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Sexism in Degraman

Degraman: Act I. Vincent
A downloadable game for Windows, macOS, and Linux

Good evening to everyone! Warning: the text!

A month has passed since the release and we are generally very happy with how everything is going! Although we did almost nothing to promote the game (mainly because we got sick again, and have not recovered yet), the game reached the minimum required number of reviews! And the general tone of these reviews strikes us very pleasantly :3

We see in this not only our merit as a developer, but also you as an incredibly responsive and intelligent audience.

Many thanks to everyone who wrote a review! We reread each one several times, discussed and rejoiced. (although a couple were frankly strange, well, okay, nevermind)

We are happy that you have appreciated our work so highly. And this motivates us to make the next game even better (and thanks to your constructive feedback, we see what can be improved in the next routes).

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But that's not what we wanted to talk about.


Recently, we received a review from a Steam curator. This review bothers us a little bit for several reasons:

It's not even that it's negative and has many likes (although this is also the case). But the fact is that the reasons why the curator did not like the game are very important to us. Namely: sexism, inappropriate, offensive jokes, triggers, thin characters, stupid and horny main character, lack of plot, etc.

Please share here your thoughts about the justification of violence, sexism, about inappropriate topics, etc. applicable to our game.

The topic is very subtle and sensitive, which is why we are so verbose here.

In no case, do not take this post as an incentive to downvote the review or "annoy" in response in any other way. Our goal is to understand if there are any topics covered in the game that we have treated incorrectly and about which it is difficult for everyone to talk at the same time.

P.S. Please, we kindly ask you to write boldly whatever you think, don't hesitate to write something negative. This is not the case where you should restrain yourself, because the topic is incredibly important

P.P.S. we will not give a link to the review itself (although it is not difficult to find it), because we want to hear your opinion first of all

P.P.S. If you want to share your thoughts privately, please write an anonymous question in Tumblr

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