Delectatio Morosa: A Conclave Visual Novel
A downloadable visual novel for Windows, macOS, and Linux
The conclave is over: you are still a manager.
Delectatio Morosa: A Conclave Visual Novel is a dating managing sim fan project.
Play as Dean Thomas Cardinal Lawrence as he prepares for All Saints' Day. After the conclave, the Vatican only has one week to prepare for the upcoming celebrations and the responsibility to manage his Curia members, and growing feelings for them, falls upon you.
FEATURING
- Expressive character sprites
- 70k+ words of Curial management
- 16 original illustrations to unlock
- "Managing" all your Curia members simultaneously (but watch out!)
- Vatican secret endings
CAST MEMBERS
DEAN OF THE COLLEGE OF CARDINALS
Thomas LawrencePapalcule manager aka "You"
6 CURIA MEMBERS TO "MANAGE"
Pope Innocent XIVGod's official bestie
Aldo BelliniThe liberal secretary, not the drink
Goffredo TedescoVaper, fascist, worstie
Sister AgnesSilently judging, matron style
Joshua AdeyemiRecovering misogynist
Joseph TremblayGaslight, gatekeep, girlboss
SECRETARY TO THE DEAN
Ray O'MalleyYour constant companion
FAQ AND OTHER LINKS
"Love your neighbor as yourself."
- Matthew 22:39
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Development log
- Release v1.0.33 days ago
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I love this so, SO much. I work in visual novels professionally and frankly this is more complexly programmed, better looking, and more compelling than a huge number of titles on the retail market.
I LOVE THIS JUST FROM THE ARTSTYLE
I really thought that this would just be a fun short game for me to play after watching the movie but now I'm locked. in. and want to get all the endings HAHHAAH this is so good !! Im just losing my mind trying to figure out how to get benitez's good ending because after I got 5 hearts with him one day, it went down by half the next!! But I will try again tomorrow!!!! (purple chausable represent
i'm a purple chausuble btw
I'm trying to play on my school's laptop and can't turn off the Windows defender which is preventing me to play. Does someone know if there's a way to get through this? I need to admire my beloved Benitez sigh sigh
Hi! Windows defender keeps identifying the game as malware and auto deleting specifically the game application from the folder. It's weird, bc it was perfectly fine last night and started doing this when I tried to boot the game this evening. I made an exception for it in defender which is letting it run for now (fingers crossed it sticks and doesn't revert), but I thought you'd want to know.
I'm on Mac and it won't let me open it either due to not being able to verify it doesn't have malware.
for mac, after trying and failing to open the game: go to your computer System Preferences > Confidentiality and Security > "open anyway" :) (for other computers i don't know)
love this so so much, such a silly, fun heartwarming game. kudos for all ❤️
Goes to show I can get everyone to hate me easily, but I can't convince Benitez to even get close to one heart !!! Bless him but im trying to be a completionist here!!!
I LOVE this game to pieces!!!
Hi! I noticed you used some accent letters but kept Woźniak as Wozniak. Is there a reason for that?
Something we missed! We'll be patching this in a later update.
just as a heads up during a conversation between joshua/thomas discussing jealousy, façade appears (at least— on Mac) as fa ade. didn’t know the best way to let you guys know about this so i’m commenting here!
incredible art and story. i’m loving this oh so much.
losing my mind trying to get innocent's "heartfelt confession." but i'm still having so much fun!
p.s., when you say "vatican secret endings," do you mean, like, endings that aren't listed..? how mysterious
HIII i loved the game so much!! but i have a problem... i reached 5 hearts with everyone and listened to all the heartfelt confessions, but the confession with Pope Innocent never popped up and i ended with a neutral ending with him + no achievement... idk what did i do wrong :((( i had his confession in my first gameplay so i cant figure it out
If you haven't figured it out by then, stay tuned for the walkthrough in a couple of days~
THERE´S A WALKTHROUGH???!!!
so fun! absolutely adore this game <3
Runs with no problems on Linux Ubuntu for me (thank you for making a Linux version!).
I am having a blast with this. I love the music, the fonts/typography and the sprites are so cool and detailed. This is an impressive piece of work, kudos to you. Thank you for making and sharing it!
I love this already! I love all the little details like how each character has a different typing sound associated with them.
Opening this on MacOS gives an error claiming that Apple cannot trust the developer, so it cannot be opened :( at least on my end
I'm having an error on my Microsoft download as well! The game refuses to run:(
Hi, this might help you: https://support.apple.com/en-us/102445#:~:text=If%20you%20want%20to%20open%20an%...
You can select the file and right click > Open; the first time it will block it from running, but if you click Cancel and try it again, on the second try it will ask if you're sure and then let you open it :)
I got around this by opening it from the finder app using the left click small menu, which makes the application an exception to usual security protocols, if anyone else has this problem