hate to sound stupid, but every time I play... my char winds up ending. Try going out on dates, try hanging with people, try visiting various places, nothing 'works' and it always ends rather quickly :S
anyone got tips for managing happiness or that?
It's likely related to how tidy you keep your house. The longer it goes unattended, the worse it'll get. Yes, your character will feel like committing suicide even if you do everything else perfectly. Clean the house!
How much has this game progressed in the last few months? Is it worth playing as anything more than a tech demo?
Gave it a couple of good tries. It is still a bug fest and many unimplemented features. "There's supposed to be an event here but it wasn't done before this patch" kind of excuses they give. The generic sex system - even though they say they overhauled it - feels incredibly, well, generic... Using it once means you're pretty much done with that. So at best you go scouring for events that trigger at jobs and such...
And then you get the problem of not knowing how many events that certain job has and risking events not having been written and such...
I'd say it's not worth it, I'm sad to say. And the NPC editor is incredibly buggy; and a lot of kinks/mutations that you can give them/yourself aren't mentioned anywhere either, so it feels pointless.