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Sorry, itch doesn’t notify immediately about comments - the next update will be a smaller one, just improving some of the art and very small content addition - new characters take a long time to make and won’t be for quite a while.

We have an update and a free DLC planned, then 2 paid expansions. The update should be next month, but the rest are going to be quite a bit of a wait. Game development takes time :B

Thank you, we will! :B

I won’t tell you who it is, but I will tell you it is supposed to be a mystery and it is not the player or a unnamed narrator. They will play into later expansions of the game when we get to those. There are some good theories on the discord and there are enough clues to figure it out in game if you pay attention to the lines, but it is intentionally vague.

There are 4 different dialogue options, I believe only 3 of them are required (specifically the 3 with unique scenes, the one where you tell Alana immediately doesn’t count). You get the achievement after you’ve completed all of the scenes associated with those choices to their ends. Make sure you aren’t bailing out after just clicking the options.

This is what you should see after you click download, these are all full versions of the game.

It also should have sent you a download link in your email that takes you to the same page.

Can you click on that download button? It should take you to a page where you get 4 different download links afterwards.

I’m confused, can you take a screenshot of what you’re seeing after you click the “download” button there and paste it here?

Hey! After you purchase new links become available. You should see something like this on the project page at the top:

You need to click download there and pick one of the full versions out. Once you do this you should be able to extract and run it somewhere. If you’re still seeing the demo you are likely accidentally running the demo copy somehow. Let me know if this solves your problem or if you still need help!

Hey fun lore fact, Ach-na-Creige isn’t an invention of our own - it comes along with the legend of the Glaistig!

https://web.archive.org/web/20060106110024/http://www.mysteriousbritain.co.uk/folklore/scots_folk/glaistig.html

The town itself doesn’t exist in real life, but is part of legends and tales, so it is itself a mythological reference. Feel free to include it! :B

This game was a success for us, so I think we intend to keep making games and content for games as long as we can :B

Thank you very much, glad you enjoyed it! :B

Grace does have a happy ending for just those two - if you check the pinned post on this board I have instructions on getting all the secrets, endings, and content in the game.

Unfortunately - the ‘when’ is the hardest part, I’m afraid. You’ll just have to wait for it, or pledge on Patreon if you want the news as we develop it!

Probably not a full sequel, but definitely expansions coming at some point.

Future planning! :B

Alternate languages? There are some fan translations but we aren’t currently working on any translations ourselves yet, sorry!

Heya, sorry it was difficult for you to find it! Glad you enjoyed the game otherwise.

The demo has been available for free for a long time, but not the full version, that’s always been paid.

We have, we’re trying to figure out how to best go about doing it first. We’ve got a patch to do before we jump into that though.

https://discord.gg/helmetfox

Discord is an immediate way if you have that!

I’ll point these all out to the developer!

Go for it! :B

Thank you! Always nice to hear people enjoyed the game :B

We have plans for more content, will be some time though!

I’ve gone ahead and reported it, there was a typo in the mobile export that caused this one to make it through when it shouldn’t have, sorry about that! It is disabled, the achievement showing up is the error.

I believe all of the minigames are removed, are you sure this achievement is active on the mobile version?

I’m fairly certain you cannot do this one.

The passage on the left is unlocked somewhere in Jessie chapter 4, and the large field on the right is unlocked when you do the both humans path in Jessie’s, I think.

Hm, it’s weird, I’ve been able to 100% the game on the latest builds just fine - and I’ve confirmed with other people who have also been able to. If you’re missing 1% and you’re on the latest build then I can only think you’re actually missing something. Do you have all of the glossary entries unlocked? All of the scenes? Your tree is completely filled out?

When you said you redid the endings, you redid all 3 of the endings for both marion and jessie? Not just redoing one of them?

I’ll pass this along!

Yes, there’s a free update planned with some smaller additional content and a cleanup pass. There’s another romance that is being worked on that will be free, and then 2 expansions that will be paid content.

No problem, if you’re still having issues let us know - you can still use the skip function (by clicking or holding control) between choices though!

Really appreciate the feedback, we love to hear from players who enjoyed the game! Happy to hear it was worth your time :B

To your questions:

We would love to translated CT into other languages, but it’s a very costly thing to have done and I don’t think we’re at the level where that could happen right now. CT does pretty well month to month but the text right now is 3 novels long and it’s an actively edited script. So that means it would be very expensive and we’d have to call the translators back every time we do script revisions. If translation were to happen it would have to wait until after the script is closer to being finished so we don’t have to have translations edited as much, or if it started to sell significantly more in order to justify the costs.

There are fan translations that have been working on the game, but those are not under our control and we don’t dictate anything they do. If they need assistance we answer questions for them, but they translate at their own pace.

As for your second question, you can already do that if you learn the Renpy engine. The game engine itself is open source and available for anyone to use. All the assets are there, but working on a project like this is a lot of work so I don’t think many people will attempt it.

Thanks for the post and we’re excited to start working on the next romance! :B

The nightmare secret is triggered after getting a final chapter epilogue ending for each romance, it will show up on the 4th play-through on NSFW mode, and you might miss it if you aren’t paying attention (it’s only one very short altered section of the scene, a minor sprite edit and a remark by Grace).

If you are stuck at 99% there was a bug that was preventing the Marion endings from “counting” in the percentage and you will have to run through them again real quick on skip (you can select the final chapter from each ending branch). If that isn’t it, you may be missing a Jessie ending credit (had the same issue early in release) - or the likely culprit is one of the Grace dates or Marion being hidden scenes when Alana comes to visit. You have to experience all 3 of both of those and they count for completion.

You should be able to see “what if?” multiple times, the issue is that you need to perform the exact steps listed, if you just jump to the chapter it will not work because the game doesn’t store those choices when you jump chapters. It’s an extremely specific set of choices that lead you to asking Jessie “What if?” The achievements should all be functional now, so it should work.

Thank you! :B

Steps to getting a key on Patreon:

Pledge at the Beta Tester tier listed below.

After you pledge for a key at the on LittleNapoleon’s patreon, send LN a message on Patreon or Discord (preferably a direct message, those notify him), he will get back to you asap with a key. You can even poke me here if you pledge and I will poke him to check his DM’s on Patreon if you want to be extra sure he gets the message quickly.

After you get your key feel free to drop the pledge as soon as you want. You should keep access to all the other tier benefits until the end of your pledge, so feel free to check those out.

There’s no automation for this method yet as we’re still working out how we’ll be doing a storefront and who can process payments for it and will still offer purchased to German users. It’s a surprisingly complex topic.

I said that it didn’t sell well enough to justify getting it rated, and that’s true, but getting it rated is very expensive compared to our budget. I will say the game itself is doing great in our eyes, it’s even doing better than we expected on steam and itch. Our real funding comes through Patreon and it will likely always come through Patreon, high quality games take a lot of crowd support to make in niche topics.

No mainstream game studio would ever tackle a game like this, and big studios are usually necessary to make games at the quality people want to see. Big studios or very long time-frames. That means if we want to make a game that’s as high quality as we’d like to see, it takes a significant amount of support, and thankfully we’ve always had that through Patreon.

Really happy we got to see this through to release and make exactly the game we wanted, now I’m looking forward to the next chapters! :B

Hiya, I answered your question on F95, I’ll just copy paste it here:

This is actually not correct, in order to check the box on Steam you have to have the rating approved by the agency. In order to get USK approval and get a rating you need to pay an upfront fee of 1200 euros. We would have to apply for this again every time we updated the game and added content (that only costs 300 euros per update though). The issue is we wouldn’t make that much back from German sales. Unfortunately, the game just hasn’t sold well enough for that. Also, Steam would remove our game if we were found to be checking those boxes without actually getting the game rated by the agency specified, so it’s not worth the risk to us.

We’ve been looking into this for a long time so our German players get an equal experience where we can offer it.

If we go viral or something and the sales are significantly higher than they have been, we’ll definitely consider it.

We offer the game both on itch.io and stream - and we sell game keys redeemable on Steam through Patreon if you actually want it on Steam and are German.

Also because I’m not sure if you knew this, Steam recently changed how they do ratings on the platform and they include a steam survey that lets you know what ratings you would generate before registering with the official agency and when you plug in any adult content game now with visible sex in it like ours, it comes up with this:

Anyone getting around age ratings for German is either grandfathered in or something changed between them launching and us.

The story will return with him, not necessarily the specific story with Jessie.

Graces cleaned up images should be in a few weeks at most. It took us 7 years to make the game you’re playing so far, so the next romance will probably be at least a year. We have no hard dates though, no.

Steam has sold about 3400 copies and itch.io has sold about 600, so 4k all together. It’s fortunate the game was largely funded by Patreon though, we get paid monthly by fans every month who support the idea. I do not think the game would have been a success on it’s own otherwise (4000 sale is nothing to sneeze at, but it would not have funded the games production at the quality level we aimed for).

Glad you enjoyed the Grace path! :B

There’s no way to know for sure who is doing the quotes between chapters, that’s part of the larger mystery of the game and will be explored more in future dlc. But there are enough subtle hints that you could make a good guess - lots of players on discord have been trying to figure these mysteries out.

The finished Grace pics with shading should be available soonish, there are just a few more pictures to finalize, the update will be available to everyone who owns the game.