Dear Villains and Villainesses,

This is Tanya and Emily, the co-developers behind Save the Villainess. We hope you’re having a great time during this first month of summer and not allowing the sun’s rays to scorch your delicate villain or villainess skin. Even as you continue your summer frolics, we have some fun updates and surprises!

This June, we programmed scenes 19 and 20 which are pivotal scenes that you will receive based on the choices you made in the previous scenes. Scene 19 is a multi-sequence scene that plays out as a three-part tragedy. It is one of our more elaborate bad endings and features new animations, lengthy dialogue, and a tragic final twist. The more you’re willing to explore difficult consequences, the more you’ll learn! 

Chapter 20 is the alternate scene that you will receive if you make different choices throughout the last few deduction sequences. You’ll get to see a different side of Jane - one that has had it with constant threats and is willing to strike back!

We also ran some experimental writing and coding tests and discovered that we can incorporate two new gameplay elements into our future scenes. These gameplay elements have now been added to our existing script outline and will offer exciting deductive challenges for those who wish to challenge themselves by playing in the harder detective mode. Otherwise, you can always use the in-game story mode and/or our free walkthrough guide to solve all of the puzzles/deductions. 

Welcome to Emily’s History Corner, a new segment that we ran in previous streams but are now bringing to our updates! This segment allows us to share some of the fun historical details that have shaped our story, our visuals, and our characters. For June, Emily will share more on our use of floriography (the technical name for the language of flowers) in Save The Villainess. 

Save the Villainess is a historical fantasy game that takes place in Carcosa, a magical kingdom that is patterned after England in the late Victorian and Early Edwardian time periods. We incorporated the Victorian interest in floriography, which allowed people to give different meanings to plants and flowers and use them to demonstrate affection, friendship or even threats. We use flowers and plants in Save the Villainess to communicate subtle meanings about our characters.

Victorians sometimes created small bouquets ( called “tussie-mussies”) to wear as corsages or to give to their lovers. Depending on where a woman pinned a tussie-mussie, she could communicate whether she was interested in the suitor who sent her the bouquet… or whether he should leave in disgrace. Can you decode the symbolic tussie-mussies we wove into Jane’s costumes? 

As a tribute to the Victorians and as lovers of plants and symbolism, we’ve incorporated Victorian and contemporary use of plant and flower language in our game. We’ll write more about that process in our upcoming art book. In the meantime, keep your eyes peeled for the floral messages of love and destruction lurking within Save the Villainess.

We wanted to finish by wishing you a Happy Pride Month! As women writing a story centered on a pansexual protagonist who can fall in love with a wide range of love interests, this month means a great deal to us. We wanted to share our joy through our beloved nonbinary suspect and love interest, Servant.

As you can see, even someone who is a little… uncertain about normal human emotions can see the beauty of this holiday. So Happy Pride, friends. May you continue to love with all your heart!

Please remember you can always find us at the sites below:

✦ Our discord server - come chat with us and hear what other players have discovered about our game!

✦ Our mailing list - we send out cute kitten pictures and free cards featuring new banter from our main characters every month. This June, everyone will discuss what kind of flower represents their love in this season of Pride.

✦ Youtube, Bluesky, and Tumblr - our main social media accounts

With Much Love,

Tanya & Emily

Best Laid Plans Productions, Inc.