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Phenomenal game. A little bummed out that Mary shares Leyla's pool animation instead of having her own, though. The Gallery option is also barebone and doesn't include many scenes I'd like to playback. The hint section could have been more detailed (I just accidentally unlocked the Emily+Leyla dungeon scene and Leyla's photoshoot dream even though the game says there are no more scenes in the current version)

However, overall I had an excellent experience.

I just wish that you give the option to pay for the game on itch.io and advanced updates based on the price used, like version 1.19 for free and 1.20 if purchased for $5 or more. I know Patreon is a monthly thing and will give more revenue in the long term, but still...

OnionCuttingNinja1 year ago (1 edit)

Thanks for the kind feedback!
I'll try to fix or at least improve some of the issues you mentioned.

> I just wish that you give the option to pay for the game on itch.io and advanced updates based on the price used, like version 1.19 for free and 1.20 if purchased for $5 or more. I know Patreon is a monthly thing and will give more revenue in the long term, but still...

I'm not really against that myself, I'd actually prefer to offer something like this.

It's just that itch.io has been cutting off the 'collect payments through itch' functionality for a lot of adult content devs sincy early this year, and it's not entirely clear what the exact red flags are that trigger this (I have some guesses, but they're ultimately just that).
And for a small part-time mostly-solo dev like me, the alternative of direct sales would be too much of a headache (payment processor ToS, major increase in bookkeeping and tax filing overhead and so on), so I'm pre-emptively playing it safe for now, to keep the 'collect through itch'-option around for my SFW games as well as some future 18+ projects that I consider less risky in this regard.

I'm not ruling out that I'll change my mind for TM at some point, this is just the reason why the option to pay for early access here on itch is currently missing.