Finding Color in the Ashes
Game Information
Developer
MooncatcherStudiosVersion
v3.13
Engine
Others
Release Date
Mar 6, 2024
Last Update
Apr 29, 2026
Censorship
Uncensored
Overview
Finding Color in the Ashes is a fantasy dating sim for players who enjoy slow-paced management games with a cozy undertone. It suits anyone who likes splitting their time between quiet routine and light combat.
Story
Set over the course of a single year starting in summer, the game follows a protagonist rebuilding a ruined inn while getting to know Lucy, a witch who becomes part of his daily life. The surrounding land isn't safe, and clearing it of monsters becomes part of restoring the inn to something livable.
Gameplay
Each day is split into morning, afternoon, evening, and night, with weekends carrying their own separate events, and the four seasons each bringing different activities to the loop. Time can go toward talking with Lucy and the inn's guests, crafting potions, or heading out to fight monsters in turn based, dice-driven combat. Experience earned from these activities is spent on abilities that improve combat, unlock new spells, or expand what can be done with the inn, while gold goes toward buying and upgrading weapons, armor, and spells.
Features
- A year-long calendar with season-specific events and pacing
- Turn based combat built around dice rolls rather than fixed stats
- An experience-and-upgrade system tied to both combat and inn management
- Shared meals and social scenes with the inn's growing cast of companions
Installation
1. Extract and run.
Changelog
v2.92
Added:
- Meal prep rework - invite all of your companions to dinner!
- New menu when preparing dinner. While Lucy will always be invited, you can now choose to invite the other companions as well.
- Each companion will increase the cost of making food slightly. Ellie and Ailis increase food cost by +1 each, Scout adds +1 Alcohol cost, and Willow +1 Reagents.
- If you have desserts available, you can choose to serve desert.
- If you have ritual spells unlocked and some reagents, you can enchant the meal.
- Companions will increase their Bond, Mood, and Affinity if invited.
- Serving Dessert and Enchanting the meal will each increase the bonuses received.
- Lucy can still be asked to conjure food, but the option will only show up if you are completely out of food.
- All companions now have dialog commenting on the meal served.
- Processing food rework: Turn grain, fruit, and honey into food and desserts.
- New character art for Willow in companions page
- 4 New Events: Scout, Ellie, Willow, and Ailis each have a new event tied to progressing their hangout dispositions
- A few new dialog portraits for Scout tied to her new event
Adjustments:
- Grains cost less at the merchant caravans
- UI tool tip improvements - the tooltips will clear out when you mouse off of most buttons.
Fixes:
- (Lots of) Typos
- During event where Scout is cold, temperature wasn't raising despite spending wood
- The corrupt status effect was increasing Lucy's fracture even when she wasn't participating in a fight
- Bleed status effect was not being cleared when using shield / lucy's shield
- rooftop cutscene repeating
- Ailis event repeating
- Cold weather soft lock
