Status

Update from August 16, 2026

Exo's CYOA · published · build 24762408

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This release is about your party, plus an in-game guide for running Exo's CYOA on your own local LLM, and some handy quality-of-life improvements around the editors.Party and Characters

  • New "Party Invite" quick action: while looking at an NPC, you can now invite them to your party with a single click.

  • Smarter invite suggestions: the game now only suggests candidates who could realistically join your group -> no hostile or clearly unavailable NPCs. If nobody in sight fits, it proposes a fresh recruit who belongs in the current story.

  • Smoother character creation: when a new character joins the party, their description is shown right in the join dialog, where you can edit or clear it before confirming. No more re-confirming.

  • Party list upgrade: every member now has a toggle to take them out of the action and bring them back, plus quick buttons to view their details, edit, or remove them.

  • Fixed a bug where a newly created party member was not added to the party after confirmation.

Local LLM

  • Integrated Local LLM Guide, available from the help in LLM Settings: walks you through connecting your own local LLM software (LM Studio and other OpenAI-compatible runtimes), from install all the way to the game's connection.

  • The guide also covers model selection tips: what speed and VRAM you need, which quantizations to pick, and why turning off reasoning ("thinking") makes turns dramatically faster.

  • Please note that connecting to cloud providers or entering API keys for subscriptions is not possible. The game exclusively supports the use of local open-source models.

UI Improvements

  • The adventure, location, and quest editors now have close buttons.

  • The adventure editor's content scrolls, so everything stays reachable even in smaller windows.

  • The action selection popup in chat no longer closes when you click on an empty part of the window.

  • Minor layout tweaks in the character editor for a cleaner look.

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed a potential error that could occur when character details contained empty fields.