Posted September 18, 2025 by Tech Tsundere
This is gonna be kind of a long one, I can TL;DR the core bits at the end, but I think the whole thing is worth a read.
So it’s been a bit since the last devlog, a little over a month, and unfortunately It’s been really stressful behind the scenes.
It’s no big surprise if you’re someone interested in adult games on itch.io you know there was a huge shift in how itch.io handles adult content on the platform.
For the 3 of you who aren’t aware the long and short is itch.io recently made a decision to delist all paid Adult content from the platform.
That obviously includes us, and so we’ve been quiet since then seeing how things were playing out and waiting for more information.
Recently they updated us with this post about getting adult games reindexed and the long and short of it is:
This means in order to get re-listed we will need to remove the paid content here. We have emails and stuff for everyone who bought the game, but we will need to.
So prior to this I put together the early redesign prototype content to get feedback and such and see how the community would react to a possible change to make the game more of a management game.
I did this part of the work for free in my spare time with the idea that at some point we’d actually start development of the full game.
Kaen and I had talked about using a portion of the Patreon funding to pay me while I worked on the game, this income would allow me to put down my other contract work, my own game, and my IRL job to work full time to finish the new version of the game as fast as possible.
However this relied on the Patreon funding to remain at the revenue it was at, and unfortunately the game disappearing from itch.io meant that our primary way of advertising the Patreon effectively disappeared overnight.
With the Patreon losing a third of the funding in the last month, and us losing any future itch.io funding, It meant that I wouldn’t be able to work on the game full time like planned. So over the last month I reconfirmed my schedule with my IRL job, took new contract jobs and began spending more time working IRL than on the game.
As for Kaen, he made the decision to go back to college after a layoff from his day job in order to expand his skill set. This happened, unfortunately, right around the itch.io announcement. He spent the last month or so very busy with getting all the college paperwork ironed out and so, for at least a while, he will also have a limited time working on the game while he does college and looks for a new day job limited time to work on the game.
Step 1 is getting the game re-listed We have a couple options we’re trying to decide on:
Try and get this page re-listed by removing all the paid content, and then marking the game as a free game.
We could also create a whole new page that has no content but instead just advertises the Patreon since we can’t sell the game on itch.io.
Either way we’re going to try and grow the Patreon again, if the Patreon returns to where it was then things will speed back up!
We’ve also been throwing around ideas over the last few weeks for more long term solutions:
I’ve tossed around the idea that I could release something smaller in scope with a smaller budget, as a stop-gap on the way to the full release. I have a few prototype projects I worked on that I could polish up and turn into a smaller scope game.
We aren’t sure what game it will be yet, but Discussions will happen over on the Discord for sure!
Some current suggestions from Patrons in the subscriber chat have been potentially doing a spin-off arcade game featuring a character from MonXXX.
We’ve also possibly discussed a new IP to keep it from getting tangled in the MonXXX lore and such, but anything and everything is still on the table.
One thing we’ve been looking at is making the game SFW this would make the game monetizable and allow us to push the game on more platforms. This would mean cutting some things like NSFW activities, or rewriting others to make themSFW.
We have also considered doing this and then providing a patch to restore NSFW content to the kin scenes. This would mean the game could be sold in it’s SFW form on itch.io, and a NSFW patch could be provided for those interested.
There are challenges with this approach a big one being we’re unsure if this is in line with the new set of rules for itch.io. If the rules beecome more strict or if the rules are enforced or interpreted in a way that providing the the NSFW patch is breaking the rules, the game could be delisted again or even fully removed.
The upside to this approach however is that in the case of the worst possible outcome(a full adult content ban) we could stop providing the NSFW patch, and continue the game in it’s SFW state where it would continue it’s life as a time management dating sim, minus the adult content.
A big part of the plan since I joined the team was to release on Steam. Unfortunately Steam seems to be slowly phasing out adult games on steam with them recently not allowing adult games into Early Access(Something we would have likely done as soon as the game loop was complete with at least 1 kin)
We still want to release on steam if possible but we’re still seeing how things go. All the stuff above about the SFW stuff applies here as well, Steam already has plenty of Adult games that offer 18+ patches and so this is in line with what we know now about games on Steam. However if the anti porn sentiment continues and Steam starts banning all NSFW content including those with patches, then we can again just go full SFW dating/management sim.
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