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We are so glad to hear how excited you are for this game. We hope you will playtest with us this January - we promise that there are LOTS of exciting secrets in our demo to uncover. ;)

I'm so glad you're excited about our game - it is sooo pretty when you play it! Gifs honestly do not do the animations justice. XD 

Yes, we are working to get our page on Steam up! I am excited to link you to it when it goes live. We're working on a brand new trailer and gifs but it will go up soon...

Thank you so much! I truly hope that you enjoy solving the many mysteries of our game. We have MANY fun riddles and puzzles waiting for you, ESPECIALLY if you turn on Detective Mode and disable all the in-game help!

I am super excited for the demo in 2024. I'm here for Andrew first and foremost... who are you all interested in? :)

Thank you so much! We are so excited to see what you think of our beta demo. :D

Damn, you are making AMAZING progress as always. I'm in awe of how much you write at such a remarkable pace!

The new backgrounds look lovely too - that garden looks incredibly lush and beautiful. I can't wait to see what it will be used for!

I'm so happy that you're able to use Feniks' great recolor tool to ease the burden of coloring the many variations on Wils. So excited to see what the upcoming CGIs with Wils looks like. <3

Very excited to see more of your amazing game. It has such a great concept and gorgeous art. Looking forward to more! <3 

Thank you so much! We are truly excited to hear what you think of the beta demo when it comes out this January. :)

Thank you so much for the HYPE! We are so excited to share the game with you... and see you react to all the surprises we are CAREFULLY keeping from public view. ;)

We are so excited to test with you and show off both our beautiful characters (courtesy of the amazing Somate Studio) and the many options of our game! In our demo alone, we actually have a really interesting logic puzzle + bad ending to explore... as well over a dozen other decisions to make. 

Plus, each decision you make has its own unique dialogue - sometimes as much as a dozen unique lines! 

I am so excited to share more with you this January. <3

We are deeply grateful that you are so excited for our game. We cannot wait to test with you this January - trust me, there is so many more surprises we have still been hiding! ;)

Thank you so much for signing up! We cannot wait to see how you react to some of the very "special" moments in our game that we have carefully hidden away from social media. ;)

Thank you so much for your kind comment. We are so excited to share more with you soon, once our beta demo goes live through our mailing list. <3 

Thank you so much! We had the amazing opportunity to work with great artists to make the game - and honestly, the art shines even more when you play the game and see it in full high-definition detail. We can't wait to see what you think of it when you play the game!

I am so excited to see you immerse yourself in the twists and turns of this game... we are DELIBERATELY not spoiling all the fun parts of the demo. There are some moments in the demo that made our very early demo testers gasp in shock and we don't want to ruin those surprises. We can't wait to see how people react to them though...

Thank you so much for your kind comment! We have spent... more hours than we want to count, haha, working on this game. We truly hope you will enjoy it when the beta demo comes out soon! <3 

Thank you so much for your kind words! We truly appreciate it and look forward to showing you all the customization options and quality of life features in our beta demo when we test with you soon!

Our demo already has a fully operational chapter system, save/load system, skip & back functions, love menu, variable story/detective difficulty modes, over a dozen romantic and other choices, AND a starting puzzle. The full game will have all those systems AND even more puzzles/detective/affection gameplay to explore! 

I'm so glad to know that you're interested in our characters already! Emily and I love each one (even the so far hidden ones...) and we are so excited to showcase them to you further. 

Who knows? You might even see unexpected character show up in the beta demo...

(Oh, and I'm so glad you enjoy Izel as well. His scene in the beta demo had our early testers GASPING! So excited to have you meet him!)

Happy upcoming birthday! I am so glad the beta demo can be our present to you. <3 

And yes, we over at Best Laid Plans are huuuge villainess fans and we really are excited to put our own spin on the genre. After all, if almost all villainesses at least can benefit from their knowledge of the story...

...isn't it fun to think of what happens if one CANNOT? ;)

So excited to test with you soon!

I'm so glad you're enjoying what you have seen so far of the game - and I am thrilled to test the beta demo with you soon! I'm so happy you enjoy the youtube videos of our characters as well - they are genuinely such a joy to write and hopefully, to play as well!

More youtube videos on our channel here!

Thank you so much for your patience and for that kind compliment about us keeping you updated! <3 We really do try to be as clear and transparent as possible about our game progress... in fact, sometimes we have to really cut DOWN on details about updates so the mailing list newsletters aren't 10 pages long and crammed full of coding details. XD 

We truly appreciate your support and cannot wait to test with you soon! <3 

We're so thrilled you signed up to beta-test our demo and we are excited to see you match your wits against the determined assassin set out to destroy our villainess. We can't wait to see you overcome all the obstacles in your path! ;)

Thank you so much! We are so excited to send the beta demo to you soon - we hope it lives up to your expectations. <3 

Thank you so much for playing with us over stream for an early review of the beta demo! Not only did you help us catch a few minor issues before the beta demo was sent out... you really made us believe that the game we are creating is something our future players will enjoy. <3 

We truly appreciate your support from the bottom of our hearts and are so happy you enjoyed our characters, as eccentric and hilarious and menacing as they can be. Your love for Jane is especially wonderful - after all, what's a villainess story without a villainess you can root for? ;) 

Thank you so much for all your support - it means so much to us! <3 

Thank you so much! We are truly grateful for your support and are so excited to have you stream the demo once it goes public. We've never had anyone stream our work before and we're so excited by the possibility!

I'm so happy you're ready for our beta demo! It is coming out so so so soon... we really just need to give it one last review and package it up so that it is ready for a wide range of computers. I can't wait to know what you will think of it soon. <3 

We're so glad you enjoy the look of the game so much! We had the great luck to work with a huge group of incredibly talented artists like Somate Studio and Saleha Chowdhury to co-create the look of this game. It is honestly even more stunning when you play it, since I don't think screencaps OR videos can capture the full high-def beauty of the game. I can't wait to test it with you!

I'm so happy you're excited for our beta demo, which is coming out soon through our mailing list. We are so excited to get your feedback too! <3

I'm so glad you enjoy the many quality of life features in Save the Villainess, as well as the many different endings our villainess can have!

As people who have played a LOT of very long visual novels, we knew we absolutely wanted to have a chapter system (as well as a normal save/load system) in our game so that players did NOT have to sit through the ENTIRE COMMON ROUTE every time they wanted to start a new route. I think this will save MANY hours of tedium for people who want to experience every major route of the game. XD

And yes, we definitely are writing the game so that you can experience a variety of endings as a villainess! We do have some really intense (and spicy, if that's your thing) romantic scenes and endings to explore... but if you want, you can literally reject every romantic moment in the game and live your best single life. The single endings honestly are super cool and allow the villainess to do what she can't in the paired routes. I think all the endings are worth exploring!

Thank you so much! We are SO excited to test the beta demo with you soon... it is really action-packed and we can't wait to see your reactions once you get to see our, erm, "interesting" cast in action. ;)

Oh my goodness, this is such an adorable and fun game!

This is SUCH a great teaser for Dual Chroma! The intense drama of seeing the encroaching evil and knowing that you have to fight back, even after putting all your faith into your lord... this was short but intense!

I am so incredibly excited for you! I simply cannot wait to play the upcoming game!

Thank you so much for sharing what you learned through the process of being a game dev with us! I'm a new developer just starting to work on my first game (Save the Villainess) and you really helped me realize that I HAVE to protect myself from burning out because it will ultimately just harm me and the people I love and care about (including my fellow co-dev!) if I do so. I really enjoyed reading about your journey, really loved (and reviewed!) Poetry in Purgatory, and really wish you the best in the future. <3 

What a lovely game! I enjoyed spending my time within this beautiful, melancholy tale, which has such a soft, sad, wistful, but ultimately hopeful tone that really is conveyed so well not only through the writing but also the lovely and wistful watercolor-style art and scroll-paintings, as well as the delicate GUI. I really felt for both Laedra and Zeroi, as well as their slow budding connection and the grief that they both had to overcome together. Lovely work and such a sweet, sad, reflective ending!

What an adorable and charming game! I love love love villainess and Davinia is such a hilarious, cute, and charming one - I love how she just has such a deadpan sense of humor and fatalism, and just calmly eats her way through life. Her calm reactions to everything but food are comedy gold... and I absolutely loved Cenric. Finally, I get to pair the villainess with the adorable puppy-dog commoner male lead of my dreams!

What an adorable game... I can't wait for the full release!

You're so welcome... and I'm excited to experience 2 more lives now!!!

I had so much fun playing this game! Isobel is such an endearing and relatable MC that I could easily put myself in her shoes - and it was great being able to shape her personality as I like. As a goodie two-shoes myself, I played her as a paragon and I was really impressed by the clear care you put into conditional dialogue and writing the story around players' choices. That's honestly really tough and you pulled it off well!

And as always, your world-building is super fun and there's always this wonderful sense of mystery lurking behind every double-meaning set besides what characters say... which of course makes the mystery gameplay and riddle solving even more fun. I'm looking forward to more on this game!

I had such a fun time playing this demo and am eagerly anticipating the full game! I really really really LOVE the plot of stumbling into a hidden world lead by a hilarious asshole of a magic cat, joining a group of ghost-busters (well, more like spirit keepers but still), and having to investigate this amazing mystery as to what's going on in the spirit world. 

I love the tension, the mystery, the incredibly relatable MC (who I really feel for... I can't wait to see what the intro scene is about), and the wide range of LIs. I'm super interested in Emi and Haru in particular... Emi because she's such an adorable sweetie and I love her already, and Haru because he's such an interesting spin on the childhood character and clearly holding onto this own secrets...

Anyway, such a fascinating game so far and I cannot wait to see more from this team!

If you're in the mood for some creative, punny, funny, pitch-black comedy with some surprising horror, this is a great game. I sincerely cannot even begin to describe this game - its creativity must be experienced for yourself. Love the "dough-nut" as well - he stole my heart-nut for himself!