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I sure know what that feels like! I think we all feel that way sometimes, which is why a little grace and communication goes a long way.

And it sounds very possible that you've an unpleasant history with the OP that i'm not aware of (I'm very sorry for any nasty comments you may have recieved from anyone for any reason ever. There's no excuse for that), but what me and several other people were seeing was a bunch of very angry, accusatory sounding responses by other fans of your work targeting someone who just seemed confused and dissapointed, asking for the only clarification they knew of. 

And that did not seem very fair or nice, so I thought it would be good idea to try and increase understanding and facilitate a less hostile conversation between everyone as I believe it to be born out of a perception gap.

 So I'm glad we're able to have this conversation and want to thank you for having it. <3

 There's room enough on the internet for both amare and otome fans, especially since there's a lot of overlap as you pointed out and should actually be allies. Even if I do respectfully disagree that Amare is women oriented anymore than reading itself is. 'Tis for everyone and I personally know of several men, women, and enbys who adore them.

Yeah, Marlo's right. Technically they should use Amare, but the name for this genre, though correct, doesn't seem to be well known yet. I've seen MANY amare novels labeled as otome, which has led to or is in conjunction with the confusion over what is and isn't an amare rather than otome. 

There's actually only a handful of times I've even seen the label used.

Please do not take someone's genuine confusion over amare vrs otome as an attack against vn/ifs catering exclusively toward women. Amare only very recently (within the last four years) was recognized as a subgenre and there's not been much effort to educate anyone about these differences.

The developer, while expressing confusion, has not expressed any difficulty over adding 'female protagonist' to the tags, which helps clear up confusion and even helped some people find this interesting otome game.

Sorry this is days late and you might have already reached out to the developer or asked for a refund, but I don't think this IF supports IOS devices. 

If you haven't, you might reach out directly to the 13league's to confirm if this true. If it does not, you might try and play on another device it does support or seek a refund. But honestly, your device is probably only capable of playing the free online games anywhere but the apple app store, sadly. I hope that you will or have been able to resolve your issue and find games you can play.

I think she's after Nour because this was said on 13league's tumblr way back:

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"Nour has all my focus and will keep it until they’re done.

Superstition S1 rewrite will be slotted in along with SoS after Nour is done.

I want to finish S1 and get either S2 done or at least get half of it done before the end of the year.

SoS I would like to have half of it done by the end of the year.

Ozara will walk out into the spotlight but I doubt she’ll be done by the end of the year.

Zarik and Makaio will remain on the sidelines, if they receive updates it’ll be random like how they were receiving them when I was working on Ruben."

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Please keep in mind, however, that I am simply a fan, same as you, and have no extra knowledge other than what might be found on 13league's blog. Hope it's helpful, though!

What kind of device are you on?

More news! On 13leagues patreon, there's a monthly forecast available for free and it has some news about Throne of Ashes' progress! It doesn't say much more than we already know, but we also get to hear about some specific details around what still needs to be done if you want to check it out.

It's perfectly reasonable to be concerned whether you'll have access to content you paid for or not!

You may wish to contact the developer directly about that concern. I don't think they check the comments section of itch.io very much (understandable as they have like 5/6 games). I haven't seen any official (publicly available) post from them addressing this, but many developers have made backup plans to be able to provide access to game/s for players who have previously paid or a way that everyone can access it freely. I also think it likely at this point in time (fingers crossed) that Throne of Ashes will survive the bans. Have you checked to see if you can download it again?

Glad to help! I, too, am eager for the next route!

I don't have 13league's patreon and so I can't read the progress reports, but as of May 5th, chap 9 of Nour's route was released (for patreon members only, obviously). There will be 10 chapters total and- if I remember correctly- an epilogue? Or maybe chap 10 is the epilogue?

Anyway, yeah, even if you can't see everything on there, it can be worth checking patreon if you don't see anything on the writer's blog. Not always, but sometimes.

And thank you for replying! Didn't realize it wasn't made for mobile. Just saw that it was browser and started playing. Sorry for the confusion!

I did think it was weird because the light paper style was what your images showed, but inside the demo itself, everything past choosing your pronouns and the little text that said 'let your journey begin' was dark text on a dark transparent background. The only thing that was paper style on my screen were the small notifications after a choice that said +bravery. 

Additionally, I couldn't see the choice at all. It was just a black screen but when I clicked blindly, I could see an option being highlighted and there was some white text I didn't have time to read before it went to the next screen (because I had 'chosen' already). I'm playing on mobile browser by the way!

Sounds cool, but the text is black on a dark grey background. Much too hard to read for me.