The Arson Betrayal (V. 0.7.5) (NSFW 18+)

  The love interests are cute, the sex scenes are hot, and there's just a general level of quality that would require the dev putting effort in to get to.
My issue comes from the writing. I played up through chapter 5, and through most of that time I had a hard time staying invested in the plot. The dev is trying to tell a story, and I wouldn't even say it's a bad attempt or anything. However, there's a lot of points in the plot that just feel very weak narratively for me.
The very serious tone that this game tries to establish is many times betrayed by the fact that, when boiled down, the plot is just college age teens take on the corrupt city government. It's hard to take these intensive situations seriously when by all means the MC and friends are just a bunch of regular people with absolutely no training or background that would enforce making it through these situations. Suddenly the MC becomes a marksman ready to kill multiple times for a girl he knows virtually nothing about.
And that's where another problem stems from. The MC has absolutely no personal investment in this story. Before anything, he was simply a young man cut off from his parents and was trying to save up to attend college. That's it. Now you might say his reason for getting involved in this whole mess is to save a girl he cares about, which is true, but leads to my final issue.
There's no reason the MC should care about Alice. How do they first meet? The MC sees her being stopped by cops, and she proceeds to shoot said cops. MC dips home, she shows up at his door and holds him at gunpoint in order to stay at his place for the night. There's no past friendship, romantic moments promoting feelings of care, or anything really. The MC's whole reason for wanting to help her is because of an obscure "connection" he feels to her that even he can't really explain.
Sure props for basic empathy, but I need more than that. Even after we got involved with Alice, there's hardly any moments giving me any real reason to care bout her besides her just being in a shitty situation. Because the game is so plot focused, it does not leave a lot of room for more meaningful scenes with a lot of the love interests. This leads to rather quick relationship development, and while I wouldn't say it feels unnatural, it still leaves me wanting more time with the love interests rather than this corruption plot that I'm finding hard to care about.
There's other things I can nitpick about, but those are my main problems. I like the girls (especially tiffany)for the most part and want to see more of them, but I'm finding it really hard to keep myself invested in the plot enough to do so.

Absolutely solid, really hope this story reaches a conclusion. I'm hooked.

Love the game, but I've run into an issue where it's crashing on Android during the scene in the diner with Bailey. Anyone know a fix for this? Crash data pasted below.

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I'm sorry, but an uncaught exception occurred.

While processing text tag {size=- 10} in '{size=- 10}Sure.{/size}'.:

ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: '- 10'

-- Full Traceback ------------------------------------------------------------

Full traceback:

  File "z_scripts/01ACT.rpyc", line 12377, in script

  File "renpy/ast.py", line 930, in execute

  File "renpy/exports.py", line 1474, in say

  File "renpy/character.py", line 1352, in __call__

  File "renpy/character.py", line 1003, in do_display

  File "renpy/character.py", line 693, in display_say

  File "renpy/ui.py", line 299, in interact

  File "renpy/display\core.py", line 3582, in interact

  File "renpy/display\core.py", line 4175, in interact_core

  File "renpy/display\core.py", line 2782, in draw_screen

  File "render.pyx", line 492, in renpy.display.render.render_screen

  File "render.pyx", line 266, in renpy.display.render.render

  File "renpy/display\layout.py", line 888, in render

  File "render.pyx", line 170, in renpy.display.render.render

  File "render.pyx", line 266, in renpy.display.render.render

  File "renpy/display\layout.py", line 888, in render

  File "render.pyx", line 170, in renpy.display.render.render

  File "render.pyx", line 266, in renpy.display.render.render

  File "renpy/display\layout.py", line 888, in render

  File "render.pyx", line 170, in renpy.display.render.render

  File "render.pyx", line 266, in renpy.display.render.render

  File "renpy/display\screen.py", line 731, in render

  File "render.pyx", line 170, in renpy.display.render.render

  File "render.pyx", line 266, in renpy.display.render.render

  File "renpy/display\layout.py", line 888, in render

  File "render.pyx", line 170, in renpy.display.render.render

  File "render.pyx", line 266, in renpy.display.render.render

  File "renpy/display\layout.py", line 1338, in render

  File "render.pyx", line 170, in renpy.display.render.render

  File "render.pyx", line 266, in renpy.display.render.render

  File "renpy/display\layout.py", line 888, in render

  File "render.pyx", line 170, in renpy.display.render.render

  File "render.pyx", line 266, in renpy.display.render.render

  File "renpy/text\text.py", line 2171, in render

  File "renpy/text\text.py", line 629, in __init__

  File "renpy/text\text.py", line 1195, in segment

ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: '- 10'

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This is an absolute gem of a game, I have not played many with similar quality, nor with a similarly intriguing presentation. While it does take some time to get moving, when it does, it is one of the best rides throughout. Expert foreshadowing, and great writing.\

This game is incredible, and I hope to enjoy more of its content, and any more content of different games that you release.

(P.S. Fuck you for having the best name crispy chicken)

I hope the update is released soon 

Any chance you can upload the Android version somewhere else (Mega for example)? Media Fire never seems to work. 

I remember liking it less the first time I played it, still liked it tho, but now it is one of my favorites. Congratz.

DUDE ! It was like watching an action movie

The cliffhanger in the end aaaaaaaaaargh i need more i feel that there's something about the MC (us) that we dont know yet, he (we) are a charismatic character, i am looking foward to the next chapter

Hi can I find out if there will be a mod or a multimode for all the games?

Straight Fire. Im excited for whats next.