I have finally actually played this demo - part of me wanted to wait for the release since I get very antsy waiting for your games to be finished - I love them so much!
But in the end, my eagerness won. I'll be honest, I liked it way more than I thought I would (and I already had high expectation). I love the overall mood of the story. The music choices are great too. But one of the most notable aspects is the art. It's... well, I have a hard time expressing what I think of it. As in, finding the right words. I like it. I like it a lot. It's expressive and has a pretty unique vibe to it. Something slightly uncanny, but in a good way. It adds to the strange atmosphere of the game. Worth mentionning too - I REALLY like the UI for this one. It may seem very random, but recently I was replaying all of your games, and I was thinking how I really like the UI for some of them, while I didn't care much about the one in others, and how that impacted my general perception of the game and it's mood. And this one has one of my favorite UIs. It reminds me of old semi-horror adventure games, either visual novels or point-and-click.
This makes me want to ask... will the full story actually have horror elements? The store page here says "light-hearted romance", but from the entire demo I got the vibes of a prologue to a horror-romance hybrid game. I was wondering if that was intentional or not. The art and UI obviously play a big role in my perception.
As far as the characters go, well, I love Jan, that was to be expected. Not to mention he's ridiculously gorgeous. Now, the love interests... Well, honestly Dilian stole my heart. Just from looking at them and reading the bios, Daimo and Ganter are the ones I should like the most. And I sure like Daimo. Hard to tell anything about Ganter since he didn't appear in the demo yet. But man, Dilian was a nice surprise. I don't have strong feelings about Sorin in any way though. Eoin... eh... I don't know. I need more time. He may turn out to be a character I love or hate - I don't think it'll be middle ground. With bully characters like him, it depends a lot of what makes them act like they do and their background and stuff, and obviously I know none of that at this point.
I didn't notice up until now you have SEVEN love interests planned for this one though. Now I understand why it'll be finished after Night and Day. I'm very very curious about the other ones now.
It's hard to tell so far, especially since I didn't play the demo of Night and Day yet, but as of now, I think Deep in the Forest may become my favorite game of yours, depending on the spin you give to the story as it progresses. I love everyting about it so far.
PS: also, I've read in your answer to the previous comment that you may try to add the option to choose if Jan is top or bottom - that would be so lovely! I think it fits the setting!