SPOILERS FOR: The three main characters story, please don't read the third paragraph on to avoid spoilers.
Wanted to give a genuine love letter to this game and its creators.
Have been non stop playing since downloading, having completed most the endings (can't figure out puppy, jailed, and unlikely alliance), and having beaten the game with 110 total documents with no upgrades or payed rent stuff.
first off, challenge running and difficulty. Whether intentional or not, after about 30 minutes of play I found myself enjoying the game more without upgrades, due to higher difficulty. The game handles difficulty pretty well because of the optional use of money, and having DP and money be separate, meaning you can almost always continue the storyline you want unless you royally fuck up.
Story wise, I would say Amber has the best story, only slightly higher than Cassie. Ambers storyline feels heartfelt, with real character progression in it. Mind you, Cassie does too, but she's dragged down by having her sex scene in the New Beginnings ending having zero explanation. I tend to like when sexual content is used with purpose, which this game mostly does well, with exceptions.
I've been dickriding this game for the past three paragraphs, time to talk about what it does BAD (there's like two things). First off, endings need hints, not even knowing what character is involved in two of the endings feels,,, awful, because it ruins the other six endings being clear, clean, and fun story. I saw someone else mention a Henry Stickman style of choices, where you can go back in time to an earlier choice to go down a different path, and I fully agree. Second off, gameplay wise, the game has three issues. Paperclips feel jank, and sometimes don't clip on, along with this they're required to be dragged, versus click right click, which is odd and makes trackpad play feel awful. Signing the signature often dosen't work, resulting in at best timeloss for playing it safe and scribbling, or a streak loss at worst. And dragging papers into the shredder often dosen't work, forcing me to wait before dragging for a frankly bad feeling amount of time, breaking flow.
The issues are small little pebbles compared to the mountain of good things this game does, and would love for a steam release, and would genuinely employ my broke ass to donate to you (the devs) for creating this.
(Little side note, to put into perspective how good this game was, I enjoyed the animation of the sex scenes. I'm asexual, and you manged to create something that I didn't feel grossed out by via storytelling.)
EDIT: ALSO THANKS FOR STREAMERMODE, I CAN ACTUALLY SCREENSHARE RUNS TO FRIENDS AND NOT WORRY ABOUT THEM BEING UNCOMFY!!!! :333
Love yall, good luck on creating the game further, you've truly made something special 0w0