Inner Empire is a dark text-based RPG set in a brutal fantasy world inspired by ancient civilizations. Play as an young woman trying to survive political intrigue, dangerous relationships, and a rapidly changing world where iron is replacing bronze and violence is everywhere.
About this game
- Genre
- Adult RPG
- Developer
- Defiant Explorer
- Release date
- October 2023
- Updated
- May 2026 (version 2.0)
- Status
- Ongoing
- Game Engine
- Twine (play in your browser)
Updated on May 15th 2026, what's new in version 2.0?
Update 2.0 marks the public release of the final episode of Chapter 2. This version mainly focuses on polish and cleanup, fixing dialogue inconsistencies, typos, portrait issues, and several small oversights reported after the early patron release.
2026-05-14
Update 2.0 - Public Version 🎉
* Final episode of Chapter 2 is now publicly available
Fixes & Improvements:
* Fixed a variable check issue involving mentions of Selene's "drawings" in Sargon's book for characters where it should not appear
* Updated dialogue with Iolanta regarding Selene after feedback from Chien_perdu 🐯
* Fixed multiple oversights from the early patron release
* Corrected typos and incorrectly inserted phrases
* Fixed several incorrect portraits appearing in scenes 🖼️
* No major issues were found during the cleanup process
Update 1.8
1. I have added a number of corrections to the text of the Prologue and the beginning of Chapter One, which Gladly suggested. Now the text there should be smoother.
2. The phrase in the dialogue with Iolanta, canceling the possible first sex scene with her:
"Take it yourself. I'm not your servant. Or whoever you imagine me to be in your head."
Has been replaced with:
"Just hand you that amphora? Yeah, sure... Your innuendos stink with indecency! I'm not a pervert or whatever you think I am... Get your damn amphora yourself!"
Thanks to Anika 88 and Ffive, who drew my attention to the fact that in the original context, this phrase could be interpreted as Noble (Origin) role-play rather than a universal refusal of a sex scene with Iolanta. Now the phrase sounds more unambiguous.
3. Thanks to Lord Ja'aM of Roland, who found a broken link in the previous update. It's fixed now.
4. Thanks to Lonely Wolf for finding a bunch of typos.
5. And lots of little things that I found and corrected myself.
Update 1.7
Well. Update 1.7 is finally complete. And exactly where I intended it to be. And it's also grown considerably and is equal in size to most previous updates.
Update 1.69
This version has been expanded a little bit. But just a little bit. Don't expect too much. It's just that this scene is already in the game and I decided not to block it artificially. Because… what's the point?
Update 1.6
Other changes:
1. Replaced 3 arts with hilly terrain with more suitable stylistically. Now hills will look more homogeneous. Anyway, I like it this way more than in the last version.
2. Replaced 12 portraits of... oh yeah, you might not have played the update. Okay, replaced 12 portraits of someone with neater portraits in terms of size and color palette. At least, that's what it looks like to me.
3. Now phrases in dialogs with sound description and emphasis through asterisks (**) will also be emphasized with dashes (-). My impression is that this way they stand out better and are easier to read by eye. This applies only to lines in dialogs. In general descriptions, everything is the same.
4. In the dialog with Barnabas from Chapter 1, the protagonist's thoughts section regarding his proposal has been expanded a bit. Previously, only whether Selene was hungry or not was taken into account. Now it also checks if she owes money to Jardissa.
5. Fixed a bug with a broken answer link on Cadonis' arc at the very beginning of 1.5, in case Selene asked him about Meralion but hadn't talked to Iolanta about Tabius in the golden fields before. Very specific conditions, as you can see, which is why the bug wasn't discovered earlier.
6. Fixed a lot of small things throughout the whole game. Mostly right-centering of some dialogue lines, missing punctuation marks, and other similar stuff.
Update 1.5
Chapter 2 is gaining weight. 1.5 is the biggest update of the last three updates. Now Chapter 2, which is only half finished, is already larger than Chapter 1 in word count and significantly larger in the number of choices. Yay! Right?
Other changes in 1.5:
1. Added a tracker (textual description) of bisexuality to the Sensuality section. Will only appear for those who had sex with Iolanta in Chapter 1.
2. Two new states have been added to the Physical State page. You can get them in 1.5. and, who knows, later in the game as well. It's just a couple of sentences. They will disappear as soon as the state causing them passes away.
3. Added a (possible) extension to the Relations section, on the character page if the requirements for it are met.
4. Some fixes across the whole game. Small things; I don't even bother keeping track of them, an adjustment here, a replacement there... That kind of thing.
