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You only need to pay once, future chapters are included in the price.

Steam keys are just a way to get a game from Steam without needing to go through the purchase process directly on Steam. If you'd prefer to play OBSCURA on Steam, I'd recommend buying it there to reduce the potential for complications. The only exception is for people in Germany and China; OBSCURA is blocked for sale on Steam in those countries, so you'd have to buy the game on itch.io.

You should get a Steam key if you get the game through Itch.io, yes. You'll have to connect your Steam and Itch.io accounts (it's in the setting menu), and then on the download page there will be a button for getting a key.

And to clarify: Steam is the one that decided our age rating. We wanted a lower rating.

Ah, I'd guess you're from Germany or China? Steam has OBSCURA blocked in both of those countries because it claims the game has "frequent sexual content". We disagree, but Steam gave the game a high age rating and has refused to lower it. 

Unfortunately, there's nothing we can do about this right now. You can buy the game here on itch.io (sorry about the lack of regional pricing, we'd turn it on if it was an option) and you will get a Steam key with your purchase that should work like normal, but that's the only option we can offer right now.

Ending 29 requires a little bit of bad luck to find. In the guide under Ending 27, there's a choice that has a 1/3 chance of going badly, and you need to get that in order to get enough "noise points" to reach Ending 29.

As for the CG, that's found in the Extra Story. There should be a button for it on the Extras menu after you've hit a good or neutral end for all four boys in Chapter One (if it's still not there, try running through the game credits at any ending and see if it's unlocked then).

We've got three chapters planned per character. There's one left for Cirrus and Keir, and two left for Oleander and Francesco and we're working to make it happen 💪

Players can select which pronouns the protagonist uses, and there's a couple of choices where the player can choose an outfit (not shown on the sprite for scope reasons) where they can decide whether to lean more masculine or feminine. We don't have a set or default gender for Vesper.

Hello! We're not currently looking for translation or localisation services at this time, but thank you for the offer.

Hello! Our email address is for @gmail.com, and our name for that account is rottenraccoons1

Sorry for being a bit obtuse, we just want to avoid being put onto spam lists if at all possible.

Hello! There's definitely something odd happening in this case, but I'm at a loss as to what it could be. The only thing we can do on the backend is turning key distribution on and off and add more if we're running out, so I'm afraid there isn't a lot we can do directly. If you scroll to the bottom of this page, you'll see Itchio does have a small section on why you might not be receiving a key despite it being included, though none of the main reasons should apply to us (we're not participating in a major charity bundle at the moment, and we still have plenty of keys left to redeem in the system).

The best suggestion I can offer is to follow Itchio's directions and reach out to support (there's a link to the support page in the FAQ I linked before). They're in a better position to answer your question at the moment.

I'm not sure what you mean by "other files"?  If you're looking to access the pdf guide for Chapter Two, it's already up on Steam under the "Guides" tab, should be pretty easy to find! If you're wondering how you'll access future chapters, they'll be added automatically in Steam.

Hi! We will probably raise the price of Obscura once it's done, but people who buy it before that won't have to pay again. Consider it a small "thank you" discount for anyone buying the game before it's complete. Since we're not doing crowdfunding like Kickstarter or Patreon, letting people buy the game in Early Access is also how we've chosen to let people support us during development.

If you want to wait for the game to be finished before buying it, that's a pretty reasonable decision, too! 

Hello! When you can't find the key there's two things to check first:

1. Is your itchio account connected to your Steam account? You can connect them in your settings (the "connected account" menu, then use the Steam button), and they need to be connected to redeem a key.

2. Be sure you're checking the right place. At the top of the OBSCURA page should be a grey bar informing you that you've already purchased the game, with a link to the download page. The Steam key redemption button can be found below the other download options.

If you've cleared both of those hurdles, then I'm less certain about what could be going on. There are plenty of keys left to claim, at least.

Basically all Steam games download updates automatically if you're connected to the internet. You don't need to do anything at all except let the download happen, so there aren't really any instructions to give in that case.

Hi! There's a couple of things that could be going on here, but the good news is that it's probably not a bug.

If you can't find the link to the Extra Story in the Extras menu, there's two things to try:

• Be sure you've reached a good or neutral ending for all four love interests (that's ending 4 or 5, 14 or 15, 19 or 20, and ending 10.)
• If you have, please try going through the game credits through any of those endings

The game checks that you've finished the required endings to unlock the Extra Story during the credits (it kept things simple when I was programming!), so if you went back to the main menu after getting all the required endings without going through the credits first it may not have completed the check.

Hopefully that helps!

Hi, the Discord link above should be working just fine (at the very least, it's not expired!). You can also try this one, which is our custom link and therefore should definitely be working.

The game's going to be three chapters per route. The answer's probably somewhere down there in the churn of comments, but there's no harm asking to be sure!

Hi! Chapter Two continues directly from Chapter One, so you can just load a save from around the end of the chapter and it should continue seamlessly (for Keir and Cirrus, at least! Gotta wait a little long for Oleander and Francesco).

No worries, we'd much rather people want to keep us informed of things than not. And while I'm not allowed to talk about sales specifics in advance (Steam's rules again), I can say that we intend to take part in all the regular events that we qualify for. Sales here on itch and over on Steam have the same discount and duration, so there shouldn't be any difficulty picking up the title on a little discount sooner or later. And thanks for wanting to get the game! We hope you enjoy it, when you get the chance to play❤️

Oh trust me, we know. We appreciate the helpful sentiment, this monkey has just been on our collective back for a while! Steam decided that our game contains "frequent sexual content", which we think is very silly. But when we disputed the rating Steam disagreed with us, and now German and Chinese players have to access the game elsewhere, like here. 

If you're looking to buy OBSCURA, buying it here on itch.io will also grant you access to a Steam key, and we have seen confirmation from our German players that Steam keys can be redeemed for the game without issue. All the major Steam functionality is the same regardless of whether you buy it there or here, and the game's price in Euros on Steam is almost exactly the same as the USD price here on itch (at least at time of writing). So the only major difference in experience is which platform you'll be paying.

If you're looking to wishlist the game to be notified of a sale, we recommend following us on a social platform (we have Twitter, Bluesky, and Tumblr) since we announce all the sale events we take part in. It's not ideal (I personally really like Steam's wishlist functionality and wish it was easier to get an Itch equivalent), but it'll get you the information.

You'll have to wait a little longer for them (we have a short update coming out first!) but I promise we're working very hard on both of their chapters.

Hi! Yeah, sorry about the lack of regional pricing. We'd have that as an option if itch.io supported it, but unfortunately they don't.

Purchases are the same here on itchio and on Steam: pay once, and then you'll receive future content as it arrives. You will not need to pay again for future chapters.

Whoa, sorry for the delay. The game purchase is one-and-done, if you buy it now you'll get the new content as it releases for free (since it's just us updating the game as normal). Here on itch.io you may need to manually redownload the game to get the new content, but you'll always have access to the download page via your library.

Whoa, sorry for the delay. The game purchase is one-and-done, if you buy it now you'll get the new content as it releases for free (since it's just us updating the game as normal). Here on itch.io you may need to manually redownload the game to get the new content, but you'll always have access to the download page via your library.

Hi! Unfortunately, Steam has blocked the sale of Obscura to Germany and China due to its age rating. We weren't going to give Obscura such a high rating because there really isn't much sexual content in the game at the moment, but Steam set it higher and refused to lower it when we disputed the rating. If it was up to us, we wouldn't be blocking access to the game in any country.

The good news is that if you buy the game here on itchio, you'll also get a Steam key that will unlock the game on Steam as usual. There's effectively no difference in price for people in Germany, as the game's price in Euro on Steam and in USD here are nearly the same due to the exchange rate.

If you've bought the game on Itch.io, you will be able to access all future updates, yes! If you're using their app (just called Itch), all updates should be downloaded automatically? I don't use the app so I don't want to make any promises, but I believe they try to keep it as simple as possible. If it's not automatic, updating should still be pretty easy. 

If you're using the website, you can go to the "My Library" section (go to the front page of the site and there'll be a dropdown menu for all your account stuff) and just choose to download the game again after the new version releases.

There's definitely some confusion here, ending 31 is  the "good" ending for Keir's second chapter. There is no other ending to look for. As for the weird behaviour from the game, there's two possibilities I can offer: 

1) Ren'py did something weird. It's rare but not impossible for the engine to have a major hiccup and behave unexpectedly, in which case starting a fresh playthrough and skipping through the early material should put you back into the normal gameplay.

2) You finished Chapter One with less than four affection points with Keir. It's impossible to score enough affection points in Chapter Two to get the last CG and the kiss scene unless you already have four points when it starts. Keir's good end in Chapter One only needs three affection points, so it's possible to get locked out.

We're grateful to all the people who manage to get here to itchio given all the challenges you have to deal with to find it ❤️ Trust me, we want Obscura to be as easy to find and buy for the Chinese audience as possible and we're even more frustrated with Steam than you.

Your suggestion is something we considered to try and get a lower rating, but we think the thing that's getting the game a high rating in the first place is just Cirrus' route. Steam won't tell us if that would work unless we actually try it, and there are some problems that would come from putting a whole route (and one of the most popular ones) in DLC form, which makes this not really an option. We have some other plans in the works that may be able to solve this problem eventually, but none of them are quick solutions 😔 

Thank you so much for your support and patience while we figure out what to do next! 

Thank you for the love! We're so glad people in China are enjoying OBSCURA and sharing it with each other ❤️

Unfortunately, we don't have control over OBSCURA being blocked on Steam. Steam has decided OBSCURA has too much sexual content, and while don't agree with this decision they will not change it; we asked them to reduce the rating and they refused. Steam automatically blocks certain types of mature content on from being sold in China or Germany, which is why we're blocked.  If it was our choice, we would lower the rating because we think it doesn't make sense.

Right now German and Chinese players can buy the game on itchio and get a Steam key that way, and the key does work like normal, we. We're trying to find other ways to get around the block, but there's not a lot of options available to us. We know that itchio doesn't work for everyone and we're sorry, but it's the best we can offer at the moment.

It's fair to say we got a fair bit of good luck to be able to go (we're definitely an outlier in the indie romance VN space and it would be unfair to pretend otherwise), but I do also believe that you can make your own luck with some hard work. Thank you so much 😊

Keys aren't given automatically, there's a button you'll have to press on the download page to receive your key.

The ending guide is on the Steam community hub 😊

The builds are identical, the only difference for you is the platform you'll be using to download and play the game, and if you live in Germany or China the game is inaccessible on Steam due to laws around mature games. And since you can get a Steam key for the game here on Itch.io, you can buy once and get the game on both platforms.

We have no plans in selling different content on the two storefronts, either.

Unfortunately Steam decided our game contains too much Adult Content (we're as confused as everyone else about this), and they're currently blocking the sale of OBSCURA in Germany and China. There's not much we can do about this right now, we have disputed the rating and they disagreed with us, and the geoblocking is due to laws in those countries regarding the sale of games with mature content.

The good news is you can buy the game here on Itch.io, and you'll be able to redeem a Steam key that should work on Steam like normal (we haven't heard from anyone having problems with it, at least). 

There's a button on the download page that'll let you redeem  a Steam key. You have to press the button to request the key, they're not distributed automatically since some players come to Itch specifically because it's not Steam and they wouldn't use a key anyways.

Steam has not decided in our favour, unfortunately. We're just too spicy for Steam, I guess 😔 But we are now offering Steam keys here through Itch.io, so you can redeem a key here and should be able to play on Steam as usual.

We've added the option to redeem a Steam key via Itchio now 😊 Thanks for asking!

It's a bit of a "patience meter". Try playing without adding anything to it, or filling it up. There's three versions of a major scene depending on how many points you get.

14.99 USD isn't the final price for the game since it'll definitely be raised when the game is complete, but purchases are one-and-done. If you buy OBSCURA now you'll get the rest of the Chapter Two and all of Chapter Three as they come out, same if you buy it later, the price may just be a little higher. If you use Steam or Itch.io's app (and we are including Steam keys here on Itch.io now) you'll get the new chapters automatically as updates, otherwise you'll get an announcement about the update and just need to download the updated build.

Ah, unfortunately Steam has decided that OBSCURA is Too Horny and tagged it with Frequent Sexual Content, which appears to have blocked the game from sale in Germany. We think this is silly, but we have to play by Steam's rules while we're on their platform. While a solution to this may come in the future, we don't have any control over if or when it happens. In the meantime, you should be able to get the game here without any issue. Sorry about that one.