Hello, everyone! Hope you're doing well out there and keeping sane during these challenging times. Well we're here to bring you a new update to help pass these days in self-quarantine. Version 0.16 of Element-174 has now been released! There's a lot of new content and it's about as large as the previous update was. The story continues with Day 10 and things are getting even hotter with more of the characters! One of the new features which will be released in the next couple days is an updated walkthrough which fully details each girl's route and which character routes can be run alongside it. We think it will help organize the branching stories a lot better, especially once sub-routes start becoming active. Here is a list of the changes this time:

• Added additional scenes for Rachel, Madison, Sarah, Trish, Jenna, Ash, Isabella, Malia, Penny, Caroline and Holmes
• Added music to the main menu
• The ending scene of Episode 1 can now be skipped after viewing it once
• New sex scenes can now be declined. This will affect the story and routes. We will also revisit previous scenes and add the option to turn down girls who the MC may just want to be friends with
• Fixed a bug involving Trish and Holmes route
• Fixed a bug involving the Day 9 Afternoon choices
• Fixed various grammatical and spelling errors
• Fixed a bug involving a Trish scene that would repeat Day 9 when on Day 10  (v0.16b)

We hope you enjoy this latest chapter of Element-174. There's still a list of upcoming features we would like to add (detailed journals, gallery, easy mode) once we get caught up on the story release schedule. Writing all this dialogue and rendering these scenes takes quite a bit of time, but if we finish these up early in the month, we'll try to squeeze them in. Until next time!