Topping Palette announced an early access launch date for the PC version of its otome RPG Salty Hounds. It will be available on Steam on June 27, 2023. It didn’t explain what exactly will appear in this early build. However, its roadmap mentioned more dating activities, story segments, character events, and minigames will appear. Most importantly, the roadmap shows lover endings will appear in 1.0. It was funded on Kickstarter in 2022.
In Salty Hounds, players run the bodyguard agency of the same name. While you do, you’ll also get to meet and interact with five people in the same line of work. You can follow them as they go about their schedules. call and text each other, give gifts, and go on dates. There are also different minigames.
As for what’s to come, here’s a list of things that will be present in the full version of the game, but may not be completely implemented to the same degree in the early access build:
- Additional voice acting
- Gifts
- Home decorating
- Lover endings
- Minigames
- More character events
- More dates
- More texts from love interests
- More phone calls from love interests
- Pet cat
- Visit love interest homes
Salty Hounds early access will begin on PCs on June 27, 2023, and the otome RPG will also eventually head to the Nintendo Switch.
