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You are very welcome! I can tell a lot of care and an insane amount of work goes into this work, which I truly appreciate, so I shall wait patiently for new content... just as soon as I decide what my heritage is going to be, haha! Oh, well, I see myself replaying with various heritages, actually! I also cannot wait to learn more about Havard, in that case, then. :D 

Take care! 

I have not finished what the game has to offer just yet, and I never comment, but, I wanted to say my piece. 

This is my favorite IF ever. And I mean, EVER. I have, as someone with situational mutism myself, never, EVER seen a game where MC can be mute (at least by anything other than, for instance, also being deaf, or something physically being wrong And there's nothing wrong with that! But, as someone who has situational mutism, I dare say representation is lacking OR I have not come across it yet until now!). Of course, when the option arose, I HAD to choose it. It means so much to me that the option is there to not (be able to) talk, and Havard's reaction... 

Which, speaking of him, I LOVE him. With all my heart, I adore Havard. His reactions, his care to the child, this is all so precious and comforting. I am also very curious and keen on and about the Ancient One that saved us, especially since it was hinted that he cared about us, extra. I wonder if we might meet him again! The twins. Oh, gosh. Where do I begin with the twins? The interludes had me laughing 'til I was wheezing. They are so wholesome and Azha is so funny. Every adult and their care and treatment of the children is so dear. 

And that is another thing. Being able to play as a child, well, it never happens, at least not for a long time aside from a short and brief childhood segment or flashbacks of the same length. It is so fun to me to play as children, and, as another commenter pointed out, you do a fantastic job writing them. It really feels like children! Not to air my laundry or trauma dump, but let's just say that finally being able to play as a child is very near and dear to me! And, in this way, even if MC grows up, I will at least have felt as if I shaped them and saw them grow up. There is no better way to get attached to an MC! 

Now, I don't want to dive deep into my own psyche, as I said, to avoid trauma dumping, BUT, I will say, I ADORE the trauma coping stats, the personal stats, the relationship stats, and most of all, your (MC's) reactions to everything. It is incredibly sad, yes, but also realistic, and it leads to many, many bittersweet and wholesome moments! (Yes, I am hugging Havard at every moment that I can. Why do you ask?) This writing, these stats, and the realistic ways of portraying and implementing them (I'm assuming MC trusting Havard without you inputting anything is if you choose repeatedly to trust him) are extremely comforting to me. Whilst I'm not going for the options myself (maybe in a future run) I must also praise and thank you for not shying away from portraying trauma so raw and true, like the self harm options. (And thank you for putting a trigger, too!) 

This is getting so long, I apologize. I have much more to say, but I will wrap it up because I WILL keep talking forever. 

In short, I have found myself emotional with this IF. I have cried and had to pause and within the same five minutes, laughed until I wheezed. I love the characters, I love the story, the setting, the stats and the choices. But most of all, I love MC and how you can shape them. And again, thank you for including a mute option! I cannot wait to see the story develop and go on, and will definitely be keeping a very close eye on this work! Here's to many more years and healing and perhaps adventures with MC and the cast. 
Also, I am very normal about this IF ;). 

PS: Why have I stopped playing for now? I am giving way too much deep thought about the four cool features I will have. Currently on an elvish demon with elemental heritage, but hesitating between cool black eyes and awesome horns. 

Now, off I go to check out your other works that some comments mentioned. :D 

So I believe the game with the AI is still bugged, at least for me. Every time, I can't win, because the tiles move and I can't press the left lower tile. :( The score is messed up right now, LOL. 

Having the same issue, I believe it's making it harder to win (the AI keeps winning lol). I believe I use Google/Chrome.

Dang it, I still can't get the right ending. I keep typing 'I miss you', but I can't find the right moment or the right spelling, because it keeps hijacking the interface. It's not responding to 'I miss you'. 

Oooh, I've been in the lab before, but I've never seen the police robot before! I'll play through the game a few more times to see if I can save it, thank you for the hint! 

I'm late, but how do I save the cop robot? I know it's possible because another video mentions it, but I tried waiting for it to come back, but QT forces me to break out every single way and nothing I say seems to convince this robot. I just wanna save it, man, I feel bad for it! 

Thanks in advance. 

No no, thank YOU for making it this great ^^ /gen

Sorry for the very late reply but how did you do that? :O The best ending I can get is getting my opponent/friend to the Med Bay, and then just assuming the good people managed to free them before their next fight. I tried pretty much everything I could think of and do aside from killing them. Thanks in advance, and I'm so sorry again for the late reply! 

Oooh, friendship routes :O I look forward to that :D I'm really liking the options so far, especially the mental health representation ^^ At times, I just have to stop and take a deep breath and hold back tears, it's that well done! Looking forward to future content :) 

Teeny tiny question; do you eventually have to romance someone, or can you go through the entire game fully platonically with everyone without any romantic/NSFW encounters? :O Just curious! (Because if the answer is you can't go through platonically, I'm definitely okay with ace-romancing Death, just saying xD) 

I will say, I am very pleasantly surprised by all the options you can take in a relationship, and how to go about that relationship! It's super inclusive and I am loving it :D 

Is this like... normal? Why does everyone have a crush on Alice?

I don't know where else to post this but uh, maybe have some way of making weaponry even without buying it first? I think I just got soft locked and IDK how to get out of it. I don't have enough money to buy weaponry, so I can't delve deeper. But I need to delve deeper to get money to buy weaponry to delve deeper? I hope that sentence makes sense. If anyone has a solution, please share. I don't have enough treasure to sell anymore :') Thanks in advance! 

Oh my goodness, you have a gif and a PFP and everything! 

a post eleven seconds ago just as I click this for the first time 

Marvelous. Let's see what this game has to offer. It is very rare to still find an active IF on Itch, so I'm very excited about this! 

I have tried quite a long time a few times ( just keep coming back to this lol) but I have to ask... 

Is there any way to escape or get a 'good' ending WITHOUT romancing the cultist? 

I don't care what anyone says. MY Bun-Bun is the cutest! 

Well, I know that I am impressed! You say this is rushed and all, but it's a *beautiful* game that looks really neat and detailed, with nice systems in place :) 

I really enjoyed taking care of the tree particularly. It's also after that that I realized you could click with your soldiers to fight, and by doing so it gave me some leeway to win more battles and protect my tree for longer! I realized this after I actually managed to quickly read what the cannon did LOL. 

After that, I managed to get some other upgrades and I managed to get everything under control again. I was sad to read there's no 'good' ending, but I enjoyed the game either way and it does properly show off going too far and greed! 

Overall, I can't even draw a tree or properly do any technical stuff so there is no critique at all here! I loved this game ^^

I would love to play this game, but I think I'm doing something wrong or having the worst luck. As soon as I get the guards, I can't even play because I get spammed with attacks until I die. 
I'm talking 'oh an attack' 
It ends....
And immediately another one starts. 

...I just want to water my fruit tree, man ;w; 

Is there something I am doing wrong? I've bought walls, I desperately tried to refill my guards in between attacks, but they just won't let up! 

UPDATE: I have done it. After nearly a year, I have done it. 

That was VERY fun! (SPOILERS!!) 

The incredible detail of this game is impeccable. Even though I do still stand by my original 'darn it, green eyed cook', I do admit that when I played this again, his green text made me laugh out loud. He's got a great sense of humour, that's for sure! 
The way your choices, the smallest to the biggest, affect the game, as is explained, is incredible. The details of the little differences, the plothooks you can pick up and the incredible size of this seemingly at first small game is amazing. 

The writing is incredible and you can really get to know every character and connect with them, and, on top of that, it actually matters to the plot!! You have to really look closely and inspect and analyze, break apart every single word and letter, pick everything apart and remember it, and it'll all matter in the end! 

I really, really love the way this game was put together. I can tell a lot of thought and care was put into it. Thank you for posting this incredible story for me to play through :) 

If there's any updates, I'll be sure to want to play them! I need to save all of these adorable little cuties, I need to protect them! ;w; 

Aaah! This is so cute, the robots are ADORABLE!! 

NOOOOOOO THE CLIFFHANGER 

I so want to know what happens next, gaaah!! 

I've barely even begun, I'm just setting up my character but allow me to share a little reaction of mine 

Me: Mmmm sister. No, you know what, sibling. yes, they/them. Awesome. Lesgo. 

Later 
Leo: that one is (insert pronouns) 
Me: Wait... 
Me: (cautiously clicks through pronouns) 
Me: Oh my gosh... you can be a sister AND have they/them pronouns?! 
Me: (big fist pump) YESS!!! DREAM COME TRUE, GENDER EUPHORIA, YES!! 

BRB, going to set up the nonbinary sister and save their sibling. Thank you so much for including this :) 

Take the gift in the glovebox. Don't forget to hug dad! (IDK what this actually does but I did do it because I felt bad for him lol) 

So after you get the flashlight, which you find by following the light in the beginning of the game (when you first enter the house), you should go downstairs. There, without spoilers, something will happen and a closet will reveal itself. The broom is in the closet.

Ok after my last comment I have confirmed it. Buying back my stuff (Soil, Rocks, ETC) that I have sold in the shop eats all my money and does NOT give me back my stuff that I paid for... 

Hmm, so every time I rebuy all my stuff, it doesn't seem to actually give me anything back >.< I might be missing something, I just don't notice anything changing. The button turns grey, but that's it. 

EDIT: Ok, so my money goes down, I have it on 100 percent, maybe I'm just an idiot because I think I don't 'notice anything' because... I can't afford to buy a lot. So sorry. 

EDIT 2: Yeah no, I'm a little sure that it's still not doing anything at times.... except taking my money. Not sure, but it *SEEMS* like it which is a bummer. 

I followed this and won with like, four days over and on my first playthrough ^^ Thank you :D 

Ugh, I saw that. I had Roblox before I had Itch Io and now I'm slowly starting to reconsider where all of those 'awesome games' come from. specially where they are, ah, inspired from so to speak :/

Very fun game, I really like it and I'm going to keep it on my laptop eagerly awaiting upgrades :D I am really invested in this and it's a shame it had to end so soon, but it's very fun already :) 

Ah, alright thanks for the answer :) I hope they're having fun at least LOL 

Is there anything I can do to stop looping in the shop or will my character continue to browse and find nothing until their next option? No hate, just genuinely curious :D 

IDK how to set stuff down, so I was just casually holding a rubix cube the whole time. Even as I was swept away, I still clung onto my COMFORT. 

Great job at making me uneasy, that was great. Fun fact: I didn't recognize the picture of my digital pet. I was like 'Aww that's so cute :) Wait.... that looks familiar... OH SHOOT IT'S MY DIGITAL PET-'

But the way you sorta manipulate people into doing stuff and getting uncomfortable? Certain aspects of the surroundings? Amazing. 

I loved it!! My favorite was Morgan's art ^^ 

Wait, what is it supposed to do? I just played the game entirely with the options, no voice recognition needed ^^' I don't talk in mics though, so that could just be me djdjdjd

Ah, I see! I thought I was doing something wrong, LOL. Also I just got the jumpscare of my LIFE ghghg. Good job! Someone was actually near me when I played, didn't even see the jumpscare but heard it and also got jumpscared LOL, especially when I showed them what had jumped out. 

(Slight spoiler!) 

Also the plushie is so interesting. Right before the jumpscare, I noticed it was missing and I was like ''Wait- ... well this isn't good!'' Turned around and BOOM.

If there are updates, I'll definitely play again :D Short game, but very very well done ^^ 

My game keeps getting stuck at the third day, showing how much followers I have and I can't move on >.< Am I doing something wrong? 

Is it possible to click the incident reports or the messages on your inbox? I'm all for lore! 

I can't open the game. Here's a copy of what it says. 

[code]

I'm sorry, but an uncaught exception occurred.

While running game code:

  File "game/script.rpy", line 54, in script

    init python:

  File "game/script.rpy", line 81, in <module>

    usergeoip = aimlbot.fetch_geolocation()

ValueError: No JSON object could be decoded

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

Full traceback:

  File "game/script.rpy", line 54, in script

    init python:

  File "C:\Users\Nina\OneDrive\Bureaublad\Schwatz-0.5-pc\renpy\ast.py", line 881, in execute

    renpy.python.py_exec_bytecode(self.code.bytecode, self.hide, store=self.store)

  File "C:\Users\Nina\OneDrive\Bureaublad\Schwatz-0.5-pc\renpy\python.py", line 1913, in py_exec_bytecode

    exec bytecode in globals, locals

  File "game/script.rpy", line 81, in <module>

    usergeoip = aimlbot.fetch_geolocation()

  File "python-packages/AIMLBot.py", line 704, in fetch_geolocation

  File "python-packages/duckduckgo.py", line 144, in get_zci

  File "python-packages/duckduckgo.py", line 55, in query

  File "/home/tom/ab/x64lucid-deps/install/lib/python2.7/json/__init__.py", line 338, in loads

  File "/home/tom/ab/x64lucid-deps/install/lib/python2.7/json/decoder.py", line 366, in decode

  File "/home/tom/ab/x64lucid-deps/install/lib/python2.7/json/decoder.py", line 384, in raw_decode

ValueError: No JSON object could be decoded

Windows-8-6.2.9200

Ren'Py 7.1.3.1092

Schwatz 0.5

Sat Apr 15 10:40:29 2023

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