Tem um tradução para português do Brasil sendo feita, porém por motivos de força maior está suspensa no momento. Vai demorar para chegar.

You will be able to recruit Argos when we get back to the main story (which isn't in this update, it's focused on Kota.) You either get P or Argos, which one you recruit depends on a number of choices you made over the game. If you want Argos, I suggest you get the best over him/trick him as often as possible.

If you want I can answer this question in Portuguese too.

We will touch on that, but in our own way. I think the very traditional narratives of "coming to terms, coming out of the closet, suffering push back and overcoming it" are very overdone and not very engaging, so when we do it I want it to be different.

Khenbish's story may be the one that most visibly touches this subject. He comes from a very poor family that's been through a lot, and from a culture that's not had much contact with the idea of being tolerant of LGBT people. His family is loving, he loves his parents and siblings and wants to help them, which is why he's been hyper-focused on being the responsible older brother at the cost of his own self-exploration as an individual. It's also a factor that he really struggled to make connections with others because of his charm, and being openly LGBT often leads to people being fired over it in Mongolia.

Overall, Khenbish's life is affected by a homophobic culture, but it's first and foremost ruled by the very few chances he and his family have had to do well in life. So him coming to terms with his own sexuality will be a bit different from most LGBT narratives. It will be, I hope, quite unique, and maybe a bit subtle.

As for Oscar... I have a lot I'd like to touch with him. The Hinterlands sections happened mainly from P's perspective, so we didn't get to see much of Oscar's innermost thoughts. I'd like to change that in the future, hopefully explore how he sees his own sexuality.

He's someone who's been so thoroughly excluded from his community, and he is so aware of how destructive the Hinterlands are, that he sees everything that opposes their local culture as a positive thing. The standard sexuality for a man of the Hinterlands is "heterosexual chronic cheater" or, at most, "homophobic bisexual chronic cheater misogynist," so you can imagine that P's "monogamous gay who does not want to take advantage of him" is almost saint-like in comparison.

In that sense, Oscar doesn't struggle too much with accepting his sexuality, but if we see more of his inner monologue I want to convey that things are a little more complicated. He has a richer inner life than his attitude lets on, and that extends to the finer details of his sexuality. He's special like that.

Asterion doesn't struggle too much with being attracted to a man, instead he has to grapple with literally everything else, including but not limited to the MC's hierarchical position, frail mortality, and the profound existential dread of being unable to follow the natural cycle of life which all mortals do. 

As an addendum, Asterion has seen plenty of LGBT people over the centuries, so homosexuality on its own is not something he bats an eye at.

Other characters may touch on this topic too, but more distantly and superficially. We will see.

1. What countries do you get the most traffic from (Aside from America)? I don't know if you have like a google Analytics for Minotaur Hotel, but I'm really curious.

I got your back, flim flam. Probably worth adding that the data for Brazil may be a bit higher than it should, because I check the page somewhat often to see how things are going and Google Analytics counts that as a normal user.

And this is the top 10 in terms of language:

If you want more data just ask, I'm glad to help however I can.

2. What kinds of projects do you and your team want to do after you finish Minoh? I know Nanoff is making his comics but what about the rest of you guys?

Speaking exclusively about myself (MinoAnon), I'd like to work on small projects after Minotaur Hotel. I have a few ideas already: I'd really like to work on something very horny with dinosaurs, and/or something mellow and reflexive with lots of outdoor locations. For both cases I'd like to use a structure closer to the Hinterlands' instead of a linear one. I'd also like to work on a micro-sized horny project that's not a VN, but if that's viable it remains to be seen. We'll see if the stars ever align for these projects.

3. What sex positions are each of the characters? I know both Asterion and Luke are bottoms but who else?  I hope Oscar gets a scene where he gets to bottom, I really want to see his hole.

Luke is a self-professed verse/verse bottom, except he only ever bottoms. He can top only in the most theoretical of levels, but he swears he can if he wants to.

Iirc Kota is the sort of verse that really does 50% topping and 50% bottoming. He's really into 69 and flip fucking.

Robert is the kinky switch that can go with pretty much anything as long as it's safe, sane and consensual. Unlike Kota, he'd be very alright with being exclusively a top or bottom in a relationship, as long as he's emotionally satisfied and secure that's what his partner wants. He's an older gentleman who has experienced a lot. If he's being a sub, however, he'll be a lot subbier than one would expect from his appearance.

Themba is the dommiest of tops, and a kinky, hardcore one if you are into that.

Khenbish is still figuring himself out. He'll lean on being a verse, given enough time to experiment.

Wolf is a wolf.

Argos is a chaos elemental and smug sexual. Probably likes roleplaying way too much.

Pedro and Oscar are a bit peculiar. Assuming they like each other in that sense, Oscar is just really into Pedro and very flexible sexually. He'd probably conform with whatever Pedro asks of him, but it just happens that P is generally a verse. As a consequence, if they do end up dating Oscar would probably pick that up from him. But if P was a top or a bottom that would affect Storm. Anyway, if you want to see Oscar bottoming/showing his ass I suggest you check this out

Will answer the two other questions later tonight

Who's Sierra?

I am definitely thinking about it. I just haven't settled on anything because we'll have to see how it can be implemented/will fit with the narrative going forward. It's mainly an issue of logistically inserting it.

What we discussed among ourselves is that if we do go ahead with the idea then therapy should be inserted into the main story (not an R&D project off to the side) and the narrative should not show what happens during the therapy sessions — it's Asterion's private time, of course. But that's all still undecided, it'll be a while before we're in a position to say for sure what we're gonna do.

I do think it would be neat if Robert recommended a demon therapist from his home realm to Asterion. I think that would be very in-character for Robert, he's the sort of galaxy brain hyper dimensional entity who goes to therapy himself as a prophylactic mental health measure. He's that one guy who says "there's nothing wrong with going to therapy, I have one session every other week" whenever someone talks shit about psychologists. And a mythical therapist, particularly one from an afterlife realm, would be better equipped to discuss Asterion's trauma.

We answered your first question in another Q&A, so I'll copy/paste it here.

Lan, the Nicest Orc: Regarding the new arrivals, was research into their particular myths/culture hard? What were some of the tools you used for that research?

NANOFF: As usual, our research involves tons of googling and watching videos and movies and consulting with people from the respective countries.

Themba was by far the hardest character to design for the game. Sub-Saharan African mythological creatures aren't as extensively portrayed in Western media so we had to do a lot of research to do. We had another issue: the game already has an abundance of both heavyset characters and reptiles, and a lot of African mythological monsters tend to be giant aquatic mishmashes of reptiles and large mammals (which, you know, considering the kind of stuff you find in African rivers is not surprising). The grootslang was the most fitting creature for Themba's role as the hotel's accountant, considering it's a creature that guards precious gems, and one of the better known ones, we played up the elephant elements of the design. We also did research on Johannesburg since the city influences Themba's personality and backstory.

MINOANON: Zaggy Norse helped us a lot with this. Doing our own research is good and important, but nothing beats having a chat with someone who's actually knowledgeable with the culture itself.

NANOFF: Khenbish was also tricky because A) I swear to god there are no decent public domain/non commercial license pictures of Ulaan Baatar, and B) we couldn't find anyone from Mongolia to personally consult with. The best we got was getting a friend who went to school with a Mongolian classmate to ask him some questions, and we managed to get some information from him. We complemented our research watching two movies: the Eagle Huntress, and the Story of the Weeping Camel. It was an interesting case for us because a lot of Mongolians were upset with Eagle Huntress (produced and narrated by Daisy Ridley) overstating the amount of opposition the protagonist was up against for trying to do a male dominated activity — there's a lot of close ups of old men looking angry while everyone seems chill in the crowd shots, you can tell that it's trying to force a narrative. It was a good reminder to never be satisfied with a single source when doing research on a foreign culture.

MINOANON: Because we couldn't rely on someone to consult with, we had to be more creative in our research. Beyond the sources nanoff mentioned, in the end I'd say one of the biggest inspirations for Khenbish came from us reading Mongolian poetry and studying what structures they use. We tried to incorporate some of it in the writing. I don't expect many people to take note of it but I'm proud of that aspect of his content.

We covered Khenbish and Themba, who come from Mongolia and South Africa respectively. But there's also Storm and P, who both come from Brazil — more specifically, they come from a part of it with which I am very acquainted and from a very specific economic and social situation. For them I was overwhelmingly pulling from the folklore and mythology I was personally familiar with. That's probably the main thing about it — while we tried to explore different cultures with most of our characters, in the Hinterlands I was fully diving into my own and going as far as I could. 

Because of this, the Hinterlands probably had the richest mix of sources. For the record, I should add I also read some Câmara Cascudo (a Brazilian folklorist) for ideas, and that really played a role in the story.

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As for Hades and God of War...

Here's a fun story: while visiting a family friend as a teen, I saw his son playing a God of War game where he was killing minotaurs in extremely gruesome and graphic ways. I sometimes get freaked out by extreme video game gore+violence and that's one of the times it happened. I don't think Asterion would like it either.

He'd enjoy Hades' story, kinda. He'd like how Persephone and Zagreus are portrayed, he'd be into the main storyline of them reconnecting, but he'd  disagree with how Hades comes across and generally have a hard time verbalizing his thoughts about the portrayal of the Olympians, Asterius and Theseus.

He'd be very annoyed with the in-game lyre not having a minigame associated to it, and he'd be into Orpheus' songs.

The oath and the laurel wreath will pop up again in the future, yes.

I struggle a bit to phrase this in a way that's neither a spoiler nor so short it's unsatisfactory, but what I can say is that the Ruthless Route reveals that there are important, worthwhile things to be done in the valley, from which Asterion stands to gain. Some of those things, however, may require him to be there to be accomplished, no one else can do them.

The Ruthless route shows one of those worthwhile things, but there are more. The valley has many secrets.