Hehe, i thought the same, wasn't expecting that. But yeah, similar to what a reviewer said I can't say it's 5 stars either, i'm still working on filling the world and, apart from quests, i understand it feels a bit empty once the quests are completed. However feel free to give it your review too, you don't need to download, the last version can be found on mopoga but its the LQ 480p version. As always if you find text that don't match or a bug i'm happy to correct it.
The 2 star however was also sus before it was edited, it mentioned some stuff that was patched and added weeks before the review. But still a review is a review, good or bad, that's why there are ice cream flavors. I would say that it discouraged me a little, i'm still in the process of developing the thick skin of a developer with public projects, but i found a lot of positive comments on mopoga and some here, that got me to keep going and I'm thankful for the enthusiasm of the people and those reviewers. More content is coming and I hope people keep enjoying it.
I will say, after playing it for a little over an hour now, I can definitely say some of the main issues that present themselves are primarily in the writing (typos, grammar issues, disjointed statements, sentence fragments, etc.) and in how the gameplay progresses since it has something like a sandbox environment where you control where the player can travel to, but nothing is ever happening in those locations unless a quest or quick event just happens to be going on there.
As the game exists currently, it would honestly be better to just be a VN rather than wasting time on both the player's and your own side with the fruitless open world navigation since the main thing I have been doing so far is just looking at the quest guide to figure out where I need to be at any given moment, and then trying to figure out what exactly will trigger certain events since some of the quest notes are vague or even misleading.
For example, when the psychology teacher quits, the immediate next quest is to visit her after school, but when you go to her house on the same day the only option available is to return to the previous menu.
Converting it to being just a straight VN would also reduce some of the bugs I have already encountered as well, such as one quick event triggering in the laundry room teleporting me to the bathroom upstairs (it was very confusing seeing the "stepmom" taking a shower in the laundry room).
If I were to leave a review now, it would pretty much say the same thing as mentioned here plus a few more criticisms about some other stuff that either bother me or are just incongruent (such as the fact that even if you change the relations with the family to being direct, all of the dialogue is designed around it being the step family so it doesn't make sense to leave the choice about the relationship changes).
Like, currently I would give it a 2 or a 3/5 because I have played worse, but it's not groundbreaking or incentivizing enough to make me want to keep playing at this point, and the file size already with it not even being complete makes me anxious that the finished product would wind up being a massive 50GB, which is absolutely insane for any porn game.
So to summarize, I would recommend:
- Taking on a professional writer/editor for the text since that makes up a good 85% of the game so far and would make a world of difference.
- Completely changing how the game is structured to avoid the pitfall of making an empty open world game (such as changing from the current format to being a VN or kinetic novel)
- Either enforcing a set familial relationship standard throughout the game with the "step" family aspect being put in to get around Patreon's BS, or enforcing the step family relationship as the standard, because currently it just doesn't work if anyone changes the relationships at the beginning of the game.