BBY DON'T HURT ME news & patch notes

Build 29-6-26 Hotfix / Upgrades

Couple of bug fixes and improvements have been added!

FIXES / Upgrades:

• Kyrie gets mod import voicelines added

• Kyrie gets additional voicelines added in the mod creator

• The ZZZs no longer flip in sleep mode (when mirror is enabled in desktop)

• Zoe's tablet now includes the desktop stomp toggles

• Fixed bug where selecting a character, the screen turns into full screen

• The shatter SFX in desktop stomps has a little more variety

Additional News:

Our team recently held a poll on Discord and your votes have officially decided to overhaul the entire base game to include an entire VN while maintaining the desktop companion aspect. We're currently mapping out the HOWL building, adding new characters and interactable lore.

(The poll in question)

MEGA UPDATE Build 26-6-26

Yo! As promised here's the mega build update to Steam with the new features! Now including:

• Adding your own custom voice commands to open files and websites

• 5 new collab characters (Bardic, Joseph AK, JTWusky, RaealTheProto, DatKawaiiWolfy)

• Voice commands for timers

• Rare, Med, Cooked renamed to Sweet, Sour, Spicy

• 180+ new voicelines for Sweet

• 8 new outfits

• 5 NSFW Reskins (available in the free NSFW DLC)

• 5 new collab characters

• Character feet size slider

• Stomping on the display in desktop mode

• .mov / webm support for custom mods

• Animated MP4 background support

• Animated new background in the love ending

• 25 music tracks in the game

• Mini game stats in the base game

• New achievements

THE FUTURE:

We're still not done with BBY DON'T HURT ME yet. Within the span of these 2 weeks during the summer sales: - We will be drawing custom paws of each character and adding them to the display stomping in desktop mode. - JTWusky's voicelines will be fully added - Better recognition for voice commands will be added Thank you all so much for the support! We plan on adding a few more desktop companion mechanics and our game will be officially completed and scheduled for a full release. If you want to help us decide what these sort of mechanics will be, let us know on our Discord!

https://discord.gg/eXdmPVxXES (Oop last discord link didn't work)

Demo Build Fix 18.6.26 + Adding a Steam Game as a voice command

Thanks for testing out the demo! Thanks to your help we've managaed to fix various bugs and improved the voice command feature for opening steam games.

FIXES:

• Waveform's mini game now drops items properly

• You can grope Havoc's thighs

• Adding a .exe path of a steam game will now properly open the game

• The Open Game and Close Game voice command is improved

• When opening a game, the desktop companion will automatically lower its music volume to prevent it from disrupting the game you're playing

How to add a steam game as a voice command:

Step 1: Locate the game that you want to open in steam and right click the game. Select Browse Local Files

Step 2: Find the .exe of your game of choice and right click it. Select Copy As Path

Step 3: Open Voice Commands and paste in the application path. Set the display name to whatever you want then set spoken as to your preferred command.

eg For CS2 I want to say "Hey Havoc! Open Shooter"

And your done! Enjoy the new fixes Link to demo:

Demo Upgrade Build 15.6.26

We're preparing to launch a massive update to the base game which features:

• Voice commands

• Adding your own custom voice commands to open files and websites

• Rare, Med, Cooked renamed to Sweet, Sour, Spicy

• 180+ new voicelines for Sweet

• 8 new outfits

• 5 NSFW Reskins

• 5 new collab characters

• .mov / webm support for custom mods

• Animated MP4 background support

• Animated new background in the love ending

• Overhauled Zoe mini game is now 3D with 5 tracks

• 25 music tracks in the game

• Competitive sex (stats) in Zoe's DLC

• Mini game stats in the base game

• Improved game performance

FIXES:

• A crap ton which you can view on Patreon

What this means for you:

It means that the current demo build of this game doesn't reflect our upcoming upgrades for the base game so we're throwing in a handful of goodies into the free demo for you to try out before purchasing the upgraded BBY DON'T HURT ME.

New Demo features include:

• 2 custom voice commands which you can test

• Touch is enabled for Havoc and Waveform

• Mini games are added for Havoc and Waveform

• Custom background uploads

• All OST from the base game

Thank you all so much for sticking around! We're doing our best to release the updates but got bogged down with the workload. We promise we won't be 3 months late next time. If you enjoy this updated demo please support us by looking into our full game!

Full update for the base game is targetted for early next week. Link to demo:

Hotfix 14-1-2026

A lot of you asked for these improvements, so here they are! Thank you for the feedback and patience.

CHANGES:

• Added support for custom interview backgrounds

• Application window mode can now be switched between Fullscreen, Windowed, and Borderless

• Window modes can be cycled directly or by pressing B during the interview

• Added toggle for CRT shaders

• Live2D animation speed is now adjustable

FIXES:

• Minor performance optimisations for the Voice Select and Gallery screens

• Fixed an issue where Zoe’s minigame could repeat after completion

• Linux distro warning now closes correctly using keyboard input

• Fixed a memory leak in Desktop Mode

Adjustments:

• Beat Banger's main menu track disc now has a 4-color decoration. And it spins!

Hotfix 3-1-2026

Happy New Year everyone!! This is our first hotfix of the year. It includes a small quality of life feature alongside several reported bug fixes and performance improvements.

CHANGES:

• Fixed an issue with Litany’s ending dialogue playing the wrong lines

• Fixed an incorrect Octavix voice line

• Fixed an issue where the Zoe DLC mini game end screen would not appear

• Fixed an issue where temperature gauge icons could become unclickable

• Fixed mod creator, mod importer, and mod download issues when the game is installed outside the C drive

• Fixed desktop mode where music wouldn't play

• Removed single click to resize characters (See additions for upgrades)

• Improved music slider UI in desktop mode

ADDITIONS:

• Added new ending voice lines to the Octavix mini game

• Added "mirror mode" to allow flipping character portraits in desktop mode

• Performance optimizations applied to the interrogation screen

• You can now make characterless mods with just music. Downloadable example on MOD IO: https://mod.io/g/bby-dont-hurt-me/m/snu-snu-pack#description

• Added new resize button in desktop mode

• Added new track for Zoe DLC

Known Potential Bug:

We are aware of a bug where characters might not appear or be cut off in desktop mode on some multi-monitor setups. If this happens to you, you can temporarily work around it by using Shift+F11 to exit Desktop Mode, and then re-entering it again. We're working on a fix.

💜 ROADMAP 💜

Happy new year sluts! We’ve been working through your feedback for full release, and because of YOU, various big updates are coming in for Q1 2026 (January - early March).

🦊 January - February 🦊

18+ Touch Features

• Free DLC Fully animated NSFW of the 4 main characters

• Players can interact and touch the characters

• Desktop mirror mode

• Phonk OST (to go along with the NSFW DLC)

Visuals Update

• Unlockable clothing reskins (for non naked characters)

• Adjustable animation speed

• New achievements

• New visuals menu

• Mirror mode

• Desktop subtitles

Reactive Systems

• Characters react to your desktop and computer activity

• New features and interactions for desktop mode

Zoe DLC Update

• 3D animated scenes for Zoe

• New victory comic screens for beating the mini games

🦊 February - Early March 🦊

Spicy & Sweet (Love Update)

• 100+ new romantic and spicy voicelines for all the base characters

• Categories renamed to Sweet, Sour and Spicy

Post Early Access

• New DLC characters and DLC mini games

• VN teaser prequel of BBY DON'T HURT ME will be shown off

Thank you all for your continued support. We are fully committed to increasing the amount of content and maintaining strong quality as we approach the full release!

Hotfix 29-12-2025

We've got some pretty important, pretty highly requested fixes out here. The most important part of this fix is that we've finally got a grip on the Linux desktop mode issues some of you were having. We can only apologize it took us so long.

Thanks to your hard work uncovering bugs, we've managed to squash a few other small inconsistencies and oversights that flew under our radar. In addition, by popular request, we've added the options menu to the main menu, so you can finally make the game quieter right there. We've also decided to focus primarily on supporting Ubuntu, the most popular Linux distro. This may come as a disappointment to some of you, but we cannot hope to support all of the myriad variations out there and we aim to consolidate our limited resources where it matters most. That all said, we aren't saying it won't work on your machine.

CHANGES:

• Fixed inconsistencies with Litany's Toast ending dialogue

• Fixed inconsistencies with Waveform's dialogue

• Added Delete Mod button in the character selection screen

• Clarity mode works reliably

• Added Options tab to main menu

• Improved hamburger UI in the interrogation scene

• Desktop mode hotkey trigger works more reliably and supports single button hotkeys

• Added warning messages to AMD/Linux users

• Fixed desktop mode for Linux users (top left grey box no longer appears)

List of bugs we're aware of:

• Potential issues on some newer AMD GPUS. 9000 / 7000 series GPUS

Hotfix 27-12-2025

Hey guys! We're hearing your feedback and doing our best to address the issues you've been having, including the most pressing one that's been sent our way, which is the problem with audio quality. We're pleased to announce that, after consulting with an audio engineer, we've figured out the problem and it is now solved.

CHANGES:

• "Crunchy voiceline audio" has been resolved

• Popup mode problems with placeholder bleeps have been resolved

• Shift + F11 from Desktop Mode properly brings back the Interview Scene

🛠️ Upcoming Zoe DLC Upgrades 🛠️

We've heard your feedback loud and clear: Zoe needs more love! For that reason, we plan to add:

• 4 more tracks, bringing Zoe's total to 6

• Voiced comic victory screens for the mini games

• New touch system (also coming to base game)

We've also spotted a number of bugs which we aim to address in our day 3/4 hotfix builds.

Unfortunately, most of our development cost for the DLC went into the minigame as well as the animated ending comics. It will be difficult for us to expand the content roster, but we will do whatever it takes to make things right.

As usual, please give us your suggestions on our Discord and let us know if you've spotted anymore bugs! We'll be adding many more features to the game leading up to the full release so please give us some more time! Thank you.

Hotfix 26-12-2025

Hope all is well! We're continuing to patch the game here at KITT. Most of the major issues have been squashed, so it's a few smaller things this time that you, the community, have brought to our attention.

CHANGES:

• Mod creator now properly handles music

• Achievements are now given out properly for endings; re-watch them in the gallery to be awarded unearned achievements

• "Popup Mode" has been added to the Desktop Mode, which hides the portrait while they are not talking

• "Alerts" in Desktop Mode renamed to "Icons"

HOTFIX 25-12-2025

Hey guys! Thank you so much for playing the game! We've heard your reviews and bug reports and have made numerous small fixes prior to the Week 1 patch.

CHANGES:

• Numerous small UI tweaks

• Fixed issue with Beat Banger DLC resulting in a poor "win" flow

• Added "Compatibility Renderer" option for people having issues with Dx12

• Substantially improved mod flow and added new lines and character for Kyrie, standardizing their voice lines

• Fixed background randomization

• Lowered default music volume

• Fixed issue where Steam achievements were not being unlocked

Thank you all so much for following our journey! We're proud to announce that BBY DON'T HURT ME is ready to be released in the form of an early access on the 24th of December 4:00 AM PST.

We're constantly looking into improving the game and we plan on adding various new features in the coming week or so! Please let us know if you have any feedback during the early access period and we'll add it to our list!

Upcoming features (scheduled for the full release):

• Touch mode: Players can interact with various parts of the characters body

• 18+ NSFW DLC: A free DLC will be launched with 4 new poses

• Gone Rogue OST: A new OST will be added

• New backgrounds

• Subtitles in the desktop mode

Thank you all and hope you've been very naughty this year!

If you want to get in touch with me / get more info, join the Discord server!

Mini Game Update + Beta Testing

Mini games are being added to the game! Each character will have their own unique mini game which is unlocked by reaching "medium mode" with the character.

We’re now looking for testers to help try them out! Early builds will be available to our Patreon supporters Come join our Discord: https://discord.gg/eXdmPVxXES

Havoc:

Octavix:

Waveform:

Litany:

Ask us about anything!

Also feel free to provide suggestions!

FAQ:

Q: What inspired you to do this?

A: Theres too many dating sims out there and I wanted to change it up

Q: Are you into this?

A: No! Well. Listening to the lines for the first time did give me mixed feelings..

Other Updates:

• A free demo is scheduled to launch on OCTOBER 2ND 2025 (before Nextfest)

• It'll include Havoc + Waveform with desktop mode and modding disabled

• We're busy working on mini games such as card games and rhythm games for the DLC's and full products! However we're also open to various other interactions for future updates!

Discord:

• I'm VERY active on Discord. Pretty much always online to respond to your messages anytime. Any questions fine! (Discord server linked on game)