In "Back to Freedom" you are an ex-military man who, due to a mistake made during a mission that caused the death of several comrades, was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
When you get out of prison, all you want is to live a peaceful life again. But will the past let you live in peace?
The game is visual novel style made in Twine/Html with several choices to be made, a basic character stat system that builds up according to your choices, lots of fully interactive content released according to your choices and stats and a fully functional replay gallery.
0.17
- Added the new sandbox mode in the game. The sandbox mode will be available at the end of day 23. From that point on, you can access it through a new link in the left sidebar menu at any time.
- Added 44 story scenes in the sandbox mode.
Note 1: The sandbox mode has been requested by many players for some time now. The goal is to give players something more to do between updates. However, keep in mind that the sandbox mode is not and will never become the main focus of the game (at least not until the end of the main story). Even so, this mode will have many additions over the course of updates. For now, we only have scenes already present in the story mode (not all of them yet) with the necessary text adaptations and some changes in some events. But the idea is to have many exclusive scenes and characters in this mode.
Note 2: The sandbox mode is not like a sandbox-exclusive game, where there is usually a grind of many stats to advance in events. Instead, I chose to let the player replay events already unlocked in story mode. Think of sandbox mode as a much more interactive gallery, where you can replay whole events and not just the resulting scene from them.
Note 3: Money, stats, items, and cars will be shared between the two modes. However, you will not be able to increase stats in sandbox mode (not without using cheats), but you will be able to earn and spend money and items in sandbox mode. You can make money in some ways, such as betting at the casino on weekends at night, participating in Megan's show, and working. Unlike the story mode, the amount of money earned will be proportional to how much you worked throughout the week. You can work twice a day on weekdays. Each time you do this, you'll earn $100. Money earned from work can be collected at the end of the working day. If you don't collect the money, you won't lose it, and you can accumulate as many days as you want before collecting it (as long as you don't leave the sandbox mode - once you leave, non-collected money is gone).
Note 4: Just like in story mode, every Friday you will have to pay the weekly bills. The total to be paid per week is $620. Keep in mind that you will not be able to continue in sandbox mode until you pay the weekly bills. Remember to save money for that.
Note 5: The gallery will not be available in sandbox mode, as too many variables are shared and this could cause bugs. Also, whenever you enter sandbox mode, you will start in front of your house on Monday morning. When you exit sandbox mode (link available only in front of your house), you will return to story mode exactly where you left off before entering sandbox mode.
Note 6: This is just the first version of the sandbox mode and I ask you all to be patient since this may have some bugs (please report all you find). Also, I know there is still a lot to improve and add like new locations, characters' homes, more events, and much more. Constructive feedback is welcome.
- Added an Autowin button in every fighting minigame after losing the same fight three times. The same mechanic is already present in the dancing and shooting minigames.
Note 1: In the semifinals of the tournament, you can only auto-win the minigame with more than 85% life to unlock Lyia's scene if you are NOT tired. Otherwise, you will still have the auto-win button, but with life below 85%.
Note 2: In the tournament final, you can only auto-win the minigame and get the car as a prize if you are NOT tired since this fight is not meant to be won if you are tired.
- Added a few missing tooltips reported by players.
- Fixed a few grammar errors reported by players.
- Fixed Adriana's scene displaying video tearing on some devices.
- Fixed a bug in the casino roulette minigame that was happening when the number 0 was drawn.
Note: I could have easily fixed the bug and still kept the number 0 as drawable. But since many roulette wheels around the world do not use the number 0, I chose to remove it from the minigame, leaving the roulette wheel with 36 possible numbers.
- Changed the beach event with Gina on day 20 so that Erica can show up if you're using any car available in the car store. Prior to this change, Erica would only show up if you were using the most expensive car. You still need a buyable car and do well on her quiz to be invited to races in the future.
Note: The idea behind this change, as well as the fight tournament prize car in the last update, is to provide players who don't have access to money cheat a way to participate in Erica's race events in the future.
