Borrowed Lives

Borrowed Lives Borrowed Lives is a text-based medieval sandbox where your choices shape your origin, skills, stats, and relationships. Explore, survive, fight turn-based battles, complete quests, and earn rewards as new adventures unfold.

Borrowed Lives

Borrowed Lives is a text-driven sandbox exploration game set in a medieval fantasy world where magical abilities shape your life. At the start, you can freely choose where you come from—selecting different origins and backgrounds—to launch your life simulation. From there, you’ll face a steady stream of random happenings, problems to overcome, and open-ended adventures.

Your decisions matter: by navigating events wisely, you can earn rewards that strengthen your character. These rewards help you improve attributes, gain new skills, and unlock fresh weapons and spells—giving you an edge in later journeys.

As the story unfolds, you’ll meet many different characters. Your choices influence relationships, reputation, and even how individual futures play out. And yes—if you want more content, the game also includes unlockable erotic H-scenes to add variety to your experience.

Gameplay

Origins

• Pick your starting life—from peasant to royalty—each path comes with its own story and challenges.

Progression

• Grow your stats, learn skills, earn traits, and refine your playstyle through your choices.

Combat

• Engage enemies using tactical turn-based battles.
• Use weapons, magic, and skills to handle threats strategically.

Survival

• Keep an eye on health, temperature, exhaustion, and other needs while you explore.

Quests

• Complete objectives, uncover secrets, and earn rewards through story missions that adapt as you progress.

Relationships

• Build bonds with characters, shape your reputation, and influence your social life.

Economy

• Collect materials, craft items, and trade with merchants.

Careers

• Take jobs, advance your career, run businesses, and expand your wealth and influence.

Changelog

v1.0.1 – Patch 1 (December 14th, 2025)

Gameplay

• Fixed experience and level progress not being gained or shown correctly.
• Fixed the time cheat that could advance the game state improperly.
• Fixed maximum health not responding to difficulty settings.
• Fixed maximum energy not responding to difficulty settings.
• Fixed daily flags not resetting as intended.



• Fixed fainting not triggering correctly when energy hits zero.
• Fixed “desperation” issues when arousal becomes full.
• Fixed “breakdown” problems when stress becomes full.
• Fixed an insanity-related softlock that occurred when purchases were forced without enough money.
• Fixed sleep options allowing energy to exceed the maximum (now properly capped).
• Fixed eating effects that were unclear or not applying.
• Fixed weather/temperature effects staying permanently.
• Fixed stat resets after changing difficulty and ending combat.
• Fixed history not restoring vendor money, stock, and resource states.
• Tweaked sweat buildup so it only happens when the “hot” status is active.
• Added more varied and consistent character generation.
• Added passive energy drain over time.
• Added passive health recovery over time.
• Added choice condition types to support multi-flag requirements.
• Added multi-condition support for scene content.
• Added an exhibitionism check when trying to unequip clothing in public.
• Improved carry capacity scaling.
• Added special vendors: banks, pawnbrokers, barbers, tattoo/piercing shops, and bathhouses.
• Added delivery vendors: livestock traders.
• Added special location: city hall.
• Added social locations: inn, brothel, market.
• Added resource caps for all health-related resources.
• Added combat equipment checks.
• Added fail-forward consequences for certain scenes.
• Added scene validation and console logging.
• Added save hashing and validation.
• Fixed an awakening quest softlock when returning to a room before being asked about a missing night.
• Fixed a desperation ending that didn’t return to the previous scene.

Combat

• Fixed a bug where players couldn’t loot after combat.
• Fixed NPCs refusing to end combat after running out of stamina.
• Fixed enemies disappearing from the combat list after taking hits.
• Fixed enemy removal logic incorrectly treating enemies as defeated too early.
• Fixed missing defeated enemy display and loot preview.
• Fixed encounters always forcing the player into being outnumbered; added more 1v1 encounter chances.
• Fixed certain enemy actions that could cause instant defeat.
• Fixed inability to select enemy cards.
• Fixed getting stuck in combat state even after ending combat.
• Added combat history tracking.
• Rebalanced enemy drops.

Sex

• Fixed sex skill gain and how it’s displayed.
• Fixed being able to orgasm multiple times in a single round.
• Fixed penetration actions being disallowed.
• Fixed clothing state not restoring after restarting sex.
• Fixed NPCs not responding correctly to sexual content preferences.
• Fixed NPCs not ending sex after stamina depletion or orgasm.
• Fixed NPCs not respecting cooldowns related to position/surface changes.
• Fixed verb conjugation issues in dialogue.
• Fixed duplicate pronouns in dialogue.
• Fixed pronoun + name duplication.
• Fixed incorrect actor references.
• Fixed genitalia reference issues.
• Fixed missing NPC pronouns in dirty talk dialogue.
• Fixed incorrect verb stems in actions.
• Fixed multiple consecutive spaces in sex scene descriptions.
• Fixed pubic hair not removing properly after toggling it off.
• Fixed certain actions being blocked when using an irrelevant body part.
• Fixed mutual actions not matching the current state when switching between “you act” / “you ask.”
• Fixed continuous actions not ending when moving to an invalid position.



• Fixed inability to select different targets during gangbang scenes.
• Fixed virginity detection for certain genital combinations.
• Fixed the “virgin” trait not being removed when it should.
• Fixed “go again” not adding all intended entities to the sex scene (except one).
• Fixed issues related to arousal.