Assuming you had infinite money, you can stay at the inn which gives you some food. So I guess instead of just having a merchant sell food, you just have to stay at the inn for a week or two before going out on your quest, lol.
Or just alter the save file so you actually never have to worry about food again, by giving yourself like 9000 food or something.
.rar are compressed files, you need to decompress them before you can use them. There are lots of different programs that can help with that for free, such as Winrar, Winzip, 7zip, etc.
You can find a free download of Winrar online pretty easy, like at https://www.rarlab.com/
It'll tell you that you "need" to pay to keep using it after 40 days, but for normal every day personal use, you can just ignore that (it just locks out some of the business oriented functions, nothing you'd need to use to just open .rar files).
CHA will give you better seduction options in combat, which will help you have sex with them (as either top or bottom), but a lot of enemies won't be defeated by sex alone. Some will give up when dominated, some will be satisfied when they fuck you, but a lot of them will just keep on fighting until you're defeated. You can check the win/loss conditions with a little pop-out tab thing on the right/middle of the screen.
Unless I'm remembering wrong, there ARE females in this world, we just don't interact with many of them. The Brothel Madame, for instance, doesn't have a penis, and I don't think the nun in the church has one either. Also the angel at the Altar location, but being that she's an angel that's not exactly the same. One of them 2 vampire sisters (the thicker one) is full female as well, with a vagina and everything: in the threesome scene with them you get sandwiched between the 2 of them.
If my earlier posts didn't give it away, I've been following this game for a while now (obviously since at least before the scavenging change) so I have beaten it without cheating. Now I play for, uh, what did you say... to "do what people do with sex games", lol. In that situation, I'm not playing for challenge anymore.
I mean, you talk about how there's no reason to cheat because you can just fight the LAST BOSS OF THE GAME over and over again. First up, it's the last boss, so up until that point you can't use that option. Second, being able to fight the boss multiple times is a placeholder, because that's supposed to, you know... End the game, because you won. I don't think farming the boss of the game, in the very last area, for a placeholder reward really counts. The main culprit of the food issue is the increased food usage for having more people in your party. It costs like 4-5 food or something for every space you take, when you have all the companions, even with the hunger charm equipped.
I tend to keep long term saves, while the food system seems to be designed with a single "playthrough" in mind. For instance, you can't really "earn" more money by simply playing the game, and the only way to get food is to buy it or get very lucky finding a food cache out in the wild, or very small amounts when you ingest semen. The fact that there's still a talent to boost your scavenging chance, when you can no longer scavenge (aside from when you have completely 100% run out of food, and even then you usually only get enough for a few more turns, and risk a bad end if you fail), leads me to believe that the mechanic isn't in it's "final form" yet anyway. If enemies dropped a token amount of gold, so that when you got to town you could stock up (assuming they even have enough food in stock!), that would go a long way to fixing thing.
That and having extra party members shouldn't make you take more food per turn, but it does. I invited them to join me, I didn't offer to provide them food forever! But I'm damned sure going to take them with me, so cheating it is.
I'm not sure what might be causing it, I'm not super well versed in computer troubleshooting or anything. The game launches and runs just fine for me when I run either the .exe or the .jar
When I check what windows is using to open the .jar it says it opens with "Java(TM) Platform SE binary" if that helps at all.
Is it your computer you're running it on? If you're using some kind of Guest or restricted account (like parental controls, or a work/school computer, etc) that's probably the issue. Are you able to login with an Admin account or something? I'm not an IT guy or anything, but it sounds like it's something along those lines (it's never asked me for permissions to play).
It's been a while since I've actually downloaded winrar myself, but I'm going to assume it downloads some kind of install file. You'll want to run that, and install it somewhere (wherever it picks default is probably fine, but feel free to put it wherever you want). Once it's installed, if you try to open the game file you downloaded earlier (Tales of Androgyny Win64 for example) it should open it with winrar, the program you just installed. You'll want to "extract" the files into a folder somewhere, usually wherever you normally hide your porn games (or don't hide, if you don't ever let anyone else use it or watch you use it). Something like C:\Users\*YOUR PC NAME HERE*\Desktop\PORN GAMES NOTHING TO SEE HERE\Tales of Androgyny. You could also just make a temporary folder right smack in the middle of your desktop, extract to that, and then move it wherever you want later if that's easier for you. Once that's done (it might take a minute or five, depending on how up-to-date your PC is) it should be ready to play! Go into that folder, find that file named Tales of Androgyny.jar (it'll probably be the largest size file in there, should be easy to spot) and just double click it, and it should start right up.
As an extra here, it's safe to alter your save data if you only mess with the obvious stuff, and still lets you be "OP". Find where it lists your gold, food, talent/skill/magic points, etc, and just adjust those numbers. Keep in mind it'll only list your available points if you actually have some to use! I tend to start a new game, get like, 1 level, and then just not spend my points. Then when I start editing the save it'll have those points listed in the file, and I can just edit them to be like, 10000 points or whatever (same with gold/food). You can also do the same for your stats, though be careful what you set your str stat up to, unless you like getting pounded by wolf girls even when you win the fight against them :P
Do you mean it's showing up as a .rar file? If so, that's what it's supposed to do, and you need a program to extract the file (think of it like getting a package in the mail: you need something to open the box up to get at the thing you ordered). If you need a reliable free program to do it, you can get one at https://www.win-rar.com/start.html?&L=0
If you go to the main page, https://majalis.itch.io/tales-of-androgyny you'll see a bunch of buttons about half way down the page that say "download". Find the correct version (PC, MAC, Android, etc) and download it. Assuming you're on PC (I don't know how MAC works, and I don't play on mobile) you'll then need to extract the file you downloaded (think of it like unpacking a box: all the stuff is in the file, but it's not "ready to use" in it's current state), if you don't know how to do that you can get a free program to do that here https://www.win-rar.com/start.html?&L=0
Once the file is downloaded and extracted somewhere (games folder, hidden porn folder, or just on your desktop for the brave!) open the folder, find the .exe file (it'll be called TalesOfAndrogyny and listed as an Executable Jar File in windows) and you can just double click that to run the game!
They're very similar, but I think a zip file has a weaker encryption? That and you usually need a more advanced program (compared to like, basic windows functions) to extract a rar file. Think of it like a DVD and a BLU. They both have a movie on them, but you need a more advanced player to watch the BLU than the DVD (though the BLU player can also run the DVD).
You'll need a program to unzip the rar file to make it useable. You can probably find them easily enough with a google search, Winrar and 7-Zip are the two that come to mind. Essentially, you use those programs to open the rar file, then "extract" it to wherever you want (for instance, into your secret porno-game-folder). From there you should be able to just open it and run it like any other normal program.
Steam has a few advantages: cloud save support, automatic updates, and the ability to just pay one up-front cost and be done with it. It's also nice to be able to keep your whole gaming library in one place, and easily transfer it between machines if you get a new PC, or the old one breaks, etc. Not having to find what games you had, and where, but instead just log into your account and download them all again.
Open whatever folder your game is stored in (C:etc, etc,\Tales of Androgyny\.toa-data for example), find the text file associated with your save slot (look for the most recently edited file after you save the game, for instance), and open it in notepad or something. Then you can search for things like "food" and "money" (or was it gold? I forget, you should be able to figure it out), and just change the value to whatever you want (I usually go to like 9999, not sure how many digits it's set to accept so I err on the safe side). If you have any talent points/magic points that you haven't spent, they'll show up in there as well, and you can just change the number as desired as well, and the same with your stat points.
Note that there are 2 entries for your character, I assume one of them is the "base value" that you start at, and the other is your "current value" after factoring in actual gameplay/etc. I'm not sure which is which, so I've just been changing both sections, and it doesn't seem to have caused any issues so you're probably fine doing it.
PS, as I'm not a game dev or anything, always do save editing smartly: create a backup of the save file just in case something goes wrong, and/or don't blame me if your save file with 200 hours of play on it gets broken somehow :P
Side note: there's an easier way to add perks. Just make sure you have at least 1 point unspent, and then it should show up in your save file so you can search for it. Just change that "1" into a larger number, say 200 or something, and then buy the perks in-game with all those points. Then you only need to edit that one single thing, and it's very easy/safe to do without messing up. This also works for talent/magic points: add a bunch of points, spend them, and if you still need more save and add more, etc.
I'm not sure if there's an easier way, but I just save edit a new game: start a new game, and save it as soon as I'm into the world (try to leave at least 1 skill/talent/magic point unspent). Open up the save file in notepad or something, and change the lines for food, money, skill/talent/magic points, adding a bunch to each, and edit my stat points to truly broken levels (I usually do 7 str so that wolf girls don't rape me, and then like 14 everything else, and end up using a rapier).
Keep in mind, of course, that this DOES break the games back, as far as difficulty is concerned, so only do it if you've played it through a time or two: it's like using cheat codes.
So I got the new 2.18 update, and there are no patch notes for it out yet. I know in the past I had asked about this and was pointed to the changelog file that's in the DL itself, and was happy to have missed something so obvious. However, the changelog file in the DL hasn't been updated since 8/1/2019, and only has info up to 2.14!
Just a reminder to please either update that changelog file in the download, or have the patch notes ready to post at the same time as the new DL, or it becomes very hard to find the new content if you don't know what you're looking for!
Thanks again for making this great game and letting us freeloaders enjoy it as well!
Edit: Just after posting this I noticed there's a separate DL for just the changelog that does seem to be up to date; maybe just remove the old one from the main DL?
The new scene is to offer yourself as payment when she comes looking, instead of fighting her. Then she has her way with you in a local seedy in for a full day, using you like a sex toy, for the whole duration. After that, your bills are still not paid, and she'll offer you the same choice the next time you see her if you can't pay, etc.
The witch sells accessory items that each give +1 to a stat, you should be able to go buy the one that has CHA, equip it, and then view the scenes (optionally switching back to whatever you had after). Failing that, if you open up your save file, you can just edit the text file itself to "cheat" and give yourself whatever stat scores you want: I've been doing this when new versions come out, so that I can breeze through the earlier parts of the game again, without having to struggle on the fights, etc.
