(I will update the stats after every update, so you can see the progress in one page)
Duration of an update per playable day (excluding day 1 and 2):
| Duration
(in days) | from - to (dd.mm.yyyy) |
---|
Day 3 | 102 | 22.10.2017 - 01.02.2018 |
Day 4 & 11 (playable day 4) | 88
( -14 ) | 01.02.2018 - 30.04.2018 |
Day 12 (playable day 5) | 50
( -38 ) | 30.04.2018 - 19.06.2018 |
Day 13 (p.d. 6) | 28
( -22) | 19.06.2018 - 17.07.2018 |
Day 14 (p.d. 7) | 77
( +49) | 17.07.2018 - 02.10.2018 |
Day 15 (p.d. 8) | 95
(+18) | 02.10.2018 - 05.01.2019 |
Day 16 (p.d. 9) | 153
(+58) | 05.01.2019 - 07.06.2019 |
Day 17 (p.d. 10) | 204
(+51) | 07.06.2019 - 28.12.2019 |
Day 18 (p.d. 11) | 258
(+54) | 28.12.2019 - 11.09.2020 |
Day 19 (p.d. 12) | 435
(+177) | 11.09.2020 - 20.11.2021 |
Day 20 (p.d. 13) | 777
(+342) | 20.11.2021-06.01.2024 |
You can find an detailed update history
here.
As you can see clearly the game development got slower and slower.
From ~80-90 days per playable day to over 200.
The devs render speed increased over the time, but not much (see in spoiler), while he unnecessarily increases the amount of renders by three times (without counting animations in).
Now the dev wants to release day 19 in 3 parts to assure faster updates...
But with that the game processes slower, cause the dev will certainly add even more renders and each render will require more time.
That's a step in the wrong direction in
my opinion.
If each playable day needs 200 days to create and they're 19 left, then the dev
won't finish it until 2030!
The dev says it takes so much time cause of the quality of the renders. Saying the render speed will be faster, but it just has taken a merely noticeable step forward.
I have no complains about the slow development, but in the last updates there is a noticeable stretch in the content, so you are getting less and less story progress in the same amount of time.
It is something I noticed during time and I wanted to share it.
To be fair, it's a great game, has good visuals and I like the teasing.
It's one of the biggest points in this game and will be after the first non-husband sex scenes.
I would give it 4 /5, if the game was finished.
But it isn't finished and I'm rating the current state of the game.
I don't like that the look of the renders isn't consistant.
That's cause this project takes more time than it should be.
Although the newest renders looking great, it disturbs the gaming experience a bit and does not feel like a polished game.
I also don't like how a couple of non-relevant events are unnecessarily dragged out which forces you to skip it.
Update November 2022:
The game is currently at playable day 13. Now we are getting 1 event per update instead. That means this playable day is split into 11 updates.
The reason for this is the same: faster updates.
But when you begin to add animations to the game, it just contradicts with the purpose of event-based updates.
The critique is basically the same as for the 3 updates per day, only now it's gotten worse.
One year has passed since the last PD, and PD 13 is just halfway done.
Back when I first wrote this review, I thought the development wouldn't get much slower. PD 11 took around 250 days, PD 12 around 430. Now PD 13 is likely gonna take around 2 years. The initial thought that the game could get finished in 2030, just forget it. It would be a miracle that by 2030 the game doesn't get abandoned and reaches PD 18.
It's sad to see that such a promising game will not reach it's potential, just because the dev does everything he can to slow down the game process.