after the update.

Hey everyone!

We've updated XOXO Droplets. The changes are:

-Grammar/Spelling fixes

-Changed a few sentences to make things clearer

-Got rid of a couple formatting issues that caused an error report to appear

-Fixed an issue that stopped some people from being able to get Davis as their boyfriend

-Made it so you'll get a tiny comment from the MC if you have a Clique at Max Reputation at the end of the game

-Fixed an issue with how Kam's boyfriend info was displayed on the Relationship Info screen

-Added a few more details to the Tip Screens

-Made it so you can get up to 5 Tickets through the Tic-Tak-SMACK mini-game. It was accidentally set to give 4 at the max

-Fixed an error that labeled Kam as someone you didn't know during the Silver/Gold Necklace accessory scene

-Removed the option to get a main guy as your boyfriend right before the field trip. That was done because the relationship announcement event and field trip events aren't compatible. It'll cause problems with your file if they happen at the same time.

-Fixed an issue that made it so not everyone could get the bonus group event at the end of the game


Thank you for the reports on all those little snags! We'll update the game again if more error reports come in.

The screenshot/caption contest has ended and we’ve gone over all the entries. There were a lot of good ones and we’re sorry we couldn’t pick everyone. Because there were more people who joined than we anticipated we did bump the amount of winners from 5 to 8.
chibiichan (Tumblr)
Froggy (Twitter)
herecomedisweeb (Tumblr)
karin☆ (Twitter)
miscelangelo (Tumblr)
spicyscholar (Tumblr)
xoxodroplets (Tumblr)
your-dilemma (Tumblr)

As we mentioned initially, winners have one week, until September 13th, to get in contact with us to claim their prize.

You’ll need to send an email and reach out through the account you used to enter the contest to confirm the email sent was definitely from you. You can send us a message through the Tumblr messenger or send an ask with your account. If it was on Twitter you can @ us in a tweet or reply to one of our posts on the site.

Contact Email: [email protected]

You can choose a Steam key for the extended version of the game OR a download of the soundtrack/artbook.

I hope anyone isn’t too disappointed. There’s still about a day left to get the full game on sale if you weren’t one of the winners.


Thank you!

XOXO Droplets has been released! You can finally pursue the terrible guy of your dreams. Thank goodness.

And in celebration we’re having a contest-kinda-thing! Woo~

Here are the rules:

-Take a screenshot of XOD and post it online. It can be the free version or the paid ‘complete’ version
-Include an @ to us and a description of why you wanted to share that scene in the post
-Screenshots can be posted on Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook, or Instagram
-A group of screenshots included in one post is fine, it doesn’t have to be just one
-It’s your social media so you can spam as many XOD screenshots as you want, but we do have a limit of 10 entries to this contest per account


You can take a screenshot by pressing the S key on your keyboard.

Twitter: @Patch_Games
https://twitter.com/Patch_Games

Tumblr: @gb-patch
https://gb-patch.tumblr.com/

Facebook: @GBPatchGames
https://www.facebook.com/GBPatchGames/

Instagram: @gbpatchgames
https://www.instagram.com/gbpatchgames/


The contest will run from now until September 6th, 12:00pm US Mountain Time. The winners will be announced later that day.

Winners will be decided based on why they chose the screenshot they did. Descriptions that are funny, or sweet, or otherwise memorable are what we’re looking for. There will be 5 winners. Those who’ve won will be announced publicly and they’ll have one week to get in touch about claiming their prize.

All winners can choose between a key for the complete version of XOXO Droplets OR a download of the XOXO Droplets Soundtrack and the XOXO Droplets Artbook.

Contact Email: [email protected]



Thank you for everything! Good luck and we hope you’ll have fun with this silly game!