Khemia
A downloadable game for Windows, macOS, Linux, and Android
(Khemia contains themes of an adult nature - you must be 18 or older to play)
Things have changed quite a bit on Adastra. The Human's arrival has altered the political course of the entire galaxy. After his departure, the friends he knew on the wolven moon are left guessing as to what needs to be done next. The Parents, the supposedly all-knowing, all-powerful beings controlling the Galaxias, have a plan, but it's not like they're being upfront about it. They never are, and Scipio, a young wolf on a diplomatic mission, starts to wonder if these Parents really do hold all the answers. He starts to wonder if there are Others.
Update Schedule
We are hoping to release an update every other month. This visual novel is currently under development.
Credits
Sprite art is by HAPS.
Background art is by Stranj.
Additional art is by Karadamon.
Music is composed by Moe.
Update Schedule
The game is updated within the first two weeks of every month. You can also get updates and access builds up to two weeks early on our Patreon which you can find HERE!
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Development log
- Khemia Build 1 - Old PainSep 21, 2020
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wow the comments are kinda mean but i hope everything is okay with the devs. I feel like everyone is stressed out because of recent…political events. SO to all who read these VN’s be patient and don’t be a dick its not good for your soul. Or option two. Make your own to fill in the gap Of not having a vn to read. Stop being mean to each other. Seriouslly they’re authors not miracle workers….
So Echo Team finally releases a Khemia update. YES! After all these years of waiting! But Echo Team releases the Khemai update only for Patreons, after the Echo team lost their major income money from The Smoke Room.....
I really hope it will not be locked behind Patreons only for a long time.
Gosh, these comments couldn't be anymore negative. As a Neferu enjoyer all I want is more Fluffy boy Scipio and more of our true love: Neferu. New builds are literally around the corner but everyone's just negative and arguing like school children. :/ If you don't wanna associate with it then stop hanging around the VN's by Echo Project.
I just want my thicc Jackal Babe and my favorite Blue Boi to get catharsis.
Holaaa, ¿una pregunta khemia está finalizada? Hace un rato termine adastra y la verdade gusta mucho esa NV
Hola amigo, no, Khemia no está NI CERCA de estar terminada jajajs, la versión actual dura alrededor de media hora y dentro de poco le van a hacer un remake, con el cual van a reescribir la historia de esta NV (los personajes van a seguir siendo los mismos pero van a haber ciertos cambios en la trama). Lo que pasaba con Khemia es que la última versión se estrenó creo que en 2022, por lo que hubo un hiatus de 2 años por un bloqueo creativo del autor, pero dentro de poco va a salir una actualización (Haps, el encargado de los diseños de personaje de Adastra, ya terminó las ilustraciones de los personajes para Khemia, con lo cual seguramente sólo haya que esperar a que programen la actualización). Si te quedaste con ganas de más Adastra, podés jugar a esta versión y tenerla como curiosidad, porque eventualmente se va a convertir en la versión "beta" de Khemia. También tenés Interea, que tiene lugar en los 9 meses que el protagonista se queda en Adastra luego de recibir su misión por parte de los Padres, de la cual no se tiene noticias, pero es mucho menos probable que se reescriba su historia. Si preferís leer novelas visuales que ya estén terminadas, vas a tener que esperar bastante con Khemia y más con Interea, pero si te quedaste con muchas ganas de ver más cosas relacionadas con Adastra (y con el husbando de media comunidad furry, Amicus), por el momento tenés esos dos proyectos.
No esperaria nada de este equipo, hace poco despidieron a la unica persona que trabajaba, con suerte esta novela la terminan de aca a 10 años , si es que la terminan jajaja
is khemia 2 a fully finished newer verison? if not, is playing this now worth it, or should i wait for the finished version? ive already finished adastra and whats of interea so far, and i really like the series so far.
No, Khemia 2 is a version that's been around since 2020 and probably just fixed some minor bugs/typos. They're gonna remake it soon, which will imply a rewrite. If you aren't looking to invest in a short story that'll be decanonized in (hopefully) a very near future, then you should wait for the update; but if you're really yearning for some more Adastra content, you could read this Khemia version as a curiosity, since this will be a discarded version in the future, and playing that sort of stuff when it comes to videogames or even media in general is always pretty cool.
ah, alright! thank you
Yo imma need to know what that khemia 2 is all about
Khemia-2 that you see in the downloads section was an update of the original build from 2020. Probably bug fixes or fixing typos. Not part of the new game.
i dont get whats up with the criticisms anymore, let artists do their art, let them grow at their own pace, let them present, change, or delete the story however much they want, at the end of the day, its up to you if you find it boring or not, the work speaks for itself, drop it if you wish, the story is just a fantasy, get a life
Fine but don't say every year "Khemia wil be back at january 2022", "Khemia will be back at january 2023". And these are from Echo Project, not from fans. A silently update can work too. You update the game and after you can make your marching band. It's called respect to who love the VN and wait for an update
Also why to you dreaming about a fantasy is bad? Yes it's fantasy, but it gives special shivers down the spine to who like it. The thing is you don't care much about the project. You aim to other things like Tik-Tok videos. Sure you don't have to increase the pressure on the shoulders of the writer, but saying "get a life, it's only fantasy", doesn't help your point of view
Ive never said "dreaming of a fantasy is Bad", i love fantasy, stop putting words and assumptions of my life, i dont watch tiktok, my brainrotted self is aimed at other things i enjoy, face reality bro, Ive never said such statements about "khemia goin back" or something, I dont disrespect fans, i disrespect people who think they can do better when theyre not the ones doing writing as a profession/ "rando critics online".
Howly and Haps, I believe in you. I'm praying you guys deliver an excellent relaunch so Echo Project can put the recent troubles in the past.
I’m kinda out of the loop here and I can’t find any info soo mind catching me up on what happened
Echo Project had a falling out with the person who was writing The Smoke Room and now that project is dead in the water.
总算是要开始更新了🥲
Yeah...
New version?
whats the khem2?
Has The Smoke Room been cancelled?
A remake with less sex? What's the problem with sex in an 18+ Gay FVN? Is that what most fans actually wanted or are they just doing this as a final "fuck you" to George, the original, and controversial, writer?
I think the thing is that echo and the idea about it is far more interesting than sex - I personally would prefer more of the intense story without all of the salad dressing.
There's tones of sex filled furry VN, but the echo lore is far more interesting. (Just hope they don't remove all of it cause its quite fun)
So Sam isn't a sex worker anymore? How is that going to work in his connections to each of the main characters?
It won't work, luckily George will release the true VN.
I'm luckily not a gooner /coomer and I'm able to enjoy SFW VNs for the plot alone, and TSR's plot is very compelling and basically my favorite, it's just that removing the NSFW, ngl, feels like homophobic censorship.
I really hope that they at least keep the existing and continue developing the romantic elements which, IMHO, feel crucial to the development of the characters, especially William and Murdoch's. Also, Sam and Nik's relationship is beautiful and wholesome and it would suck if they tone it down.
Maybe I'm just a softie who likes watching the MCs being happy before everything goes to shit and most people only enjoy the horror and physchological distress.
excuse me - but saying it would be "homophobic censorship" is a bit of a fucking stretch. Removing sex from a game doesn't make it homophobic and saying that it does watersdown the meaning quite a bit and is honestly just offensive.
Sex isn't the be all and end all of intimate relationships - but guess we'll never know now the games cancelled
Honestly, for a guy who's annoyed by Adastra, it's nice so far. It even convinced me that Adastra is a satire. Finally, a protagonist who values free will.
Fun fact:
The amount of sand on Earth is estimated to be roughly around 10 ^23 grains, similar to the number of stars in the universe. However, considering that Khemia is a desert planet, the amount of sand on that planet could far exceed the number of stars in the universe.
So... to the dust!
Saw your comments in the Adastra page and wow, really nice way to say you didn't understood the game at all, how can someone be so confidently incorrect
"It's amazing, you're 100% wrong, i mean nothing you've said has ben right"
You aren't as media literate as you think you are, buddy.
Believe me, I think I also get "post-Adastra depression" in different way. And I really really don’t mean to dampen everyone’s mood.
It’s not that I dislike romance dramas, but… from the start of the game, Parents have been interfering—there’s no denying it. To them, romance is nothing more than a biochemical reaction. They have a reason to do this to achieve their goals. They might even mislead you into thinking they aren’t omnipotent—unless Parents truly have suffer a defeat once...
Im very passionate(and autistic) about this vn so i don't like when someone misinterprets it to this deegre, even saying the vn is "satire"
ngl, your takes on Adastra kind of reminded me of a The Owl House take i saw where someone says that Luz is a spoiled brat that made Amity's and Hunter's lives worse by "distracting them from success"(she took Hunter away from his abuser and made Amity stand up to her abusive mom)
So, basically they got everything wrong.
Also-
SPOILERS
there's the Meera ending(wich Khemia implies that it's the canon one) where Marco forces the parents to tell him the entire plan so when he goes back to earth he has the parents at his mercy, he knows tasks he'll have to do and can choose wether or not he wants to do them in advance and force the parents to come up with another way.
I don’t think this explains how, after receiving Amicus’s response, these actions could have a real impact on the Parents' plans.
One of the standards I suppose for a good ending is that the right people are doing the right things. I think Amity and Hunter have achieved this—they’ve each become a better person through these events.
But the question is, has Marco done the same? What specific benefits has this journey brought him? I don’t think the answer is simply that he gained the courage to be himself, nor that he improved his arrogant attitude, because neither of these were really issues, and I don’t see how they would impact his life on Earth.
I just pointed out the TOH take cuz im saying that just like that person got the show wrong you got the vn Wrong
Just because you didn't understood it doesn't automatically make it "satire"
But i guess everyone has their own interpretation of something even if they got it wrong, like for example that bs take on TOH, Jelloapocalypse horrible video about Adventure Time and Lily Orchard's also horrible retrospective on Pokémon(those are what your take reminded me of)
But you seem determined on your view and internet "arguments" are exhausting so im going to stop and leave, and i'll leave this meme that i found on tumblr.
Everyone is entitled to their own opinions, and not everyone has to like the same things. There are no objectively wrong opinions; that's what makes them opinions.
I already replied to someone else with my thoughts on this.
I find it funny how even Adastra haters love Neferu as a character lol, no one can disagree that, despite being a jackal, he is goated. At first I thought I wouldn't like him and now he's one of my favourite characters ever
The fact that the first remake build is coming in a couple days has me tweaking
I tweaked so much that I'm having seizures thinking of it
where is our update 😭
So, from Echo's Patron Haps and Howly are back to working on Khemia.
i just finished adastra but i am scared to start this or interea until they are completed so i can play them all at once. i also need to rest my mental health lmfaoo ;-; AWESOME SERIES!! excited for more :)
EDIT: curiosity got the better of me and now i've read both VN's. happy to say i will gladly wait for more!
hoping the wait time in-game isn't consistent with real life though lol
Just wait another year or two :3
someone know if the game is in spanish? Or where i can download in spanish?
as a nerfu enjoyer im overly exited for the next build
Pains me since day 1 that Neferu hasn't gotten the amount of art or appreciation he deserves. Love Amicus, but come on... Anubian Jackals are my thing, Neferu is a confirmed bottom with a really, REALLY nice pair of cheeks and despite his political manipulation and demeanor... He's genuine. He's caring. He's tender. God, I just wanted to embrace him the entire time I spent whole chapters with him in Adastra. xD
It's Nerfu or Nothing!
Esperare lo que tenga que esperar, sin apuros 🍝🐢🤚
im very excited for when this gets updated, but i hope the creators arent stressing over the impatient people. good writing takes a while and so does good art and music
Echo projects are focusing on finishing the smoke room but they said they are slowly working on this one. I think they want to take absolutely new approach so they rewriting it
I sure hope this VN continues
any news on this vn?
i saw haps' new sprites for neferu on their patreon a while back so i guess progress is being made
For some reason, "Auto" does not seem to work. It highlights when I hover over it but it will not activate. The other buttons, like "Back," "History," and "Save," all seem to work. Has anyone else experienced this? Any thoughts on how to fix it?
It seems to work fine in other VNs.
The game is great so far! I would like to see a gallery option like there is in Adastra though.
Reach to stars they said.. And now, Left in the dust.
waiting to long for another KHEMIA UPDATE OMG.
I love waiting a decade for finished VNs
Lore accurate wait time LOL
Marco's mission from Parents lasts 8 years. 3 years have passed. Well... will it be?
????wh-
Please tell me this isn't true, but honestly, I'm not surprised because people. I'll be honest: the wait is killing me. I want to play this update, but they'll release it when they release it.
I feel bad saying this but why do Nefaru and (in interea) Amicus look errrr.... goofy 0-0 Amicus was cute and nefaru was funny now he looks 0-0 YEAH... ahem
I would be very grateful if someone notifies me the update drops <3
anyone know when the update is droping?
W....what did they do to you Nefaru!
OMG UPDATE
PLEASE! The wait is killing me . . . I am just itching to play the first part. In seriousness, release the new version when you guys are ready too.
So... a public patreon post said there would be a new public build in mid to late march. It's now the 28th, what's going on?!