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Well this is delightful. I was expecting a silly game that would occupy me for a half hour or so, not a fantastic commentary on the human experience told through robots. Admittedly I might not have read the description before downloading it, otherwise I may have gathered that this was not just a silly half hour game. But at the same time, I don't typically play games in this genre to begin with, so I'm glad I didn't read the description.

Also, these characters are all fantastically written. When the purple bunny  tells me it's going to nap and I can just leave whenever I want, I let the game run for a few minutes on that screen rather than leaving right away. I want the purple bunny to know I'm not just there because I have to be <3

Also, I would say my favorite part of the game so far has to be the cables.

Hey, so I want to say I've actually been following this game for over a year now *hoping* someone would fix the crash bug, and I love that it's fixed! I played it a lot when I first found out it existed, but I could never get to the end because it would always crash around when I was taking on Stonebridge or Silvermane as a patron. It was the most cozy game I'd ever played, except for that bug...

I just love the atmosphere and the gameplay loop though, so a lot of the time I'd just sit down at the end of the night and play it and intentionally never take on any patrons past Irongate Blacksmith, since it was *mostly* after that that the crash bug came up.

I finally beat it today, and now I'm just enjoying the atmosphere, hyperoptimizing everything, and trying to see if I can manage things so I can accept and complete every request in under a day, *and* get all my birds home and rested by the end of the day... I'm really close, but I think it might take some more intentional planning to get there.

I only got 9, and I'm lowkey sad because I wanted them all; they're so cute ;_; From Lemmings to this, I seem to have a weakness for games where you have to save mindless little dudes from themselves.

Is there a list of known bugs somewhere? Because like... I'm very charmed by this game, and I'd like to try to finish it, but I've had to start over a couple times now because it froze or crashed, both times pretty late in the game.

The first time, it froze right after I accepted Silvermane Trading as a patron, while playing it in the browser.

The second time, it crashed right after I accepted the Silvermane Trading parcel contract for the first time. I'd already done their letter contract a few times at that point, and I was playing the Windows desktop post-jam version.

I kind of still want to try to get to the end, but like.. It'd be nice to have a list of common causes of crashes so I know what actions to either avoid, or try to get out of the way early so if it is going to crash, it'll at least do it early in a playthrough.

EDIT: Ok, I've had the game crash out on me 5 times now.

I'm not sure it's worth trying again until the next build release, but I think I'm at least *starting* to notice a pattern; it only ever happens after I unlock Silvermane Trading as a client. It doesn't happen *every* time I unlock them or sign contracts with them, but every time it's happened, it's been a fraction of a second after I close the contract window; it lets me move for a couple frames, then I hear the squeaky pulley sound, and it freezes. And I *think* it might have to do with the parcel contract specifically.

EDIT 2: Ok, I tried a seventh time and I just decided to skip out on Silvermane Trading as a client entirely; this time I got a lot farther, but I'd accepted Queen Isadora as a patron, and I was gearing up to finally accept Queen Isadora's contract when it crashed AGAIN when I accepted a variety of contracts from other clients.