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The partnered game in the image link at least has an android version if you need to scratch that itch for the time being.

This story has me invested in it already. The worldbuilding and the characters are super interesting.

Also the assertive/slightly dominant scenes with Eris and Lily were both very hot. Linnea's too.

Will be keeping an eye on this one every release.

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The Itch IO admins recently added "Femdom" as an official category on the storepage earlier this week. Since this project is already featured in many collections marked as such, you may want to tag this game as "Femdom" in order to gain a lot of attention in the algorithm, search results, and to appear on the top of new popularity lists when browsing.

Currently this game uses 8 official tags and 2 unofficial tags.

Hello,

I just wanted to stop by to inform that the Itch IO admins recently added "Femdom" as an official category on the storefront recently this week. This game appears in several collections marked as such, and so there may be an opportunity to gain a lot of visibility in the algorithm or search results if this RPG were to tag itself as such.

-Good luck

scroll down to the comment section about screen resolution (maybe that's your issue?)

(also just in case because many other devs had this issue)

Keep in mind that the Tags and the Genre section shouldn't overlap, otherwise you're wasting valuable tag slots for the algorithm/searches that would become invalid if duplicated.

Hello,

Just wanted to leave a friendly tip that "Monster Girls" and "Femdom" were added as new official categories recently this week on Itch IO. You may want to tag your games as such where relevant using all 10 tag slots possible. It'll help people interested in the Monster Girl genre to be aware of your games through cross-recommendations or search results.

-Good luck

Well you know, considering what Leyla does to the MC within the first 10 minutes of the game, a mere "tendency" is a bit of an understatement there, lol. One just roleplays, the other actually lives up to it.

https://itch.io/post/9590521/view-in-topic

I made a post about possible tags/merges in the official dev thread for it. Just cross-posting here in case the discussion topic sparked some particular interest.

Well, I am certain that there are folks out there who find male elves, old harpies, and C'thulu-esque mermaids/dryads to be attractive and/or adorable, but I'd agree with the sentiment that you were trying to make that "monster-girl" represents some specific visual style or at least a specific range of visual features.

I would like to bring to attention three new "Suggested Tags"

"Monster-Girl"
which should merge:
"monster-girl" - 115 results
"monster-girls" - 76 results
"monstergirl" - 58 results
"monstergirls" - 25 results

I've heard a bunch of developers starting to grumble about how traffic gets divided into four streams which kind of prevents the entire genre from establishing itself on Itch.IO. It should be emphasized that this is considered very distinct from the "furry" category as "monster-girls" are considered much, much more human-like in nature/appearance. And many developers specifically want and need to emphasize that their content isn't so extreme as to be considered "furry."

"Femdom"
which should merge:
"femdom" - 233 results
"female-domination" - 31 results
"femaledomination" - 2 results

It is rather important for the former to have the latter as an official tag as it has big implications to viewers whether the former genre contains the latter content (very common but not always). In the second tag, there is a split between the long-word and its more commonly used abbreviation in pop-culture and as is commonly used as shorthand label on other store-page websites.

"Vore"
which should merge:
"vore" - 270 results
"vorarephilia" - 0 results (but it is the full technical term)

Also a tag with a lot of cross-over interest that people will want to be informed if a title contains said content because it's a very specific imaginary interest to find or avoid.

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All three of these categories are devoted interests with approximately 250+ titles in each. Unifying and elevating them to official capacity would greatly improve the experience for customers browsing and relevant developers alike. All three as prominent options would be helpful for devs to be aware that they can tag titles in multiple of these categories. If made official, I'm certain that some of these categories would actually grow quite significantly in count, adding a few hundred more results, as there are many titles that technically fall into these categories but are not advertised as such.

-Best Regards

Well the tag is supposed to link together stuff that has similar interest. I would think primates are an umbrella search interest, but if any devs think otherwise, feel free to correct me. If someone were looking for orangutans specifically, they'd type that in the actual search bar and not as a tag.

Maybe dominatrix and femdom shouldn't be linked, but I would think "femdom" and "female-domination" should specifically as one is an abbreviation of the other. Likewise "dominatrix" and "domme" should as abbreviations.

To my knowledge, unofficial tags can't have spaces and any search attempt with a space has a hyphen, so "big ass" automatically becomes "big-ass".
"10-year olds" and "10 year-olds" becomes "10-year-olds" combined automatically so that sort of becomes moot.

Strangely, only official tags have spaces.

While on the topic, I did look through the new and popular section on Itch to see if any other categories came to immediate mind, and I noticed a few common categories that should probably be elevated, possibly made official in some capacity, or at least just simply aliased together for search result's sake:

"hide-and-seek" - 74 results
"hideandseek" - 14 results
"hideseek" - 5 results
"hide" - 45 results

^Has slightly different connotations than just "stealth"
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"femdom" - 233 results
"female-domination" - 31 results
"femaledomination" - 2 results
"dominatrix" - 6 results
"domme" - 1 result

^Just a quick example of another category with multiple hundreds of games that has a split tag argument. Happened to notice because its often linked with the monster-girl example in the OP.
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"monkey" - 327 results
"monkeys" - 42 results
"monke" - 78 results
"gorilla" - 90 results
"gorillas" - 4 results
"ape" - 22 results
"apes" - 2 results
"chimp" - 10 results
"chimps" - 2 results
"chimpanzee" - 1 result
"chimpanzees" - 1 result
"orangutan" - 0 results
"orangutans" - 3 results
"primate" - 1 result
"primates" - 1 result

^common genre especially for memes or jokes. "Ape together strong" this would be a big category if all of it were merged.
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I noticed many more smaller examples where hyphens or singular/plural forms split some very niche tags, but the above are just examples that cross over into the 100+ titles count and need a little bit more than just hyphen or plural fixes.

On Itch IO, there are preset tags already which automatically treat singular and plural words as being identical tags. For example, searching for "cat" or "cats" as a tag yields the same results. But for unofficial tags that don't quite convey fully a certain sub-genre, oftentimes hundreds of games become divided over trivial nomenclature such as being singular/plural or whether a word should be hyphenated or compound instead.

As a quick example:
Searching for "monster-girl" gives 115 results.
Searching for "monster-girls" gives 76 results.
Searching for"monstergirl" gives 58 results.
Searching for"monstergirls" gives 25 results.

For the most part all of these games just use one tag, so they are not easily cross-recommended by the algorithm or show up as search results when people try to browse games of the same genre. I did an experiment and messaged a few developers by recommending them to switch which tags they use to the most popular version and in some cases they claimed it doubled or even tripled their metrics (huge when the topic in particular happens to be a niche, but devoted fanbase).

The website should probably automatically lump together words it can identify as plurals of each other. If possible it should lump together hyphenated and non-hyphenated words automatically if they would be identical without the hyphen. Most immediately though, I'd recommend that those 4 tags in the example above be aliased together at least and possibly be made an official tag (big sales happening right now there). There are other direct examples I've seen over the years, but they escape my mind at the moment, and in terms of raw numbers this was a particularly egregious example since it currently covers multiple hundreds of titles.

-Best Regards

Truly an epic update. Marvelous. That exceeded my expectations.

This visual novel will go very far someday as one of the great titles on Itch.io.

I hear faint whispers from the other side. We must continue the ritual.

༼ つ ◕◕ ༽summon update ༼ つ ◕◕ ༽つ

I've been following a few similar projects here and there for a while now, and this so happens to be one of the fastest growing in terms of support for just an initial release that I've seen.

Who knew that so many people out there would find being enslaved by a succubus to be so compelling as a premise.

I'm guessing here, but if reinstalling doesn't default settings back to normal, then they might be saved in the users -> appdata -> LocalLow folder. Its hidden on your hard drive by default and many applications save settings here which persist between installations. Try to delete the Starvy folder there and see if that resets things?

Also just a brief fix for anyone reading these comments:

If the UI context menu of the screen fails to display, set the resolution of the game to 1920x1080 or 1680x1050.

The UI doesn't seem to work at smaller resolutions and changing this setting in the escape menu will fix it.

Very high quality animations, voiced dialogue, and nice multiple viewpoints.

kudos

This is coming along a lot faster than I expected.

Thanks for the hard work and regular progress updates/previews.

Who knows, maybe with that tagline its like an ancient classical Greek tragedy where the hero tries to break the chains of fate but inevitably fails and is punished constantly by the divine for doing so.

Not everything is always straightforward or even successful.

Its a hard judgement to make. The MC does stand up for himself, but has the rebelliousness physically beaten out of him. His initial emotional weakness from the sudden turn of events is also quite literally hypnotized out of him so he can serve better as both a personal slave toy and a knight.

It's probably too early to call and will depend on future story version beats. But before the whole adventure, he was down on his luck before being whisked away. Its all out of his control now, and there is a small comedy of errors happening because of all these circumstances outside his control.

If you're on the fence about trying it:

Its basically you got isekai'd, but semi-voluntarily in a coerced fashion. Outside of the whole being enslaved aspect, there's nothing "extreme" if that's what you're worried about, but just know that you're basically starting from zero in terms of power level and you're surrounded by some "superior beings" who have their way with you initially. It kind of sets up the plot if that makes sense, so it'd be a bit weird to skip it. Its mild basically insofar, but omnipresent for the meantime while the MC starts the journey.

Not just the scenes, but the plot, setting, and atmosphere is certainly there for it too.

The main character is literally given the title "slave", is branded, and bullied by a dominant hot succubus-waifu. He gets beaten and dominated by a bunch of battle maids too. They all talk about endurance training him in the future as some sort of foreshadowing. He's on a short leash as he's given his mission. The outer plot has already deep-dived into this theme.

The inner plot too: A hot queen on a throne who doesn't seem to outright deny that she keeps certain assets. The main character rescues someone, but still manages to end up under her anyways! And then followed by a long T&D session out of his control without spoiling anything. And so forth, all while under the scornful gaze of a mean--but well-endowed--goth girl.

Not making a judgement here, just suggesting to keep an open mind as the project tries to find its initial footing that it ticks a lot of boxes to a certain niche taste. Some folks are really into that. Advertising what it already excels at might help build up some initial momentum. Maybe it was unintended (I would guess you were aiming for a corruption theme initially), but accidents can be happy accidents. Don't be afraid to go either way.

Still, will be looking forward to how this story develops with content, routes, options, etc. Good luck!

Patreon link doesn't seem to link to a proper page.

Overall this storyline seems promising. Good animations. Not sure if its planned to be one of the main focuses of the novel, but based on what exists in this prologue, it ought to have a "femdom" as one of its tags on Itch. The protagonist certainly seems to end up being on the bottom a lot.