The Matriarch
A downloadable game for Windows
Welcome to The Matriarch
The Matriarch puts you in the shoes of a dancer at a club famous for having pregnant staff. The gameplay loop is simple, promote the club and provide dances when someone requests one!
You can use the money you make to buy items from the club store. These items can increase your fertility, extend your pregnancy, and more!
From the dev:
Heya, Oceanaga here!
Thanks for your interest in my game. I hope you enjoy and if you would like to share your feedback, keep up with development, see more of my art, or just hang out then feel free to join my discord.
Also, this is an adult game so don't open it if you're not of age.
Virus warnings: I have published games made in Unity before for game jams and they popped up with virus warnings. I promise there is no malicious intent with this game and have scanned it using Malwarebytes and virus total (you can check the scan below). If you get a warning, it's probably windows being windows. Making it so the game doesn't flag as a virus is one of my top priorities though.
Virus Total scan Updated for 0.03 on 2/25/2024
Finally, this game is and always will be free. However, if you would like to support the project then you can donate upon downloading. This means the world to me, and I will put the funds right back into developing the game or related content.
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Development log
- Matriarch 0.03 Update66 days ago
- 0.02b patch72 days ago
- 0.02a patch79 days ago
- Version 0.0280 days ago
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Android version?
No plans for that. Just PC, sorry.
For some reason my game screen is too wide so I cant see the settings and how much money I have is there a way to fix this?
are you running it in windowed mode or did you make it full screen? The game is built around 1920x1080 so if you change it to anything else things may get weird (trying to fix this).
I don't understand why the price for increasing days becomes more expensive if it isn't additive to the due date of the next contract. I think that what you pay for should stay for the next contract, or at least have a price reduce when it goes back down to only 90 days. otherwise liking the game
The price of the extend does reset every pregnancy. If it's not then that's a bug I need to address.
As for why it gets more expensive, I've given a longer explanation in another reply here but essentially it's for gameplay balance and lore reasons.
Sometimes when you start a new contract you start with full pregnancy and it doesn´t change after time. Also what does the hold set and fert.set do in admin settings?
did you adjust your stats at all with the admin settings before getting that glitch?
They set how many kids you're holding and your fertility.
Yes i think i adjusted the number of kids i´m holding before i started a new contract
If you get an error from normal gameplay then that's something worth posting, but if you are messing with admin tools and something breaks then I can't help there. You're essentially forcing yourself into content that isn't there at that point so things will get funky.
So how many Admin Commands are there, and their exact lines? Figuring this stuff is a nightmare. It'd be a bit simpler to just have a Money Admin Command.
it's just a gui that you open to set things. There's a button that adds money.
Well. I have been messing with things, and there's no button that adds money. That's news to me.
It should be the top thing in the admin panel. I'll have to check it when I get home today to make sure.
Playing the new 0.02a patch and seems like the extend drink is no longer resetting in price. Not sure if that's intentional but the speal at the beginning still says it's meant to reset.
Additionally the save function doesn't seem to be working, but admittedly I didn't test it on 0.02 so I can't say if that's a new bug or not.
I'll take a look at those and see if anything is up. You're saving and loading from the club right? That fast forward button on the main screen just skips the prologue. You have to load from the settings menu when in game.
After some testing it seems like it's just the lounge that doesn't let you load the game for some reason.
I have also just realised that if you have the second outfit (the bikini) your boobs shrink for the "Bottle Service" pose. I think the belly stays the right size. Hard to say.
The best size thing is known, i posted about it in the patch notes.
I had a bug where the Energy and Days froze during my second run when I tryed again. I was on day 38 with 1 Energy and klicked throu the bar-job rapidly.
I'll try and replicate that. Thanks for the heads up.
I also used the spacebar to get this bug. Hope this helps
That's weird, the spacebar isn't mapped to anything so it shouldn't have any effect.
Bug reports:
1. I've got the same issue as Askme112, the text box covers the renew/quit buttons after the pregnancy is over.
2. The bottom of the game is cut off by a bit unless I ALT+ENTER it and go into the full fullscreen mode.
The renew screen is an easy fix, I'll have an update out for that once I get home. I'll have to look into the cutoff though.
Thanks for bringing it to my attention.
No virus warnings for 0.02. All good.
Sorry stupid question. I can't press the renew contract button. The message bar is in the way. Any ide how to get to click it?
Dang, I'll get that fixed when I get home today. Sorry about that!
I see great potential in this game!
however I have a couple of questions:
how come the effectiveness of the potions decrease but the price goes up? probably for the game mechanics but it feels a bit off.
what does the TEA do? is that the fertility booster?
is it possible to assign keys to the buttons? (also the shop pops up automatically after the 3rd activity without showing the said activity.)
and is the X top right corner there to stay? it seems out of place since every option is in the left column.
I don't mean any offense just genuinely curious, I really like the game so far. it's a real diamond in the rough ;)
Heya, no offense taken! These questions actually provide great feedback for some design choices so i appreciate it.
The potion effectiveness is a two part thing. First it is to prevent an infinite pregnancy. You make big money when you're preggo so I'm trying to keep the income semi balanced. Next lore wise, your body builds up a tolerance to the medications as you use them so it takes more each time to be effective.
Yes, the tea is a fertility booster. Meant to call it fertilitea, but forgot to change it before I made the build. That has been fixed. I'm now looking for a good way to show item descriptions.
I haven't done any keybinds since the game is designed around just left clicking your mouse. If this is a widely requested thing I'll look into it. As for the shop popping up, I've reworked all the locations and timers so the shop is a place you go to at will instead of being forced there at the end of the day. The exit X is gone now too with this next update. I redid the UI too for it. Still playing with layout and collecting feedback.
haha fertilitea genius.
the drug resistance makes sense in every way though. as for the bar on the left, great choice! with a lot of games the textbar is in the way of the image and I have to press H to see the full image. so this is a great choice! but for the sake of the design keep everything in that box. If you want any tips or advice on visual presentation feel free to shoot me a message and I'll be happy to help if the need arises.
What exactly does the roll button do? one time it made my belly grow, but the rest of the time it did nothing
That actually wasn't supposed to make it into the game. It's a part of my dev tools. It re rolls how many babies you're carrying. I didn't notice it till I had already uploaded the build lol.
Looks good!
Is there a Mobile version?
Thanks! No mobile version so far and it's not on my road map. I'll consider it down the line once i get more content added in.
ok
This is a great idea. Is it possible to save your progress?
Also what does the tea do?
Thanks! I haven't added saving in yet since there's not a whole lot of progression to do in this build. I'm working on that now though and will hopefully have it in with either this next build or the one after.
Oh boy, even 7-zip is throwing a fit about this game, it wont even let me open it because it's calling it a virus, after which it straight-up deleted the file.
I'm a trained computer technician and I've never seen 7-zip do that before. Heck, Windows Defender didn't even have time to respond. Redownloading it made my browser nervous and autodelete it too.
You sure your computer itself is clean? If your projects regularly trip people's AV often enough to mention it in the game's description, my assumption would be that your PC has a legitimate virus and it's bad enough to be infecting your files.
Haha yeah, I promise it's clean (infrastructure engineer here).
This is a common occurrence with Unity (my guess is it has something to do with all the telemetry they collect now for advertising and what not), a quick google will show this. I run Malwarebytes on everything I upload along with virus checker, which I have linked above.
As for the game being flagged, I'm going to see if there's something I can disable so this doesn't happen in future builds.
Edit: I've done some digging and I can go about signing the builds but that requires a LOT of money to set up. I'll tinker with some distribution options and see if maybe it's the file being in a zip that does it. Either way, this is very high on my priority list to fix.
Funny how in all of that description, at the time of writing there isn't really a description of the game itself lol. I infer that it is some sort of pregnancy game, but that's about it!
lol how in the world did I forget that?
I'll get that fixed. Thanks for pointing it out!