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Hello!! We do plan on putting it on Steam but have been having some setbacks due to the long verification process 😭🙏 rest assured it is planned and in the meantime you can wishlist it from the page so that you’re notified when its officially available for purchase! Thank you for your support!!! 🫶💞

Criminally Yours Steam Page

So happy to hear that! 😭🙏💞 We hope you enjoy the DLC version when you have the chance to play it! Thank you so much for your support! 🥺🫶

Hi! Just letting everyone know in this thread that showed interest in the Steam release that our page is finally up! We’re awaiting approval for our game build but in the meantime you can wishlist it!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3790640/Criminally_Yours/

Hello! We finally got the Steam page up! We’re waiting for approval on the game build, but for now you can wishlist the game!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3790640/Criminally_Yours/

Hello again! Letting you know that we’ve managed to get the Steam page up! We are currently having the game build approved but for now you can wishlist the game!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3790640/Criminally_Yours/

Hello! Wesley does have a love interest route available but it is only through the paid DLC edition of the game 🙏 however, there are full playthroughs on YouTube of the game with his full route + endings if you still want to see his content if you’re not able to get the DLC version!

Hello! When you hit the download now button here on itch.io, it will give you the option to input an amount of money (in this case it just has to be 4.99 usd to access the DLC edition)! I think it may convert the value through your payment system (I’m not 100% sure though 🙏)? Otherwise, we expect to have the Steam release up sometime this month before October if that’s more convenient!

Hello! We are currently in the process of publishing the game onto Steam! It unfortunately takes quite some time to get it approved, but we’re expecting to get it up on Steam sometime this month before October! 🙏

Thank you for sharing your perspective! 💖 For us as a team, we don’t really gender compliments or gestures, such as being called beautiful, or receiving flowers etc., since the author herself also affectionately calls her cis husband beautiful/pretty (which is also reflected by how MC compliments Nik with beautiful as well throughout the game). We totally understand though how cultural/societal expectations and norms can make those feel more feminine-coded to some players. 🙏

We really value hearing different experiences of the game, and we’re glad you’re enjoying the story overall! Your support means a lot to our small team!!! 🙏💞

Hello! Initially, the first part of the game was released for Yandere Game Jam in March, which took 1 month to make. After that, we took around 4-5 months to make the new version we recently uploaded with new content (part 2)!

Hello!! Thank you so much for buying our game! It means a lot to us! 🥺🙏💞 We plan to release an achievement guide eventually once our team has rested up a bit! But for this specific one I’ll attach the answer below! 🎉

Hello!!! Thank you so much for sharing your thoughts and for being so kind in how you worded your feedback 💖 We’re really glad you’re enjoying Wes’ route so far!

You mentioned the game feeling a bit girl-coded, and we’re genuinely curious about your perspective. Our team is primarily made up of women (writing and visual team), so it’s possible that some of our writing choices naturally lean that way, but we’d love to understand better what parts came across as girl-coded for you. It would help us a lot as we think about future projects and ways to make them feel even more inclusive! 🙏

We really appreciate you taking the time to play and share your experience! Hope you enjoy the rest of the game nonetheless!! 🫶

No worries! 💞

Ahh thank you so much for playing! We're so happy to hear that and for the support! 🥺🙏💞 Hope you enjoy the rest of the routes/endings when you play them! 🥰💞

Hello! Thank you so much for your interest in the game 🙏 I mentioned before on your previous comment that you can still enjoy the DLC content through public streams/playthroughs (like the full playthrough I linked by Yinny on YouTube).

As much as we’d love to make everything free, our team put a lot of time and effort into creating this project, and we’ve already made the majority of the game free to play (71k out of 100k words for Nik’s route + endings). We understand not everyone is able to purchase the DLC, which is why we’ve run giveaways and also allow creators to share full playthroughs so everyone can still experience the content.

I hope you can understand as we’re only a small team, and sales help us continue to support the people who worked hard on the game. Thank you again for your support! 💖

Hello! Wes' route's endings are only in the DLC version 🙏 however, if you'd still like to see his route, you can still enjoy the content through watching the full playthrough from some streamers! At the moment Yinny has uploaded the full game with all routes/endings if you're interested!

hello!! which choices are not aligning/appearing? :o it might be helpful to see what your choices were as well for the playthrough to see if it affected the future choices etc.!

I also do want to note that Wes' route is only included in the paid DLC edition so that could also be preventing you from seeing some choices in case that is the issue you're running into if you're currently playing on the free version 🙏

hi!! Tysm for reaching out! I'm a big fan of detective games and mystery/puzzle games myself (including ace attorney!) so it's definitely something I'd be interested in potentially! Do you have a discord I could add? We can chat more about it there if you're still looking! :)

Hello!

As shown in the title, I'm an experienced visual novel sprite artist who's been looking to work on a visual novel dating sim project with a reality TV show theme! After going down the rabbit hole of playing the very few titles within that category (Love Island The Game, Netflix Stories, THTH, Romance Club's "The One", Couple Up, Choices, etc.), I've noticed that there's not many reality TV show themed visual novels and would love to work on this niche on the side from my other work as a casual side project!

I'm mostly looking for writer(s) at the moment to get the ball rolling as I'm not the most confident with my own writing skills outside of character ideas/occasional plot ideas and would highly prefer to work with someone who's also into the genre like me (big big bonus points if you've played any of the above titles and/or have at least watched any reality TV dating shows)! Will only look for other roles later on once something more fleshed out has been started if the project is being made from scratch.

As for project scopes, I'm open to multiple game ideas in the future depending on how well it works out and am happy with doing anything ranging from smaller LI scopes similar to the Bachelor/Bachelorette or wider LI scopes like the games mentioned prior!

I'm also more than open to joining any preexisting projects of this theme if I feel like I'd be a good fit but am open to jumpstarting / co-leading a fresh project if there's no preexisting ones yet. o/

Outside of this scope, I am also tentatively open to other visual novel dating sim ideas that aren't specifically of this genre/theme but will be a lot more selective and only take on projects that I think are doable for me / align with my interests.

I've attached some of my art samples below (including links to my most recent visual novel project and some other miscellaneous works to show my stylistic range) but have also made a quick collage of some of my work for quick visibility (apologies for how messy it looks ;v;)! Feel free to reach out if interested or if you have any questions etc.! :>

work samples:
- most recent VN work (sprites (small sample of the sprites from the game) and promo material (viewable on my tumblr))
- alternative style samples 

hello! i'm a sprite artist who's been looking to get back into the vn indie game scene and was potentially interested in joining a jam team!
i will note that i will most likely be selective based on personal interest / project scope / story & game theme, but do feel free to reach out regardless!
if there's anything i didn't cover below, feel free to reach out and ask questions as well!
(prefer to be reached out to here first as i don't feel comfortable publicly putting out my discord handle ;v;)

notes for recruitment:
- i'm open to most genres except for sci-fi. (i'm not great with heavy mech ;u;) i have a soft spot for slice-of-life, angst, mystery, horror, paranormal, comedy, drama, etc. (also trashy reality tv dating show esque stuff LOL)!

- i'm also very intrigued by games that may do features outside of the traditional visual novel (e.g. any features ranging from stat-raising, mini games, etc.)!

- stylistically i am very flexible and prefer to adjust my art style based on the project concept! however, i will also adjust complexity based on the project scope / character designs (e.g. if the sprites require more work in terms of poses/outfits/details then i will opt for a less time-consuming style)

- i draw male/masc characters a lot more than female/fem characters so i would prefer a project that is at least 50/50 split if not more masc-cast leaning..!

- for project scope, it will vary based on the sprite scope itself (how much time it would take to draw each sprite) but i would prefer projects that don't have a large LI/NPC sprite requirement within game jam time restraints ;; i'm more open to larger casts if there is another sprite artist or concept artist that will lessen the load (e.g. someone else helping with character designs/pose concepts/etc. while i do the finalized sprites) and if the deadlines are looser/go beyond jam constraints depending on how it works with my future work schedule

work samples:
- most recent VN work (sprites (small sample of the sprites from the game) and promo material (viewable on my tumblr))

- alternative style samples (feel free to ask if a certain style is doable if you don't see it in the preexisting samples!)

i'll repost some of the samples from the links above as image attachments for quicker visibility..! (sorry for the poor collage TT)

hi!! I've sent you a discord friend request and would love to potentially collab! :>