Okay, I never wrote a comment here because my stupid ADHD brain is usually doing what it does best and I just forget to leave thanks and feedback on games...
BUT THIS GAME! - THIS!! - GAME!!!
(---is actually living rentfree in my brain now---)
This is just so good! The writing, the art, the characters, the ambience, the choices, the pacing... it just WORKS!
I´m very much looking forward for updates on this. Thank you so much for putting all this work and effort in this project. <3
Edit: After reading some more comments, I wanted to add that I personally liked the (percived) personality of MC. It´s more in line with my own and therefore felt more natural for me than the usuall "I´m a adorable cute slice of toast" or "Ima girlboss bisch baby, plz rescue me nevertheless now" type of (fem)MC (-male MC are slightly better but as AFAB NB I hardly find any good rep lol).
I also really apprecciated that the choices gave me options to play more pragmatic (e.g. nope away from the creep) but also made sure to let me climb on every red flag pole I could find. Sure, Ren is indisputably weird, even creepy and no one in their right mind would just invite someone so noticable unhinged in their home BUT
a) I actually did most of that stuff in real life (although ofc not with so obvious obsessive stalker guys - that said, please take care of yourselfs and don´t be a careless dum-dum like me.) so it didn´t feel too unnatural or out there for me and
b) I highly enjoy when games just let me make glaringly bad decisions AND let me see where it could lead to. That´s half of the fun in these type of games: to make the wrong decisions in a save enviroment and see what will happen. And by that I mean, let me play out the scenario (like in this game) and don´t just kill MC off within three sentences after making a "bad" decision (like in so many other games, IF you even get an option for a "bad" decision at all).
I can somewhat understand where people are comming from when they percive the MC as a bit unlikable and/or feel that the choices are somewhat unrealistic given that Ren is the walking, talking embodiment of a restraining order waiting to happen.
But personally I have to hardly disagree with that. For me everything worked very well inside the games own universe and I feel that trying for a more pragmatic or subtle approach would robb the game of a lot of charme and fun. I mean I get enough reality in reality, I don´t need all that much reality in my games tbh. I also disagree that every MC has to be as neutral as possible so they could function as a propper self insert. I played through so many games where the MC is as opposite of me as it gets and still managed to get entertained but the least fun where always the ones that tried to be as neutral and characterless as possible, so please let her have some personality.
Well, that got longer than intended... Sorry for the text dump but I´m just so captivated by the demo that I wanted to describe my personal opinion here as well. ~