RIP. Guessing this is abandoned? I thought the concept of a Succubus School was super promising.
I didn't realize I still had this as one of my Watched Threads until it notified me that there were a couple new posts, lol. But yeah, it's fair to say that it's abandoned.
All five listed sites the dev team offered haven't had any new information in
ages. Here's what it looks like as of today, at the time of this post:
- Main Site (
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) - There's absolutely nothing -- not an image, a line of text, or even any links -- that mentions the game whatsoever.
- Instagram (
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) - Last post about the game was from September 30, 2020 (the same month their Patreon launched), and an account that has been inactive since October 2021. Features reposted art lifted from their very first Patreon post. And on that front...
- Patreon (
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) - Lastest post on their Patreon is from September 2021. They have innocuous posts and their "What's Happened" (to them) status post from last year still behind a paywall. Imo, that's a little shady and there's no reason to do that.
- Itch (
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) - Their game on Itch is very plainly obviously dead. There are very few posts there and no one working on the game has ever responded to anyone, and five out of the eight posts talks about the game being abandoned in some way.
- Twitter (
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) - Inactive for over a year. As far as we know, work was being done on an update and subsequently the project was dropped altogether.
Furthermore, the KimonoChan account on F95 (which is the official game dev's account on here) has been on as recently as this month, March 2022. Of the five posts ever made by this account, only two involves the game (
this simple pitch in another thread and
this short response in this very thread). They obviously have seen
my post from a year ago about how to get some kind of traction --
any kind of traction -- but disregarded to enact any of the suggestions offered there, sadly. And as point of fact, they never answered the question if the game is dead (which it certainly appears to be the case).
Look, I'm not trying to rag on the developer. Though I have never bothered to download it (due to the lack of support and meaningful activity from the dev team), I genuinely wanted to see this game succeed. By principle, I will not financially support any project if I don't believe it has any chance of success despite how badly I want them to succeed. This game has stunning character art and beautiful background designs. It had a straightforward and enticing premise to its story...
Arcana Academy is a Visual Novel game that focuses on the training of girls, and developing their succubus skills.
...and apparently along with voiced lines on top of it all. But, as multiple users have said it's only a very short demo at this stage with very little content. So seeing it ultimately fail and the mistakes made by the devs to generate interest (or rather the lack of actively engaging to spread the word about it) and the poor execution to communicate properly with any potential fans, saddens me. I think this would have been a cool project and game, but it never got off the launching pad and the game is dead.
I'm going to self-report this post so that the mods can properly mark the game as being
abandoned. It's unfortunate that the game is dead but I still hope and wish the devs well wherever they are and in whatever they are doing nowadays. Hope everyone can find other new games to try. Cheers y'all and be safe!